get around to it

I think it is pertinent to discuss the "Satanic Verses" themselves briefly.

They are verses that align the, at the time, brand new monotheist Muslim faith with three pagan Arab goddesses, al-Lat, al-Uzza and Manat. Namely, Al-Lat; literally, The Goddess.

The question, and the controversy is one of origin; how did these decidedly polytheistic deities end up in a book about the single God? Here are some possibilities:

a) a deception by the devil, hence the "Satanic Verses".

b) a ploy by the Prophet to abide and patronize the beliefs of the time, thus admitting converts by their own venues (an age-old tradition of assimilating and rearranging the doctrines and idols of those to be re-faithed).

c) a coerced revelation under pressure of powerful pagans.

d) all of the above.

Any others? Please comment, or correct if I'm way off base. Just don't murder me.
Obviously, to someone who is commited to the idea that the words of the Quran are divine and perfect, anything less will cast doubt on the nature of the document, and hence, I guess, a little ire with regard to the publishing of Rushdie's book. Why so much ire, however, we will perhaps discover in the reading.