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vildemose
by Peacock_Feather on Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:50 AM PDTDo you believe such people believe in the 1st Amendment or free speech? I know they don't and even say they don't. The only people who believe these animals are believers of free speech and democracy are the current US administration and a bunch of animals ruling in the Arabian penninsula who themselves don't believe in any of these things.
someone for whom the
by vildemose on Wed Sep 26, 2012 06:36 PM PDTsomeone for whom the right to free expression and human rights are of no importance– especially in “revolutionaryJihadist” states like Iran, the name "first amendment" makes any agrument against or for Syrian people nothing by deeply hypociritcal.
All Oppression Creates a State of War--Simone De Beauvoir
For Salman Rushdie, many Muslims were acting like animals
by Zendanian on Wed Sep 26, 2012 03:04 PM PDTWon't ya agree?
11 Revelations From Salman Rushdie’s Memoir, ‘Joseph Anton’
by Zendanian on Wed Sep 26, 2012 02:58 PM PDT11 Revelations From Salman Rushdie’s Memoir, ‘Joseph Anton’
Salman Rushdie’s 1988 novel The Satanic Verses prompted Iran’s spiritual leader to issue a fatwa—a bounty on his head. For the next decade or so, Rushdie went into hiding. In his new memoir, Joseph Anton, which was his alias (the book is written in the third person, as if a ‘biography’ of Rushdie/Anton), the famous novelist tells the story of his years under police protection and how the threats to his life strained his marriages. From his second wife’s allegedly lying to him about a CIA plot, which caused him to mistrust her, to moving dozens of times in just months, we speed-read his absorbing book.
1. ‘Satanic Verses’
In 1966 while studying history at Cambridge, Rushdie learned about the “Satanic Verses.” They were verses that Muhammad said were given to him by the Devil, disguised as the Archangel, and should be expunged from the Quran: “Have you thought on al-Lat and al-Uzza, and, thirdly, on Manat, the other? They are Exalted Birds, and their intercession is desired indeed.” But why did the prophet accept the first revelation as true? Could there be other mistakes? “Good story, he thought ... he would find out exactly how good a story it was,” Rushdie wrote.
2. Fatwa
On Feb. 14, 1989, a few months after the publication of The Satanic Verses, the spiritual leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, called for the execution of Rushdie, calling his novel blasphemous against Islam.
//www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/18/11-revelations-from-salman-rushdie-s-memoir-joseph-anton.html