Britain's decision to award Salman Rushdie a knighthood set off a storm of protest in the Islamic world today, with a Pakistani government minister giving warning that it could provide justification for suicide bomb attacks. (The Times)
Lame, lame, lame.
Salman Rushdie's knighthood is not worth dying over. How dumb.
This being said, I'd like to think that the committee that decides knighthoods knew this outrage was going to result and has some kind of plan to deal with it. If they don't then they are as dumb as the Pakistani govt minister.
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you think there are people just sitting around, waiting to be outraged?
How DARE you ask that? Oooooh. Now I am SO mad. Go find me a branch to beat you with!!!
you'd think they'd have to be on cnn/internet/bbc/inveterate-introvert watch 24 hrs a day!
I hope this doesn't sound arrogant or racist,(its not meant to) but why can't they just move on? How pathetic are these people that they are using this to drum up support for suicide terrorists? How cheap are people's lives in Pakistan?
If one suicide bomber wants to blow himself up over this, fine, go ahead. But just don't take anyone else with you, dumb ass. It really bugs me with that a number of innocent bystanders will be blown up too.
And, frankly, why didn't Rushdie turn down the knighthood. You'd think he'd have more brains that that, too.
Well, why shouldn't he accept? I mean, we got rid of those things here years ago (we have our own honours now), but they still seem to be important to some people - I mean, if he can get a knighthood for writing unintelligible gibberish, why not?
Maybe because if he thought about it for 5 minutes he'd say, this will cause a big stink and innocent people will die. But I'm sure his ego is more important.
I think you may be right there.
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