£80,000 reward to 'execute' Rushdie as knighthood row escalates

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The international row over Salman Rushdie's knighthood escalated after Islamic extremists placed a £80,000 bounty on the writer's head.



"Salman Rushdie has turned into a hated corpse which cannot be resurrected by any action," Mohammad Reza Bahonar, first deputy speaker of Iran's parliament, said in an address to the house.



"This is an occasion for the world's 1.5billion Muslims to look at the seriousness of this decision," said Mohammed Ijaz ul-Haq, Pakistan's religious affairs minister.

"The West is accusing Muslims of extremism and terrorism," he told his country's parliament.

"If someone exploded a bomb on his body he would be right to do so, unless the British government apologises and withdraws the 'sir' title."





Ok. Lets Review.

The muslim world, or at least several muslim countries (Iran ,Pakistan) have decided to attempt to interfere in the internal activities of a nation (great britain) , to wit the british government in dealing with a british citizen.

An official of the Pakistan government openly advocates a car bomb be planted by the british parliment. (Inciting terrorism)

This is not the first time the Muslims have gotten angry at the internal affairs of other nations. Remember that dutch cartoonist with his ill thought out cartoon ?

One might pass it over as just another cartoon issue , but it is not. Why ? Relates to critism. Are you aloud to coldly analyze a religious work and come to your own conclusions, as Rushdie did when he wrote his novel (never mind what the conclusion was, thats irrelevent) , or are the priests of that religion the only ones allowed to do that ?

My answer is yes, you should be allowed to read it and come to your own conclusions, even if those conclusions differ from that of the priests.

The Muslim conclusion is No , and since you disagree with me I'm going to kill you now.

Conversion by the sword went out of style a long time ago. Those who attempt it are quite rightly put down , violently if need be. People will beilieve what they choose to believe , and if you pull out a weapon and try to change their mind by force, it will be you on the receiving end of the force.

In the end , this is a sad statement to the strength , or lack of , of the teachings of the Koran. That they are so weak that they must be backed up by force, lest people disreguard it. Perhaps the Imans realize this , and realize that if they ever lose their grip of terror and threats and executions on their population of slaves, I mean worshippers, they'll lose it all, and islam will vanish in a puff of smoke as people abandon it en mass.

Or perhaps they should trust in their prophet , and quit polluting his work with their own narrow short sighted immediate goals that do more damage to their own religion than all the western nations combined. Perhaps if they actually cared for their religion as if it were some kind of holy work , instead of looking at it as if it were a club useful only for beating people with , it wouldn't get villified so often by the people you're hitting with it.