All I want to say is that Muslims have to stop taking the bait – we get controversial issues dangled in our face, with the sole intention of obtaining video “gems” of the proverbial angry Muslims behaving illogically and in an intolerant manner. The whole situation is choreographed to demonstrate this point to the rest of the world. I mean really – salman Rushdie is hardly a literary giant – can anyone name any other book he has written apart from the Satanic verses? i am sure he has -but i don’t even remember him getting a Pulitzer or anything worthy of notice - yet he leapfrogs to a knighthood! Is this to show that freedom of speech and expression are so highly regarded in the west? yeah, as long as the speech is acceptable by the prevailing government position (ask David Irving!). Rushdie is an idiot – a puppet – a wanna be whiteman, ….who thinks that by offending Muslims he will be given sanctuary – which on the face of it he has…but i am sure they still call him a paki!!
It is a total farce…but worse than that – I wish we did not take the bait. We must focus on energies on regaining our own nations and then we can protest against such issues in a more effective and dignified manner – but as long as our governments are in the pockets of the western powers – a few people chanting and burning effigies only plays into the hands of the puppet masters. I mean it achieves nothing from our perspective and everything from those who want to show Muslims as irrational thugs. Don’t bite!
June 26, 2007 at 6:47 pm
I’m sic of hearing outcries from fellow Muslims about Rushdie being knighted. We have a crumbling, if not already crumbled constituency; half of my city fears drowning in either rainwater or darkness, or both, tonight; we have a circus of a military dictatorship; and yet our opposition chooses not to go to the streets about any of this; rather a person who blasphemised Rasool Allah SAWS.
Actually, no. What gets to me is why just about everyone is giving SO much of importance to a worldly status of recognition given to a non-believer. The only reason why all of this is such a big deal is because we are choosing to make this world the be-all and the end-all. Whatever happened to believing in an Akhirah?
The largest opposition party, that coincidently professes to be a religious one, hopes to carry on a nationwide protest against the move for knighting him. Like, whatever for? Because he presented our Prophet SAW in a poor light? The same Prophet SAW who told us to be in this world as if we were mere travelers? And exactly what good are we causing his sunnah by creating such a fuss about a non-Muslim nation choosing to honor a non-believer in this world by recognizing him for blasphemizing the Prophet SAW?