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MUSLIMS ACCUSED
Pakistan religious affairs minister Mohammed Ijaz ul-Haq offers calming words following Salman Rushdie’s knighthood:
“The West is accusing Muslims of extremism and terrorism. If someone exploded a bomb on his body, he would be right to do so unless the British government apologizes and withdraws the ‘sir’ title,” ul-Haq said.
Extremism? Terrorism? Why, such thoughts would never cross our minds.
(Via Paco)
Who would have thought the Pakis were literary critics. Wonder what meeja watch will make of this one?
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 06 19 at 09:24 AM • permalinkI imagined myself interviewing this guy (in a surreal world where I’m a journalist):
ul-Haq: “Salman Rushdie has hurt the feelings of muslims worldwide”
me: “That’s _SIR_ Rushdie to you, mate.”
Sorry, fantasy over.
Posted by ThinAndBritish on 2007 06 19 at 09:26 AM • permalinkI suspect Sir Salman is not the first “Sir” to get up the noses of these evil people.
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 06 19 at 09:29 AM • permalinkThat’s the most flagrantly hypocritical playing of the victim card I’ve ever seen.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 06 19 at 09:36 AM • permalink#9 paco:
Come on, it’s a work of genius: no need to waste time changing clothes when you get up OR go to bed. Timesaving mastery! They’re WAAAY ahead of us.
Posted by ThinAndBritish on 2007 06 19 at 09:56 AM • permalinkAnybody who dares call us terrorists should be blown up for such lies!
Posted by curious george on 2007 06 19 at 09:59 AM • permalinkIslam, impervious armor against irony.
:^þ
El “Compost” Cid? Hey! I know where you got that!
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 06 19 at 10:08 AM • permalink“If someone exploded a bomb on his body . . .”
I have this fantasy about waving a magic wand, and everytime one of these suicide bombers decides to “expand his horizons”, instead of a bomb exploding, a little American flag pops up out of his knapsack or suicide belt, paper streamers shoot into the air, and the environs are filled with the strains of “The Stars and Stripes Forever.” Sounds like a job for Preemptive American Comedy Ordnance.
As a pacifist, I’m so glad nobody advocates zapping these people.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 06 19 at 10:22 AM • permalink#18 although over here God Save The Queen would be preferable.
Personally I’d like Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life. And mini Mars bars could rain through the air onto childrens’ heads.
What a planet we live on.
Posted by ThinAndBritish on 2007 06 19 at 10:24 AM • permalink#21 thinandbritish: There’s absolutely no reason the magic wand couldn’t be adjusted to accomodate British preferences. And I really like the idea of chocolate bars.
As to your comment at #10: imagine this happening when one of those fellows walks over an air return grate. Not nearly so pretty a picture.
ul_Haq has since clarified his
remarks“He later retracted his statement, explaining that he had intended to say that knighting Rushdie will foster extremism. “If someone blows himself up, he will consider himself justified. How can we fight terrorism when those who commit blasphemy are rewarded by the West? We demand an apology by the British government. Their action has hurt the sentiments of 1.5 billion Muslims.”
Oh, all right then. You aren’t advocating that a member of the Religion of Peace be a suicide bomber, just that a member of the Religion of Peace would feel justified in being a suicide bomber.
Glad that’s all straightened out.
#24 Thanks for that image paco. I WAS going to go out for a meal tonight. Think I’ll stay in and drink instead.
Posted by ThinAndBritish on 2007 06 19 at 10:40 AM • permalinkIf someone exploded a bomb on his body, he would be right to do so
Great, more splodey dopes…..
#18 Let’s see, what would be a really cool acronym for “Preemptive American Comedy Ordinance”..........gotta think about that one…...
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 06 19 at 10:40 AM • permalink#29 Be careful not to say that around the Lutherans
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 06 19 at 10:45 AM • permalink#25 Murph: What?!? Surely this isn’t Tim’s last criticism of radical Islam? Are you suggesting that someone from the Nightshirt and Ninja Sweatpants Brigade might try to get him? Ok, folks, time to rally ‘round the chief! Make with the shield ring, or better yet, the defensive yak circle. Let’s move, let’s . . . Hold on a sec, there’s the telephone.
Hello? Michael Lonie! Say, you’re calling at a very opportune moment. We need someone with a turbo-charged IQ to take charge of Tim Blair’s security. Now, what I was thinking . . . Huh? Who? Tony Blair? Murph meant Tony Blair, not Tim? Oh, man, that’s pretty embarrassing. Now the folks here will think I’m not hip to foreign events. What’s that? Tell them what? Y-e-a-h, that’ll work. Thanks, Mike!
Ok, this has been a test of the Tim Blair Emergency Warning System. We now return you to you regularly-scheduled comments.
How can we fight terrorism when those who commit blasphemy are rewarded by the West?
How about just not giving a rip? Really, if you think someone committing blasphemy is grounds for murder, or that it’s understandable why it would drive someone to murder, then you’re the problem.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 06 19 at 10:51 AM • permalinkSounds like a job for Preemptive American Comedy Ordnance.
You’ve triggered my own fantasy, Paco, thank you! Now I imagine that if I were Empress of the World, every imam who preaches death and destruction in his mosque would first be required to don clown shoes and a big red nose. They’re already wearing baggy dresses, so all they’d need to complete the effect is a Volkswagen parked outside the door.
sm #37:
Had a look on Amazon and it looks really good actually. Think I might give it a go…..
Posted by ThinAndBritish on 2007 06 19 at 11:32 AM • permalink#37: Skid Marx (great handle, by the way): Haven’t read it. Probably not my cup of tea, anyway (more of an 18th and 19th century eng lit wallah, myself). However, here is some commentary and a synopsis of the novel.
Beclown those who insult freedom of speech!
Posted by Jeffersonian on 2007 06 19 at 12:56 PM • permalinkThis guy sounds like a Letterman stooge.
Posted by Rittenhouse on 2007 06 19 at 02:11 PM • permalinkIt’s amusing that the Pakistanis, who after all are no longer members of the Empire,take the antiquated British honours system so seriously, since no-one else does, especially in Britain itself. It’s not as though anyone in the UK trawls the pages of the Karachi Times looking to see who made it to Commander of the Faithful, 3rd Class, in the President’s Birthday Honours.
“If someone exploded a bomb on his body, he would be right to do “.
Of course it’s the right thing to do.
Go to some marshlands, far from people, and do the right thing.Posted by Honkie Hammer on 2007 06 19 at 05:57 PM • permalinkI can’t tell you how it cools my fevered brow to come here and read the wit and wisdom of the witty and wise who frequent the place. I envy this way of handling the stupidity of the world; I’m sure it is healthier than my own impotent anger and frustration.
Anyway, thanks once again for the giggles.
(Palmer’s an ass.)
How arrogant to think that you can tell a soverign nation (or is that nation’s sovereign?), that it is inappropriate to invest a writer as a Knight because he wrote a book which you find offensive. Making veiled threats of terrorism. Thinly veiled threats.
#32 Rob Crawford
They aren’t familiar with the “water off a duck’s back” tenet of living*.How worthy is anything, especially a supposed religion, which stifles discussion? How strong is a religion which
beheadsdenies question?If it was such a good and powerful dogma you wouldn’t need to force adherance.
*Same as they aren’t familiar with the “sticks and stones”, well, they are familiar with sticks and stones (and cranes and so on), but the “names will never hurt me” seems to be lost.
#24 Paco
She was a stunner, wasn’t she!Sir Salman is going to be the Motoons of 2007. where’s the ABC, Phillip Adams and co stand on this.
Rushdie is of Indian descent but he has offended Muslims by being a great writer. Who do they support? The deny Rushdie a knighthood, that smacks of racism. To give him a knighthood, it upsets Muslims. That smacks of racism.
Expect the left will try to explain that it shows that Anglo-Saxons, especially the Queen, are indeed the most racist people on earth because everything they do is racist.
Paco beat me to it. I saw that quote and had to LARF-OUT-LOUD.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 06 19 at 08:53 PM • permalinkCome on guys, you know in the following thread that Palmer is going to castigate us for saying “Kill the M’F's”. No, we must moderate our tone if we want to secretly plan the ... shhh!
We must innoculate them from measles.
Or, as I’ve noticed a nice little code phrase from the enemy: “Go abroad to marry”.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 06 19 at 09:01 PM • permalinkI suspect most Muslims have never read the book.
Indeed, I suspect the vast majority of protesters haven’t read a book full stop.
It’s the title that annoys them - it refers to the infamous early days of Islam where Mohammed, desperately falling out of favor with the polytheists who ruled Mecca, suddenly received a “revelation from God” that said, well, shucks, its ok to worship pagan Arabic goddesses after all.
The polytheists, who seemed to be smarter than their converted descendants, noticed the silliness of it all and quite rightly fingered Mo as a collosal hypocrite, thus creating the first “shamed” Muslim. They’ve been embarrassed about the whole thing ever since.
Posted by Quentin George on 2007 06 20 at 03:42 AM • permalink
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I would really like to get with the program and believe that Islam is the “Religion of Peace,” but it’s kind of hard with all these Muslim’s crying out for violence.