9/86Percentage of teenagers’ favorite songs that they say are about sex, violence, satanism, or drugs: 7

Lorraine Prinsky and Jill Rosenbaum (California State University, Fullerton)

    Percentage they say are about love: 26

Lorraine Prinsky and Jill Rosenbaum (California State University, Fullerton)

4/90Estimated amount Viking Penguin has spent on extra security since publishing The Satanic Verses: $3,400,000

Viking Penguin (London)

    Estimated amount Viking Penguin has earned from sales of the book: $3,400,000

Viking Penguin (London)

12/92Number of letters that must be moved to change “Santa” into “Satan”: 1

Harper’s research

10/94Percentage change since 1986 in the number of American adults who believe in the devil: -29

Yankelovich Partners (Norwalk, Conn.)/Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles)

11/99Number of films about Y2K disasters that Hollywood studios are planning to release in the next four months: 0

Exhibitor Relations Co., Inc. (Los Angeles)

    Number about battling Satan: 2

Exhibitor Relations Co., Inc. (Los Angeles)

8/05Number of members of the Iraqi parliament who worship not only Muhammad but a fallen angel named Lucifer: 3

Verlag Dengê Ezîdiyan (Oldenburg, Germany)