Freedom of speech Vs Blasphemy
Oh yeah... Salman Rushdie was awarded Knighthood for his contribution to the society (no, not for getting married n times, but) for his work in literature (which aroused chaos among the islamists, who ironically left him alive, and killed several polyglots who were considering translating his work, and publishers who were considering publishing his work). However they dint stop there. His(rushdie's) effigies were burnt throughout asian islamic countries thus giving him loads of popularity through out the world, and hiking the effigies market to NASDAQ level. The iranian government released a FATWA (iranian word for fart), that he should be killed. This fart ... er... FATWA caused the complete isolation of iran from the business dealings with UK and some other european countries in the past decade.
After honoring him with the knighthood, representatives and leaders of several islamic countries reacted with utter abomination, giving pejorative statements as if they forgot they were formally representing a nation, while doing so. One pakistani minister stated that he supported the suicide-bombers in UK and encouraged future attacks unless the knighthood was recanted. Another leader was found saying "I urge all muslim nations to break diplomatic ties with London"...(as if London gives a rat's ass).
On the other hand, Rushdie must have had a hard time living in hiding for almost a decade after the fartwa, living an obscure life, coming into public very rarely, only for releasing his books, getting divorced, and getting re-married, and yeah for receiving the knighthood. His nth wife, and popular "tall n gorgeous" Indian pornstar Padmalakshmi must have felt really great about the honor thinkin "my man is a real Knight now". I assume she must have bent 2 feet down and kissed his head for his achievement.
Personally, I opinion that Rushdie is not a blasphemist, he's just an athiest (if at all the 2 words happen not to be synonyms). He dint write those 17 fateful lines of the quran, nor did he invent those so called satanic verses. He just interpreted them and percieved them in his own way and personal surmise. He just speaks about the referral of three non-islamic godesses, in the quran, which the islamic leaders allege to have been interpolated by "god-knows-who". I personally, donot see any blasphemy in this.
posted by jack frost @ 12:03 PM
9 Comments:
Interesting, I wrote a blog entry about rushdie's knighthood too.
And how they say it might justify future suicide attacks.
That's one Satanic post!
quite engaging...
pretty intresting post there i absolutely loved that............
@eleany
yeah, read ur post too.
@debanshu
"satanic post"!!!! hope ur not gonna burn my effigy. LOL
@ankit & prav
thanx 4 da visit. hope i'll continue wid more interesting one's
fairly cool.
and welcome to the "blogosphere"!!!
isnt[wasnt] jack frost a poet?
:D
interestin p o v ..
Great...as debanshu said- it indeed is one satanic post!!
their is no reason for Rushdie to not to be a night..he has got the right to express his thoughts.
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