Would A Cartoon Of Salman Rushdie Be Okay?
“The award of a knighthood to the author Salman Rushdie justifies suicide attacks, a Pakistani government minister said today.”
Mohammed Ijaz ul-Haq, religious affairs minister, goes on to say that suicide bomber attacks would be justified over Rushdies knighthood “unless the British government apologises and withdraws the ’sir’ title.” Does this remind anyone of the Danish cartoon uproar by the muslims?
For those who may not be familiar with the name, Salman Rushdie wrote “The Satanic Verses”, which some imams claimed insulted Mohammed and who then issued a death fatwa on Rushdie.
Here’s some examples of the islamic rhetoric:
“Yesterday, Iranian politicians accused Britain of insulting Islam by awarding the knighthood to Rushdie, who was forced into hiding for a decade after the country’s late spiritual leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa calling for his assassination.”
“Mohammad Ali Hosseini, a spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry, said the decision to honour the novelist was an orchestrated act of aggression directed against Islamic societies.” “Honouring and commending an apostate and hated figure will definitely put the British officials [in a position] of confrontation with Islamic societies,” Mr Hosseini said.”
“This act shows that insulting Islamic sacred [values] is not accidental. It is planned, organised, guided and supported by some western countries.”
“Giving a badge to one of the most hated figures in Islamic society is … an obvious example of fighting against Islam by high-ranking British officials.”
All over the Islamic world, you can hear howls of outrage and threats of terrorist attacks, trying to frighten the British government into backing down.
So now the British can hunker down and wait for the next bomb blasts from their entrenched horde of hairy-faced, shrieking “asylum seekers”.
The real point of concern here isn’t the usual bomb-waving. It’s that a GOVERNMENT MINISTER of a NUCLEAR COUNTRY, Pakistan, is advocating suicide bombings in England. If this level of increasingly radical Islamic confidence and aggression doesn’t sink in now, then I’m amazed you’re intelligent enough to even read this.
The part of this that truly astounds me, given the craven appeasements that have steadily drooled out of the cowards currently in power in Britain, is that they would honor the Queens list of knightings. If they back down under the threats I think it could spell the end of the Labour Party’s power, which would be a boon to the British. Labour has become the Party of Appeasement. For my money, Western Europe would benefit hugely if the BNP came to power in Britain.
June 18th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
Actually, your headline got me thinking, since cartooning is so devastating – even to divine prophets favored by God Himself – and is such an unimaginable insult, then surely the radical imams and opportunistic politicians are missing an opportunity. Instead of advocating acts of violence against authors of fiction (which backfires because it deepens the western sense of cultural superiority that we don’t use violence for such matters), surely they should be enticing the young muslims of this world to CARTOON SALMAN RUSDHIE INTO THE GROUND!!! (The Queen too. Why not? She’s used to it!)
THAT would be turning the West’s weapons of degradation against it, wouldn’t it! THAT would teach us not to insult Islam!
Because as things stand, using symbolic violence to try to prove the spiritual goodness and moral authority of Islam to Westerners is like farting to improve the aroma of an outhouse.
June 18th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
I… I can not read such insane deliriums anymore…
no room for psichopatics words in he media, please…
the press, all the MSM turned an asylum.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:29 pm
Even the Blair government cannot have been so stupid as not to have expected the twats would be offended so I think withdrawing it would most unlikely.
Just part of the usual vote winning strategy, appear tough over high profile issues that soon blow over and do nothing over the important ones like proper control of immigration.
June 19th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
His words are tantamount to a declaration of war if you ask me and we should view it as such, end all the millions of pounds we give them and round up all their Pakistani Colonialists living in Britain.
June 19th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Certainly, a government member can hardly be dismissed as “an isolated fanatic” and at the very least we should introduce far tougher travel restrictions on Pakistan.
June 24th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
Of course the very peaceful ‘Muslims’ are justified for destroying the whole world over this. What? The Queen can’t knight someone she likes? She can’t knight someone that other people don’t like?
But I’m sure Sir Rushdie has mixed emotions on this; the Queen has put him in much greater danger. Maybe he’ll wish he had turned it down.
At least this incident will lose the terrorists at least a few more of their dhimmidiot appeasers.
Islam in it’s extreme is more political ideology than religion. In that way, it is only a ‘Religion of Peace’ in that when Islam rules the planet, there will be no one to be at war with. Where they are given an inch, they demand a mile. Islamic countries are becoming more extreme, extremists rule, they just keep quoting the Koran to justify their Jihad.
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
appease religious killers
continue to spoil them
violent tantrums pay off
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