The stabbing of Salman Rushdie (Page 1/2)
Wichita AUG 12, 11:25 PM
While is wasn't a shooting do that anti-constitutionalist could go on another gun is the problem parade, you probably won't here much about this author who was stabbed an an Iranian sympathiser.

Rushdie has had a fatwa on him by the Iranian, a renown and gifted novelist who wrote a novel called, 'Satanic Verses' which depicted the Islamic prophet Mohammed doing Pegan and magical rituals. This book was published in the late 80's.

Since then he has been under threat, has had massive protest against him publishing the book, was condemned by the American leftist who wanted his booked banned and called it dangerous (sound familiar).

The late great Christopher Hitchens staunchly defended Rushdie and condemned anyone that would threaten violence or book banning in the name. But he too was attached by the leftist for defending Rushdie's novels and freedom of speech.

Now he was attached by knife, could loose and eye, but hardly anyone cares. Just another day.
Wichita AUG 12, 11:30 PM
Sam Harris's take:

Kudos to Sam for this:
rinselberg AUG 13, 12:37 AM


Amidst the "wall to wall" coverage on MSNBC of "The Day They Raided Trump's", they found time for that.

And, at the end of "Deadline White House", the illustrious John Heilemann, who's been filling in for Nicolle Wallace, also reported the latest about Salman Rushdie.
Wichita AUG 13, 01:19 AM
Perspective!
rinselberg AUG 13, 01:33 AM
Pat Buchanan (you remember Pat Buchanan?) said more or less the exact same thing.

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Once again Pat Buchanan has demonstrated just how narrow-minded he is in his [op-ed column] “A Beau Geste That Clinton Should Regret.”

President Clinton should be applauded, not criticized, for meeting with “The Satanic Verses” author, Salman Rushdie. How can Buchanan be so concerned over what the Muslim world will think of this meeting? He should be grateful that we live in a country where freedom of expression is still valued, which is what the Clinton-Rushdie meeting emphasized.

The United States is the only superpower left in the world; it is our responsibility to lead by example, especially in areas of human rights and free speech, which the Muslims do not practice. If Buchanan is going to be outraged, it should be over the fact that Iran has not yet lifted the fatwa, and that a man’s life is in danger because of something he wrote, no matter how offensive to any group of people. It’s time for Buchanan to lift his head out of the sand.


From the archives of the Los Angeles Times; December 6, 1993.
https://www.latimes.com/arc...-me-64711-story.html

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MidEngineManiac AUG 13, 08:03 AM
Wichita AUG 15, 11:46 PM
Notorio AUG 18, 12:21 AM
My daughter, a veteran of the Gulf wars, related that the local Afghans she would meet used to say 'you Americans have the watches, but we have the time ...'
Notorio AUG 18, 12:41 AM
re: "A Poem cannot stop a bullet ...'' I can't resist pointing out that a Speech DID stop a bullet, or rather, slowed one down enough that in 1912, Teddy Roosevelt was not successfully assassinated on the campaign trail. The folded-up speech in his coat pocket saved his life but changed American politics and government forever: TR went on to run as a 3rd party candidate, splitting the Republican vote and handing Woodrow Wilson the Presidency. One hundred years later we are still under the thumb of the Progressive model of Governance by Experts, which Wilson brought into existence and Franklin Roosevelt put on steroids. Wilson also gave us the League of Nations (which failed to stop WW1) and ultimately the United Nations (which failed to stop WW2.) As you can tell, I'm not much of a Wilson fan.

TR Story

p.s. Wichita, my apologies if this deflects your thread ...

p.p.s. MEM, I haven't laughed as much in days. Good one.

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rinselberg AUG 18, 09:43 AM
The League of Nations couldn't have stopped the Great War (later to be known as World War One) and the United Nations couldn't have stopped World War Two, other than retroactively, by going backwards in time and changing the course of the history that had already been lived and recorded.

The "Time Travel" thing...

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