The artist “no longer sings” his title, denouncing today the reaction of “morons” at the time.
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She questioned the idea of a war in the name of Allah, questioning that one can shed blood to glorify a religion. For her love song Allah released in 1988, Véronique Sanson was the target of a fatwa, she explained, Sunday, December 27, at the microphone ofEurope 1.
“Véronique Sanson apostrophe Allah”
« No, I no longer sing Allah. You know there are morons everywhere and I got a fatwa on my head “, She explained, judging” a little ridiculous to tempt the devil “. The radio recalls that the title had not made a wave when it was released, but that it echoed – without the artist having wanted it – the case of the Satanic Verses, a work by the British writer Salman Rushdie describing the Prophet Muhammad in a way the Muslim world had little taste for. So much so that the following year Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against him.
« We made the amalgamation with the Satanic Verses, it is a love song that has been very poorly understood “, Ensures Véronique Sanson, who declaimed in particular, at the time:” Allah / What is the use of having a name / Why this fire, this thunder (…). If I were you, I wouldn’t be proud (…). In the name of what do you wage war / What is the use of having a name / It is to defile the desert / With blood shed for Allah. »Europe 1 also recalls that an article written by the Sunday newspaper, at the time, had given rise to controversy. His title : ” Véronique Sanson apostrophe Allah ».
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