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Mark Steyn - A fatwa of one's own
National Post (Toronto) ^
| December 5, 2002
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 12/06/2002 4:57:28 AM PST by Clive
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To: babyface00
"virtual infidels(TM)" ROTFL! Fantastic idea! Send it along to Mark Steyn!
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posted on
12/06/2002 7:44:13 AM PST
by
livius
To: Clive; Freee-dame
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: "
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posted on
12/06/2002 7:47:40 AM PST
by
maica
To: Clive
. . . 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!
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posted on
12/06/2002 7:56:11 AM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: livius
*bump* for later read
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posted on
12/06/2002 8:26:33 AM PST
by
expatguy
To: Clive
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.
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posted on
12/06/2002 11:32:56 AM PST
by
dead
To: Clive
BUmp for Steyn for standing up for Rushdie.
To: Clive
Another GREAT one!
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posted on
12/07/2002 5:32:50 PM PST
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Gritty
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