Rashdie panel / moderated by Walter Turner.

Panel discussion of Samon Rushdie's novel Satanic Verses. The panel is comprised of: Yoyich Clark Shamatsu, former associate of the Pacific Asian Center of Theology andeditor of the Pacific News Service; Dorothy Urmick, Executive Director of Northern California ACLU in San Francisco; UseffSalahm, public and media relations agent of the United Muslims of America; and Useff Spiers, literary scholar for KPFA. The group debates the literary merit of the work, issues of First Amendment rights in America, how the work is insulting to Islamic sensabilities, the role of the media in pushing the novel, as well as how the media presents a negative portrait of Islam.|RUSHDIE PANEL / moderated by Walter Turner. - Panel discussion of Samon Rushdie's novel "Satanic Verses." The panel is comprised of: Yoyich Clark Shamatsu, former associate of the Pacific Asian Center of Theology and editor of the Pacific News Service| Dorothy Urmick, Executive Director of Northern California ACLU in San Francisco| Useff Salahm, public and media relations agent of the United Muslims of America| and Useff Spiers, literary scholar for KPFA. They group debates the literary merit of the work, issues of First Amendment rights in America, how the work is insulting to Islamic sensabilities, the role of the media in pushing the novel, as well as how the media presents a negative portrait of Islam. - BROADCAST: KPFA, 28 Feb. 1989.