"Britain’s decision to bestow a knighthood on Salman Rushdie is one of those inexplicable follies that seem designed to rally the forces of resurgent extremism in today’s dangerously unstable world.” In other words, it's Britain's fault if Muslims start rioting about this. In the Pakistani press we don't see sentences like "Britain’s decision to bestow a knighthood on Salman Rushdie should not be allowed to become a rallying point for the forces of resurgent extremism in today’s dangerously unstable world.”
"Pak paper sees ‘Western plot to defame Islam,’" from AFP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani newspapers yesterday lashed out at Salman Rushdie’s knighthood, with one saying the ideal revenge would be to make a film about the sex lives of the British royals.
Huh? The ideal revenge for the knighthood of Rushdie would be to imitate the British tabloids?
Iran and Pakistan summoned Britain’s ambassadors on Tuesday to protest the award, drawing a retort from London. Protesters in Pakistan have burned effigies of Queen Elizabeth and Rushdie.The News, a respected English-language daily, said in an editorial that the award for the author of The Satanic Verses made a mockery of efforts to tackle Islamic extremism.
“Britain’s decision to bestow a knighthood on Salman Rushdie is one of those inexplicable follies that seem designed to rally the forces of resurgent extremism in today’s dangerously unstable world,” it said.“For Pakistan, struggling domestically to justify its role in the war against terror, her majesty’s decision to honour Salman Rushdie can only make the task more arduous,” it added.
The paper speculated that British Prime Minister Tony Blair honoured Rushdie because he was “one of the few intellectuals with clout in the west” who had supported the US-led invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11.
It was also a “farewell gift from hell” from Blair to incoming premier Gordon Brown, the paper said.
A comment piece in The Nation said Rushdie’s “anti-Islam antics” had won him the “revered” British accolade, including his support for a British minister who made comments on the wearing of veils by Muslim women.
It said, however, that Rushdie had also targeted Britain in his writings and that “if after all this mudslinging on their person, leadership and monarchy, the British insist on honouring Rushdie, let them be.”
Nawa-i-Waqt, a mass circulation Urdu-language paper, suggested that the Rushdie award was part of a conspiracy in the West to defame Muslims.
There is, of course, no such conspiracy, unless reporting on statements such as the ones in this article counts.
...it seems to me that worldwide insane Muslim violence does more to defame Islam that any book by anyone could ever do....
....The Muslims have the option of not buying the book...the victims of Muslim violence have no option...
....The Muslims have the option of publishing their own books...the victims of Muslim violence have no option...
....The Muslims have the option of presenting any proof they have contradicting anything Sir Rushdie has written...The victims of Muslim violence hav no option..
....As ususal the Muslims will only turn to death and destruction every time they see someone recognizing the truth and every time they see someone spreading the truth to others..
....Muslims hate the truth...especially if the infidels know it....Islam is for losers...you do not want these people in your neighborhood...Ban Muslim Immigration..
'the ideal revenge would be to make a film about the sex lives of the British royals'
Try Charles' sex life for starters. You'll have kicked yourself in the nuts when he declares himself a revert.
No need of any Western Plot to defame Islam-it
defames itself every day.These howling, threatening,flag burning ,Manic Muslims alert the West what we're up
against.
This sort of "Monty Python" over the top behaviour would be extremely funny if it wasn't for the fact that these vicious barbarians tend to colour their demands with the blood of some poor innocents.
I really do not care if it is politically incorrect or practically impossible but I really think that removing the 1 billion Muslims from this plane might have an extremely beneficial effect upon both mankind and this planet.
I wonder what they will have to do to the west to provoke a widespread "McCarthyism" attack upon them such that ANY follower of the dark Age warlord is made totally persona non grata and hence dispensable.
I often wonder what Hitler would think if he could see his beloved Germany being overrun by these barbarians and whether he would consider that perhaps he had made a mistake in who was the real enemy of mankind. As he was not a philanthropist I doubt whether reality would have derailed him from his obsession.
http://www.terrorismawareness.org/what-really-happened/
It does seem to me that Muslims actually do not need any pretext for violent protest. Clearly, in Gaza, there are simply too few opportunities for killing Israeli's, so they must occupy themselves by killing each other. Even when there isn't a 'justifiable' basis for violence, they will manufacture one (eg. the Danish 'Mohammed Cartoons'). So, we have Fata killing Hamas, and now this other grotesque 'clan' in Gaza who have kidnapped the BBC correspondent. We can safely predict violent protests against Salman Rushdie, and possibly against the British Government for having the temerity to recognise his contributions to literature. So much for the 'religion of peace' which cannot abide anybody else's point of view, and which clearly cannot function in anything resembling a 'multicultural' society unless it is on top. One wonders when Western governments will wake up to its true nature?
It does seem to me that Muslims actually do not need any pretext for violent protest. Clearly, in Gaza, there are simply too few opportunities for killing Israeli's, so they must occupy themselves by killing each other. Even when there isn't a 'justifiable' basis for violence, they will manufacture one (eg. the Danish 'Mohammed Cartoons'). So, we have Fata killing Hamas, and now this other grotesque 'clan' in Gaza who have kidnapped the BBC correspondent. We can safely predict violent protests against Salman Rushdie, and possibly against the British Government for having the temerity to recognise his contributions to literature. So much for the 'religion of peace' which cannot abide anybody else's point of view, and which clearly cannot function in anything resembling a 'multicultural' society unless it is on top. One wonders when Western governments will wake up to its true nature?
It does seem to me that Muslims actually do not need any pretext for violent protest. Clearly, in Gaza, there are simply too few opportunities for killing Israeli's, so they must occupy themselves by killing each other. Even when there isn't a 'justifiable' basis for violence, they will manufacture one (eg. the Danish 'Mohammed Cartoons'). So, we have Fata killing Hamas, and now this other grotesque 'clan' in Gaza who have kidnapped the BBC correspondent. We can safely predict violent protests against Salman Rushdie, and possibly against the British Government for having the temerity to recognise his contributions to literature. So much for the 'religion of peace' which cannot abide anybody else's point of view, and which clearly cannot function in anything resembling a 'multicultural' society unless it is on top. One wonders when Western governments will wake up to its true nature?
I thought making porn films was haram under islam.
Rushdie's knighthood will no doubt be the hot topic Friday afternoon at the mosque. Look for more riots tomorrow. Any one want to speculate on how many muslims have actually read The Satanic Verses ? Rushdie's book, that is. We know they've all studied the koran!
These people, Muslims, have absolutely no capability for looking at themselves.
The Urdu newspaper claims that Rushdie's knighting is a plot by the West to defame Islam.
Uh - Muslims? You people defame YOURSELVES quite nicely.
Let me repeat that: YOU DEFAME YOURSELVES.
Muslims are the best and only real defamers of Islam. Harmless cartoons are punished and (orchestrated) world-wide rage erupts. Saddam murders hundreds of thousands of Muslims, invades two Muslim countries, leading in one case to over a million deaths and in the other a brutal occupation. You can look far and wide for any Muslim outrage.
Muslim governments show incredible brutality almost everywhere they exist. Silence from Muslims in the face of this brutality.
Muslim terrorists murder mostly Muslims, but throw grenades into Christian churches, torch trains filled with Hindus, behead Christian schoolgirls in East Timor and Buddhist farmers in Thailand, kidnapped foreign tourists in the Phillipines and blow up, stab and shoot Russian schoolchildren in Beslan.
Iranian Muslims execute 16 year old girl, who was raped for stabbing her attacker and defending her younger sister. They hang homosexuals, they murder apostates, they imprison blasphemers, they have a mob stone adulterers. All this IS Islamic Law and there is not a peep of outrage.
The world's opinion of Islam sinks by the day. The trend line is that if Islam terror doesn't stop, people may decide that the world would be much better off without Islam, without Moslems. They are uniting North America, Europe, Russia, India, China and Australia against Moslems. If you are Moslem, this isn't good.
Islam defames itself each and every day with its words and deeds. No Western plot is necessary for defamation.
I think that Queen Elizabeth should be a nominee for International Anti-Dhimmi of the Year award in December. This is a bold move.
Yes, Muslim leadership behaviour is beyond Monty Python funny! Comedians should be having a field day with this stuff.
Islam has so self-defamed itself in the past couple years, that I can not believe that people are still respecting "the feelings" of this silly religion.
As for Mohammad (peas be upon him) ... let the mocking begin. If he really is a prophet and if the Koran is true, they will be left standing after the mocking and criticism is past. Only lying tyrants shun criticism and lack the confidence to endure mockery.
Stonings, beheadings, bombings, hijackings, beatings, subversion of women, terrorism against infidels, terrorism against heretics, honor killings, indignation, effigy burning, flag burning, more killing, anti-Semitism, giving aid and comfort to terrorists, lying, and more recently, lawsuits.
All part of the Eastern plot to defame Islam.
Why does the West need to defame Islam?
Aren't the muslims doing a great job defaming Islam on their own?
Islam can't be defamed.
Doesn't Islam consider that Knights are tied to the Crusades?
Who (or what, as the case may be) exactly holds Islam in such esteem that they would be offended by its so-called 'defamation'?
And defaming Islam-- how is that possible, really? To WHO is Islam being defamed before exactly???
Would it be before the non-Muslim 'infidels' it has already targeted for death and destruction? (Would any of them truly CARE if Islam is destroyed, much less 'defamed'???).
Or would it be before the Muslims who are already tragically chained to the thing mentally, like cocaine??? (They already think they know Islam is fab, so what difference does what anyone says about Islam make to them?).
WOuld it be to their idol (that doesn't exist except in backwards human minds)?????
Who or WHAT is left to care about what is said about Islam even if what is said about it isn't pretty? Particularly when Islam itself ISN'T pretty anyway? (No one, actually).
Islam - the religion that defames itself.
Islam is upset?
Yawn. I’m bored of Islam being upset; it usually consists of a group of idiots jumping up and down while they burn things.
Who cares? Rushdie got his medal get over it. If you ever get the balls to take us on then we will introduce Shock and Awe to your house and blow you into next week.
In truth I hope you get upset. It makes me feel warm.
So honoring Rushdie is "part of a Western plot to defame islam", is it? Why would the West need to devise a "plot" to defame islam when there is nothing the West could ever do to make it look worse than it is. Muslims, as they express their self-righteous, maniacal indignation and fury (again) are exposing the sordid, evil core of islam and as usual, the stupid West either ignores them, cowers in fear of them, or panders to their arrogant and hyperbolic sense of relevance and magnificence.
No religion or god should require the faithful to riot, rage, and kill in their defense. Every putative "insult" to islam results in muslim exhibitions of pathetic insecurity and fear. They are terrified that if they cannot forcibly impose respect for islam on the world, it will become even more irrelevant as a religion and they will become more irrelevant as people. The rightful rulers of the world don't like to feel irrelevant even if they have to die (and kill) to be noticed.
It is impossible to defame something as intrinsically evil as islam.
"with one saying the ideal revenge would be to make a film about the sex lives of the British royals."
Yawn... it's been done. These guys have evidently been living on mars. In a cave. With their eyes shut, and their ears muffled.
Of course, if they could pull their noses out of the Quran for 5 minutes they might see this...