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Having faced down one fatwa, Salman Rushdie is these days little inclined to pussy-foot:
“One of the great untold stories of al-Qa’ida is that they are all these men who f-ck little boys. They all have these disciples who they’re ostensibly training in the way of the warrior, but they’re also enjoying. For a while, then they go off - and they have their wives and families at home. It’s like Classical Greece.” Does he think Osama bin Laden has done it? “I wouldn’t like to say,” he says tactfully. “He’s an Arab, he’s not an Afghan. But Mullah Omar, he’s another story ...”
He senses soft racism in the refusal to see Islamic fundamentalists for what they are. When looking at the Christian fundamentalists of the United States, most people see an autonomous movement of superstitious madmen. But when they look at their Islamic equivalents, they assume they cannot mean what they say. “One of the things that’s commonly said by Islamists is that it’s acceptable to bomb a disco, because a disco is a place where people are behaving in a disgusting way. Go away and die - that’s all bin Laden wants you to do. It’s not just about Iraq, it’s about ham sandwiches and kissing in public places and sex with girls you’re not married to.” He pauses. “It’s about life.”
It horrifies Rushdie that so many people in his natural political home - the left - don’t get it.
Rushdie should meet Michael Leunig, a fellow leftist and fatwa buddy. That “not getting it” meter of his would be blown off the dial.
(Via LGF)
UPDATE. The wanton flashing of breasts of Girls Gone Wild!
When looking at the Christian fundamentalists of the United States, most people see an autonomous movement of superstitious madmen..
I recently read a book on Mormons (not that they are Christians), which saw them in this way. When it comes to Islam though, writers/academics have an odd tendency to call it a ‘usually peaceful religion’ or whatnot. I thought it was out of fear of being killed, but after that post, Tim, I see that it’s out of fear of al-Qa’ida rooting their sons.
Between classes at the Sword of Righteousness Madrassa, Peshawar, Pakistan.
Achmed: My brothers, that Western Immorality 101 class is tough. To have to sit there and listen to the mullah describe the lascivious dances, the drunken debauchery ...
Farouk: ... the bumping and grinding that is so prevalent in decadent rap videos. The wanton flashing of breasts of Girls Gone Wild!
Ali: Yes, it is horrible. The Crusader pigs are like rutting animals. They have no souls. This is why, in order to save them, we must kill them.
Farouk: ... group sex under multi-colored disco balls. Many limbs entangled!
Much sweating!Achmed: Yes, it is revolting. Oh, what’s this? A note in my locker. The mullah desires to see me after school for further individual instruction.
Farouk: ... exposed navels! Lipstick! Many, many, many heaving breasts! Everywhere!
Ali: Why does he smile upon you with these special favors, Achmed? What subject is it in which he instructs you?
Farouk: ... studded leather straps binding ankles and wrists! Cheap, sordid women with social diseases who have been very very naughty!
Achmed: Persian poetry, mainly, that celebrates the marvelous gifts of life the Almighty has bestowed upon us. Say Farouk, do you have any of that balm you use when you tend your father’s goats?
Farouk: ... revealing garments rent apart. Shallow, rapid breath. Sinful! Sinful! Sinful!
Achmed: Farouk, I am talking to you. Has some evil djinn possessed you?Farouk, red-faced: What? Oh, sorry. Going for special instruction after school again? Yes, here’s the grease.
Posted by crittenden on 2006 10 15 at 10:10 AM • permalinkGood one, Jules! You and paco ought to team up.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 10 15 at 10:49 AM • permalinkHe is one of the few intellectuals who get it, and so he is ignored by the left. Re his comments on the failures of the superpower, I’m a pragmatist: if the US were to act more properly, according to him, what would be different? We’re not allowed to be idealistic and we’re not allowed to fight for oil. What should we do different?
When looking at the Christian fundamentalists of the United States, most people see an autonomous movement of superstitious madmen…
I just want to know who these “most people” are. The odds are, it’s a reference to most people in the cloistered editorial offices of the Independent. Whether that has any relevance to the rest of the real world is an open question. Well, maybe not that open.
Rushdie should meet Michael Leunig, a fellow leftist and fatwa buddy. That “not getting it” meter of his would be blown off the dial.
Yes, I have long wondered what sort of unacceptable compromises the secular international left and the fundamentalist Islamists will have to agree on once they win this thing. If the left is true to its pacifist rhetoric, it will mean women as chattel, homophobia with “extreme prejudice”, race based castes, a mandatory state religion, extensive capital and corporal punishment and no more freedom of choice for anything from having a drink to abortion to the press. I don’t think the Islamists are going to compromise with too much of the secular left’s agenda.
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 10 15 at 12:04 PM • permalink“There’s a boy across the river with a bottom like a peach, but alas I cannot swim.”
From a Pathan(or Pashtun) marching song/traditional song called “The Wounded Heart” which I first came across in Newby’s “A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush” (1958). Think Afghanistan, Pakistan, Pashtunwali , Taliban.
Says it all really.
I cannot fathom why so many lefties and celebs support the Other Side. Rosie would be dead; Babs would be dead; The Dixe Chicks’ career would be very suddenly over; no coeds, no keggers, no bong hits, no easy hippie girls, no Madonna/Britney/CSI/movies except about jihad/no music, no art (all the art we have would be gone—no Mona Lisa, no Picasso, no Monet, no Michaelangelo…), no “Queer Eye,” no “Charlie’s Angels,” no entertainment, no women in public, no anything.
It would be a very black and white world. Literally. Why can’t they admit that to themselves?
Ushie-c’mon the lefties know that they, not the muzzies-are the real existential threat to the west (at least in America and Australia).
They think that anything that weakens western civilization (capitalism, traditional liberal democracy) is good so that they can eventually replace the systems that exist with their “vision”.
Anything then that strengthens our resolve to fight and defend western society as it is(the war against Islamic extremism, Muslim Fascism-whatever you want to call it) is a distraction from that. If those who defend the west can be seen to have lost that furthers the cause of the left (at least that’s how they see it through their beady little eyes).
I feel that the time for a sincere but stirring George W. Bush speech, loosely based on Rushdies interview, highlighting the “who are you for them or us? Because if you are not for us then you are for them”, and describing the Taliban Afganistan which is the Islamofacists role model for this planet.
DD, oh, there’d be CSI alright. You just wouldn’t have those fine cleavage shots when they bent down to examine evidence, cuz for one thing, women could no longer be CSI’s. And all the “crime scenes” would be in Jenin or Haditha or wherever Lebanese ambulances are
deployeddispatched.Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 10 15 at 01:20 PM • permalink#7 Jeffs ... Paco is the philosophical and comedic origin of all wisdom. He is the pouncing and clawing ocelot of logic. He is the preening and choleric ostrich of insight. I am perched and clasping onto a precarious and crumbling outcropping as I attempt to prevail and climb over the mountain atop which Paco abides, thinking deep thoughts.
Posted by crittenden on 2006 10 15 at 01:25 PM • permalinkNew York, London, Paris, Munich, everybody talk about. Pop music.
Well, as messages of support for these fabulous contestants continue to pour in from Idol fans across the nation, voting is now closed. The people of this country have decided on a winner and we’ll find out who that is after the break.
News Update: some light drizzle expected near the coast, dry elsewhere. In breaking news; the world’s inaugural Global Multicultural Constitutional Referendum has been decided. In wild and frenzied jubilation, Democratic Party loyalists leapt to their feet to celebrate a victory for oppressed minorities everywhere when it was announced that the popular vote has endorsed… the Qur’an.
Remember when goth/punk bands knew this sort of thing too? Yeah, me neither.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 10 15 at 03:15 PM • permalinkWassa matter? Did they run out of goats?
Posted by Harry Eagar on 2006 10 15 at 04:02 PM • permalinkSorry Paco, I got a little carried away. Please excuse the prevaricating and carrying on.
Posted by crittenden on 2006 10 15 at 05:04 PM • permalinkHumble Paco is, to a fault. Once he told of going to school, in the spring, with no snow, wearing shoes. His mother insisted on driving him to the front door, but he walked the rest of the way, on a sidewalk, flat, both ways, and no snow. Like Oregin. I mean Good King Wensl… that guy. But no snow.
Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2006 10 15 at 06:23 PM • permalinkDave S. I’ve known quite a few Mormons in Academia, and they’re all married to women they met while on their evangelical tours to the Third World. Not a blonde wife among them.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 10 15 at 08:48 PM • permalink#30: I’m afraid you guessed it. I don’t know what it’s going to take to get that boy out in the open. Either SDD (alias Hank Foley) is on a super-secret mission, or he was hit on the head and got amnesia. With his luck, he probably got amnesia half-way through a secret mission.
#28: Yeah, but the lace in one of the shoes wasn’t threaded right, so it didn’t tie right. You think that wasn’t rough?
#27: I also splash a little bourbon on my face; can’t have the clients know that I drink Yoo Hoo.
Breasts of girls gone wild?
Why sbs was a showin them nonstop on Saturday night.
Or rather flashing flat chests and brandishing butts.
They spent hours banging on about how feminists don’t need them,how if your partner leaves you should seek them and finally after ALL that earnest discussion with the evil plastic surgeon..refusing them.
Extra funny was the old “actress” bird who “liked being flat chested” because she could don male clothing for “roles”.Ew she looked a sight when she did and added a moustache.
Not content with turning us off a treat she toddled off to a grocery/deli and got the shop assistant(male) to weigh her out two plastic bags of rice.She then used them to fill out her strapless dress.
Best bit was when she solemnly discussed how wonderful it was that the rice was cooked after and “we all symbolically ate my breasts”.Shudder.Thanks sbs.The left thinks that, once Islam destroys the capitalist culture that stands in the way of the enlightenment of worldwide communism, then their high technology, artistic skills, and divine power of pure pacifism will overwhelm Islam, turning them to lives of secular multiculturalism without a single shot being fired.
In short, they truly believe in the modern-day Ghost Dance. And they will meet the same fate as the original Ghost Dancers.
Posted by Tatterdemalian on 2006 10 16 at 10:39 AM • permalink
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Hes extremely tame compared to what the hazara blokes (Small ethnic group in Afghanistan) used to say they did.
Most of them werent very sophiosticated or educated but they hated Talibs with a passion. One of the talib sayings was along the lines of “To kill only one hazara is no good”.
The blokes I talked to were quite up front on the pederastic tendancies and boy fucking going on within the taliban. They also claimed they had a thing for rooting dogs as well.
All this a good 2 years before 9/11.