I doubt if you'll find "evidence that the committee which chose Rushdie intended to enrage Moslems."

Lets just say that if they didn't know that, they have their heads in the sand. It requires only a small amount of common sense to know that it was absolutely predictable.

Please don't try to tell me the Moslem world would applaud their choice, since the Moslem world has long standing hatred of all that is British.