Reflections of a stormy petrel

As far as Rushdie goes, I doubt it. I think his relationship to the culture of his youth is that of an uprooted intellectual, and that, at any rate, the more he delves himself into it, the more he shows interest in heterodox and popular traditions that good Muslims would do anything to reform out of existence. It is not of Islam that the poet said:

For it is only Christian men
That guard even heathen things.