Rushdie, after receiving a thrashing from Muslim fundamentalists, for his critically acclaimed, and religiously insensitive book 'The Satanic Verses', has come up with a new paradigm for the direction of Islam: Reformation. In a great article published in The Times, London, Rushdie says:

The Islamic Reformation has to begin here, with an acceptance that all ideas, even sacred ones, must adapt to altered realities.

Usually, we at EGO stay away from religious chit chat [honestly, who wants to live in a basement for years a la Rushdie himself?]. But when a man makes a lot of sense, we have to pay attention.

It is high time, for starters, that Muslims were able to study the revelation of their religion as an event inside history, not supernaturally above it.

Does this mean his next book, Shalimar the Clown, may actually be good, a salute to the old Rushdie we liked and adored? Think we'll check it out!