From AFP: Iran says Rushdie death fatwa still stands.
Iran said on Sunday that a fatwa ordering the death of British writer Salman Rushdie issued by its revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini still stands after his knighthood by the queen.
“The stance of the Islamic Republic of Iran with regard to this issue has not changed from what was put forward by the Imam Khomeini,” foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini told reporters.
The Indian-born Rushdie, 59, was forced to go into hiding for a decade after Khomeini issued the 1989 death sentence over his book “The Satanic Verses,” saying it insulted Islam.
Khomeini’s successor as supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said in January 2005 he still believed the British novelist was an apostate whose killing would be authorised by Islam.
Update:
Hirsi Ali:
“By knighting Salman Rushdie, the queen has honored the freedom of conscience and creativity cherished in the West, making her a symbol of the essence of our way of life”
In “An honor worth defending” in the IHT Ayaan Hirsi Ali calls on the West to recover its spine and defend its culture and civilization. But there is a curious phrase in the opening paragraph:
Imagine if a crowd of Englishmen marched in London carrying effigies of Muhammad, peace be upon him, stacks of the Koran, miniatures of the Kaaba in Mecca and Saudi flags. Imagine if they then built a bonfire and hurled the items one at a time into that fire screaming “Long Live the Queen!” each time the flames shot up.
“Peace be upon him”? This is an interjection that pious Muslims add after uttering the name of a prophet. Yet Hirsi Ali has referred to Muhammad as a tyrant and a pervert. She has not presented herself as a Muslim except in a broad cultural way. So I wonder: did she add this interjection herself, as a means of identifying herself as a cultural Muslim? Or did an editor at Tribune Media Services (which distributed this piece) or the IHT add it in as an exercise in politically correct sensitivity?
Robert Spencer from Jihad Watch is asking this question, and rightly so.
Anyway, Hirsi Ali goes on:
This would be the equivalent of what hardline Muslim students did in the eastern Pakistani city of Multan, to take just one example, when they burned effigies this week of Queen Elizabeth II and Salman Rushdie, chanting “Kill him! Kill him!” in response to his recently bestowed knighthood.
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Westerners have too often shrugged their shoulders at the trashing of their icons – such as when the queen is burned in effigy – by the foot soldiers of tribal barbarism. This perceived weakness makes the foes of the West more ferocious and helps recruit more jihadists.
Instead the West should join together to vigorously defend its symbols and civilization that, with all its flaws, still offers the best life to the most people.
By knighting Salman Rushdie, the queen has honored the freedom of conscience and creativity cherished in the West, making her a symbol of the essence of our way of life.
* Something that cannot be said for the idiot prince Charles who wants to be known as ‘defender of the faith’s’….
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In “An honor worth defending” in the IHT Ayaan Hirsi Ali calls on the West to recover its spine and defend its culture and civilization. But there is a curious phrase in the opening paragraph: [peace be upon him]
I would endorse the call for the West to recover its spine and defend its culture, but this is unlikely to happen in the short term. Instead, Alexander Downer and the like will offer “Regional Interfaith Dialogue” in the vain hope that they can “empower the moderate majorities who seek peace, harmony and tolerance in all our communities.” (Downer’s web site)
The Australian delegates, including George Pell, John Baldock, Ameer Ali,
pray to “Gracious God” and give thanks to “Almighty God”, but do not pray in Jesus’ name, or even mention his name – rejecting the fact that there is one mediator between God and man – Jesus Christ. (Hindu Council of Australia site)
By setting out to build an “Alliance of Civilizations”, they are playing into the hands of the “god of this world” and his false messiah, the Antichrist.
The amorphous “war on terror” will ultimately morph into a war upon the saints and others who are negative and refuse to play along with the “celebration of diversity” and “harmony” in the (dark) new age.
It has become as it was before the flood of Noah. The last of the hold outs, those nasty Anglo-Saxon Christians inside America are ruining it for everyone.
A vile plan, hatched by the New World Order Lusifer worshipping POS, is to destroy Leatherneck,(The Greatest of All Barbaric Christian Infidels), to weaken the Anglo-Saxon horde.
You’ll find a number of apostates still utter the ‘peace be upon him’ after the flea bitten cum covered rapist profit’s name, all I can surmise is that the monkey on the back for apostates in transition is the biggest hairiest god-damn ape you can ever imagine…