TagsTagsOne fatwa, coming up: German aims to read Rushdie Satanic Verses in mosque. Cologne, Germany - A maverick German book author said Wednesday he wants to read aloud inside a mosque from The Satanic Verses, the 1988 novel by Salman Rushdie which some Muslims consider blasphemous. Guenter Wallraff, 64, said he ...
LGF, Salman Rushdie, Islamic Supremacism, Islam, Apostasy, Knighthood, Germany, Mosque
Smell the rage. Activists from the Islamic parties chant slogans against British author Salman Rushdie during a protest in Lahore June 25, 2007. A group of hardline Pakistani Muslim clerics has bestowed a religious title on Osama bin Laden in response to a British knighthood for the Rushdie, whose novel “The ...
LGF, Salman Rushdie, Islamic Supremacism, Islam, Apostasy, Knighthood
Here’s a truly unhinged rant by Iranian parliament speaker Gholamali Hadadeadel, threatening Salman Rushdie and Britain, and promising that Rushdie’s knighthood “will not be left unanswered.” “It would truly be significant if we asked the 80 year old queen of England that on what basis she granted Salman Rushdie Knighthood on ...
LGF, Salman Rushdie, Islamic Supremacism, Islam, Apostasy, Knighthood
Anjem Choudray and his followers are on the streets of London again, burning the flag of St. George, calling on God to “curse the queen,” and warning that this latest Muslim seethefest over Salman Rushdie’s knighthood could get as bad as the seethefest over the Danish Mohammed cartoons: British Muslims ...
LGF, Salman Rushdie, Islamic Supremacism, Islam, Apostasy, Knighthood
It’s the day of prayer for Muslims, and that means worldwide rage over Sir Salman Rushdie, as Islamic leaders incite their followers with calls for Rushdie’s death: Rushdie fatwa looms again amid new protests. “In Islamic Iran, the revolutionary fatwa issued by Imam Khomeini remains valid and cannot be modified,” leading ...
LGF, Salman Rushdie, Islamic Supremacism, Islam, Apostasy, Knighthood
This might be the jawdropper of the day, because the people who selected Sir Salman Rushdie for knighthood apparently were taken completely by surprise when the Islamic world went nuts. The latest controversy over his knighthood appears to have shocked the people involved in nominating and selecting him. Jonathan Heawood, director of ...
LGF, Salman Rushdie, Islamic Supremacism, Islam, Apostasy, Knighthood