The Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for the murder of Rushdie for blaspheming Muhammad, and now, over twenty-five years later, the Islamic war against the freedom of expression is confidently advancing everywhere, with Western media outlets practicing self-censorship and refusing to publish material that Muslims claim offends them. And if you get out of line, you could get a brick to the face.
“Durban writer believes praise for Rushdie behind vicious attack,” Mail & Guardian, March 22, 2015 (thanks to The Girls):
Durban writer Zainub Priya Dala believes she was assaulted for expressing admiration for controversial novelist Salman Rushdie, her publisher said on Saturday.
“Author ZP Dala… was assaulted in Overport, Durban, on Wednesday,” Umuzi publishers, the South African imprint of Penguin Random House publishers, said in a statement.
Dala was due to launch her first novel this week, but the event was cancelled following the attack. The attack came after a session in which she expressed her admiration for Rushdie’s writing style in Chatsworth on Tuesday.
A number of teachers and pupils walked out after she made the remark. On Wednesday, Dala’s vehicle was forced off the road by three men in a car. Two of the men accosted her, held a knife to her throat and hit her in the face with a brick while calling her “Rushdie’s bitch”.
British Indian author Rushdie’s controversial 1988 novel ‘The Satanic Verses’ sparked protests by Muslims in several countries. He received death threats and was named in a 2010 Al-Qaeda “hitlist” by Islamic militant Anwar al-Awlaki….
dsinc says
I’m guessing that it’s muslims. Lots of savages here in South Africa. Us kafirs will have to put them in their place one of these days.
لن استسلم lan astaslem
Jay Boo says
Don’t be discouraged
When Muslims say that they are angry because Salman Rushdie insulted their prophet, they are lying.
Salman Rushdie’s book ‘The Satanic Verses’ did not try to insult Muhammad in any way.
It did something much worst in the eyes of a Muslim.
It revealed Muhammad as a shameless liar by using the very words of the Qur’an.
The Qur’an is supposedly the words of the Islamic god figure.
Muslims would rather have Muhammad insulted with every curse possible than have to admit that their whole life following Islam and praying five times a day to an angry god and honor killing their own children has all been for nothing.
Jay Boo says
“one of these days” may be coming sooner than we think.
Islam cannot hold up to scrutiny in the Information age.
No wonder Muzzies are so pissed all the time.
rhondakelly07 says
DEMOCRATS HATE FREEDOM OF SPEECH
Jay Boo says
Actually not all Democrats
This Rushdie thing got you all wacked up rhondakelly07
Muslims are very touchy about Rusdie
rhondakelly07 says
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Angemon says
No where it says that the attackers were black or that they acted upon any sort of racism. They attacked her because of her stance on Rushdie, no because the colour of their skin.
Go back to stromfront, you racist bigot.
Jay Boo says
rhondakelly07,
I think the point you are trying to make is that some blacks are racist and the media will usually not be honest about it. However while that may be true, this topic is not about that and your reference to all people of one race ‘black’ being of the same mindset to do nothing but commit murder and mayhem against whites is paranoid and ill informed.
Most blacks I know are decent people who love their families and wish to live in peace.
I would even go so far as to say the same thing about Muslims if they would only learn to leave that Islam crap alone.
Islam is like a rotting dead dog buried in the back yard that its owners keep on digging up while pretending it doesn’t stink.
mortimer says
Rhonda,
You are awfully incoherent. Your kind of nihilism and obscurantism are unsustainable. This post is about Sharia law, but you are too illiterate to either understand that or acknowledge it. I expect you are a decoy.
gravenimage says
This isn’t about race, this is about the terrorist ideology of Islam.
bobm says
Good stuff rhondakelly; just wasted a bit by this story…
mortimer says
Vigilantism is normative Islam, rather than an aberration. Shari law approves of murdering apostates and critics of Islam. Anyone may do it.
Jay Boo says
Then again, there is no such thing as the oxymoron called ‘sharia law’
‘sharia law’ is an artificial construct of Muhammad’s sociopathic lust for blood and child sex.
RG says
@Jay Boo.
Good one! But actually, there is such a thing as an oxymoron called ‘sharia law’ because yes, sharia law is totally an oxymoron.
gravenimage says
Very true, Mortimer.
Davegreybeard says
I think we’ve been missing something here.
This “Satanic Verses” thing keeps popping up for some reason – why?
Like most Infidels the first, second , third, forth, etc., time this was mentioned in the news I shrugged, thought “now ain’t that weird,” and forgot about it.
NOW, here it is again!
So I went back to my 5 translations of the Quran and read again, the causative verses, namely:
22:52 “Never did we send a Messenger or Prophet before you but when he did recite the Revelation or narrated or spoke, Shaitan (Satan) threw (some falsehood) in it. But Allaha abolishes that which shaitan (Satan) throws in.”
Now, isn’t that a very strange and remarkable thing for Allah to say about his Messenger – that every once in a while Satan might throw some stuff in there.
Keep foremost in mind that this is written in the Quran, which is the DIRECT and LITERAL word of God.
I think Muslims KNOW this weakness in their religion, which is exactly why they are driven to maniacal homicide EVERY TIME it is brought to public light.
We need to bring it up much more often.
DEUS VULT!
gravenimage says
True, Dave. I think it was pretty obvious that ol’ Mo, on reflection, realized that the compromise he made early on with the pagans on worship rather undercut his fanatical “monotheist” message—the question for him was, how to cover his *ss at that point?
The “Satanic Verses” fix is a pretty inelegant one, and one that problematically then automatically casts doubt on *any* of the “Prophet’s” “revelations”.
I imagine he just pulled this out of his *ss, like so many of his pronouncements, and only later realized that the fix was perhaps more troubling than the original problem.
In any case, it has been rather an embarrassment, and Muslims react to its mention as they do with any inconvenient truth—with irrational rage and violence.
Davegreybeard says
Hi graven,
This topic is timely because I was just doing some research on the “Satanic Verses” for that project I am working on. I’m up to the “Battle at Badr” – it’s a slog, but kind of fun
To be honest, I’m a little disappointed that “Hassan” or “Sheebir” or whatever his name was, is not here. I had a question for him and I would really have liked to hear what he had to say.
Why was he removed? I noticed he used all the usual taqiyya and quite a bit of the Christian verses that they always trot out, because they seem to think will have some affect on us – was he banned for something after his first post?
Here is the question I would ask, of anyone proficient the Christian and or Jewish religions:
Is there anywhere any account of any God, besides Allah, saying “All the Messengers or Prophets that I bring before you when they ‘did recite the Revelation or narrated or spoke, Satan threw some falsehood in it.” But I fixed it right away.
I would love to hear the answer to this. I mean is Allah the only God out there that says his Messengers speak the Devil’s bullshit?
The mind wanders.
Maybe Allah just hasn’t gotten around to “fixing it” yet. Maybe Allah’s working on that right now.
EYESOPEN says
Hi Davegreybeard! You asked the question: “I mean is Allah the only God out there that says his Messengers speak the Devil’s bullshit?”
Yep. (Short and sweet.)
Davegreybeard says
HI Eyes,
I would think so, but I am not knowledgeable about Christianity or Judaism, so I can’t say for sure. It sure is a dumb thing for a God to say – but then he did have three daughters…
What I would really like to hear is a response to that question from a Muslim Scholar.
How do you taqiyya out of “Allah says all his Messengers speak bullshit.” There is a period there. Then the next thing Allah says is that he “abolishes” what Satan did.
So, mind wandering again,
What if Muhammad spoke bullshit after the Hajj?
If you eliminate all Sura’s after the Hajj, Islam would be quite tolerable.
Of course if you are a murdering, thieving, raping, lying pedophile, I don’t suppose you’d find it very interesting.
But WE REALLY DO NEED TO KEEP ASKING MUSLIMS this question – it’s like super-bait.
Huck Folder says
Positively master bait.