Original sentence: 68.44.227.39 22:00, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
Edited sentence: "  As is common in fiction,  Bilal X differs from his purported real life model in some details.Bilal X is a former successful American pop singer who has converted to Islam,  who works for the Shia Ayatollah, whereas Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam was born and raised in London and is associated with a conservative strain of Sunni Islam.Bilal X is portrayed by Rushdie as the favored lieutenant of "the Imam", a character based on Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, whose "well-nourished, highly trained" voice serves as "a weapon of the West turned against its makers.While few have doubted Yusuf's piety or Islamic conservatism, at least one observer believes that the unflattering character "Bilal X" in Rushdie's book is thought to be a caricature of Yusuf Islam, and theorizes that this may have been partially responsible for his reaction to The Satanic Verses