Sir Salman Rushdie

[Gorgon]

You can be a proud as you like but you can't threaten death and desctuction over a very general percieved insult to your religion and expect people to just brush it off as a cultural difference. Both the insult and the reaction may be breaking the rules of civil conduct, but if the reaction is a deaththreat it's a whole other ballpark.

Edited June 21, 2007 by Gorgon

[roshan]

As a reaction, religious scholars in Pakistan have bestowed the title of "Sword of Allah" on Osama Bin Laden!

 

Religious scholars in Pakistan have awarded their highest honour to Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in reaction to Britain's knighthood for Salman Rushdie.

 

The tit-for-tat recognition was given by a private body that claims to represent 2,000 religious scholars in Pakistan.

 

It said it was bestowing the title 'Sword of Allah' on bin Laden, in response to Britain giving a knighthood to the author of The Satanic Verses.

 

Meanwhile, Britain has expressed "deep concern" at remarks by the Pakistani Religious Affairs Minister who said the award given to Rushdie justified suicide attacks.

 

http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/06/22/...?section=justin

 

LOL, these guys are hilarious!

[metadigital]

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