Pakistan-loving Tories on Salman Rushdie
How's this for solidarity:
More Rushdie: Lisa Appignanesi; Andrew Marr; International PEN; the wonderful Ophelia (1, 2, 3, 4)
And this I haven't fully digested, but is interesting: Sepia Mutiny
Tory MP Rob Wilson, vice-chairman of the all-party Parliamentary Pakistan group, said, he was surprised that the people involved in this (knighthood process) didn't anticipate the controversy it would cause."I have tried to read one or two of his books myself, and I would have got more stimulation from the Yellow Pages,” chairman of the all-party group on Pakistan, Tory MP, Stewart Jackson said. [source]There's Conservatives for you.
More Rushdie: Lisa Appignanesi; Andrew Marr; International PEN; the wonderful Ophelia (1, 2, 3, 4)
And this I haven't fully digested, but is interesting: Sepia Mutiny
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OB rants wonderfully. Exactly how I feel about this whole ridiculous overreaction.
I'm just so sick of it all.
But I'm sure Sir Rushdie has mixed emotions on this; the Queen has put him in much greater danger. Maybe he'll wish he had turned it down.
At least this incident will lose the terrorists even more of their dhimmidiot appeasers.
Islam in it's extreme is more political ideology than religion. It is only a 'Religion of Peace' in that when Islam rules the planet, there will be no one to be at war with. Where they are given an inch, they demand a mile. Islamic countries are becoming more extreme, extremists rule, they just keep quoting the Koran to justify their Jihad.
absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
always believe in books
of course if it is in print
then you know it must be true
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