Sir Salman Rushdie, why he deserves his knighthood

This video concerns the recent anger and call for violence by Muslims not only against Sir Salman, but against the people of Britain. Take for instance the religious affairs minister for Pakistan, Muhammad Ejaz ul-Haq, who stated last week that, "because of this knighthood suicide bombing could now be justified", while closer to home, Lord Ahmed of Rotherham, claimed that Salman Rushdie "has blood on his hands".

This is blatant censorship of the worst kind, calling for violence against Sir Salman and against the good people of Britain, and it needs to stop! Sir Salman is not receiving his knighthood because of his novel 'Satanic Verse', but because of his more literary work, 'Midnight's Children', which was awarded the Booker Prize in 1981, and then recognized as the best piece of literature written in the past 25 years!

Yet, even if it were being awarded for his service to the freedom of Speech, it would be well deserved, since Muslims uniquely call incessantly for censorship of anyone who dares to criticize their prophet or their Qur'an, and there are too few individuals willing to publicly confront these taboos imposed on our society by Muslims the world over.

Muslims need to be careful of their head-long drive for censorship, since in doing so they risk destroying 'Youtube' which is becoming the greatest vehicle as the purveyor of knowledge, and the repository of critical debate for truth, including religious truth. If Islam refuses to be criticized, than it is not worthy of a world religion, nor of a faith which claims universal truth, and must be discarded as another ideology, like Communism, which came and went.

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[orthotox]

Oh Muslim, out of the prophet camel's mouth comes the Freedom Fatwa: you are doomed! Every logical proposition is a sword in the cancerous breast of Islam. Every girl shaking her booty on YouTube is a declaration of crap on the Koran. Every twanging guitar string is a garrote around the Prophet's lying throat! Shake it baby! Twang! Twang! Twang!

[indojin007]

A muslim guy talking about 'FreeDom of speech' and 'Abuse of women'!!

People who believe that women are second class citizens and are only for reproduction shouldnt talk about these stuff.

[Afghanistang]

yah its so sad that he is calling ur mom wifedaughter a whore u litlle pussy... I fell sorry for u! u uneducated old man

[MegaFraudbuster]

Rushdie should be made the PM of UK !

[StopFear]

@Axmad1430

You still do not understand. It does not matter what Salman Rahshdie had written. It is irrelevant whom he might offend, he has a right to speak his views and words. Lets say you believe there are certain words that he said, do you believe his words are so powerful that they can turn Muslims away from Islam?

[StopFear]

@Axmad1430

I am glad that you don't mind marrying a Jewish woman

[screentom]

When some people deny holocoust the jew get ofended dont they? Because you have touched some thing sensitive. and in the west if Islam get demanised the western people say (what ? why they are making a fuss about it?, freedom of speech?) but when someone talks about the atrocities which Israel does to Palestinians, when talking about the colonial mentality of the west when talking about the holocaust they go like this (hey ? what you are talking about ! are you a terrorist or what ?)

[Axmad1430]

what about black people??

what he said about black people caused the apatheid government of south africa to be the second country (after india) to ban the book . . . . . even those racists said this guy has gone too far!

must I go on???

this Satanic Salman has made a mockery and joke out of those who protected him & paid him more than £800,000 as advanced money for his book!

[Axmad1430]

what about white women?

"white women, never mind fat, jewish or non-differential

white women are for fucking and throwing over"

Is it true? your sister, mother, wife and daughter whether she is fat, jewish or non-differential (meaning people can't tell whether she is irish, swiss, french, german) as long as she is white she is "for fucking"

. . .is that all she is for? is that her worth?

[Axmad1430]

"Sister fucking british" he says. . . . . I want to ask the british do you oppose that statement?. . . . or is it true? . . . do you really turn to your sisters for that

and the "mother fucking americans" turn to their mothers according to Salman.

Do you agree, americans?

and what does he say about your ex-minister who took him in and protected him?

"Torture" . . . "Maggie the Bitch"

and what does he say about our queen, the one who knighted him???

[Axmad1430]

what has he said about his supporters?

"bastard londoners" he says

I want the londoners to speak to me . . . whether you are an asian londoner, black londoner, white londoner. . . you are all bastards according Salman Rushdie