Rushdie and the British Establishment

Interesting synopsis of the debate in Pakistan, with an excursion to other parts of the world. As Beady says, ockam's razor should have been taken to it, to get to the real meat of the argument or lex parsimoniae should have have been applied to it.

Here is an example: Waldheim was made President of Austria. He was found out to be a closet nazi. Did the RoW burn books, issue fatwas and death threats? He was boycotted, and in fact never made a state visit to any country of note, and was not invited to any other country or meeting. The poor guy did not even go to the UNGA (the same UN he headed) as HoS. There is a quantum difference between the reactions. The Muslim mind has been shown, once more to be that of a reactionary, regressive child, which clearly it is not.

Now that Rushdie has be Knighted, how would the Islamic World deal with it? What is the image the Islamic World wants the rest of the world to have? These are far more important questions then just the sort of post-facto navel-gazing exercise being conducted (and this article is one such example).

Pirzada sahib, a very interesting take on the Rushdie affair. Nice conjectural article based upon interesting assumptions but perhaps you might have forgotten to shave it with occam's razor :)

cheers

bd

watch this video. Scroll to 3:16 to hear what the sufi dude has to say about this root cause BS.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =EODjAGD2yN0