Giving Rushdie Knighthood was just to hurt the Muslim feelings,Agree or not.?

Question

Ofcourse it was. What other reason could there be?

Answer 1

"For Services to Literature", apparently, and one, just one, of his books has been declared by some Moslems to be so offensive that the author should be put to death.

"Sticks and stones
may break my bones,
but words will never hurt me."

So how come they will hurt God? And should his followers shed blood over a book that most people would never have heard of if those same followers hadn't made a fuss in the first place?

Look at the cr*p that Dan Brown has made millions out of writing about Jesus, Mary Magdalene and the Catholic Church. As a Christian I find that mightily offensive - apart from the fact that the Da Vinci Code is such an awful book - but I don't think that justifies me even blacking his eye, never mind slitting his throat.

If there is a God, is he not capable of sorting out his own response to insults?

Answer 2

Absolutely. The fact that he has published 12 novels, won The Booker Prize, Whitbread Novel Award (twice) an Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Cultural Humanism (Harvard University) been Author of the Year (in Britain and Germany) and received the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature (amongst others) has nothing to do with it, does it?

No. He was selected because as a Muslim apostate who once wrote a book in which a schizophrenic character has a dream about the Prophet Muhammad in which he imagines that the Prophet favours the old polytheistic deities in order to win over the population, it was the ideal means to piss off Muslims world wide.

Of course that's the most likely explanation. Not.
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Answer 3

Look, Rushdie wrote a book giving his own personal views and his interpretation of Islam. I've read the book and can't understand the intolerance directed at it. It's one man's opinion - AS a Muslim I might add. If this was an ignorant pentecostal writing a book about Islam and saying those things I'd totally understand the outrage. Rushdie had the courage of his convictions and I admire anyone who can stand up and do what he did.

Answer 4

Absolutely not. I think that giving Sir Salaman Rushdie a Knighthood was to show the sheer cosmopolitan nature of the Honours system.

People who say that that is the case, they are saying it out of fear and misunderstanding. They want to make a headline out of something they dissagree with. There are things that I dissagree with but I don't threaten suicide bombings or indeed a holy war over them. I simply swallow the bullet and go through the proper channels to see if I can make a difference. Burning effigies on TV is simply antagonistic and they are trying to prove that they are right to hate us.

I think it's disgusting!

John G

Answer 5

I think the Queen hopes that every Sir Salman basher will now really start to read his books. I also think that the muslims who protest this knighthood are very happy when they can protest. Do you think I was hurt because Osama bin Laden was given a title in Pakistan?
Are muslims hurt by the execution of children in Iran?

Answer 6

Its hard to know who makes the decisions - some kind of committee. Possibly a tit-for-tat for the Iranian kidnapping of navy personnel a couple of months ago ? Us Brits did feel that that was all Ahmedinebad's games.

I tried to read one of his books, the Satanic verses (the controversy ends up making everyone interested - 50 times as many people must have read it than would have if no one had protested imo!), but gave up after about 50 pages - just really hard to read. A recent London radio show on the issue had many calls from people saying they had given up on one or other of his books. He is not an easy author to read.

Answer 7

I doubt it - you say "what other reason could there be?"....why do you have the opinion it is aimed negatively at Muslims?

Do you think you may already dislike Rushdie, and this gesture of a knighthood simply aggravates you, and therefore it's easier to put that dislike of him into a much more wider context in saying that it's against Muslims?

Dont get me wrong, I'm not having a go at you...nor am I defending Rushdie - I'm just asking you to reconsider where your dislike is aimed. For example, I dont even agree with the "Honours List"...personally I think it's a load of crap, and if I was given one, I'd tell them politely to insert it rather clumsily into the larger of their 2 nostrils.

And as for David Beckham getting one....unbelievable, in my view. Why him? All he has done is kick a football about and earned lots of money for doing so. Now why is he more deserving than (let's say) a nurse? I mean this is someone who saves lives and helps people EVERY day for crap wages. In my view, the deserved people dont get it, they are frequently overlooked.

Key words above are "in my view". Our society is based on the ability to show free speech and have different opinions without one party wanting to hack someone else's head off. I don't go around trying to manipulate people into believing that my view about David Beckham's poxy honours award is the only one which is right. Plenty of people would argue against my view....and that is their right in our society. Just because someone has a different view to me doesn't mean they are wrong - on the contrary...they are right in their eyes.

Your thinking drags us more down towards anarchy because you are already believing it WAS against Muslim feeling - in this day and age, people have differing views which should/must be accepted.

If someone says to me "You're a bit ugly mate", I dont immediately try to drum up supporters and distort what was said by adding my own bit "Hey fellow ugly people, that person has just insulted everyone!....Let's get him". Instead, I wouldn't give a wet slap....who really cares, eh?

In my view you seem to have taken Rushdie's knighthood personally and against Muslims. Can I just ask that maybe you could take a step back, don't assume the reasons behind such meaningless awards, and really don't let it bother you....compared to you and your family, Rushdie's award is nothing...you're far more important. Dont forget, I feel similar things about the WHOLE award system...a complete waste of time - but it's only my view, and my family mean much more to me....so I just grumble and then let it go....

Peace eh?

Answer 8

Of course not. Another example of the way some (and I emphasis SOME) Muslims have the arrogance to think that everything is about them. To many people muslims are an irrelevance. Why should we always think how some narrow-minded zealots will react before doing anything.

Answer 9

Uh, let's see -- maybe the man is a very good writer who actually deserves to be knighted, especially after all the cr@p that his own people put him through. You think? Maybe?

I seriously doubt that the Queen gives a flying rat's behind what the Muslims think or don't think.

Answer 10

Rushdie comes across as a self-important, opinionated, pretentious pseud. I dont think his writing deserves much credit, let alone a major award.

I think it may have been given as some sort of support against the death threats he received, but not deliberately to antagonise muslims.