Possible Clues:

• Like Rushdie's ''Verses''
• Diabolical and awful act, a sin
• Rushdie title adjective
• Extremely evil
• Evil customers at a nice show
• Brown in charge after stigma ends? Diabolical
• Unholy acts in a bizarre order
• Nearly sick swallowing a brown and black
• Disgusted no end, receiving a bronze -- that's diabolical
• Bad as it can get right out of order