You would have too.. if someone would have humiliated your faith and beliefs.
As simple as that.
2007-06-20 05:49:52
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answered by ManhattanGirl 5
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Uh, I think the stupid queen knighted Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney. Appears these days that loyalty to the throne and battle prowess are no longer needed. All you need is to be a filthy rich celebrity which ruins my hopes of being knighted. I hear that Malta will knight anybody for a fee of $50,000 US equivalent. So what does this boil down. Knighthood: [definition]: A ceremony where some rich and famous retard gets a title but no corresponding power. In the English ceremony, you are smitten on the shoulders lightly with the flat edge of a sword in the names of St. Michael the Archangel and St. George who killed a fire breathing dragon, which shows how this ceremony is about as reality based as Harry Potter and the Bush regime's Foreign Policy.
2016-05-20 22:19:32
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answered by ? 3
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Why do so many Muslim posters assume that everybody else gets so angry and starts to threaten people over a book (in this case a ficiton book)?
Sure, I find books like anything by Lee Strobel or Michael Behe offensive, but I have never rioted over those.
I see it as another attempt by a religion to squelch criticism. This is necessary for religions, because their beliefs rarely stand up to critical scrutiny. It's possible many of those in power in Muslim countries (who have more to lose than anyone else if fundamentalist Islam loses its hold) know this, and so they work overtime to make sure their faith remains sacred and unassailable. It's the equivalent of a soccer team with a lousy goalkeeper buying off the referees so that anyone attempting a shot gets penalized.
Religion, any form of religion, does *not* deserve any special level of respect.
Sir Salman, by the way, has been a great author for a long time, completely apart from "The Satanic Verses," so he deserves his knighthood.
2007-06-20 05:51:24
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answered by Minh 6
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Ayahtollah Khomeini issued the fatwa calling for the death of Rushdie because of the insult to Islam and disrespect of the Prophet (peace be upon him). After Khomeini's death, the death threats pretty much died out.
Although Rushdie is a fictional writer, I think Muslims see this as a political action--a slap in the face to Islam by a country that already drew lines on Middle Eastern maps and that helps fund the violation of Palestinian rights. And since we are in unfortunate, violatile times--we are forgetting what the true calling of Islam is (peace)--it does matter to a lot of Muslims. And some will react with pre-Islamic tribal enthusiasm.
I read that protecting Rushdie after the original fatwa was issued cost the British government $10 million. I'd be somewhat ticked off that my government decided to knight this fellow, knowing that in the times we're living in he's going to need probably $30 million in protection now!
2007-06-20 05:56:33
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answered by aminah 4
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I don't care, he wrote his book Satanic Verses when I was one year old, I did not even know who he was till all this knighthood business. .by giving him knighthood its like the Queen is encouraging insulting of Muslims and Islam....if he had wrote a book like that about Christianity do you really think that they would have given him knighthood? no way! its a slap in the face specially if you consider Pakistan/British history.....I don't think that it is politically correct for the queen to have given him the knighthood.......... But I think the people who want him dead are also retarded....you can't take a human life because of a book...... he wrote an anti Islamic book..big deal..there are a lot of Anti Islamic books now days....... the reason Muslims might come across as easily offended now days is not a surprising considering that half of the world hates us with out knowing anything about us.......
anyway in cosmic events knight hood has no value and salvation is possible only through God's graces.....
2007-06-20 06:10:32
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answered by Love Exists? 6
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They are always looking for a reason to pretend that they are offended, so that they can react with violence, all in an attempt to demonstrate how peaceful they are. This is in no way a contradiction to the religion as a whole.
2007-06-20 06:04:14
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answered by Fred 7
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If someone made fun of my beliefs, I wouldn't be so childish as to issue a fatwa ordering their assassination, or start riots and burn things. That's pathetic. And to the answerer who stated that anyone would do the same if their beliefs were made fun of or criticized--nope. Most people DON'T do that. In any case, they ostracize themselves and alienate their culture and religion from the rest of the civilized world when they react the way they did to Rushdie, or to the Mohammed cartoons in Denmark, for that matter. They were quick to draw cartoons making fun of Jews 'n' Jesus (which they do all the time anyway), but you didn't see Jews or Christians starting riots, burning things, killing people, or issuing assassination fatwas. Actions speak louder than words.
2007-06-20 05:53:33
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answered by ಠ__ಠ 7
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The knighting of Salman Rushdie? For real? I never heard about this but if it is true they are upset because the moslems see Rushdie as a traitor who mocks their "god".
2007-06-20 05:51:51
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answered by Stratobratster 6
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well, muslims are not the only ones here...dont forget the christians...right after the so called 9/11 disaster the christians ended up ruining two countries. what do u call that? acting with tolerance?
2007-06-20 06:07:11
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answered by Anonymous
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Why does anyone care when a Queen of England, who has virtually no power, appoints a fictious, bogus title of "Knighthood" to anybody? I mean geeze Elton John is a Kinght.....Come on!!!
2007-06-20 05:52:29
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answered by Anonymous
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their religion is very fragile and cannot take close scrutiny and cannot withstand any criticism. to avoid close scrutiny of the belief system, they overreact with extreme violence to try and take the attention away from the logical deficits of the religion.
2007-06-20 06:03:49
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answered by martinmagini 6
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