So it looks as if the Satanic Verses finally caught up with the author. I remember when the original furore blew up. Wondering what it was that pissed off the Islamic world so much, I read it. Waste of time. Drivel. Unreadable drivel. I still don’t know what it was supposed to be about. I suspect that those who are so offended by it haven’t actually read it, because if they had, they would have been as baffled as I was.
Still, here we are and one of the deranged nutters finally got close enough to have a go.
Much as I rate the novel as dire, the principle of free speech needs to be rigorously defended. Rushdie has the absolute right to write whatever he wants and if people are offended, then too bad. This principle needs to stand. We need to stand firm against the stone-age religion that is trying to suppress our way of life.
And I hope he pulls though.
And “…authorities said, there is not yet any indication of the motive…”
Speechless.
Well, quite. They still take us for fools.
Your use of the word “still” implies you think one day their views/attitudes might change. I wish I shared your optimism….
I have no such optimism. It was merely a turn of phrase that suggests an open ended continuation of them taking us for fools.
“A fake driver’s license that was found on Matar when he was arrested contained the names of two Hezbollah commanders”
Yeah, it’s a fuckin’ mystery, right enough…
“Unreadable drivel.” An accurate description of the book.
The late Mrs L gave up on it. I persevered because I wanted to find out what all the fuss was about. I was none the wiser.
Not enough use, in any of the reports I have read or heard, of the words:
Islam, muslim, condemned to death, incitementent to murder, and again, Islam, muslim.
Indeed. They do their best to avoid what has been obvious from the off. The fatwah.
Quite.
’I suspect that those who are so offended by it haven’t actually read it…’
Haven’t read anything, being from an illiterate peasant society…
I think it’s time for sanctions. I shan’t be going to Turkey for holidays, I won’t fly Emirates, when my wife wants to watch Match of the Day I’ll suggest that she watches something else if Newcastle, Manchester City, Aston Villa, Fulham or Everton are playing. Hit them where it hurts – in the pocket.
Why is anyone surprised when we’ve had Charlie Hebdo and the invention of a phobia in the hope of suppressing any criticism of an easily offended group, though it must be difficult to keep alive such a level of hatred that you are moved to try to kill the offender.
I’ve just heard that the subject of the novel apparently was Thatcherism….
Saw Boris blathering about ‘never stopping the fight for freedom of speech’!!!
Really? So it’s ok for me to say that men in a dress are men, poofs are dirty and Islam is a murderous cult now, is it?
Didn’t think so.
These people are still living in the medieval era while the other religions have moved on.
Islam shown no signs of moving on. It is a parasite that devours and destroys the host. It is incompatible with civilised society.
And, just to rain on the parade …
ALL THE OTHER RELIGIONS are just the same – they just hide it better – well, this week, anyway.
There are people in the USA still claiming that “Blasphemy against the holy bedsheet ( Oops, “holy spirit” ) is the one unforgivable sin.
Prods & Catholics in some of Ireland’s back streets are still at if.
Um, err …..
Lest we forget:
Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius
And
“Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed.
Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of sight and … know nothing but the word of God.
In other news, boatloads of vermin that agree with this attempted murder wash up on our shores every day to be welcomed by useful idiots.
ZERO evidence for that, even if all the immigrants are muslims, which they are not …
Of course, if we had remained in the EU, this problem would not exist
Bollocks. Utter, utter bollocks.
They aren’t ‘immigrants’, Greg. But you know that, don’t you?
They were coming across any way they could when we were in the EU. But you know that too, don’t you?
Quite. Our membership of the EU is irrelevant to this. The idea that it wouldn’t be happening with continued membership is delusional nonsense.
I see the authorities have admitted he had protection. Two of them.
Who should have been able to intercept the terrorist, yet didn’t. Audience members actually wrestled him to the ground!
Where were they recruited from, the Uvalde SWAT Team?
Islam. The word means, “submit”. So, in “submitting” to the alleged words of a mythical being who, allegedly, spoke only to him, and written down by a man who could neither read not write, followers of Islam have no control over their thought processes, but must follow a life style, which they have been told to follow, or else other followers will kill them.
Not exactly, Welsh Baptists, is it?
With regards to Rushdie, I have not read, not intend to, any of his books. What annoyed me about him was that, despite making millions, he demanded the British Police, at taxpayers expense, protect him from attacks such as this, and displayed an arrogance that anyone should protest at that.
Now I wish I had bought a couple of copies as, if he pops his clogs, they should be worth a canny bit.
For those who browse charity shops, if you find a copy of one of his books, just drop it off at the local mosque. I’m sure they’d love it.