Salmon Rushdie is a hero, why don't we have a statue in Hyde Park to commemorate his bravery, courage?

Question

and fortitude in exposing islam for what it is.

Answer 1

For aidan402, his book discussed the Satanic verses, a narrative from the Hadith that claims Mohammed wrote a verse in the Koran verifying the deity of the pagan Goddesses of Mecca and then later removed it from the Koran and said that the devil fooled him and told him the verse while impersonating Angel Gabriel. Anyway, what it exposes is that there is doubt that the Koran is the result of divine inspiration (that is why the Islamic ullama issued a fatwa (religious edict) for this death).

As for the question, I agree about the statue thing.

Answer 2

"The book that is worth killing people and burning flags for is not the book that I wrote," Salmon Rushdie, 41-year-old author of The Satanic Verses, told Time Magazine. shortly after its publication in 1988.
Rushdie's book caused deep rumblings among faithful Muslims offended by its content, prompting protests and book burnings and even riots in which several people were killed.
Rushdie was no hero. He was simply a man who wrote a book. What did he "expose"? The fact that Islam is rife with sectarianism? The fact that their Koran was revised? The same is true of Christianity. Should we also put up a statue to the Emperor Constantine for convening the Nicine Council? Or maybe one for King James for "translating" the Bible?

Answer 3

He is not a hero. He is simply a guy who wrote a book. And don't forget, he wrote that book to make money, not to make a statement. The reaction to his book was the only reason anyone even knows his name.

If his book really was ground breaking, or revealed some long suppressed secret it would be more impressive. If after all that he refused to go into hiding because the world needed to know what he'd written, then maybe I'd buy him being a hero.

As it stands, he's just a guy that a bunch of homicidal extremists don't like.

Answer 4

The book is completely unreadable (the Quran is a better book, incidentally). He's a snivelling scribbler who made pots of money out of it and doesn't even have to pay for his police protection.

Answer 5

I don't think for one minute, he realised what would happen with his book - he was born a Muslim - he got a lot of publicity (and police protection) following the fatwa - but a hero? I don't think so.

Answer 6

He's not dead yet...that is one reason anyway...just look around and see how many living people have a statue.

BTW. You never read him did you? Else you would know he never exposed Islam nor did he ever try. He is anti-extremist.

Answer 7

Statues are not erected to living people

Answer 8

Your POINT is??????????