Sir Salman
UPDATE: Pajamas signs on Danish Motoons editor’s blog.
Question No. 1. What did they give him a knighthood for? Pissing off Muslims?
“The reasons for it are self-explanatory.”
It can’t be for the book. That book sucked. I mean, aside from the fact that it supremely pissed off the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Question No. 2. If he got a knighthood for pissing off Muslims, why would Muslims give the infidels satisfaction by getting pissed off?
“If somebody has to attack by strapping bombs to his body to protect the honour of the Prophet, then it is justified,” Pakistani Religious Affairs Minister Ijaz-ul-Haq told the national assembly.
All of a sudden, I’m liking Rushdie like Shakespeare. Maybe they knighted him for his self-promotional genius.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:20 am on Tuesday, June 19, 2007
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June 19th, 2007 at 12:36 am
Didn’t Rushdie just win the Booker of Bookers for the best novel written in English over the last 25 years?
June 19th, 2007 at 1:12 am
Goodness me! The Alphtard™ actually got one right.
Hey, even a broken clock is right twice a day……although Rushdie won the “Booker of Bookers” award in 1993, not recently.
June 19th, 2007 at 2:31 am
Jules is right about the book — it sucked. The only thing that made it a go was the reaction of the Ayatollah Khomeini.
I give a nod to the Queen, who has more guts than the majority of her subjects. Hell, she has more guts than the majority of the Western world.
June 19th, 2007 at 2:42 am
“scratch a neocon, wound a monarchist”
June 19th, 2007 at 7:40 am
He is not a good author, but his wife is bloody hot!!!
June 19th, 2007 at 8:16 am
You know, he HAS written other books. Which are very good. And he’s rightly seen as one of the founding figures of the whole immigrant lit school in Britain which has involved other good books, screenplays, etc. (Check out Kureishi’s My Son the Fanatic, for one.)
But he could be Barbara Cartland for all I care and the knighthood would still be delicious.
June 19th, 2007 at 10:01 am
I don’t care about his books, I gave up that intellectual crap years ago. But I’m lovin’ the knighthood as a thumb to the nose at the jihadis.
June 19th, 2007 at 10:18 am
theospark
HOT, is right. Torrid, is more apt. Just posted a comment at your place, thought I had signed me name, but it went under anonymous, or somethin’…
June 19th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
I laughed like hell when I read about this at Hot Air. I haven’t read Rushdie’s books (not my cup o’ tea), but the image of QEII flipping the Mad Mullahs the birdie is freakin’ hilarious.
June 19th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Fittingly, alphie got the fact right but can’t fathom the implication.