To: radar101
Point 1. Salman Rushdie is a major-league jerk. We'd be better off ignoring him even when he agrees with us, not celebrating him because he's persecuted.
19 posted on
09/12/2005 12:12:10 PM PDT by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: lepton
Salman Rushdie is a major-league jerk. So? The fact is that "polite" people are just too darn polite to speak unpleasant truths, so you have to be a bit of a jerk to get your hands dirty in that regard.
21 posted on
09/12/2005 12:20:07 PM PDT by
steve-b
(A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
To: lepton
Salman Rushdie is a major-league jerk ... I take my nick from Salman Rushdie, out of respect.
No he's not 100% American like me. How could he be?
But he told it like it is about Islam while most of us were sleeping. That must count for something.
22 posted on
09/12/2005 1:35:50 PM PDT by
Salman
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