Off To The Races
Pak clerics knight Sir Osama bin Laden, “Sword of Allah.”
Yee ha!
In light of this development I’d like to withdraw any ill-conceived criticism of the literary merits of Sir Salman Rushdie’s inspired works of genius, nominate him for a place in the Oxford Medievalist’s poll alongside Good Queen Liz, Scourge of Nutcase Mohammadans,* and wholeheartedly endorse her knighting of the former to the end of pissing off the latter.
I’d also like to endorse Mr. Damian Penny’s nomination of Sir Osama for a proper British knighthood. h/t Pajamas.
*Not to be confused with the sane ones I count among friends and readers.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:00 am on Thursday, June 21, 2007
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June 21st, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Lets hope the sword slips and beheads the bastard.
June 21st, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Once again, Muslims make the difference between Islam and the West crystal clear. Blair and the Queen honor an author whose writings “hurt the feelings” of Muslims because his words are deemed an insult to their prophet. Their response, besides advocating murder, is to honor a mass murderer, who did a great deal more than “hurt the feelings” of (some) Westerners.
You have to give them this: they are consistent. Murder is a core value, and informs everything they do and say.
June 21st, 2007 at 2:03 pm
As an Iranian colleague of mine once said, “If anyone tells you Islam is a religion of peace, he is a liar. It is a religion of killing.”
June 21st, 2007 at 2:12 pm
“Rushdie is not the problem. Muslims are.”
GROWING up in Vancouver, I attended an Islamic school every Saturday. There, I learned that Jews can’t be trusted because they worship “moolah, not Allah”, meaning money, not God. According to my teacher, every last Jew is consumed with business.
But looking around my neighbourhood, I noticed that most of the new business signs featured Asian languages: Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Punjabi and plenty of Urdu. Not Hebrew, Urdu, which is spoken throughout Pakistan.
That reality check made me ask: What if my religious school isn’t educating me? What if it’s indoctrinating me?
I’m reminded of this question thanks to the news that Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses and 10 other works of fiction, will be knighted by the Queen.
On Monday, Pakistan’s religious affairs minister said that because Rushdie had blasphemed Islam with provocative literature, it was understandable that angry Muslims would commit suicide bombings over his knighthood.
Members of parliament, as well as the Pakistani Government, amplified the condemnation of Britain, feeding cries of offence to Muslim sensibilities from Europe to Asia.
As a Muslim, you better believe I’m offended - by these absurd reactions.
I’m offended that it is not the first time honours from the West have met with vitriol and violence. In 1979, Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam became the first Muslim to win the Nobel Prize in science. He began his acceptance speech with a verse from the Koran.
Salam’s country ought to have celebrated him. Instead, rioters tried to prevent him from re-entering the country. Parliament even declared him a non-Muslim because he belonged to a religious minority. His name continues to be controversial, invoked by state authorities in hushed tones.
I’m offended that every year, there are more women killed in Pakistan for allegedly violating their family’s honour than there are detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21940050-7583,00.html
This came out of Australia and is written by a Muslim. He’s outright ashamed and disgusted by this. This is a great read.
June 21st, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Well said, 4iraqisfuture.
Me, I’m sick of people catering to tantrums thrown by barbarians. Don’t like it, eh? Too bad!
June 21st, 2007 at 4:01 pm
I’d like Damian Penny’s idea too, if I didn’t believe that Osama’s already fertilizing ground. But, hey, there are plenty of knighthoods to go around, and plenty of other crimi… er, terro… er, heads to knight. I say, knight ‘em, and knight ‘em good!
June 21st, 2007 at 11:08 pm
If OBL won’t let them knight him with a nice sharp broadsword, how about the Goodfellas who took Joe Pesci’s Tommy character under their wing induct Osama as a made man of the sicilian Mob?