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...
Matar is just another peaceful muslim.
Start a war over Salman Rushdie? I don’t think so.
Biden Admin. finalizing nuclear deal with Iran. Talk that sanctions my be removed from the Revolutionary Guard as part of the deal (in addition to agreeing to no inspections of some nuclear facilities).
What is his immigration status? If he is legal, who let him into the country? If not, it is on Biden for opening the borders and letting him in.
I know little about Rushdie but didn’t that book he wrote, Satanic Verses, contain some dirty, sexual passages that were very offensive to Muslims?
I wonder why he did that. He’s written several highly acclaimed books and is recognized worldwide for them. Why would he include a few passages in his enormous amount of published writing that would endanger his life. I don’t get it.
I guess we should send another pallet of money.
“Why would he include a few passages in his enormous amount of published writing that would endanger his life. I don’t get it.”
Why would Charlie Hebdo magazine in France go ahead and publish cartoons mocking Mohammed even after terrorists threatened to attack them if they did?
Because the only way to stop people trying to intimidate you is to go ahead and do the thing they are trying to stop you from doing. If you don’t, they’ll know intimidation works and they’ll never stop. Now, if you do the thing, they may escalate beyond intimidation. But if you put a value on freedom, then that’s a risk you have to take if you want to enjoy it free from coercion.
“Why would Charlie Hebdo magazine in France go ahead and publish cartoons mocking Mohammed even after terrorists threatened to attack them if they did?”
I’d say because he wanted to.
Rushdie is a broad, imaginative, literary person. Seems odd that he’d want to stir up dangerous people.
I still contend this was our first free speech test for the USA, and we failed.
No definitely not. But we did abandon him in the 80s. The Reagan administration walked back their support for Rushdie to enjoy free speech. It was also our 1 of 2 failures that the Reagan admin oversaw in regards to militant Islam. It failed on Rushdie and failed on the marine barracks bombing. Those two events largely lead the camel jockey world to regard the USA as a paper tiger.
Still trying to figure out how this is my problem.
Well said! The very title of the book is a reference to the the voices heard by Mohamed.
A few years back Iran’s IRGC got caught plotting to blow up a restaurant in Washington DC.
Al Qaeda’s Egyptian leader Zawahiri who was blown away in a Haqqani Group hideout, was related by marriage to some of Iran’s mullah leaders. His brother is head of the terrorists that were operating in Egypt during the Arab Spring and Benghazi. The ISIS leader Zarqawi controlled a smuggling route from Pakistan through Iran to Iraq’s border. That That is why al Qaeda’s leaders hid out in Iran.The al Qaeda terrorist summit held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia involved planning the bombings of the USS The Sullivan’s and USS Cole. It was Iran that provided the homemaking expertise to the terrorists that put a hole in the Cold and if It wasn’t for their boat sinking, there would have been a hole in the USS The Sullivans, too. It was Soleimani of the IRGC who directed the Saudi Hezbollah to bomb Khobar Towers and other targets in Saudi Arabia, killing Saudis and Americans. Several of the 9/11 hijackers traveled through Iran....
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You stray from my question: why would the guy want to ruin his life by inserting a bit of smut into otherwise substantial (so they say) writing?
I’d rather read David Baldacci. His Camel Club series is as close as I want to get to the Middle East.
From what I understand, cymbeline, it wasn’t the sexual passages that offended Muslims. If they were, there would be a fatwa on nearly every modern novelist on the planet.
It was the fact that he revealed some very unpleasant and contradictory verses that appear in the Koran.
These verses are so embarrassing to Islam that the claim is that Satan somehow snuck them into the text.
THOSE are “The Satanic Verses”. The offense was in getting the rest of the world “in on” it. Most translations redact these verses because they are embarrassing.
The pornographic nature of the verses is not nearly as offensive as the fact that the West found out about them.
There are atheist authors who try to debunk our own Bible by pointing out some incidents (especially in the Book of Judges) that are embarrassing to Christians. We, however, do not put deadly fatwas on such people. We struggle with the passages, and later see as we continue reading, that the Bible is a holistic matrix of different authors, with different personalities, written at different times in history. But ALL of it holds together because it is inspired by the Holy Spirit. We understand the embarrassing stories because they depict the depravity of humans in need of a Savior.
The Koran is not like that. The first half was written in Mecca, where Muslims were a minority. It emphasizes living in peace with one’s neighbors. The Second part, written in Medina, was composed when Islam was “on the March” to conquer territory. The more recent Medina verses, if in contradiction to previous passages, are said to “subrogate” the earlier words. In other words, the later warlike verses replace the earlier, peaceful ones.
Rushdie is worse, to the Muslim mind, than an infidel. He is seen as an apostate and a traitor, because he has pulled back the veil.
Somebody had to do it eventually. In our modern world, with instant translation and electronic publishing it was bound to come out. Rushdie just happeneed to be the first.
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