ICTChris Posted August 12, 2022 Author Share Posted August 12, 2022 Seen a few reports saying that “Rushdie is believed to be alive” which suggests he’s been very seriously injured. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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welshbairn Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 31 minutes ago, ICTChris said: Seen a few reports saying that “Rushdie is believed to be alive” which suggests he’s been very seriously injured. There were pictures of him in the theatre and on route to hospital with multiple people pressing on his neck, presumably to contain bleeding. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 34 minutes ago, ICTChris said: Seen a few reports saying that “Rushdie is believed to be alive” which suggests he’s been very seriously injured. 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greendot Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 1 hour ago, Bully Wee Villa said: Imagine being consisted "an utter deviant" by Throbber. Have you not read the throbbantic verses? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Other Foot Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Both the Satanic Verses and Midnight’s Children could be considered the best pieces of literature written in the latter half of the twentieth century. Phenomenal books, from a phenomenal craftsman. In addition, the angry chav who thinks he can go and stab him fifteen times just because he feels offended, has just ensured the author’s lasting legacy and undoubtedly boosted his book sales by a shitload. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Midnight's Children, as @The Other Foot has just mentioned, is one of the greats of literature. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Ferguson's Hat Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 But Detournment said they're shite. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Barry Ferguson's Hat said: But Detournment said they're shite. Aye, right enough. I take it back, they are shite.* *No, they are not. Edited August 12, 2022 by The Skelpit Lug Sp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 4 hours ago, Bully Wee Villa said: Imagine being consisted "an utter deviant" by Throbber. This guy posts on p and b as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTJohnboy Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Thought someone might have dredged up the old joke from 1988. Who's blonde, got big tits and now lives in Sweden? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aubrey Maturin Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 1 minute ago, ICTJohnboy said: Thought someone might have dredged up the old joke from 1988. Who's blonde, got big tits and now lives in Sweden? Boris Johnson? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Read, shun Islam is quite the ironic anagram. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSaints1877 Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 I’d like to know what our esteemed best selling author @oaksoft has to say about the content of the Satanic Verses and how much better he would have made it by introducing pornography into it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halbeath Raith Rover Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 55 minutes ago, SuperSaints1877 said: I’d like to know what our esteemed best selling author @oaksoft has to say about the content of the Satanic Verses and how much better he would have made it by introducing pornography into it. Bit of porn in it would have definitely calmed any tension about the plot ! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 (edited) I remember at the time thinking the portrayal of Ayatollah Khomeini had probably more to do with the fatwa than any supposed blasphemy. Quote In keeping with most Muslim countries, Iran did not ban The Satanic Verses. It was even reviewed in an Iranian newspaper. But noticing the protests in India and Britain, a delegation of mullahs from the holy city of Qum read a section of the book to Khomeini, including the part featuring a mad imam in exile, which was an obvious caricature of Khomeini. As one British diplomat in Iran said: "It was designed to send the old boy incandescent." So it was that the Iranians delivered the fatwa, thus winning the competition to be the greatest haters of Rushdie, and therefore the West, and all that entailed. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jan/11/salman-rushdie-satanic-verses Edited August 12, 2022 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 But Detournment said they're shite.H_B is an illiterate moron. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 I remember at the time thinking the portrayal of Ayatollah Khomeini had probably more to do with the fatwa than any supposed blasphemy. In keeping with most Muslim countries, Iran did not ban The Satanic Verses. It was even reviewed in an Iranian newspaper. But noticing the protests in India and Britain, a delegation of mullahs from the holy city of Qum read a section of the book to Khomeini, including the part featuring a mad imam in exile, which was an obvious caricature of Khomeini. As one British diplomat in Iran said: "It was designed to send the old boy incandescent." So it was that the Iranians delivered the fatwa, thus winning the competition to be the greatest haters of Rushdie, and therefore the West, and all that entailed. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jan/11/salman-rushdie-satanic-versesIt was the main reason that some people have conveniently ignored. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VincentGuerin Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Midnight's Children is one of my favourites. Absolutely wonderful stuff. As for the fatwa, as mentioned above, that was mainly due to Khomeini's ego. And if this is the end of him, Rushdie will not be the only person rushed off the planet because of Khomeini's fragile self-worth. Leaving aside Rushdie's own background with reference to Islam, it's thoroughly dis-spiriting that we still exist in a world where someone can see themselves as on the side of virtue for trying to end the life of someone on the basis of perceived lack of respect for their religion. It's fucking barbaric and genuinely sad that we've failed as a species to bring the whole of our number to the point where this is obvious. Rushdie is an immensely talented, thoughtful man who has produced some marvelous work and contributed positively to global political, philosophical, and cultural discourse. It's absolutely maddening to think he could be killed by some fucking backwards simpleton inspired by a madman with a flaky ego. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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