Posted on 08/16/2022 2:56:51 PM PDT by Conservat1
Intel officials told VICE World News Hadi Matar had been in contact with members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. ..
The 24-year-old man accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie had been in direct contact with members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on social media, European and Middle Eastern intelligence officials told VICE World News. Hadi Matar has been charged with attempted murder after Rushdie, 75, was repeatedly stabbed on stage ahead of a speaking event in Chautauqua, New York, on Friday. On Sunday, Rushdie’s son Zafar Rushdie said his father was in a critical condition and had sustained “life-changing” injuries but had been taken off a ventilator and had been able to speak.
A NATO counterterrorism official from a European country said the stabbing had all the hallmarks of a “guided” attack, where an intelligence service talks a supporter into action, without direct support or involvement in the attack itself.
“Close scrutiny needs to be paid to his communications,” said the NATO official, who was not authorised to speak on the record. “More investigation will reveal more information on the exact nature of the links.”... Security officials who confirmed the social media contact would not elaborate on the nature of the communications because investigations are ongoing. They would not disclose who initiated the contact, when it took place, or what was discussed. A Middle Eastern intelligence official said it was “clear” that at some point prior to the attack, Matar had been in contact with “people either directly involved with or adjacent to the Quds Force,” referring to the Revolutionary Guard’s external operations force...
I still contend this was our first free speech test for the USA, and we failed.
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Big time.
Yes, among many things.
“Start a war over Salman Rushdie? I don’t think so.”
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No one suggests a war over him. But the the de factor/ reality of anti infidel war
(from radicals Sunni or Shiite) has been going on for long.
“I guess we should send another pallet of money.”
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Indeed. And Obama did it behind everyone’s back.
Asides from the latest attempts against Bolton and Pompeo...
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From books, re IRGC plots...
2011
https://books.google.com/books?id=5oLNv7_tB9MC&pg=PA797
2012
https://books.google.com/books?id=TtVEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA12
2014
https://books.google.com/books?id=oovOAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA203
2015
https://books.google.com/books?id=6QsxCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA363
“From what I understand, cymbeline, it wasn’t the sexual passages that offended Muslims.”
Very enlightening post. Thanks!
You say Muslims were a minority in Mecca when the first half of the Koran was written. Who was creating the content of that half?
I don’t see why imaginative and literary people can’t also be people of moral courage.
“The very title of the book is a reference to the the voices heard by Mohamed.”
Yes, but more specifically it is what Moslems call a few specific verses in the Koran that they believe were delivered to Mohammed by a demon instead of the angel who they believe delivered the rest of the Koran. Yes, it’s a strange dogma, but they actually believe that the greatest prophet to ever live was deceived by a demon, and that their god allowed it to happen, and those verses were placed into their holiest book and remain there to this day, though they are “abrogated” by verses that were recorded later.
“I don’t see why imaginative and literary people can’t also be people of moral courage.”
They can but Rushdie hasn’t been a crusader or firebrand.
Do you have to be a crusader or firebrand to have moral courage?
“Do you have to be a crusader or firebrand to have moral courage?”
Depends whether you’re on the offensive or defensive.
If you’re defending yourself or others, that’s not being a crusader.
If you’re attempting to change the world then you’re a crusader.
Well, if you are the one being threatened to not say something or be killed, then it would seem by definition you are on the defensive, not on offense.
“Well, if you are the one being threatened to not say something or be killed, then it would seem by definition you are on the defensive, not on offense.”
He wasn’t on the defensive until he inserted the goody whoppers into his book.
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