Rosio Pavoris

I’m guessing you heard about Salman Rushdie’s (deserved) knighthood by now. You’ve probably also heard of various idiots speaking out against it in the Muslim world, including the Pakistani Minister of Religious Affair (”If someone exploded a bomb on his body he would be right to do so unless the British government apologises and withdraws the ’sir’ title.”) and the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs (”I demand the British government immediately withdraw the title as it is creating religious hatred.”), and a fuckload of people in Iran (that fatwa was issued by Khomeini, who was the spiritual leader of Iran at the time, and it was recently reaffirmed by his successor, Khamenei), but there’s one voice that surprised me: Baron Ahmed, the first Muslim member of the British House of Lords.

“This man - as you can see - not only provoked violence around the world because of his writings, but there were many people that were killed around the world and honouring the man who has blood on his hands, sort of because of what he did, honouring him I think is going a bit too far.”

What the fuck is wrong with people? This is like condemning the Jews for inciting the hatred of the Nazis, and it goes against everything freedom of speech is supposed to be.
It’s like the entire Muslim world is fucking four years old.