Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

'Edit the Koran for the World': Rushdie
The Times of India ^ | THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2005 09:55:28 PM | The Times of India

Posted on 08/11/2005 10:54:33 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-22 next last

Salman Rushdie, controversial India-born British author, with girlfriend, Padma Lakshmi, in India.

1 posted on 08/11/2005 10:54:36 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: CarrotAndStick
the planet's youngest, fastest-growing religion

Well, there's Scientology and a lot of other newer goofy crap.

For Islam, and Allah, it's time to die. No "reform", it needs to go, like any cancer.

2 posted on 08/11/2005 10:57:08 AM PDT by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: CarrotAndStick

Good Idea!


3 posted on 08/11/2005 10:57:20 AM PDT by Khashayar (No Banana Allowed!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: CarrotAndStick
Buy his book and piss off the Osama huggers.

I am waiting for just one muslim, of all the 1.2 BILLLLLLION to issue a fatwa of death against Osama like they did against Rushdie.
4 posted on 08/11/2005 10:58:40 AM PDT by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: All

Rather than being "reformed" Islam needs to be buried, it is a false, satanic cult..period...and it is NOT the fastest growing religion in the world, christianity is, by far!!


5 posted on 08/11/2005 11:03:21 AM PDT by michaelbfree
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

Comment #6 Removed by Moderator

To: TomasUSMC
Buy his book and piss off the Osama huggers.

And treat yourself to what is likely a very good book in the process. I agree with Rushdie on Islam's dysfunctions and it's need for reform and don't agree with him on almost everything else, but the man is undeniably a fine writer.

"Midnight's Children", "The Satanic Verses", "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", "The Moor's Last Sigh" - all excellent reading.
7 posted on 08/11/2005 11:06:44 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: michaelbfree

Actually it is the fastest growing religion, because Muslim men marry upto five women, and they breed like crazy, and almost always can't take care of even one child properly.

And most new converts to Islam are usually the ones who haven't heard of Christianity.


8 posted on 08/11/2005 11:07:57 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: CarrotAndStick

Too late for editing. Islam has declared that Mohammed was the last prophet, I think. Of course, maybe that part could be edited as well.


9 posted on 08/11/2005 11:09:47 AM PDT by Brilliant
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: CarrotAndStick

Sure. And while your at it, reform Nazism.


10 posted on 08/11/2005 11:12:30 AM PDT by hang 'em (Here Lies Peter Jennings - Deported with Extreme Prejudice.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SJackson

Ping.

It includes mention of the old Muslim controversy on whether or not to publish the Koran in English (see Pickthall's Quran). For many years (more than a 100, at least), some Muslims wanted that in order to get even more British converts of western European descent, and many others did not. Some British and Russian men with IHR (neo-Nazi) connections tried to get converts to Islam in the USA during the 1990s (if not earlier).


11 posted on 08/11/2005 11:27:23 AM PDT by familyop ("Let us try" sounds better, don't you think? "Essayons" is so...Latin.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: CarrotAndStick

Islam might be the fastest growing religion, but it certainly won't be the longest lasting one!


12 posted on 08/11/2005 11:27:43 AM PDT by KStorm (I'll bet Karl Marx would like some of that opium by now.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: CarrotAndStick
Rushdie should do a Martin Luther and nail 95 reformation theses on some Imam's head.

Leni

13 posted on 08/11/2005 11:28:40 AM PDT by MinuteGal
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: CarrotAndStick

Well, many Muslims talk about reforming Islam... but why reform something that is perverted by default? What about these Muslims converting to Christianity, Buddhism, Paganism, Atheism or any other religion or peaceful set of beliefs?


14 posted on 08/11/2005 11:31:17 AM PDT by Kurt_D
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kurt_D

Muslims rarely convert or relinquish their fault-ridden faith. How often do you meet someone who has rejected Islam, being its follower earlier?

And why do you think Christian missionary activities in Muslim-majority lands is close to zilch?


15 posted on 08/11/2005 11:55:36 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: CarrotAndStick

BTTT


16 posted on 08/11/2005 12:00:14 PM PDT by auboy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: CarrotAndStick

How about cutting everything beginning right after the title?


17 posted on 08/11/2005 12:01:45 PM PDT by SlowBoat407 (A living affront to Islam since 1959)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MinuteGal
[ Rushdie should do a Martin Luther and nail 95 reformation theses on some Imam's head. ]

But Islam don't have a central gov't the way the Roman Catholics did, that Luther came against(the dogma).. The Imams can preach whatever they want..almost.. as long as jihad is mentioned.. Coming against ALLAH on the otherhand would do it.. Allah is no way like the jewish or christain god, not even close.. UNmasking Allah would be the trick.. Easy too, just take the mask off it.. Islam has a designer god..

18 posted on 08/11/2005 12:07:38 PM PDT by hosepipe (This Propaganda has been edited to include not a small amount of Hyperbole..)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: CarrotAndStick

Well, don't forget that Christian missionaries aren't outlawed in countries where Islam is dominant. Furthermore, they are even threatened by local thugs. Last but not least, former Muslims keep quiet about their conversions because they are legally prosecuted in many Islamiic countries or shunned and killed by their own acquintances or relatives. Islam is a religion for barbarians.


19 posted on 08/11/2005 12:11:48 PM PDT by Kurt_D
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: CarrotAndStick
fat chance there Mr Rushdie. Christianity was reformed from within not from the outside. There is this underlying current among liberals that presumes that christianity was reformed from ouside forces as if secular imperatives have nudged christianity to where it now is. Garbage.

Islam needs to be reformed from within or destroyed from outside. It really is up to them. If they are picking a fight with the west, they will lose. The west is more than a geographic and political/economic force. It is a state of mind

20 posted on 08/11/2005 12:34:49 PM PDT by bubman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-22 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson