Well this little bit of news is bound to become a firestorm of protest and violence in various places around the world. Salman Rushdie, 'Controversial' writer, has been knighted by the English monarchy. Considering that he is one of the most loathed people of all time in the Muslim world, this is a very interesting turn of events in the world at large.
The man is an incredible writer and his books are absolutely amazing. Why the hatred then? 'The Satanic Verses' which was published in 1988 was banned in many countries after it was accused of mocking Muhammed('The Prophet'). Rushdie was then forced to go into hiding after a bounty was placed on his head by various groups and he is wanted dead by the Iranian government.
Its wonderful to know how very tolerant of free speech these people are that call for his death. It was also nice to see England do its own thing despite it not being so popular with certain areas. Then finally what kind of religion/culture can call themselves righteous and then want to kill someone for writing a book that they didn't agree with? How many of the protestors/clerics have read the book?
Moments in time captured with various odd symbols referred to in the lingua franca as letters.
About Me
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
3 comments:
off topic, i think you will find this to be quite interesting. http://www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/73_folder/73_articles/73_thorheyerdahl.html
Sir Hendrix, less than a week and we will be Sweden. Excited to see you bro. I feel like I'm losing my mind these days with everything i have to do and everything thats going on. did sell my ole honda last week, very sad.
Makes me think of what might have happened if the novel had been published today and not -88. Well, it's not a pleasant thing to entertain my mind with so I'll just stop right there. I guess Sir Salman Rushdie's already gone there though a couple of times. My condolences to him for the pride of man we've all experienced. (Luk 18:9-14) Och hörrudu, grattis på namnsdagen imorn!=)
Post a Comment