This is all just theater. Chautauqua needn’t have added any new security, because none of its other speakers are targeted by jihadis. Meanwhile, Chautauqua organizers would rather be boiled in oil than feature a speaker who honestly identified why exactly Rushdie was attacked, and explained the full implications of the attack.
“New security measures in place after attack on Salman Rushdie,” by Emily Putnam, News10NBC, August 16, 2022:
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC / AP) — At the Chautauqua Institute, new security measures are in place following the knife attack against author Salmon [sic] Rushdie on August 12.
Some of the people who witnessed the attack were surprised by what appeared to be a lack of security at the Chautauqua Institute, especially considering that Salman Rushdie has faced backlash and death threats. Those started after he published his most famous work, the satanic verses in 1988.
Chautauqua administrators have spent the days since the attack talking with law enforcement and security experts about how to improve safety.
The venue made some changes, which went into effect this week. First, if you plan to visit or attend an event there, you will now have to show a photo ID regardless of the event. You’ll want to leave your bags in the car because there is now a no bag policy at the amphitheater and all indoor performance venues.
The heightened security is already noticeable on the grounds. On Monday, there was an event there. A member of the January 6th committee was speaking and there was a clear increase in police presence, including a sheriff’s deputy with a K-9, sniffing the bushes outside of the auditorium….
mortimer says
THOU SHALT NOT EMBARRASS ISLAM ! That is the question and the answer to it. Islam is an HONOR/SHAME culture, and so truth is not as important as ‘prestige’, ‘image’ or ‘alpha-male honor’.
Let me explain for Chautauqua’s directors from the most AI source on the subject: SHARIA LAW.
Sharia law doesn’t allow non-Muslims to speak about Islam or its obviously false prophet. A non-Muslim is a kafir who has lost the right to live by rejecting the prophethood of Mohammed.
Sharia law says that a kafir who speaks anything that the mullahs dislike may be murdered by Muslim vigilantes.
The following are the sources that prove those preceding points:
– Source the Unsheathed Sword against Whoever Insults the Prophet:
-The First Issue: whoever insults the prophet is to be killed whether they are Muslim or a disbeliever. This is the general view of the scholars. Ibn Al Mundhir said: “The generality of the scholars have consensus that whoever insults him is to be killed. (Malik, Lyth, Ahmad, Ishaq and ash-Shafi also said this.)”
– The Second Issue: killing is prescribed on him (the one who insults the prophet) and it is not permissible to imprison or show favour to him or to ransom him
-The Third Issue: Any Muslim or non-Muslim (who insults the prophet is to be killed repentance is not sought from him.
-“The dhimmi is obliged not to mention Allah or His Apostle…dhimmis must hold their tongue…. (From the Wagjiz, written in 1101 A.D. by al-Ghazali)
Sharia permits anyone to kill those who verbally oppose Islam, since they are ‘at war’ with Islam:
-“We have already discussed KILLING the person who, with intent, curses the Prophet, belittles him or slights him in any way. The judgement in this case is clear.” (i.e. DEATH) – Qadhi Iyaadh in ash-Shifa, Volume No.2, Page No. 27
– “There is no indemnity obligatory for KILLING a non-Muslim (harbi) AT WAR with Muslims.” -Reliance of the Traveller, o4.17, p.593
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In other words, what counts in Islam is the ‘prestige’ or ‘image’ of Mohammed, and of the Islamic leaders, the mullahs. Their authority and supremacy should not be challenged.
Ayatollah Khomeini declared the supreme authority of the mullahs :
“Those who oppose the mullahs oppose Islam itself; eliminate the mullahs and Islam shall disappear in fifty years. It is only the mullahs who can bring the people into the streets and make them die for Islam – begging to have their blood shed for Islam.” – Ayatollah Khomeini
gravenimage says
Good post, Mortimer.
James Lincoln says
Seconded.
gravenimage says
Chautauqua Institute beefs up security after Rushdie attack while ignoring its causes
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Just more kabuki theater.
somehistory says
Pathetic writing in addition to the ‘little too late.’
raja says
Security beefed up? How much can be done and can every citizen be protected? Well nigh impossible to even imagine protecting the elites, much less the man on the streets. The Islamists have always been at war with infidels and most often it is by stealth. Now that they have come out in the open about their avowed jihad, the elites of the world should rise to the occasion and pluck islam into pieces. For starters they can strengthen or define freedom of expression and speech.
Virge33 says
Seconded
Christopher Watson says
As a response to the moslem attack on Sir Salman Rushdie I decided to order his book, The Satanic Verses. Guess what, it’s ‘out of print’. It is impossible to read. Why the moslem idiot bother to stab Sir Salman? Amazon are doing a good job banning the book anyway.
Carol the 1st says
The book’s been selling like hotcakes per Jay Smith, evangelist. He’s been travelling in England due to his son’s wedding and has just now released a video on the Rushdie subject.
Jay seems to have a lot of insight into the book and on TCK’s (third generation kids) like himself and Rushdie and their search for identity. This is a constant theme in Rushdie’s work and the Satanic Verses is no exception:
Killing Rushdie is easier than defending Muhammad!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEAUAG0efuE
Another find is an older lady calling herself Granniopteryx. I don’t know her credentials but she’s graduated from some double major in Arabic and Psychology. She really sees the Islamic culture as pervaded with Cluster B personality types: Anti-social; Histrionic, Narcissistic and Borderline. We should stop the Christian self-whipping and be focusing on that quite obvious fact she insists:
Rushdie – and the disorder that no one wants to acknowledge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR1ZGFkwaTE
Carol the 1st says
…that’s “third CULTURE kids” TCK’s,
somehistory says
OT: the pro-unborn life people are “extremists” and are being investigated
“NY Governor Was Mum on Pro-Abortion Firebombing. Now She’s Calling Pro-Life Activists ‘Extremists.’
New York governor Kathy Hochul has directed state to investigate pro-life pregnancy centers”
Truly disgusting, in so many ways. These women going after others who help mothers who need it, giving them baby stuff, seeing that they get other things they require to have a healthy pregnancy and birth for their babies, are snakes. snakes working for satan the devil.
and on the West coast, there is another snake, who sits in congress and wants the government, er, the taxpaying public, to pay for homosexuals to have invitro so they can have babies and not have to fork over the money. Thousands of babies are killed in these “clinics” every year. None of these snakes care about the little babies. Children are a “commodity” so they can make more and more money at the expense of babies’ lives.
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/ny-governor-was-mum-on-pro-abortion-firebombing-now-shes-calling-pro-life-activists-extremists/