Moments of Unadulterated Emotion occur not only in Rushdie's eloquent and remarkably Bakhtinian defense of his novel, The Satanic Verses, in Imaginary Homelands (see 393-414), but also in his concessions to terror as recorded in a number of places (in chronological detail, in fact, in The Index on Censorship 18.5 [May/June 1989]: 14-15) and his defense by such writers as Soyinka (see the same issue in The Index on Censorship, 20-21, 30). Note that The Moor's Last Sigh is an extended attack on anti-Muslim Hindu fundamentalism, and that Rushdie appears to be genuinely apologetic for having caused offense to some individual Muslims (see his "My Decision" in The Index on Censorship 20.1 [Jan. 1991]: 34) if not for his attacks on hypocrisy and intolerance.
