Mark Steyn - A fatwa of one's own

National Post (Toronto) ^ | December 5, 2002 | Mark Steyn

[livius]

"virtual infidels(TM)"

ROTFL! Fantastic idea! Send it along to Mark Steyn!

[maica]

Steyn is such a great teacher. He pulls facts together and really connects the dots.

" Rushdie's precious lit. crit. crowd mostly opposed the fatwa on the grounds of artistic freedom rather than as a broader defence of western pluralism. That was a mistake.

In the Fifties and Sixties, Nasserism attempted to import Soviet socialism to the Middle East: it never really took. A generation later, the Ayatollah came up with a better wheeze: export Islamism to a culturally defeatist West. Everything that has become pathetically familiar to us since September 11th was present in the Rushdie affair: "

[1rudeboy]

. . . that the Prophet Muhammad would have been happy to take the winner of Miss World for his wife.

This is incorrect and contrary to the teachings of the Holy Qur'an. The Prophet Muhammed would have been happy to take all of the Miss World contestants as wives.

I declare fatwa against all of you!

[expatguy]

*bump* for later read

[dead]

Rushdie's precious lit. crit. crowd mostly opposed the fatwa on the grounds of artistic freedom rather than as a broader defence of western pluralism. That was a mistake.

Great point.

[swarthyguy]

BUmp for Steyn for standing up for Rushdie.

[Gritty]

Another GREAT one!