Muslim world inflamed by Rushdie knighthood

Times UK ^ | June 19, 2007 | Ben Hoyle

[Anti-Bubba182]

Sir Salman Rushdie celebrates his 60th birthday today in familiar circumstances: he is once again the subject of death threats across the Islamic world.

Eighteen years after the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling on Muslims to kill him, a government minister in Pakistan said yesterday that Rushdie’s recent knighthood justified suicide bombing.

The question of blasphemy in The Satanic Verses, Rushdie’s 1988 tale of a prophet misled by the devil, remains a deeply sensitive issue in much of the Muslim world and the author’s inclusion in the Queen’s Birthday Honours last week has inflamed anti-British sentiment.

Gerald Butt, editor of the authoritative Middle East Economic Survey, told The Times: “It will be interpreted as an action calculated to goad Muslims at a time when the atmosphere is already very tense and Britain’s standing in the region is very low because of its involvement in Iraq and its lack of action in tackling the Palestine issue.”........."

[Anti-Bubba182]

As Bette Midler once observed...........!

The Muslim world is like a troop of Baboons, alway walking around with their red asses in the air.

[fieldmarshaldj]

What DON’T the psychotic Mohammadan death cultists get their burquas in a bunch over ?

[Anti-Bubba182]

Ain’t it the truth!

[Wil H]

“F@#k ‘em if the can’t take a Joke”!

[VeniVidiVici]

Muslim world inflamed by Rushdie knighthood

No way! Let me mark this on my calendar.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Y'know, they should register their anger by all going out in the middle of the desert and blowing themselves up -- real good.

[Fiddlstix]

What DON’T the psychotic Mohammadan death cultists get their burquas in a bunch over ?

[Tzimisce]

Don’t worry - they’re a religion of peace...

[BykrBayb]

So where are the pics of muzzies in flames?

Oh, wait a minute. I think I read that headline wrong. Nevermind.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I mean, they're just such a warm and friendly bunch of folks.

[gondramB]

1. It was a stupid thing to do because Rushdie is so anti-British

2. If they are justified in killing innocent people because someone gives a title to someone who insulted them imagine what we would be entitled to do if we followed the same rules.

3. Fortunately we do not follow the same rules.

[river rat]

I’m damned tired of hearing about the “inflamed Muslim world”..

I want the Muslim world in flames....

[SIDENET]

What DON’T the psychotic Mohammadan death cultists get their burquas in a bunch over ?

Well, I hear that they dig death and beheadings.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Well, they can just go out and rape and stone some innocent and illiterate females they keep like slaves, and they’ll be right as rain... for about 5 minutes.

[Spktyr]

Good. Elizabeth is giving the Muzzies the Royal finger.

[SIDENET]

Keep that unholy stuff you call "soap" away from us!!!

[fieldmarshaldj]

The Prez should just invite these lovely “religion of peas” folks over to the White House for a nice pork barbecue brunch.

[ashtanga]

There must be some sort of inbreeding involved here, as even illiterates can’t be this irrational.

[fieldmarshaldj]

The last time I had a look on my face like the fella in the center was when I was severely constipated. Maybe all these fellas need is a big giant enema.

[skimask]