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Salman Rushdie and the Queen, or the “Infidel” and the “Old Fox”
Kamangir | June 17, 2007 | Category Iran
Salman Rushdie, the British-Indian novelist who went into hiding after Khomeini issued a death Fatwa against him, was knighted by the Queen. That clearly did not make the Islamic Republic happy. This is a screen shot of the news as mentioned in the state-run television. The Persian text at the bottom reads “the infidel author was honored by the old fox [literal translation], Salman Rushdie became UK’s knight”.
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Ignore Rushdie.
Iranian leaders should pay attention to their country and people.
Whatever… of course they knighted him… who cares? How can the regime still care about those old titles… Rock stars get them too. Waste of time, and there are more important things to get angry about in Iran.
Rusdie earned his knighthood due to services rendered for the advancement of literature. Cultural advancement, if you will. Arthur Conan Doyle earned his knighthood in the same manner, and Terry Pratchett his officership of the Order of the British Empire.
One mediocre book that Muslims hate(mostly without even reading it) does not erase Rushdie’s many great literary works. And if anything, Khomeini’s death fatwa just made him more famous.
I remember Salman Rushdi got a prize for one of his old books from Rafsanjani before he wrote that book. All this story is so funny…
In the other side, it’s even worse that brits don’t want to stop their stupid culture of knighthood, etc. Come on, open your eyes madam! it’s 21st century. you are no more living in the middle age :) (i don’t care about rushdie or anyone else, i am purely talking about this comedy culture)
Smileme
Why is it stupid? It is British tradition and I think like many traditions elsewhere should be preserved. It has nothing to do with the middle ages but with history and the culture of the land. Speaking for myself, I would not be loath to get a kighthood. ;-)
Ella,
You are joking, right? :D
Ella,
It is very odd that you think that traditions should be preserved, as your comments about Islam and the IRI on previous posts have always called for the westernization of Islam.
Islam is our tradition.
Some more nice traditions:
- guillotines
- hanging
- crucifying and burning alive humans
- stoning (still a nice tradition in our great countries)
- burying people alive (especially new born girls)
- advanced european torture devices used until a century ago
- theaters in which the royal family enjoy watching incapable soldiers being eaten by lions
- knighthood
- exploring other locations (a.k.a adventure, growth, economy, etc.) = http://www.regiments.org/wars/wars.htm
- and the most wanted tradition, kissing frogs to turning them into princes (mostly used by single females in this part of the world)
Munafiq
Islam is not your tradition, Islam is your religion.
I am not against Islam. I am against IRI which is not equal to Islam. Islam is religion, IRI is the present government of Iran and they are not equal.
I am also not against some Islamic traditions. If people want to of their own will,/i> to follow some Islamic or other traditions that’s fine with me. I am against making people behave in a way they do not want to behave or wear things they do not want to wear.
As your own prophet said: “Let there be no compulsion in religion [Sūrah al-Baqarah: 256]
Iranian tradition is not all islamic, for example jumping through fire goes to preIslamic times, to jahiliya (for you). Do the majority of Iranians want to stop that tradition? Your government wanted to do so, but could not. What is the tradition of visiting shrines of your Sufi saints? It goes to pre-islamic era and islam just incorporated that traditions. So don’t tell me that all your tradition begins and ends with Islam.
As for “westernization” of Islam, I never proposed that. Islam should evolve, but all evolving will be done by you, people. And the consequences of evolving or not evolving will be your own.
Now let me tell you the story I have seen on the other blog:
A story is told that last year, on a road overtaken by jihadis, a DVD purveyor was ordered to close because DVD’s didn’t exist in the time of the prophet. “Neither did the BMW you drove up in,” he responded. “When you come back and tell me again on a camel, then I’ll listen.” They shot him some days later, for his insolence.
Smileme
I understand your feelings against other “nice” traditions, even tradition of kissing frogs (UGH), but really, what do you have against knighthood???
Uh sorry, very sorry. It seems I did not close HTML code. Let me repeat the post.
Munafiq
Islam is not your tradition , Islam is your religion.
I am not against Islam. I am against IRI which is not equal to Islam. Islam is religion, IRI is the present government of Iran and they are not equal.
I am also not against some Islamic traditions. If people want to of their own will to follow some Islamic or other traditions that’s fine with me. I am against making people behave in a way they do not want to behave or wear things they do not want to wear.
As your own prophet said: “Let there be no compulsion in religion [Sūrah al-Baqarah: 256]
Iranian tradition is not all islamic, for example jumping through fire goes to preIslamic times, to jahiliya (for you). Do the majority of Iranians want to stop that tradition? Your government wanted to do so, but could not. What is the tradition of visiting shrines of your Sufi saints? It goes to pre-islamic era and islam just incorporated that traditions. So don’t tell me that all your tradition begins and ends with Islam.
As for “westernization†of Islam, I never proposed that. Islam should evolve, but all evolving will be done by you, people. And the consequences of evolving or not evolving will be your own.
Now let me tell you the story I have seen on the other blog:
A story is told that last year, on a road overtaken by jihadis, a DVD purveyor was ordered to close because DVD’s didn’t exist in the time of the prophet. “Neither did the BMW you drove up in,†he responded. “When you come back and tell me again on a camel, then I’ll listen.†They shot him some days later, for his insolence.
Smileme
I understand your feelings against other “nice†traditions, even tradition of kissing frogs (UGH), but really, what do you have against knighthood???