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Muslims are seething in Germany over a planned stage production of Salman Rushdie’s [Amazon Link]—the dreaded unreadable novel of blasphemy. BERLIN (Reuters) - A German Muslim group said on Friday protests were likely against the first ever staging of a dramatized version of Salman Rushdie’s controversial book “The Satanic Verses” ...
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The former pop star known as Cat Stevens, aka Yusuf Islam, aka Yusuf (no Islam, for gullible Westerners), has had YouTube remove the video in which he Wishes for Salman Rushdie’s Death by Fire. This is what he said: When asked if he’d go to a demonstration to burn an effigy ...
One 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 ...
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Christopher Hitchens on Islamic Rage Boy: Look Forward to Anger. If you follow the link, you will be treated to some scenes from the strenuous life of a professional Muslim protester in the Kashmiri city of Srinagar. Over the last few years, there have been innumerable opportunities for him to demonstrate ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Here’s a rare video of former pop star turned Islamist Cat Stevens (aka Yusuf Islam, aka Yusuf) on British TV in 1989 discussing Salman Rushdie; when asked if he’d go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of Rushdie, Yusuf Islam replies, “I would have hoped that it would be ...
British Labour peer Lord Ahmed, rather than helping to bring sanity to the Salman Rushdie frenzy, has given an interview to French newspaper Le Figaro comparing Sir Salman to the “martyrs” of the 9/11 attacks. Wow. Interviewed in Le Figaro newspaper in France, the Labour peer Lord Ahmed of Rotherham added fuel ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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News to make you feel safe and warm: as Pakistani MPs openly support Osama bin Laden and scream for the death of Salman Rushdie, satellite photos have revealed that Pakistan is nearing completion of a previously unknown plutonium production reactor. Chalk up another success for Nobel Peace Prize winners Mohamed ElBaradei ...
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The seething and burning continues to get worse, building up to the day of prayer tomorrow when we can expect a rather large explosion of rage from the Religion of Peace and Tolerance: New Rushdie protests after Britain defends award. ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Muslim anger flared Thursday after Britain defended Salman ...
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Pakistani member of Parliament Sami ul Haq says that if Britain is going to knight author Salman Rushdie, Muslims should confer the title of “sir” on Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar. Islamabad - A hard-line Pakistani parliamentarian and head of a religious political party on Wednesday demanded a “sir” title ...
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Muslim rage at Britain for knighting Salman Rushdie is spreading and growing, as the leaders of the Religion of Tolerance™ continue throwing fuel on the flames: Muslims hold new protests against Rushdie knighthood. They’re working themselves up for a nice big explosion on Friday, the day of prayer. ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Anger ...
Iran’s Islamic Republic News Agency has the breaking story of seething, threatening British Muslim leaders, enraged by the granting of knighthood to Salman Rushdie; they blame Tony Blair. Notice that instead of calling for tolerance and calm, the UK’s Islamic spokesmen add fuel to the fire—and they have no compunctions about ...
Pakistani Islamists chant slogans in front of a burning effigy of Indian born author Salman Rushdie during a protest in Karachi. Muslim radicals have burned an effigy of Queen Elizabeth as Pakistan summoned the British ambassador over Rushdie’s knighthood and Iranian hardliners turned their fury on the monarch.(AFP/Asif Hassan) If ...
Here we go again; following Britain’s decision to grant knighthood to Salman Rushdie, the Islamic world is gearing up for another violent seethefest, as Pakistan’s “religious affairs minister” says suicide attacks are justified. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan on Monday condemned Britain’s award of a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie as an ...
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Britain gave a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie, and Iran says this proves British officials are “Islamophobic.” Funny. I think it shows exactly the opposite. Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said the decision to praise the “apostate” showed Islamophobia among British officials. ... Mr Hosseini told a press conference: “Giving a ...
The singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, now known as either ‘Yusuf Islam’ or ‘Yusuf’ depending on which audience is watching, accepted a “lifetime achivement” award in Germany over the weekend, for “building bridges” between Islam and the West—and refused to speak with the infidel female guides at the event, ...
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Here’s a fascinating audio recording of a talk by British-Indian novelist Salman Rushdie at the New York Society for Ethical Culture: Salman Rushdie - Secular Values, Human Rights and Islamism.
Here’s a great interview with Salman Rushdie, full of insight into the evil of radical Islam and the willful blindness of Western liberal elites: Salman Rushdie: His life, his work and his religion. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) It’s in The Independent, so the interviewer exhibits some of that willful blindness. “If tomorrow ...
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