Mrs. Salman Rushdie (what a lucky bastard Mr. Rushdie is !)
Posted on 06/18/2007 11:47:11 PM PDT by 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.”........."
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Nuts! Beat me to it!
Damn, these people are f’ing irritating.
Just to make a point that nobody else seems to have made it would appear.
This IS NOT just a coincidence.
Mr Rushdie has done nothing to deserve even an MBE let alone the title of ‘sir’.
I think it is very clear, that this was a royal response to the Iranians for their hostage taking earlier this year.
I am absolutely certain of this.
Most people in the UK are scratching their heads at how on earth he has been elevated to this title when other sporting talents for example have been overlooked.
This is the queens way of saying “f*** around with my navy? well take this islamo nazis”
The Iranians hate this man. And we’re honoring the man.
I don’t really care for the royals or Mr Rushdie, but this is absolutely brilliant.
They can burn as many flags and stampede over each other as much as they like. The lady isn’t for turning!!
Good point, thanks.
Monk you really found good photoshop I just hope you don’t retired Looter guy
Baboonus Jihadicus, a de-evolved species..
Muslim world inflamed by Rushdie knighthood,
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What Business is it of theirs who England knights?
i’m shocked that none of the men on this thread have insisted on photos of Rushdie’s wife Padma... i only know who she is because she hosts one of my favorite shows: Top Chef.
I kind of wonder if the Queen isn’t sending a message to the British government about worrying too much about Moslem sensitivities. She must know this would get the Moslem “street” in a froth considering their silly reaction to that cartoon in Denmark.
Mrs. Salman Rushdie (what a lucky bastard Mr. Rushdie is !)
Actually, I'm thinking a knighthood isn't enough. Maybe create a new duchy. Duke of Pukeistan has a nice ring to it.
The fatal wound for Islam is that “satanic” verses are of course underpinned by actual historical events that compromised Mohammed’s claim to be a prophet like the prophets of the Bible. Put simply, it is an embarrassment to (and the enemy within for) Islam. If Mohammad was influenced by “Satan” in certain revelations, as devout Islamic scholars of the 8th/9th century like Ishaq faithfully record Mohammad as actually admitting, then it undermines Mohammad’s claim to have received any genuine revelations at all. It could indeed be called one of the litmus tests of Islam.
Of course blind belief will cut it anyway, but reason places an uncomfortable microscope on Mohammad’s claim to genuine revelations and therefore on the credibility of the Quran as the claimed “final word of God”.
Incidentally after Mohammad had his first encounter with the spirit who is claimed to have recited verses to him that were after his death complied as the Quran (he said the spirit was the angel Gabriel) Mohammad thought he was possessed.
No wonder the hatred for Salman. He opened a can of worms (at least in the free thinking West). It can’t be resealed unless a law were to be passed preventing any “criticism” (code for rational discourse) of Mohammad. This is already implied by the UN. In my view it is an intended code for preventing open inquiry into the credibility of Mohammad and therefore of the Quran and Islam itself. I can see why some Islamic groups are pushing for a blasphemy type law in the West. They could then enforce a prohibition on public discourse about sensitive issues such as the “satanic” verses.
Even Islam’s god Allah doesn’t escape attention in the actual “satanic” verses episode. Allah reveals in Mohammad’s “defence” that other prophets (Allah assumes Mohammad was a prophet like the Biblical prophets) were influenced by “Satan.” This sounds like an all too typical human excuse (i.e. when caught out the “others did it too” response), but unless there is evidence to back up Allah’s claim it’s a lame duck. The problem here for Allah is that there is no record of alleged influences involving the prophets in the Bible.
Thu`s when you follow the trail back it is uncomfortable. It goes from Mohammad to “Gabriel” to Allah. Who/what is Allah if his chief “angel” can be influenced by Satan…. Mohammad initially claimed it was a revelation from Allah (via Gabriel) so that would make Mohammad out to be a liar at worst or simply lacking spiritual discernment at best. Fatwa anyone? An unenviable conundrum for Islam.
It doesn’t help to say it wasn’t “Gabriel” who fed Mohammad the “satanic’ verses because that implies Mohammad didn’t know who was feeding him revelations. The implication here is horrendous for the Quran and thus Islam.
As far as the UN even enforcing any “intended code” aganist any free inquiry on Islam, both the Muslims and the UN will fine it will be too late, for to catch the horse back into the barn.
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