Garlanding effigies now
Shahid Gilani, head of the youth wing of the radical Jamaat-e-Islami, who is leading protests in Lahore, is taking the art of effigy-based dissent to a new level. He said activists planned to
garland Hitler’s effigies to express our hatred toward those who garland blasphemers.
Genius!
We want Rushdie to be handed over to Muslim country where he should be tried under Sharia law. The punishment for a blasphemer is death.
He also told a reporter:
We have also decided that we will from now on call every dog ‘Sir’
Presumably by “youth wing” they mean under-11s.
UPDATE: First Deputy Speaker of Iran’s parliament Mohammad Reza Bahonar gives some amusing quote in this BBC report:
Salman Rushdie has turned into a hated corpse which cannot be resurrected by any action.
The action by the British Queen in knighting Salman Rushdie, the apostate, is an unwise one.
The British monarch lives under this illusion that Britain is still a 19th Century superpower and that bestowing titles is something still deemed important.
In actuality, it is extremely unimportant. Which is why I am raging about it now in parliament, and issuing veiled threats.
Someone somewhere needs to remind these arseholes that this is the UK and the knighthood is a UK honour for a UK citizen. I don’t see us getting all pissy when they insult something we hold dear – like human rights, for instance.
Incidentally, it’s been traditional to address a dog as ‘Sir’ in this country for centuries… ‘Down, Sir!’
‘The British monarch lives under this illusion that Britain is still a 19th Century superpower and that bestowing titles is something still deemed important.’
Obviously the First Speaker thinks that Pakistan is still a 17th century country!
Their reaction seems to me strangely reminiscent of those Americans who went round kicking Dachshunds during WWII, just to show their pay-tree-oh-tizzum…
Well, at least equally futile, infantile, and er..something else ending in -ile. Probably.
Bunch of horses’ arseholes, the lot of them.
As soon as I heard about the knighthood I knew we were in for some entertainment (as did Christopher Hitchins by his comments on Mondays Simon Mayo show on R5 – I bow to his eloquence – worth a ‘Listen again’ not least for his denunciation of thr Reverend Tim). Wouldn,t the world be a more boring place without our god fearing friends of all persuasions?
“The British monarch lives under this illusion that Britain is still a 19th Century superpower and that bestowing titles is something still deemed important.”, sez Bahonar.
Well, if it’s not important why all the fuss?