I Suppose It Was Only A Matter Of Time.

[piggynose]

S.Rushdie has been stabbed in a New York theatre.
I'm sorry I haven't got a link.
Anybody else not surprised?

[jourdain2]

Hazi 18.44 I was driving home from my teaching job in Bradford and I saw the bonfire of books and the robed men dancing round it screaming and shouting., It was in a playground I'd played in as a kid. It was totally terrifying, very chilling and it is still very vivid. Islam is dangerous - this is not to say all Muslims are, before I get into bother.

[jno]

https://globalnation.inquirer.net/163694/raisins-not-virgins-quran-scholars-say

[FatticusInch]

Latest says that he is still in surgery.
Sky News reports he was stabbed up to 15 times.
Sounds quite frenzied and security obviously lacking.
Hope he’s gets through ok.

[Paigntonian]

Untitled: Good plan. Maybe the fundamentalists could stab readers as well as writers. Don't recommend the book by the way.

[Khandro]

The motive for the attack is yet unclear they say, well let met tell them;

The perpetrator, though he will be declared of unsound mind, will be a Muslim who, because he believes he has transgressed & will therefor spend eternity in hell, suffering among other things as stated in the Koran:

"...Those who deny (their Lord), for them will be cut out a garment of Fire. Over their heads will be poured out boiling water. With it will be scalded what is within their bodies, as well as (their) skins. In addition there will be maces of iron (to punish) them. Every time they wish to get away therefrom, from anguish, they will be forced back, and (it will be said), "Taste the Penalty of Burning!" (22:19-22).
"In front of such a one is Hell, and he is given, for drink, boiling fetid water" (14:16).

The only escape from this punishment is to become Muslim 'martyr' & the most assured way to accomplish this is to carry out the Fatwah which has been declared by some deranged anachronistic Muslim cleric.

[Paigntonian]

Should have added that the ghastly pompous Luvie has cost the British taxpayer roughly 3million a year, a bill which probably adds up to half a billion by now. Got to play the moron card: How many dead children could now be alive if that had been used on the NHS?.

[Paigntonian]

Should he sadly die maybe his royalties from Satanic Verses could be given to the NHS?

[Paigntonian]

And this is the man who called Margaret Thatcher 'Mrs Torture'. Utterly loathsome.

[FatticusInch]

Who’s loathsome, Rushdie or Thatcher?

Your post suggests that being critical of her is more controversial and deserving of retribution than The Satanic Verses?
In fact you sound almost like……oh never mind, we know who.

[naomi24]

Paigntonian clearly doesn’t like Me Rushdie but that’s irrelevant to this crime.

[Khandro]

Paigntonian; By focussing on the victim & not the perpetrator, you demonstrate an extraordinary bizarre response to this grotesque violent crime.

[Khandro]

-'Salman Rushdie ‘on ventilator and cannot speak’ as suspect named as Hadi Matar


Sir Salman Rushdie is reportedly on a ventilator and may lose an eye after he was stabbed on stage in the US on Friday.

Rushdie's agent Andrew Wylie told the New York Times that the news was "not good," adding that Rushdie could not speak, while the nerves in his arm were severed in the attack and his liver was stabbed.'-

Shall we wait for an outcry against this barbarism from the 'moderate' Islamists?

[Untitled]

Matar is 24 years old... assuming he attacked Rushdie over Satanic Verses which seems very likely... that would mean Rushdie's attacker stabbed him over a book that was published ten years before he was born!

[naomi24]

//Rushdie's attacker stabbed him over a book that was published ten years before he was born! //

Time is irrelevant.

[Khandro]

// book that was published ten years before he was born!//

True, but a fatwah lasts forever. He probably can't even read, & if he can it would only be the Koran he has read. He was probably put up to it by an older Islamist cretin.
I say find out which mosque he attends & close it down for six months, if there is any retaliation to that, bulldoze it!

[ToraToraTora]

"Do they actually believe there’ll be 72 virgins waiting for them? " - they do but they don't specify what sex.

[naomi24]

//Odd subject for him to be lecturing on though, American housing? //

He was speaking on artistic freedom. Ironic.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/12/salman-rushdie-attacked-onstage-new-york

[Ken4155]

TTT, i've often wondered what use 72 virgins are to someone who has blown their own bits off?

[naomi24]

//"Do they actually believe there’ll be 72 virgins waiting for them? " - they do but they don't specify what sex. //

They do. They're women and called houris.