Saturday, June 23, 2007
"If that's Rushdie, they're real." ... "If they're real, that's Rushdie."
"British Muslims angrily denounced the decision to honor author Salman Rushdie with a knighthood Friday, noisily renewing calls for his death and setting fire to a poster depicting an English flag," the Jerusalem Post reports.
"A hard-line Iranian cleric, also speaking Friday, said the 1989 religious edict calling for Rushdie's killing remains in place and cannot be revoked, and warned that Britain was defying the Islamic world by granting the honor."
Today's Wall Street Journal has a good take on Rushdie's knighthood (subscription required):
"For many of us, however, her majesty's conferral is a welcome example of something that has grown exceedingly rare: British backbone. After years of kowtowing to every fundamentalist demand imaginable - from accommodating the burqa in schools and colleges to re-orienting prison toilets to face away from Mecca - the British seem to be saying enough is enough. Nobody expects Mr. Rushdie to be awarded the Nishan-e-Pakistan, the Collar of the Nile or Iran's Islamic Medal, but in Britain, as elsewhere in the civilized world, great, novelists are honored for their work. A pinched view of the human condition or poorly imagined characters may harm your prospects. Blasphemy does not."
The reason I'm mentioning this is because it gives me a really good excuse to post a picture of Rushdie's super hot wife:
"A hard-line Iranian cleric, also speaking Friday, said the 1989 religious edict calling for Rushdie's killing remains in place and cannot be revoked, and warned that Britain was defying the Islamic world by granting the honor."
Today's Wall Street Journal has a good take on Rushdie's knighthood (subscription required):
"For many of us, however, her majesty's conferral is a welcome example of something that has grown exceedingly rare: British backbone. After years of kowtowing to every fundamentalist demand imaginable - from accommodating the burqa in schools and colleges to re-orienting prison toilets to face away from Mecca - the British seem to be saying enough is enough. Nobody expects Mr. Rushdie to be awarded the Nishan-e-Pakistan, the Collar of the Nile or Iran's Islamic Medal, but in Britain, as elsewhere in the civilized world, great, novelists are honored for their work. A pinched view of the human condition or poorly imagined characters may harm your prospects. Blasphemy does not."
The reason I'm mentioning this is because it gives me a really good excuse to post a picture of Rushdie's super hot wife:
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Saturday, June 23, 2007 
