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Lancelot he’s not

Posted on June 30, 2007 | Comments Off on Lancelot he’s not

So who should be insulted by the knighting of Salman Rushdie, the man whose first name would be spelled like a fish if an ‘a’ was changed to an ‘o’? Not the Muslims. The Muslims, being no more than consumers on the world’s teat, are always insulted about something. No, by golly, it’s Rushdie, himself. So says Harry Hutton, who, having been through a few of these things, really should know.

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Sir Salman

Posted on June 19, 2007 | Comments Off on Sir Salman

The usual tiresome Muslim furor over anything deemed insufficiently respectful of their religion, this time over Queen Elizabeth’s daring to knight author Salman Rushdie, makes me want to read his book "The Satanic Verses," which I admit never appealed to me before. I thought his Iranian death sentence years ago mostly a publicity stunt. But threatening rioting and suicide bombings over the book all these years later finally makes it interesting to me.

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