Posted on 01/15/2010 1:39:02 PM PST by abu afak
The attack on illustrator Kurt Westergaard wasn't the first attempt to carry out a deadly fatwa. When Muslims tried to murder Salman Rushdie 20 years ago, the protests among intellectuals were loud. Today, though, Western writers and thinkers would rather take cover than defend basic rights.
In 1988, Salman Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses" was published in its English-language original edition. Its publication led the Iranian state and its revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, to issue a "fatwa" against Rushdie and offer a hefty bounty for his Murder. This triggered several attacks on the novel's translators and publishers, including the murder of Japanese translator Hitoshi Igarashi. Millions of Muslims around the world who had never read a single line of the book, and who had never even heard the name Salman Rushdie before, wanted to see the death sentence against the author carried out...
In that atmosphere, no German publisher had the courage to publish Rushdie's book. This led a handful of famous German authors, led by Günter Grass, to take the initiative to ensure that Rushdie's novel could appear in Germany by founding a publishing house exclusively for that purpose. It was called Artikel 19....
Sympathy for the Hurt Feelings of Muslims/
17 years later, after the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten published a dozen Muhammad cartoons on a single page, there were similar reactions in the Islamic world to those that had followed the publication of "The Satanic Verses." Millions of Muslims from London to Jakarta who had never seen the caricatures... took to the streets in protests against an insult to the prophet and demanded the appropriate punishment for the offenders: death...
This time, however, in contrast to the Rushdie case, hardly anyone has showed any solidarity with the threatened Danish cartoonist/to the contrary...."
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
20 yrs ago most men hadn’t been ‘feminized’ either...now being kinder/gentler is > having a backbone and moral character
KaaPINNNNNGGG and greetings
In thirty years, all of the cathedrals of europes will be mosques.
The Euros will surrender without a fight.
...as will we, if we don’t act NOW
Wow, Der Spiegel now defending freedom of expression. Aren’t they a day late and a dollar short? Europeans, the easiest people to conquer.
Good for Mr. Bean! May the offense commence!
Spiegel has Been Decent in this, (especially for the EU) pointing out many big problems.
But Not exactly http://thereligionofpeace.com
Use it in Good health.. and with Gusto.
We are in fear of what Obama will do next.
Looks like Europe may be quite a bit more nervous with Zero at the helm.
Wouldn't it be simplest for all concerned to send drones to kill anyone who makes public statements like that? We stop the threat at its source, the other clerics get an example of action and consequence, and the original "leader" gets to meet 72 Helen Thomas look-alikes. A win all around.
ON THE INTERNET:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/globaljihad/index
http://www.truthusa.com/MoreThanCartoons.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/cartoonjihad/index
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/fitna/index
Video: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/03/here-is-fitna.html
“Today, though, Western writers and thinkers would rather take cover than defend basic rights.”
American leftists are cowards. I get frustrated by people here on FR flapping their arms and screaming like little girls that king obuma’s “army” is coming to get us. American leftists will never slip on a pack, grab a rifle and die on a hill for king obuma.
We see classic Sun Tzu BS generated by the Hitler look-alike Axelrod. Hell, he’s not even good at what he does. I’ve seen better PR from high schools.
We do have an obuma army coming after us, and it’s the federal bureaucracy. They’re fat, stupid and will run when you get in their face. This is where our “baptism by fire” will take place. Back down, and you become a slave. Confront them and become a free man.
cultural jihad bump
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