1246 Remembering Rushdie

It was probably only a few hours after the smoke cleared that the Left was blaming Bush and Blair for the bombings instead of the perps. And of course, their soft-on-misunderstood-terrorists and let's-get-out-now protests didn't have a single thing to do with all those deaths in London. The TV talk shows this morning are full of aghast MSM commentators rehashing all the mistakes Americans (i.e. Bush) has made. I just heard, "they can't tell us exactly when the Iraqi troops will be ready." Sigh.

At the sale yesterday run by Friends of Hotel Lakeside I browsed through the books and came across Salmon Rushdie. Remember him? Islamofascists threatened one of their own with death for words on paper.

Down memory lane: "The book that is worth killing people and burning flags for is not the book that I wrote," Salmon Rushdie, 41-year-old author of The Satanic Verses, told Time Magazine. shortly after its publication in 1988.

Rushdie's book caused deep rumblings among faithful Muslims offended by its content, prompting protests and book burnings and even riots in which several people were killed.

The furor reached new heights when Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini joined in, proclaiming the book a work of blasphemy and condemning Rushdie to death for "insulting Islam, the prophet Muhammed and the holy Koran."

Eager followers put a bounty on Rushdie's head, adding riches to what Khomeini had already guaranteed as a place in heaven for the successful assassin. Webcurrents