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About LinkBacksFu(king religion and its fu(king adherents......it'd try yer patience at times.
Fu(king religion and its fu(king adherents......it'd try yer patience at times.
Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity of the others. It is all lies.
Will Germaine Greer and all the other left wing cowards who condemned Rushdie back into 1989 be rushing to the defense of these religious crackpots once again? You bet! You see according to many left wingers when crazy people take offence at a book that they have never read, riot and create murder and mayhem, killing the Japanese translator of the text, stab the Italian translator and shoot the Norwegian translator three times and leave them for dead, then obviously and undoubtedly the author who put pen to paper is to blame.
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Originally Posted by antiestablishmentarian
Could do with one now.
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Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite them, and little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
A post like this should be unnecessary and completely superfluous, still...
1.You know that for a fact? The "insulting" was some kind of carefully drawn plan? A book on such a relatively obscure subject was hardly going to set the world alight...in the mundane way, I hasten to add. If the loons had ignored it, nobody outside of the literate would even know who SR was, now. If he intended insult, he certainly set about it in a very circumlocutory manner, as nobody outside those who have expertise in Islamic theology knew what it was about. If anybody here on P.ie wanted to insult Islam,you'd know about it pretty quickly. No need to consult a textbook either. It would be like "insulting" Christianity by, let's say... making outrageous claims about the authorship of the Gnostic gospels or the translation of Paul's letter to the Ephesians,embedded in a fantasy format. Very likely the book was written for artistic or imaginative reasons...he hardly needed the money. How can there be be insult if we have no idea what was intended, or Perhaps the fault lies with fools eager to see insult. Rather like the way the law on provocation was altered a few years, with the emphasis changed from the subjective view of the "provoked" to what a reasonable person would construe as provocation. Or perhaps what we have is an Islamic religious establishment which sees every comment upon the Holy Book by those outside themselves-the elect,or every expression of heterodox opinions on it,as heresy. Not much of a sense of humour either.
2. Salman Rushdie is a Moslem himself, so this was-so to speak-a "conversation" within Islam itself. Or should one be prohibited from parodying one's own religion, too. (Not that threats upon non-Muslims are acceptable either, of course).
Does your contempt to..for example Robert Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land) ; or Voltaire as well; or James Joyce; or Sinead O'Connor;or-in a different field-Andres Serrano? Writings (and photographs) made for gain, insulting religion. Check.
Insulting Muslims. All of them? Am I-baptised a Christian- insulted by Kurt Vonnegut or by Renee Cox's "Yo Mama's Last Supper" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_Mama%27s_Last_Supper
No. Then,perhaps some Muslims should learn to be a bit less combustible.
3. What is wrong with insulting religion actually, any religion? (as opposed to adherents of a religion)
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