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(CNSNews.com) - Islamism is the new totalitarianism, and the recent uproar over the publication of cartoons depicting Mohammed has revealed the necessity of the struggle for freedom, equal opportunity and secular values. So said British author Salman Rushdie and a group of other writers and intellectuals, including some of the Islamic world's most reviled figures, in a declaration published Wednesday. "Like all totalitarianisms, Islamism is nurtured by fears and frustrations," the document says, but adds that nothing - not even despair - justifies the choice of hatred. "Islamism is a reactionary ideology which kills equality, freedom and secularism wherever it...

Tell Me That It Isn't True ...12/12/2004 09:31:51 amOne hopes that the implosion of Bernard Kerik's nomination does not signal the beginning of a trend where those endorsed by Right Wing Bob go belly-up. I think not. However, now we need a new Secretary of Homeland Security, and with my favorite candidate out of the running, there's an opportunity to promote someone whom common sense and good taste had previously restrained me from suggesting. Well, enough of that.Who could be better for the position of protecting America from Islamist terrorists than a man who has successfully, and single-handedly, defied the...

November 2, 2001 Yes, This Is About Islam By SALMAN RUSHDIE ONDON -- "This isn't about Islam." The world's leaders have been repeating this mantra for weeks, partly in the virtuous hope of deterring reprisal attacks on innocent Muslims living in the West, partly because if the United States is to maintain its coalition against terror it can't afford to suggest that Islam and terrorism are in any way related. The trouble with this necessary disclaimer is that it isn't true. If this isn't about Islam, why the worldwide Muslim demonstrations in support of Osama bin Laden and Al ...

$100,000 to kill Rushdie TEHRAN: An Iranian extremist Islamic group calling itself the General Staff for the Glorification of Martyrs of the Islamic World has offered a $100,000 (BD37,800) reward for the killing of British novelist Salman Rushdie, a Press report said yesterday. According to the hardline Jomhuri Eslami newspaper, the tiny and little-known group called on "all volunteer Muslims to sign up on its Internet site... to kill Salman Rushdie." "The reward will be paid to anyone who kills Salman Rushdie or his family," the paper said, quoting a member of the group who also pledged the organisation's...

SALMAN RUSHDIE has appealed to moderate Muslims around the world to reclaim their religion from fanatics or see it spiral deeper into bloody cultural oppression. He said that this week’s fatwa, or religious edict, ordered against a Nigerian journalist was the latest example of abuses by extreme Islamic authorities that had to be confronted. The Deputy Governor of the northern state of Zamfara compared the journalist, Isioma Daniel, to Mr Rushdie for writing that the prophet Muhammad, Islam’s founding father, might have married one of the Miss World contestants gathered in Nigeria. Mr Rushdie also cited the death sentence passed...