Iran Blasts Britain For Knighting Rushdie

Ministry Says Knighting “Satanic Verses” Author Salmon Rushdie Is “Proof Of Anti-Islamism”

(AP)  Iran on Sunday condemned Britain's decision to grant a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie, who was forced into hiding for a decade after the Islamic republic's spiritual leader ordered his assassination.

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said the decision to grant Britain's highest honor to Rushdie, who wrote the controversial novel “The Satanic Verses,” was an insult to the Muslim world.

“Awarding a person who is among the most detested characters in the Islamic society is obvious proof of anti-Islamism by ranking British officials,” said Hosseini during his weekly press conference.

Rushdie went into hiding after Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a 1989 fatwa, or religious edict, ordering Muslims to kill the author because his novel “The Satanic Verses” allegedly insulted Islam.

The Iranian government declared in 1998 that it would not support but could not rescind the fatwa. Rushdie says he receives a “sort of Valentine's card” from Iran each year on Feb. 14 letting him know the country has not forgotten the vow to end his life.

“This (award) showed that the movement of insulting Muslims was not accidental but was a planned and organized move that enjoyed support of some Western countries,” said Hosseini.

Britain announced its decision to award Rushdie a knighthood on Saturday, along with CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour, a KGB double agent and several others.

London's decision came some three months after Iran detained 15 British sailors and marines for allegedly entering the country's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf — a claim Britain denies. The 15 were released after nearly two weeks in captivity.

Relations with London are also tense over Iran's controversial nuclear program, which Tehran claims is for peaceful purposes, but many Western countries, including Britain, suspect is cover for a weapons program.

Rushdie is one of the most prominent novelists of the late 20th century and is known for his unique mix of history with magical realism. His 13 books have won numerous awards, including the Booker Prize for “Midnight's Children” in 1981. In 1993 the novel won the “Booker of Bookers,” a special award honoring the best novel in the 25-year history of the prize.

[rashid821]

Does Rushdie need another knighthood? He was already knighted by Satan!

[bobnjersey]

[Does Rushdie need another knighthood? He was already knighted by Satan!]
[Posted by rashid821 at 06:56 AM : Jun 17, 2007]

were you at that ceremony?

[pwrslm]

Its a pretty obvious move that Iran supports the fatwa against this author.

He did what real men do, he told the truth, buried in a "novel". For that, Irans supreme leadership issues what is similar to a mafia hit against him.

Funny, Iran sends him a notice every year...

It comes down to one thing. Intollerance of a religion that violates the commandments. Islam is a religion of lies. Its precepts are that it upholds the ten commandments, one of which is that you shall not kill. Then it turns around and makes execptions, like Rushdie, like non muslims who will not submit to jitzya, and like adulterers, or was that a woman who has been raped by a man.....they charge her with adultery and the man walks away.


These muslims, they are a funny lot. When the are new in the religion and ignorant about what the general direction of the Koran is, they think Islam is a religion of peace, much more akin to the precepts of inner enlightenment. But allah prescribes fighting for them, even if they dont want it, allah know better, and they dont. The only sure salvation that islam provides is to die in jihad as a martyr....and even so, hell is filled with women mohammad said.

is it ok to disrespect a religion that calls you an infidel? Absolutely folks!!

[bradosol]

I'm British and an admirer of the U.S. Whilst it's true that the governments of both our countries make mistakes, and sometimes take actions seen as wrong by our citizens, both our countries have freedom of action and speech for ordinary people envied around the world. With this freedom comes the opportunity to live what others may regard as "immoral" lives. That's part of being a free society, just as much as being able to state your views and criticise those of others. Sadly, there are some people who can't abide any of this. They take offence at the drop of a hat, like children. It's only children who expect the whole world to conform to their view of it. Such people want to tell everyone how to live and what to do. And if they don't like what somebody says or writes, they issue a threat - a command - to murder. Now some of them are saying that the government of my country should not have honoured a British citizen, who they would have liked murdered, because it offends them! To quote Winston Churchill in another context :"What kind of people do they think we are?"

[ericdobbs]

Another reason why it is called GREAT Britain. This is a blow against barbarism.

[old300d]

The Satanic Verses would have made a great movie !

[prowest210]

Muslims will kill you for 'insulting' their mass murdering pedophile/thief/terrorist Mohammed and for insulting their death cult-Islam. We all remember their outrage over the Danish cartoons, and the Pope's comments.

This is the same religion that has given us: 9/11, 7/7, global jihad/terrorism, suicide bombing, honor killings, the Taliban, stoning women, slavery (dhimmitude), taqqiya (deception), Hamas, Hezbollah, centuries of murdering countless millions of people, decimation of advanced civilizations, destruction of libraries/temples/churches/other religions and so on.

These people are not human-they are savages and monsters and will not stop until the world is Islamified or we destroy them and their extremely dangerous ideology. They are trying to get their hands on nuclear weapons, they've openly and regularily declared their intent to destroy the West. We cannot let them succeed or humanity and the beauty of life as we know it will be lost.

Muslims are great at blending in with other populations, but don't think for a moment they've "integrated" and adopted their host countries. They are not here to assimiliate, but to dominate and take over. See what's happening to Israel, that's exactly what's in store for the West. We must unite and defeat this enemy of freedom.

[shazeema]

salman rushdie is a tool used by western powers to insult Islam. this is more obvious now following the the granting of the award , nighthood, by britain. regardless of what he said or wrote in his novels ,but because of the tension which came as a result of what he said in the book , one should always try to take steps to calm tension. Great britain is showing the opposite of that. great powers like britain, should never encourage people, like salman rushdie, who hav the agenda in their minds causing trouble around the world

[neoconrcrazy]

These people are not human-they are savages and monsters and will not stop until the world is Islamified or we destroy them and their extremely dangerous ideology.

Posted by prowest210

are you a man, or a woman? you sound like the later.

why the melodramatics? the call for "western jihad" ?

our civilization is built on solid foundations and the so-called "threat" from, I guess to say, not more than 10'000 hard-core radical islamists is totally overblown. More like mass hysteria.

in iraq we've faced with something different. a sizable portion of the population has been disenfranchised (sunni) by our stupid move to disban the army and bar the Baathists from public life. but this is another problem, unrelated to numerically few radical violent islamists, of which OBL is the biggest.

[prowest210]

"unrelated to numerically few radical violent islamists, of which OBL is the biggest."Posted by neoconRcrazy

And here is a typical example of a muslim in action, posing as an American plying his trade of spreading lies and disinformation about the greatest enemy we face today.

10,000 radicals? More like 100-200 million (10-20%) of the 1.2 billion according to scholars...frankly I'd say if they all take Islam literally, then they're all radical and a threat.

[prowest210]

I missed addressing your initial comments. Islam by its nature is warlike, war on: women, one's natural instinctions, difference of beliefs, etc. It is anti-human, anti-life, anti-intellectual.

Islam has declared war on the West, the "western jihad" as you call it, is simply the self-defense and appropriate response to that blatant threat. And whether I'm male or female is none of your concern, just like whether you're a fa ggot or a pedophile is none of my concern.

[gkc99]

Shazeema says "salman rushdie is a tool used by western powers to insult Islam"

The kind of islam we see being used by middle east political powers these days needs insulting! It is a pseudo-religious justification for fascism, and deserves no more respect than the pseudo-Germanic "religion" pushed by the Nazis in the 1930s.

If people think God wants them to go a$$ in the air, faces in the dirt, that's their business, although it's an alien view to anyone with a brain. When these same people undertake to murder anyone who disagrees with them, it becomes public business.

And the Mooslims love to rant about "Mooslim lands"--what makes these lands "mooslim"?--a total lack of religious freedom. There aren't billions of Mooslims, there are billions of people who live in countries denied religious freedom by Mooslim elites.

I hope Rushdie also gets a Freedom Medal from the USA. Stuff it, Shazeema.

[peacethinker-2009]

Muslims are violent pathetic bunch. Maybe someday the world will evolve to where all religion is null and void, I believe it would then be a more peaceful and gentle place.

[Geneius]

"I think that on the balance the moral influence of religion has been awful. With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil. But for good people to do evil -- that takes religion."
Steven Weinberg

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
Blaise Pascal

[xzavierbrown]

Posted by Geneius1 at 10:50 AM : Jun 17, 2007
+ report abuse

*****

I dont know what is more evil..people who do evil in name of religion..or people who ALLOW evil religious people to persist because it fits thier current agenda..what is your agenda

[fredgrad2000]

Good for Britain - who cares what the Central Bank of Terror (Iran) has to say anyhow...I find it extremely amusing that anytime even a passing insult in passed on Islam; the terror regimes send their forced/oppressed masses into the streets to "protest" (these people probably haven't even seen the quote or "insult" in question - just the latest distraction of incompetent regimes to distract their people from the real authors of their dispair and oppression) - yet they have no qualms calling our religions "false", calling us all "infidels" or "apostates" (those who are Muslim but don't support their warped views of it), and happily offering to wipe entire nations of certain religions "off the planet". The Muslim "leaders" are just tryrants masquerading as "mullahs". There was a post the other day that say there are plenty of good people in the Middle East outside Israel. I agree 100%; unfortunately none of them are in charge; they're all controlled and oppressed by those pretending to be religious men (and only men of course).

[gkc99]

I believe a death sentence should be proclaimed against Ahmadinejad as being unworthy of having his rotten carcass occupy even 1 cubic centimeter of space on this planet for even 1 second longer. He should be exterminated and incinerated.

[speakinup]

I would think in most religions that much more violence has been eliminated than created. The basic tenants of mine forbid those things bad, and praises the good things. Those that would eliminate religion have fallen into the trap of believing those that would do wrong in its name represent the religion. They don't. Those that are Islamic Terrorists do not represent the Islamic world.

The obvious shortcoming of the Islamic world is, few non-terrorists of the Islamic religion have spoken out and condemmed these so called radical actions that don't represent their beliefs.

For this reason, it is all too easy to condem the whole lot. It does make one wonder if they aren't, ipso facto, part of the problem.

Muslims speak up! Unless you do, you reap what you sow.

[rlenham-2009]

When Hosseini said %u201CAwarding a person who is among the most detested characters in the Islamic society is obvious proof of anti-Islamism by ranking British officials,%u201D said Hosseini during his weekly press conference" he speaks a falsehood.

This is not anti-Islamism. It is FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE something about which Islam and the mullahs know little or nothing! It is just one more example of the reason why Islam is best seen as a religion of intolerance.

[ddaymichael]

GOOD FOR THE UK! Only they should have done it years ago.

Frankly, I found the book rather boring. Had it not been for that murdering SOB, the Ayatollah Khomeini and his punk-@ss fatwa, the book would probably have been read by a few dozen academics.

These people are entirely too easily insulted. Could it be that they are constantly on the lookout for reasons to kill in the name of their so-called religion? Rather than spending all their time rationalizing why it is OK for them to murder those who see them and Islam for what it is, perhaps they (and the world at large) would be better off if they would attempt entering into a relationship with soap and water.

These creatures are not only foul in the way they treat any who don't buy into their nonsense or the way they treat women.

HONOUR killings? Gimme a break!

[shazeema]

Great britain is just great by its great name. The reality is that they are not great at all now. They have lost their standing as a world power. They seem to be strong when they follow USA in whatever thing they do, whether its good or not they just give a blind support, so they are also seen strong. Great countries are independent with independent views. France should be named The Great France because they have strong standing in the world community.

[rlenham-2009]

When Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said the decision to grant Britain's highest honor to Rushdie, who wrote the controversial novel %u201CThe Satanic Verses,%u201D was an insult to the Muslim world" and %u201CAwarding a person who is among the most detested characters in the Islamic society [was] obvious proof of anti-Islamism by ranking British officials." he shows the true nature of Islam.

Islam is a religion of intolerance and blind submission. It is a religion whose people do not have the right to think for themselves, express disagreement with what they have been or are being taught and where conversion to another faith or remarks about Muhammad that are considered blasphemous mark an individual for death.

For Britain to knight Rushdie does not prove anti-Islamism. It does, however, prove that Britain is a country where FREE SPEECH and LIBERTY are valued.

[rlenham-2009]

When Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said the decision to grant Britain's highest honor to Rushdie, who wrote the controversial novel %u201CThe Satanic Verses,%u201D was an insult to the Muslim world" and %u201CAwarding a person who is among the most detested characters in the Islamic society [was] obvious proof of anti-Islamism by ranking British officials." he shows the true nature of Islam.

Islam is a religion of intolerance and blind submission. It is a religion whose people do not have the right to think for themselves, express disagreement with what they have been or are being taught and where conversion to another faith or remarks about Muhammad that are considered blasphemous mark an individual for death.

For Britain to knight Rushdie does not prove anti-Islamism. It does, however, prove that Britain is a country where FREE SPEECH and LIBERTY are valued.

[rlenham-2009]

When Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said the decision to grant Britain's highest honor to Rushdie, who wrote the controversial novel %u201CThe Satanic Verses,%u201D was an insult to the Muslim world" and %u201CAwarding a person who is among the most detested characters in the Islamic society [was] obvious proof of anti-Islamism by ranking British officials." he shows the true nature of Islam.

Islam is a religion of intolerance and blind submission. It is a religion whose people do not have the right to think for themselves, express disagreement with what they have been or are being taught and where conversion to another faith or remarks about Muhammad that are considered blasphemous mark an individual for death.

For Britain to knight Rushdie does not prove anti-Islamism. It does, however, prove that Britain is a country where FREE SPEECH and LIBERTY are valued.

[rlenham-2009]

When Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said the decision to grant Britain's highest honor to Rushdie, who wrote the controversial novel %u201CThe Satanic Verses,%u201D was an insult to the Muslim world" and %u201CAwarding a person who is among the most detested characters in the Islamic society [was] obvious proof of anti-Islamism by ranking British officials." he shows the true nature of Islam.

Islam is a religion of intolerance and blind submission. It is a religion whose people do not have the right to think for themselves, express disagreement with what they have been or are being taught and where conversion to another faith or remarks about Muhammad that are considered blasphemous mark an individual for death.

For Britain to knight Rushdie does not prove anti-Islamism. It does, however, prove that Britain is a country where FREE SPEECH and LIBERTY are valued in stark contract to Iran. KUDOS to Britain!

[gkc99]

Great Britain is great because it stands up for freedom. France has ever been the accommodating power that stands up for nothing. It is said the reason there are so many trees in France is that Germans like to march in the shade.

Iran is a dictatorship, run by a corrupt group of religious fanatics. They stand for nothing other than tyranny and murder. Their fascist interpretation of their religion is a phony excuse for the oppression they would like to impose on the rest of the world. They whine and cry about "insults" to them, while they term followers of any religion other than their state religion as "infidels" and Kafirs", and call for killing them.

Any Mooslim who doesn't like what Rushdie writes can simply not read it. The Shazeemas don't tell the rest of us what to believe or what to do. They must be resisted, with force of arms if necessary. Death to all tyrants.

[prowest210]

DEATH TO ISLAM

[shazeema]

I have read the comment posted by gkc99 at 9.40am
I disagree with what he said. Muslims have enornous problems today. Muslims lands are robbed.Their rights are deprived and their voices are suppressed. The West created a country called israel among Arabs and their aim of having this country is to impose their will on the Muslim lands. Any war by America or other western counries are ligal. Muslim wars are terrorism. Western countries have WMD and Nukes. Muslims have suicide bombers and feedom fighters. The west is hungry for Muslim oils. The conflicts are likely to happen until the oil Fields in Muslim countries are dried up. These are nothing to do with religion or Islam. islam is a peace loving religion, something you don't know at all.

[tbweb]

Salman Rushdie Satanic Verses is free for download all over the web in Adobe pdf format. One link is at:

http://www.angelfire.com/rebellion2/fr33minds/SalmanRushdie_satanic_verses.pdf

Anything is available on the web if only one would search for it! Its amazing whats on the Internet! At least people can read it and see what all the fuss is about!

[shazeema]

The justification to Iraq war and the mass killing of Iraqi civillians. The Prisoner abuses in Abu Ghraib are seen as just ligal by the Western double standard countries.Anything done against these criminal activities are considered as terrorism. Israel is made sure of their weapons supplies by the West to fight against Arabs. Any move or support to Hizbullah by Iran is thought to be exporting of terrorism for which the country needs to be punished by the western double standard powers. Its not islam or the religion, but its the western double standard policy which is the real terrorism. The root cause of this conflict is the dispute between Israel and Muslims which america is not interested in solving. They control oil by using this method. Islam is a peaceful religion, something you don't know well.

[tbweb]

Posted by shazeema at 04:13 PM : Jun 17, 2007

shazeema,,,

The United States has every culture in it, Muslims, Jews, Arabs, Iranians, Italians, French, Irish, Germans, Africans, Asians, Mexicans, Scottish, English, Turks and you name, every culture is well respresented in the United States! We are all friends, we all get along and live in peace! We think the violence in the Middle East and elsewhere is crazy! I know Islam is peaceful, American Islam anyway! Israel is scared and paranoid from decades of daily attacks so Americans are sympathetic to Israelis. Israel has tried peace in various ways, even returning land with no success. The best way for Islam to get Americans to stop supporting Israel is for Islam to be peaceful towards Israel. In that case if Israel doesn't return the peaceful gesture Americans will stop supporting Israel. This will not happen overnight, Israel needs to clam down first, gain trust and confidence that the peace is real and then I think you might see a change in Israel. Heed these words.

[fredgrad2000]

shazeema - you work for the propaganda wing of the Iranian government? Islam is the LEAST peaceful of the major religions - the only one where a significant portion of the "mainstream" population even still claim suicide bombing is justified. I am so sick of whining Muslims blaming Israel and the West for their troubles. Israel has no oil and is surrounding by 250 million Muslim Arabs and yet has whooped on the Arab armies everytime they have faced off!! Why don't the Arabs/Muslims put blame where it belongs, on their tyrannical leaders that BLAME Israel and the West for everything to deflect their own incompetence!! Or on a religion that banishes half your population (aka - women, and therefore half your brainpower) to servitude and that has you reject all the modernities that have advanced the Western World and Israel past the dark ages!! Arabs sit on the world's most valuable natural resource and have for a century (its time of major use) and have done NOTHING with the proceeds to better their citizens lives, to expand their economies beyond oil, or to modernize. Blaming Israel or the West for their ills is just propaganda meant to keep the tyrants in power for another generation so they can squander the lives of another 300 million Arabs.

[bradosol]

I posted a message earlier, but want to answer 'shazeema', who has decided to belittle my country (Britain) whilst praising France.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about being belittled, because :
a)we've been bad-mouthed by all sorts for centuries, including a certain Adolf and his mates - we're used to it.
b)our natural reaction is to laugh it off rather than be mortally offended - how annoying!
c)'shazeema'has a right to free speech, at least in some countries.

But 'shazeema' seems to be confused by the word "Great" as in Great Britain, and this post is to clear up any confusion:
a)the British Isles are composed of two main islands and a lot of smaller ones.
b)the name of the largest island is Great Britain and the second largest is called Ireland.
c)the word "Great" has nothing to do with our opinion of ourselves, however nice that would be ; it's a geographical description of ancient origin, relecting the fact that by European standards the island is big, i.e. great.

So it would be fatuous to call our nearest neighbour "The Great France". I can't see any of my French friends going for that one. Want a name cast off by the British? Non merci!

[gkc99]

Mooslims whine about supposed insults to their religion, while they trash the religions of others--destroying the Buddha images in Afghanistan is but an example of the destruction of art treasures by Mooslim marauders. They cut off the heads of Jews with kitchen knives, spewing out vile hatred of Christians and Jews. They murder Hindus by the millions. Yet when someone calls them to account, they are all crying and blubbering about insults to them!

Shaaemmas comments are just part of the pack of lies of the fascist Mooslims--they make war on any country that doesn't knuckle under to them. What border is there between a Mooslim and a non-Mooslim land where there is not war made by Mooslims. Ask the people of the Balkans; ask the Hindus; ask the Russians; ask the non-Mooslims of Sudan; ask the people of sub-Sahara Africa; ask the people of Israel. Mooslims are murders and thieves, carrying on the traditions of their lying, false "prophet". It is a phony religion, a cover for a dictator state, where Mooslims rule and all others are slaves.

We don't choose to put our faces in the dirt and our a$$es in the air. We don't think God wants that--God wants us to stand up, and use our minds, not grovel in the mud.

[prowest210]

Posted by gkc99

Excellent post

[pwrslm]

Beware the face of Mohammad.

While it may be pleasant to look upon,

he hides a bloody knife behind his back.

[pwrslm]

Muslims lands are robbed, by muslims. Muslims rights are deprived, by muslims. Muslims voices are suppressed, by muslims. Islam created the hatred that is spread to muslims, at the edge of a sword, the lands that Islam absconded with came at the price of the blood and heritage of those who were born in them. Islam slaughtered the futures of nations, Islam refused the free choice of peoples, Islam buried the cultures of a hundred nations and replaced them all with a lie.

Allah is not the God of Abraham, Jacob and Isaac. Allah is the god of stone from UR of the Chaldeans, the religion of Babylon. Allah is a stone god of death, the moon god of darkness, and Mohammad is his messenger.

One third of mankind will fall with him.

[abigail70]

Excellent posts, gkc.

[chinesespy]

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[prowest210]

'chinesespy'

You spammed that so casual readers wouldn't notice that the muslims got azz-raped on here.

DEATH TO ISLAM

[tbweb]

chinesespy,,,

impressive, you made it through Chinese Firewall! They gonna catch you and use your body parts! But not until they make you eat poison pet food and brush your teeth with poison tooth paste first!