Posted on 02/03/2006 1:24:50 PM PST by bourbon
BEIRUT (AFP) - The leader of the Lebanese fundamentalist Shiite movement Hezbollah claimed that if Muslims had executed British novelist Salman Rushdie others would not dare to insult Islam.
Iran's revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa or religious edict in 1989 demanding Rushdie's execution over his best-selling novel the "Satanic Verses," deemed blasphemous and insulting to the Prophet Mohammed.
"If there had been a Muslim to carry out Imam Khomeini's fatwa against the renegade Salman Rushdie, this rabble who insult our Prophet Mohammed in Denmark, Norway and France would not have dared to do so," Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said in remarks published Thursday .
Muslim anger has continued to swell over the publication of cartoons depicting Mohammed wearing a bomb-shaped turban in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten and several other European papers.
"I am sure there are millions of Muslims who are ready to give their lives to defend our prophet's honour and we have to be ready to do anything for that," said Nasrallah, whose movement is backed by Iran.
"We do not understand the rationale of the Danish authorities who refuse to apologize under the pretext of freedom of expression."
Rushdie had to go into hiding after Khomeini branded him an apostate who had to be punished by death.
An Iranian charitable foundation has offered a 2.8 million dollar bounty for Rushdie's head.
In 1998, Iran's then foreign minister Kamal Kharazi promised his British counterpart Robin Cook that Tehran would do nothing to implement the fatwa, although Khomeini's successor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in January 2005 that Rushdie still deserved to die.
Isn't Hezbollah wholly owned by Iran?
I'm surprised anybody was able to get far enough in Rushdie's book to have any idea what he was talking about.
Religion of Peace.TM
A filthy old bugger.
(If you lunatics mean to stop insults, you could not choose a more counterproductive way).
Raping a 9 year-old must confer some sort of honour I am unfamiliar with.
So was I – the Barbary Pirates.
"Charitable" as in doing all fanatical Muslims a favor I guess. That stuck out for me as well, but I have a Judeo-Christian reference point which doesn't work with the rag heads....(which is why we are so stymied in our relations with them).
islam INSULTS ITSELF, BY THE ACTIONS OF ITS FOLLOWERS.
(lower case and CAPS are intentional.)
...We do not understand......
That's the problem they are imbeciles...
There is a saying that goes "There is a sucker born every minute"..
This saying is incorrect, allow me to prove it.
If you multiply 60 minutes times 24 hours you get 1,440 minutes, times 365 days = 525,600, so that would mean that 525,600 suckers would have to be added to this world every year for the saying to remain true.
Now take the fact that 3 people are added to this world every second..(see link)
http://www.ibiblio.org/lunarbin/worldpop
That adds up to 180 humans every minute, 10,800 every hour, 259,200 every day, 94,608,000 every year.
1/5th of the world is Muslim, so 1/5th of 94,608,000 is 18,921,600, so that means every year 18,921,600 Muslims are added to this world.
What does this prove? That the saying is incorrect. A sucker is not born every minute. 18,921,600 Muslims are added every year divided by 365 days = 51,840 divided by 24 hours = 2160 divided by 60 minutes = 36.
So the true saying should be "There are 36 suckers born every minute"
I don't know, there are a whole passle of dumb people out there.
Meanwhile, on Fox this afternoon, Bill Richardson of NM, former UN ambassador, extolled the US letting the EU 'lead the way' with diplomacy. Although this means wasting months during which Iran will build its bomb, we can then blackmailed, happy in the knowledge that we didn't take decisive action and bomb Iran's nuke facilities. Sanctions won't work. Why? Because they didn't work with Saddam...our erstwhile allies were only too happy to buy cheap oil under the table. How long do you think it'll take France, Germany, and Russia to do the same this time around? And Iran will point the bomb/bombs at Israel, at US ships in the Strait of Hormuz. They're already working on long range missiles that will reach Europe and eventually, the US.
At some point in this mess, when it becomes painfully clear that we should have bombed them back into the stone age, the EU will blame the US for not 'acting with firm vigor'. The dems will blame the administration, republicans, etc.. And elections are right around the corner.
Moslems must have some form of mental issue with thinking nobody will attack them if they sucker punch someone.
They have successfully elevated Mohamed as a "bombhead" joke. They ASSuMEd the same dumb think with the 9/11 attack. They did not expect the USA to attack. They did not believe the US military was even functional. (thanks to Pres. "dontaskdonttell" Clinton)
The President may have to give diplomatic platitudes, but the public know exactly what kind of cult Islam has become.
(I wonder if Mr. Bombhead will be a hot toy for some islamic "holiday")
I propose new FR rule:
every time hamas is mentioned "Mr. Bombhead" must be posted.
Islam doesn't just seem to be a form of devil worship, it IS devil worship. The crescent moon on practically every national flag in the Islam-dominated sector of the world represents the ancient moon god who the middle eastern desert tribes worshiped thousands of years ago.
Mohamed claimed that angels appeared to him in a desert cave and gave him the Koran and made him a prophet (literally a religious teacher) to convert the world to the worship of Allah, the Islamic name for Mohamed's ancestors' moon god. I believe those "angels" were in fact supernatural beings called demons in the Christian bible who serve the evil supernatural being known to the Islamic world as the diety Allah, and to Christians and Jews as Satan. The Christian bible teaches that Satan comes only to kill and destroy, and Islam's moon god Allah fits that description to a TEE.
That is true. Especially in Europe .....the way things are going over there Islam will be a pariah religion. Take the Netherlands for example .....they went from being considered the most liberal nation in the world to hvaing mass (and at times violent) protests against Islam. Look at what is going on in Germany, in France .....in Sweden! Denmark, Switzerland ....even Austria is seeing a surge in the popularity of political parties that espouse a stringent anti-Islamic view (although in Austria's case some of those parties do not stop there). Within the decade we'll see some very interesting changes going on there.
I'd say the Muslims are really pushing the envelop further than wisdom would recommend.
(Pssst. It’s a Photoshop...)
I think Islam is the one world government spoken of in Revelation. I don't think it's going away.
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