If you're offended, it's your problem.

I think the book is less emotional than the film. With the film, the emotions are much more raw and in front. In the book, they are kind of ironized and seen through comedy.

One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.

What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody... that's stupid.

The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.

The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.