The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
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The book was Salman Rushdie's fourth novel. It was originally published in 1988 and was said to be inspired in part by the life of Muhammad.
Rushdie used magical realism and contemporary people and circumstances to formulate his characters.
The title is a reference to the satanic verses which are derived from the Quran and refer to three pagan Meccan goddesses named Allāt, Uzza, and Manāt.
The part of the story that deals with the "satanic verses" was based on accounts from the historians al-Waqidi and al-Tabari.
The Satanic Verses was well received in Great Britain and the controversy which was inevitable with the Muslim penchant for blasphemy accusations and other claims of mocking the muslim faith.
All of this resulted in a fatwā calling for Rushdie's death issued on Valentine's Day 1989 by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini who was a raging maniac anyway. The resultant death threats, murder attempts and the murder of a translator summed up the entirety of why radical Islam should be eradicated from the planet.
The radical element has done nothing but grow worse and attempt to force Sharia on the rest of the world under threat of death ... even in the United States.