"Author Salman Rushdie has threatened to sue a publisher over a book by a former bodyguard that he said portrays him as cheap, nasty and arrogant and depicts his police guards as "losers" who drank on duty."
- http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,396526,00.html
I guess some people don't like being betrayed as things that they believe they aren't. Lawsuits must be the way to go.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses_controversy
Maybe someone can help point out the difference here? What goes around comes around I guess.
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A journey of enlightenment, to challenge the mind, to think, to ponder and to question. A journey to know, or more accurately, to know we know nothing.
About Me
- Culture Shock
- An attempt at consciously shocking my system, culturally. The only way there will ever be change is if we stop blaming the "other" (America, the Government, Israel, Secret Societies, McDonalds, Marilyn Manson, Lettuce, etc.) and start self reflection, awareness and improvement. This is my personal struggle to do that.
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Motivation
“What can my enemies possibly do to me? My paradise is in my heart; wherever I go it goes with me, inseparable from me. For me, prison is a place of (religious) retreat; execution is my opportunity for martyrdom; and exile from my town is but a chance to travel.”
- Ibn Taymiyyah
"نعيب زماننا و العيب فينا
و ما لزماننا عيب سوانا
و نهجو ذا الزمان بغير ذنب
و لو نطق الزمان لنا هجانا
We blame our time though we are to blame.
No fault has time but only us.
We scold the time for all the shame.
Did it have tongue, it would scold us"
- Al Shafi'i
Government: "an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself."
- Ibn Khaldun
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."
– Paulo Freire
"Your silence will not protect you."
- Audre Lorde
"The best jihad (struggle) is a just word before a tyrannical authority."
- Muhammad (s)
"Forgive him who wrongs you; join him who cuts you off; do good to him who does evil to you, and speak the truth although it be against yourself."
- Inscription on Muhammad's (s) sword
"Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself." - Gandhi
"It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine." - Gandhi
"Enlightenment: thinking autonomously without the dictates of external authority."
"Questions open up your mind, answers close them." - Hwadu Meditation
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix
"Literacy must be one of the many means for intellectual development, but we have had in the past intellectual giants who were unlettered." - Gandhi
"Literacy is not the end of education, or even the beginning." - Gandhi
"If we are lies we shall be lies of our own making" - Tayeb Salih
- Ibn Taymiyyah
"نعيب زماننا و العيب فينا
و ما لزماننا عيب سوانا
و نهجو ذا الزمان بغير ذنب
و لو نطق الزمان لنا هجانا
We blame our time though we are to blame.
No fault has time but only us.
We scold the time for all the shame.
Did it have tongue, it would scold us"
- Al Shafi'i
Government: "an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself."
- Ibn Khaldun
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."
– Paulo Freire
"Your silence will not protect you."
- Audre Lorde
"The best jihad (struggle) is a just word before a tyrannical authority."
- Muhammad (s)
"Forgive him who wrongs you; join him who cuts you off; do good to him who does evil to you, and speak the truth although it be against yourself."
- Inscription on Muhammad's (s) sword
"Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself." - Gandhi
"It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine." - Gandhi
"Enlightenment: thinking autonomously without the dictates of external authority."
"Questions open up your mind, answers close them." - Hwadu Meditation
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix
"Literacy must be one of the many means for intellectual development, but we have had in the past intellectual giants who were unlettered." - Gandhi
"Literacy is not the end of education, or even the beginning." - Gandhi
"If we are lies we shall be lies of our own making" - Tayeb Salih
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3 comments:
What goes around certainly comes around!
Isn't this simply a freedom of speech? Isn't this what Rushdie himself has defended and bragged about for years and years when he wrote his rubbish of The Satanic Verses in which he insulted people's faith and sentiments? What's with the double-standards now? Is he giving up on his so-called "profound beliefs", or did he simply think that he was the only one entitled to practice that "right of free speech"? This is simply ironic.
Rushide believed that the end does actually justify the means. He aimed at gaining the acceptance, support and admiration of the West through ridiculing Muslims' faith, and he obviously succeeded in that. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been granted the knighthood by the Queen of England.
Rushdie is nothing but a foul hypocrite whose evil intentions and motivations were far beyond "protecting the freedom of speech".
I hadn't heard of this... the irony of it all!
The man is a fiction writer. He never made a statement that the book was anything but fiction and there is nothing wrong with that.
Personal slander on a real, live human being is a completely different story. Especially if the person is making money on telling the lies and trying to ruin a person.
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