Someone picked this lost thread...I am wondering why?

This is my take on the "knighthood" and the whole drama!

�I saw it was the greatest publicity stunt ever pulled by any writer/publisher in the history of publishing world in a down economy that was in eighties if anyone cares to remember ... as sawtul khilafa (BTW I miss him a lot for some his insights and of course late brother Sasha too) wrote against Khomeini's moronic Fatwa without reading the book himself...

I know just Khomeini uttering the fatwa sent the sale of the book into stratosphere overnight. Even my my boss brought up the subject in a sly way all I had to do was ask him couple or three questions about the background and he was dumbfounded and speechless otherwise extremely smart in his profession but living in total jahillia !

I wish he had kept his mouth shut more than Rushdie himself! He became accessory to the crime by default making a knight out of a pawn of a gutter sniper...that does happen on chess board but this became mountain of a molehill! I had to read the book cuz of my boss...Rushdie is talking about the miseries of the subcontinental immigrants in UK that no one would give a crap in the US in those days...He wrote tons of expletives about the Brits, their Prime Minister and the royals may be Queen too and what have you while living among them!
 The way he composed I bet most of the details would totally be Greek to the westerners but there they were just glued to his ranting out of sheer hate for Khomeini consequently the prophet and the then the religion!
The western orientalists have for centuries been churning that yarn...Rushdie  sent to UK by his Jahil father at low teens was just the seed he sowed for his own ticket to hell...
Khomeini had to do something more radical to prove his credentials to the masses in that part of the world...BTW that turned out to be the dumbest thing except for himself that gave a shot in the arm of his regime shattered in 9 years long years of war with Iraq... and his gamble paid off for a temporary lead in region for Islamic polity...Then it became a fashion for everyone to throw two cents in and the flood gates of demonstrators were opened ... the rest of the Muslims who were not well versed played catch up or got caught off guard and reacted as in any ghetto would act with heard mentality...

Khomeni's regime got big boost out of this for free and he took the helm as unchallenged leader of the Islamic world and the British Jewish publisher made hay and laughed all the way to the bank so did the British exchequer in VATs...

I can say with certainty the devil himself was directing this conspiracy for real!

On one side being a Shiit cult leader and other Rushdie a non Muslim born in British Indian colony where most Muslims were border line anyways�I personally know whole bunch who would sell their souls to the Brits for money and UK domicile as many did! Most people who went for the British tutelage came back as alcoholics and derelicts that further messed up the so called free country Pakistan!

The west in general and the Brits in particular felt elated for what they got away with and proof came when the Queen accepted the knighting committee� nomination run by the Z�nists �was a final slap in face from the antagonist 

It will take time for the sick Muslim commonwealth to be well and be able to command respect! It is a long slog from the bondage of Jahillia to faith & freedom and the Anglos are doing a good job! It was nothing new but addition of z'nists in the calculus making it bit complicated!

After the Free Gaza flotilla case the leadership may be shaping up back in the same people whose forefathers lost it! It is gonna take time ...

One can�t help but observe the sea change of the respect Chinese have earned in less than half a century!

Does anyone think now any western publisher along with their royalty can get away with by slandering Mao even with things he did and all the bad blood between them of war notwithstanding !


Edited by Sign*Reader - 20 June 2010 at 1:09pm

Ron Webb wrote: I read it.  So did my Dad -- part of it, anyway.  I don't think he finished it.  It was okay, but, I didn't much care for the "magical realism" aspect of it.  I thought it would have been a better book if he had just stuck with a straightforward reimagining of Muhammad's life, perhaps as a modern allegory.   But the key point is that neither my Dad nor I would have bothered to read it, if it weren't for the fuss that Muslims made about it.

May be you can try your hand at it with your ideas, you are pretty good yourself...It might make yourself rich and famous particularly when the so called "overseas  contingency operation" aka Bush's war on terror is going on in full force! And the hapless Muslims are in much worse shape now! Only thing common is the economy in doldrums like the eighties!


Edited by Sign*Reader - 20 June 2010 at 12:34pm

Sign*Reader wrote: What do you mean by motivations?

I was referring to the assumption that Muhammad was sincere and honest in his claim that the Quran came from God, and that it wasn't just a story he made up for his own purposes.  This is the assumption that Salman the Persian calls into question in Chapter 6 of the Satanic Verses, "Return to Jahilia".

The country that nurtured and knighted the stinker Rush die has this much fear of a gentle soul like Dr Zakir to refuse his entry! That is true definition of a country touting freedom of speech! LOL

Legal challenge to ban on Muslim preacher Zakir Naik

�This ban shows how this government is leading �extremist� secular anti-Islam policy within Europe. Dr Naik is an Islamic speaker who specialises in mutually respectful, robust, interfaith debate and dialogue and is famed for taking questions from all comers. He is largely seen as apolitical and is famously non-violent. Hence, to ban Dr Naik�s presentation of Islam is a sign of extreme intolerance and hatred.�

�The decision is hypocritical because the UK bans the likes of Dr Naik but allows anti-Islam �hate preachers� like Geert Wilders to speak in Parliament.�

�The government's decision is yet further proof that Western governments are unable to convince people of their values without silencing opposing or competing views. It flies in the face of their proud talk about �free speech�, which is frequently used as a fig leaf to justify attacks on Islam.�


Edited by Sign*Reader - 20 June 2010 at 4:59pm