It's not just some obscure spokesman for a "tiny minority" objecting to Rushdie's knighthood and leading the renewed calls for Rushdie's death and Britain's submission. Pakistan's religious-affairs minister, Mohammed ljaz ul-Haq, bellowed: "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?" He says he was misunderstood, but the message is as loud and clear as the inscriptions on the infamous placards British Muslims waved around during last year's conflagration over the Danish cartoons:
"Behead all those who insult Islam. Slay those who insult Islam. Butcher those who mock Islam."
Pakistan's parliamentary-affairs minister, Sher Afgan Khan Niazi, piled on: "I demand the British government immediately withdraw the title as it is creating religious hatred." On Monday, Pakistan's Parliament passed a unanimous resolution "deploring the honor as an open insult to the feelings of the world's 1.5 billion Muslims." Mufti Muhammad Basheer-u-Din, Grand Mufti of Kashmir, didn't mince words: "Because of his blasphemy, Salman Rushdie remains an apostate and aggressor on Islam and punishment for such offences is death." Lord Ahmed, the first British Muslim member of the House of Lords, blamed Rushdie for violence past and violence to come:
"This man not only provoked violence around the world because of his writings, but there were many people who were killed around the world . . . Forgiving and forgetting is one thing, but honouring the man who has blood on his hands, sort of, because of what he did, I think is going a bit too far."
Sort of?!
Yes, you see, it's always the fault of the accused insulter. Never the fault of the sword-wielders, fatwa-issuers, fire-setters and blood-lusters."
Michelle Malkin
Sound familiar? Sound like the whiny, weepy, woebegotten minions of leftwingers RIGHT HERE, that affix blame everywhere except upon the individual?
The devil made me do it. Used to be a punchline. Now it's the rallying cry for all who would harm humanity but still want those welfare/foreign-aid bucks to keep on comin'.
The Rushdie story puts the liberals in a precarious position. He was their to-die-for darling after writing a book that made mockery of a, spit, religion, but now, sob, their darling little moslem's are really really mad at him again so what's a loon to do? Can't they just leave him alone and go do something productive? Like maybe killing American troops who don't belong fighting those poor, underprivileged moslems anyway? Can't they see that their real enemy is America and not confused little Salman?
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