do you support the resolution of Pakistan national assembly demanding withdrawal of knighthood Salmon Rushdie?

Question

the religious minister of Pakistan expressed concern that knighthood to salmon Rushdie would escalate terrorism and there would be more suicide attacks.

Answer 1

It just shows how medieval Islam is!

Answer 2

No. The knighthood for Salman Rushdie is no business of Pakistan or any other Islamist state. The knighthood was given in the gift of HM Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to literature.

The anti-Salman Rushdie brigade in the Islamist world behaved from the outset, here in UK, like a bunch of Nazis. The first I ever heard of Salman Rushdie was when there suddenly appeard on the TV news this screaming bunch of mad people, beating their chests, shouting and burning a pile of books in the street.

Naturally, since I am a war baby, born 1941, I assumed these people must be neo-Nazis or something. Don't Nazis burn books which they do not approve of?

The answer to the problem, if that is the correct word, is for an intellectual person in the Islamist state of Pakistan or any other Islamist state, to write a book which utterly destroys the argument put up by Salman Rushdie.

So far this does not look like it will happen. Instead, we get threats and stupidity none of which is in the least bit impressive.

When I first saw a copy of Salman Rushdies book, The Satanic Verses in a book shop, I was amazed by it's enormous size, something resembling a small doorstep. I could not imagine anyone wanting to read it. Certainly not someone like myself, an uneducated barbarian.

My attitude is simple. If people disagree with an argument put, then they must come up with a counter argument. In the case of the Satanic Verses, this has not happened and seems unlikely to ever happen.

I am unimpressed with Islam and the Islamists. These people are best described as extreme and unreasonable. Their method of dealing with something they do not understand is to blow it up.

I am a Brythonic Celt by race and am only impressed by people who can speak well, argue well or write well. I have yet to see any of this from the Islamists, who are on the whole simply extreme.

Answer 3

I couldn't care what Pakistan think, this is not Pakistan, "yet" I don't agree with the way Pakistan allow terrorist to live and operate inside their boarders, maybe we should demand the removal of all those terrorist !!! Now whether i feel Salmon Rushdie should be honoured with a knighthood, no i don't, but as a British citizen i have the right to voice my opinion in my country.

Answer 4

No, I don't support it.

We can't go around walking on eggshells all the time and not doing what we would normally for fear that it will increase terrorism. That means the terrorists win.

People need to realise that how one country does things may not be agreed with in another country. In the UK, certain powerful individuals have decided that Rushdie deserves a Knighthood. Pakistan disagrees with this. So what? At the end of the day, this knighthood is an action taken by the UK. It has nothing to do with another country, regardless of how they feel about Rushdie. That is their opinion (that he is the devil incarnate), this is ours (that he's a bloody good writer). They need to grow up and realise that.

Answer 5

Salman Rushdies Knighthood was yet another major blunder by this incompetent Government.

At least the timing was stupid and insensitive at a time when Alan Johnson is being held by Islamic terrorists, this really a prime example of dummy de-luxe on behalf of the idiot who took the decision to give this inappropriate award.

At worst it was a provocative political horseplay at a time when relations with the Islamic world are still in tatters since the invasion of Iraq.

One thing is for certain it was nothing to do with literature!

Answer 6

Pakistan is where Osama bin Laden and much of Al Qaeda spend a lot of time in hiding. As far as I'm concerned Salmon Rushdie is a free speech hero and the Religious Minister of Pakistan can go PORK himself.

Answer 7

Ok.... Britain gave Salmon knighthood for his literary works. Some Islamic group gave Osama B Laden a similar title for attacking the US and killing almost 3000 people in retaliation for Salmons knighthood. People don't die from insults. Planes ramming into buildings kill people. Doesn't something seem wrong here? To be quite frank, the Islamic radicals are just permanently pissed off and nothing the west does short of converting to Islam will make them happy. I don't care what they think. The fact people stick their heads in the sand and actually cares and gives credence to these nut jobs make me sick. The Radicals don't scare me. Not at all. I don't care what insults them to be honest anymore because everything seems to insult them. The religious minister of Pakistan and all the adherents of extremist views of any religion can go bite me.

Answer 8

I am not even looking at this from a religious perspective. If Pakistan don't like the decision tough...if they want to resort to terrorism, then this will be a test of how far the US will go to support those who have supported them.

Answer 9

yes, of course it should be withdrawn. Which idiot made that decision in the first place?

Services to literature? I think not.

Answer 10

Yes, he is not even British so how come he got one in the first place?

Answer 11

This incident shows why the Islamic world needs to advance beyond their petty religious attachments and enter modern society. People can be religious, but you cannot kill people for not being submissive. Tolerance is key and those who oppose Rushdie lack tolerance.