Of course, he might be close. I am not defending Terry Jones. He is a hate filled, bigoted old windbag with a bad mustache. But he’s not as bad as the Afghans who rioted in response to his book burning and killed a whole bunch of people.
Not Exactly Preaching a Message of Love
I can understand that the Afghans are upset about their country being occupied by foreign powers, but they were not attacking a U.S. military base or a Blackwater encampment. This was the U.N., so it was filled more with “we really want to help” type people, rather than the “bomb your wedding and take funny pictures with your corpses” type people. At least, i sincerely hope so.
It reminds me of the American girl in Soweto who was torn apart by a mob several years ago. She was there specifically to help them, and they killed her.
More to the point, I am reminded of the case of the Dutch film director, (Van Gogh was the last name and he was a direct descendant of Theo Van Gogh, Vincent’s sane and respectable brother – of course Vincent didn’t have any children, he was nuttier than a fruitcake and kind of goofy looking, too) who was murdered for making a film about how nasty Muslim men are to their women, which is all perfectly true.
I am also reminded of the Fatwa against Salman Rushdie, which proves that religious Muslims can’t take a fucking joke. Rushdie’s book was O.K., it was readable, he’s kind of a South Asian Tom Robbins wannabe, and it poked fun at a lot of other religions, too.
So, yeah, burning the Koran was not exactly polite and respectful, but it wasn’t murder. The proper response would have been to burn some bibles, or some American flags.
But, no, they went over the top and killed people. Which kind of proved the Reverend Mustache’s point. Which sucks.
What we have here is a case of assholes v. assholes. And nothing good can come out of that.
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Amen.
Rushdie has deliberately at the bidding of his rich paymasters, penned the book hating the man Muhammad and his religion. Rushdie owes an apology to Muslims for his vilification, hatred, ridicule, mockery, insult and wanton mud slinging and reviling. What will be the reaction of your readers if some fiction writer uses the names of you, your wife, daughters, sisters and your virtuous mother(all of them are highly respected and dignified moralists)in a so called fiction book and describe them as pimps, prostitutes, sluts and scum. Real names of your family members are used and will you tolerate it as fiction, learn to put yourself in the position of others and think deeply fearing God. Readers should kill their anti-Islam bias. We have to co-exist respecting each others religion and culture to save India.
Will anybody write a flowing, beautiful poem about the Yoni of his own mother and bring the poem to the bazaar and read it loud and clear to the audience. If someone does it he should be a lunatic. But that is exactly what Salman Rushdie did. He fabricated, concocted, lied, ridiculed, mocked, insulted and discredited the Quran , Islam and a great prophet. Readers must wake up. Good English writing is nothing to do with high quality morals, Salman Rushdie is a low class and cheap pornographic filth and his only qualification is English language which he uses to make immoral earnings by ridiculing all cultures including that of Indian sub-continent. People who support him are either ignorant or stupid to the core.
My Christian brothers who support Salman Rushdie’s writings should know the respect that both old testament and the new testament give to the mightiest prophet Abraham and his progeny. And in Salman Rushdie’s book Satanic Verses, Rushdie calls the mighty prophet Abraham as a bastard,( may God forgive me for repeating). The Christians who support his writings, should throw Rushdie out as a garbage or they should throw their Christian belief and Bible as non-sense. You can not have the cake and eat it too. You can not patronise the anti-Christ and then say you are Christians. Such people are completely incomprehensible and despicable. They do not make a difference between good and dirty literature that Rushdie is master of . Stop becoming hypocrites simply because you hate Islam.
Penguins edition of the book “Massacre” was published in 1967. Many book sellers found the book deeply offensive . Allen Lane got filled a trailer with all the remaining copies of the book and burnt them. Powerful individuals frequently intervene in the publishing process in order to moderate, edit indeed suppress works. When this was suggested about Satanic Verses, the same liberal forces in the UK, blocked the move simply because it was about an alien culture which can be insulted.
Many European thinkers and quite many politicians, Geert Wilders among others feel that they have the new form of fundamentalism. They have absolute fundamental right to express, write, draw, paint and say what they want without restrictions regardless of the violent and anti-social consequences. This sort of non-faith based new form of fundamentalism is as dangerous as any form of religious fundamentalism of Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Zionist, Buddhist type.
If this sort of unrestricted freedom of expression is maintained consistently as in Europe, it will lead to an immoral universe. By absolute freedom of expression, a politician like Geert Wilders may exert his fundamental right to encourage genocide of Muslims and a novelist may exert his fundamental right to advocate torture, rape, child sex, orgy, murder, genocide of non-adherents as such perverted freedom believers will defend their rights advocating resolutely liberty, affection and sexual love.
No one objects intellectual criticism of religions, but we have to put a stop to deliberate hate speech leading to communal riots, violence, killings and bloodshed. It is not difficult to attain freedom of speech without mockery, insult, vilification and obscene attack on other alien cultures.
There is no freedom without restrictions and there is no independence without discipline
Author Salaman Rushdie’s ex bodyguard Ron Evans has written a book that Rushdie says that it contains derogatory terms.
The Title of the book is
“ON HER MAJESTY’S SERVICE”.
Rushdie’s lawyer Mark Stephens has written to the publisher ( John Blake Publishing Limited) demanding that the as-yet unpublished memoir be withdrawn. If not, he is thinking to sue Ron Evans. Why Rushdie allow the book to be publihsed the same way as his filthy Satanic Verses? Is he not a hypocrat to use two different standards? One for his book one for others?
The following are some of the QUOTABLE QUOTES of Salaman Rushdie on this highly amusing episode. I leave it to your readers to judge his double talk. Remember what had happened in 1988 just before he was deciding to publish the most derogatory book “The Satanic Verses”. He was begged by many, not to publish the book. Nevertheless, he decided to ignore the wise advice of one and all.
1. Rushdie says, quote: “Ron Evan’s account was ‘entirely fictitious’”
Salman Rushdie’s account in Satanic Verses was a complete concoction too. It was full of filth and lies and deliberate insults.
2. Rushdie says, quote: “People have been defamed in Ron Evan’s book”
Salaman Rushdie insulted, discredited and defamed the mightiest personalities of the past. He called the patriarch prophet Abraham, highly respected by Jews, Christians and the Muslims as a bastard( May God Almighty forgive me for repeating) in Satanic Verses.
3. Rushdie says, quote: “I simply wish to protect my reputation from a bunch of lies.”
Salaman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses contained lies, more lies and nothing but lies. An Indian origin English writer whose only asset is his English language thinks that only he has reputation. But he can insult, ridicule, mock and threw to the winds the reputation of 1400 million Muslims and their beloved leaders with impunity. Is not Rushdie a hard core hypocrite?
One last point: A quote from Ron Evan’s book:
Ron Evans claimed that, Salman Rushdie was mean, nasty, tight fisted and extremely arrogant. He also revealed that Rushdie was untidy in appearance that the guards nick named him “scuffy”
The above was the observation of a bodyguard who was rubbing shoulders with Rushdie. The words are music to the ears of very many people because after all, what goes up should eventually come down quite often crashing on the perpetrator’s own head. Our friend had had it now.
Many wonder what had happened to all the illogical non-sense and gibberish, loud and high sounding empty words about freedom of speech, freedom of art and literature, freedom of the press etc that were strongly advocated by history’s greatest hypocrites whose collective concern was Islamophobia in 1988. Are they coming forward with equal strength to get Ron Evan’s book published to ensure their lop-sided and conceited concept freedom of speech?
Any artist who beautifully paints the Yoni of his own wife and brings it to the market place and displays it to make people laugh should be either a lunatic or he should be unimaginably immoral to make money regardless of how he earns it. That is what Salman Rushdie did in writing and publishing ‘Satanic Verses’ and the West glorified him under the false claim of freedom of speech. This is nothing but Islamophobia that we have been witnessing in greater measure and intensity.
You see, Kodimirpal, this is what I mean about Muslims not having a sense of humor. Lighten up.
I guess I better read the satanic verses again. I love Rushdie’s work and find it very entertaining reading. I guess I should try to find Massacre too, if it’s that good.