Muslims hold new protests against Rushdie knighthood

"Go to hell Britain! Go to hell Rushdie!" in modern, moderate Malaysia. It looks as if it is going to be quite a party all over the Islamic world on Friday.

By Danny Kemp for AFP (thanks to all who sent this in):

ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Anger mounted in the Muslim world Wednesday over Britain's knighthood for novelist Salman Rushdie, with protests spreading to Malaysia for the first time and fresh demonstrations in Pakistan.
The rallies came a day after both Iran -- whose late supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini sentenced the "Satanic Verses" author to death in 1989 -- and Pakistan summoned Britain's ambassadors to protest.

In Kuala Lumpur about 20 members of Malaysia's main Islamic opposition, the Pan-Malaysia Islamic party, shouted "Go to hell Britain! Go to hell Rushdie!" outside the British High Commission.

They handed a one-page memorandum to the British envoy during the rare half-hour demonstration, which was watched by police with riot shields and helmets. The police contingent was about as large as the protest.

"In the name of peace and mutual respect, we demand that the award be withdrawn, and the British government distance itself from a provocateur like Salman Rushdie," party president Abdul Hadi Awang said in a statement.

In Pakistan hundreds of people protested in the central city of Multan, where an effigy of Rushdie and a British flag were burned for the third day running. Effigies of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II were burned earlier this week.

Traders, religious students and members of a religious party held separate demonstrations.

"Britain has tried to ignite the controversy of the cursed author Rushdie after more than a decade," said Akhtar Butt, the leader of a local traders' body. "It's a deliberate attempt to provoke Muslims."

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27 Comments

Demvaril | June 20, 2007 11:12 AM

"In the name of peace and mutual respect,"

OH MY GAWD your havin a larf aint ya!!!

In the name of peace and mutual respect go and die in a corner quietly somewhere!!

Foehammer | June 20, 2007 11:18 AM

"Go to Hell, Islamofascists!"

R_not | June 20, 2007 11:26 AM

They need to send out that new woman muslim cop to stop the violence, or to watch her muslims riot. I would like to see that and what would happen. Would they behave themselves if they saw a muslim woman UK cop?

On another thought thread, I wonder if they are actually considering withdrawing the knighthood due to these intolerant ones.

duh_swami | June 20, 2007 11:27 AM

It may be a plot to enrage muslim's. What did Salomon do to warrent knighthood? Plot or not, it doe's not take very much to pzz off the whole bunch of them. Somewhere in the Quran or hadith, is buried a cool one second sound bite, 'Fury is a blessing from Allah'. Maybe that's why individual muslim's are frothing, it's a blessing. Since the whole is the total of all it's part's, 'Islam, the Ummah' is
frothing at the mouth...again. Rushdie is just another excuse for raging...and frothing...

Isabellathecrusader | June 20, 2007 11:36 AM

"Would they behave themselves if they saw a muslim woman UK cop?"

Absolutely, because Muslims have SOOOOOOOO much respect for women.

thomas ato | June 20, 2007 11:41 AM

"It's a deliberate attempt to provoke Muslims."

Oh well then, you'd better get your marching slippers on and be provoked then hadn't you? What a maroon...

Stand fast in the liberty | June 20, 2007 11:45 AM

Greetings in the name of the Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: And He is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

Wow, this reminds me so much of the horrible rioting by Christians that happened upon the release of the novel and film, "The DaVinci Code," which if ever there was an insulting creation, it's right up there with the homosexual Christ in "The Last Temptation of Christ."

Man, did those Christians go crazy, burning, beating and screaming.

arjun.sevak | June 20, 2007 11:45 AM

"We ... consider this another major affront to Islam by the infidels," said a Taliban spokesman,"

taliban condemns knighthood.

http://www.reuters.com/article/wtMostRead/idUSISL13183620070620

"Bounty of 80,000 pounds on Rushdie's head"

http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20070016177

"Pakistan, Iran summon UK envoys over Rushdie honour"

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/6/20/worldupdates/2007-06-20T014551Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-303887-2&sec=Worldupdates

R_not | June 20, 2007 11:48 AM

duh_swami, you have a good point. It seems that they give knighthood to all of their actors and singers who become well known. Knighthood is a big nothing. So, someone like Anthony Hopkins who emotes for a living can be called 'sir'. If I ever met the guy I would like it, but I wouldn't call him 'sir'. I only call people 'maam', or 'sir' if they wait on me. The military cured me of giving morons that title.

Some of the singers they have given knighthood to are no more than druggies and alcoholics that know how to play drums and guitars. gee, it makes that title even more lamo.

R_not | June 20, 2007 11:51 AM

arjun.sevak, one of your articles says that they have police guarding Rushdie day and night. I certainly hope they don't put that UK muslim woman cop on that duty. Maybe all cops might not be considered equally trustworthy.

R_not | June 20, 2007 11:55 AM

Isn't it funny now we have to pass it by muslims to see if we can do things like give someone an honor, say certain words in a speech, or do certain things. Are we showing the muslims our willingness to be dhimmi even before we have an all our assault on our homelands? I guess we pay the jizya so why not start with muslim censorship. We wouldn't want to upset our 'masters', would we?

I almost gagged writing that sentence!

Infidel33 | June 20, 2007 11:57 AM

"In the name of peace and mutual respect, we demand that the award be withdrawn"

Brilliant. You can't even parody this stuff! Looking forward to freaky Friday if the Brits haven't capitulated by then. (Of course, Tony might have to tutor Her Majesty in the fine art of dhimmitude. She earned her stripes under the tutelage of Churchill, for heaven's sake.

Elric66 | June 20, 2007 12:22 PM

i have to hand it to the Brits. This was actually a good move in exposing the so called moderate Muslims.

savitch | June 20, 2007 12:29 PM

Please, you really should cut the poor muslims some slack, they seem so insecure and they are so easily upset. Their societies have acheived so little, their culture is dying and their most notable historical acheivement is mass-murder. In the back of their minds they all know this and it pains them. The only symbol of power and prestige they have to hang onto is the memory of their all-conquering insane war-lord prophet, so lets give them that much. Be sensitive please.

And ban muslim immigration. Thanks.

shiva | June 20, 2007 12:36 PM

Go to hell Britain! Go to hell Rushdie!" in modern, moderate Malaysia. It looks as if it is going to be quite a party all over the Islamic world on Friday.

And it is not even friday yet

bevc | June 20, 2007 12:37 PM

For those people among our fellow posters or in the gen population who assert that "all religions are the same" and "Christianity poses same threat" I would put the question: When Sir Elton was nominated, does anyone remember St. Peter's Square hosting effigy burnings? Did Liberty Baptist Bible College n/k/a Liberty University have students rioting and shouting "Death to Elton" "Death to the British"??

bevc | June 20, 2007 12:38 PM

ebonystone | June 20, 2007 12:53 PM

"In the name of peace and mutual respect, we demand that the award be withdrawn, and the British government distance itself from a provocateur like Salman Rushdie," party president Abdul Hadi Awang said in a statement.

Wouldn't it be nice to see this re-written as "In the name of peace and mutual respect, we demand that the death-fatwa be withdrawn, and the Iranian government distance itself from provocateurs like the ayatollahs," party president Awang said in a statement.

duh_swami | June 20, 2007 12:54 PM

Ahmed know's what all good liar's know.
1. 'The most believable liar prevails.
2. 'The best liar's tell the truth, except for the most important part's.
3. A lie told often enough become's the truth.

The son's and daughter's of Allah, are good at lying. They have taken taqiyya from a craft to an art form. BS artist's, every one of them. Heavenly deceit, as the Rev Moon call's it. Prefabricating for Allah is A#1, OK with Allah, in fact he encourages it. Without repeated lie's, Allah's defensive shield would go down, and he would be vulnerable to attack. 'Shield's up Scotty'...Sorry Captain the Klingon's have disabled them'.
In the same way, Islam's lie's have to be dismantled by infidel's who know enough about Islam to do it. Most of the poster's here can do it, certainly RS and Hugh.
There are no moderate muslim's. A, so called, moderate muslim is one who become's an artist with 'shucking' as his canvas, and 'jiving' his brush.
Submitting to Allah, mean's, among other thing's, a stict adherance to the insruction's given by Allah. Those liar's like Ahmed are slow jihadist's doing a very slow jihad. They are following the istruction's Allah layed down when he had Mohammad utter, 'war is deceit'. Winning an intellectual war is more important than winning a phsical war. Breaking Allah's lie's to smithereen's, crush's Allah more than dying jihadi's. Allah's lie's are three hundred and something. The same number as stone idol's in the Ka'aba when Mohammad broke up all but one and called it Allah. What mohammad acually did, was to destroy three hundred plus lie's, and replace them with three hundred different lie's, all rolled up into one god.
Allah cant be the one God if its beginning's
were based on fabrication's. So Allah is a liar.
A true submitter has to ignore these lie's or pretend he doe's not know about them. Some more lie's...oh what a tangled web we weave when...

duh_swami | June 20, 2007 1:07 PM

Sorry, that post was supposed to go in the following thread about Ahmed...Type key wont let me sign in unless I go out of thread and then back in. I got thread's mixed up...

livefreeordie! | June 20, 2007 1:45 PM

As 'backwards' and 'intolerant' as we are as a religious group...I honestly can't remember any members of our Baptist church burning anything recently (other than accidentally overcooking some hamburgers or porkshops once in a while). Maybe we should crawl out from under our rock and experience the joy of peace and mutual respect like some of these other folks?

We have two universities locally, and plenty of mohammed's followers live here in town. I wonder if they'll be partying locally on Friday, too??

Wishbone | June 20, 2007 2:15 PM

Should any be wondering if our Blighty looks like capitulating on this matter any day soon, here's what our Home Secretary thinks about it:

British minister: 'We stand by Rushdie knighthood'

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1963407.ece

Islofob IS-1 | June 20, 2007 3:07 PM

I guess now is not a good time to re-issue to theaters, for it's 30th year aniversity, "The Message" .

Allahfanculo | June 20, 2007 5:18 PM

Time to nuke.. er.. rock the Casbah!

The Northumbrian | June 20, 2007 9:02 PM

Most of these mad (in both senses of the word) Islamists, of couse, will have never read any of Salman Rushdie's works (literature has never been a strong point of Islamic "culture", notwithstanding "Ali Baba and the forty thieves"). It was a similar thing with tbe Danish cartoons: many protested without actually ever seeing them. Now we have found their Achilles' heel, we should taunt them mercilessly with literature and cartoons highlighting their foibles. They use murder and terror, we use cartoons and books. And isn't the pen mightier than the sword?

Crunchy Jello | June 20, 2007 10:32 PM

Anger mounted in the Muslim world...

the Sun sets in the west
ice is cold
bears shit in the woods
dogs bark
. . .and cats meow

WTF ELSE IS NEW ? ? ?

F 'em

bonncaruso | June 21, 2007 6:35 AM

To the muslim world: I have four fingers and one thumb on each hand, but only one finger is needed to show my respect for the islamic world.

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