Iran condemns Britain over Rushdie knighthood

[Undertoad]

And it spreads:

ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Outrage mounted in the Muslim world Wednesday over Britain's knighthood for Salman Rushdie, with protests spreading to Malaysia and a top Pakistani cleric calling for the novelist to be killed.
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In Islamabad, Abdul Rashid Ghazi, one of two brothers who runs the hardline Red Mosque, backed comments by Pakistan's religious affairs minister that the knighthood justified suicide attacks by Muslims.

"Salman Rushdie deserves to be killed and anyone who has the power must kill him," Ghazi said in a statement. He added that if the Pakistani government cooperated "we will make arrangements to murder... Rushdie here."

Around 300 female Islamists wearing all-covering burqas and waving flags and placards blocked the road outside the Pakistani parliament.

"He is not a famous writer, why has he been given such a rare title? This is really a move against Muslims," said Samia Raheel Qazi, an MP and head of the women's wing of the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami party.

Another 300 people torched an effigy of Rushdie in the southern city of Karachi, while hundreds more burned British flags and dummies of the writer in the central city of Multan.

The funny part of this article is at the end:

...the committee that recommended Rushdie for the honour did not discuss possible political ramifications and never imagined it would provoke Muslim anger.

It also said that the writers' organisation that led the lobbying for him to be knighted had originally hoped the honour would lead to better relations between Britain and Asia.

Emphasis mine. The calculus of political correctness is getting more and more difficult, eh?

[xoxoxoBruce]

More difficult and like a disease, more difficult to cure.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

Iran condemns Britain over Rushdie knighthood
Says award is an insult to Islam

So, Britain finally gets a spine when it comes to Islam... now, apply it to the schools please.

Great, they need to call in the charge' and tell him to go back to Iran and go fuck themselves. Since their so called Revolution in 1979 they have proved themselves to be nothing more than misguided zealous idiots.

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

Sorry. I was referring to RK posting twice re British schools refusing to teach about the Holocaust.

Did it happen?

[piercehawkeye45]

Ugh, Britian should have known they would have gotten a reaction but it wasn't a dirty move and they were completely justified in it.

Hopefully this just dies off, these types of arguments never go anywhere but bad quickly.

[TheMercenary]

I would fully support bombing their one and only gas refinery. Send it to the shitter.

[DanaC]

Did it happen?

One teacher, in one unnamed school felt uncomfortable about tackling what she considered to be a contentious topic. It was referred to in a paper about teaching history, and in particular about teaching potentially contentious topics and how to best promote historical debate amongst pupils. To in any way characterise that as 'British schools' not teaching the holocaust, is disingenuous.....and lo and behold the 'story' was 'broken' by a right wing tabloid with an axe to grind.

So.....no it didn't happen. British schools weren't and aren't refusing to teach the holocaust.

[Rexmons]

i think the world would be a better place if everyone just watched family guy:

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

I would fully support bombing their one and only gas refinery. Send it to the shitter.

Wait, I thought we weren't supposed to intervene in foreign affairs?