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$100,000 to kill Rushdie
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Posted on 02/15/2004 8:09:50 PM PST by chance33_98
$100,000 to kill Rushdie
TEHRAN: An Iranian extremist Islamic group calling itself the General Staff for the Glorification of Martyrs of the Islamic World has offered a $100,000 (BD37,800) reward for the killing of British novelist Salman Rushdie, a Press report said yesterday.
According to the hardline Jomhuri Eslami newspaper, the tiny and little-known group called on "all volunteer Muslims to sign up on its Internet site... to kill Salman Rushdie."
"The reward will be paid to anyone who kills Salman Rushdie or his family," the paper said, quoting a member of the group who also pledged the organisation's facilities to help with the operation.
The novelist, born in Bombay, India, to a Muslim family, sparked fury from Muslims worldwide a decade ago because of alleged blasphemy and apostasy in his novel The Satanic Verses.
The new reward marked the anniversary of the fatwa, or religious edict, issued by Iran's revolutionary founder, the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, on February 14, 1989 calling for Rushdie's execution.
TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: assassination; bounty; crime; deaththreat; fatwa; freespeech; hategroup; internet; islam; islamofascists; murder; muslims; religion; religionofpeace; religionofpeacetm; reward; rusdie; rushdie; salmanrushdie; terrorism; terrorists
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To: chance33_98
Peaceful bunch, aren't they?
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posted on
02/15/2004 8:11:45 PM PST
by
scarface367
(This tagline known to the state of California to cause cancer in laboratory animals)
To: nuconvert
ping
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posted on
02/15/2004 8:12:13 PM PST
by
Pan_Yans Wife
(Your friend is your needs answered. --- Kahlil Gibran)
To: chance33_98
Again?
To: chance33_98
What truth did Rushdie write to so infuriate the members of the religion of peace?
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posted on
02/15/2004 8:12:56 PM PST
by
Terpfen
(Hajime Katoki: if you know who he is, then just his name is enough.)
To: chance33_98
Not again?!
Y'know, we all should've picked up on this in the eighties when they first put out their fatwahs on this guy.
Don't tell anyone. But I think we're finally on to them.
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posted on
02/15/2004 8:12:56 PM PST
by
BfloGuy
(The past is like a different country, they do things different there.)
To: chance33_98
Kinda cheap, aren't they?
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posted on
02/15/2004 8:18:20 PM PST
by
nuconvert
("Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.")
To: Pan_Yans Wife
thanks
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posted on
02/15/2004 8:18:56 PM PST
by
nuconvert
("Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.")
To: chance33_98
I think his second book titled.... Buddah Sucks....clearly pushed his readers to the conclusion he's better off a dead .......Stay safe !
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posted on
02/15/2004 8:19:13 PM PST
by
Squantos
(Salmon...the other pink meat !)
To: chance33_98
These people don't let go of a grudge, do they? I guess that ain't news to the Jews of the region.
To: chance33_98
IIRC the original fatwa was for $1,000,000.back in the 80's. Maybe outsourcing is putting the old jihadis out of business /sarcasm/
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posted on
02/15/2004 8:23:58 PM PST
by
Liberty Valance
(In Honor and memory of Pfc Cody Orr, Kerrville Texas)
To: Terpfen
Yeah. I'd like to know what this book was about also. Have to go to Amazon. This news will spark a second printing, probably.
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posted on
02/15/2004 8:24:45 PM PST
by
cinnathepoet
(Directly, I am going to Caesar's funeral)
To: chance33_98
1,000,000 dollars to the guy that kills the guy that kills Rushdie. that should take care of that.
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posted on
02/15/2004 8:27:30 PM PST
by
fish hawk
("I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more")
To: chance33_98
Is there a fatwa registry? You might have one on ya and not know it.
These things are gettin to be like restraining orders...everybody's either declaring one, or having one put on them.
Mebbe it's developing into 'fatwa chic'.
Rough translation of Salman Rushdie:
'He who is in a rush to die.' [SNL/D. Miller]
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posted on
02/15/2004 8:28:45 PM PST
by
dasboot
To: Lunatic Fringe
Again? Still. And with their typical ineptitude, they've had this hit going for 15 years. And now, they've finally raised $100,000 selling Allah Akbar cookies door to door and raffling off sexy burkahs to sweeten this dusty old pot. Salman'll die of old age before the wrath of Allah gets him.
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posted on
02/15/2004 8:42:28 PM PST
by
wizardoz
("Crikey! I've lost my mojo!")
To: chance33_98
Just wanted to add what little I know, for those who don't already know, and for those who would like to add to it. Singer Cat Stevens, who later became Muslim and changed his name to Yusuf Islam, has made public statements at least twice in support of this fatwa. I'm having a hard time finding a link to his statements. I keep getting Yusef Islam sponsored sites and others that put his spin on it. There are several statements by him, attempting to backpedal from his original statements. That makes it really hard to sift through everything to get the meat. This one's not bad
http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/18/specials/rushdie-cat.html. Maybe somebody else can provide a better one.
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posted on
02/15/2004 8:47:37 PM PST
by
BykrBayb
(Temporary tagline. Applied to State of New Jersey for permanent tagline (12/24/03).)
To: dasboot
Is there a fatwa registry? You might have one on ya and not know it. Actually there is. One Islamofascist group took a liberal's deck of "evil conservatives" and used that as the basis for a hitlist.
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posted on
02/15/2004 8:52:45 PM PST
by
weegee
(Election 2004: Re-elect President Bush... Don't feed the trolls.)
To: chance33_98
Last I heard Rushide was living in New York and had changed his name to Sal Bass.
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posted on
02/15/2004 8:55:19 PM PST
by
Rebelbase
(The gravy train makes unscheduled stops.)
To: Rebelbase
Oh great, just throw out that blurb so they know who and where he is :)
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posted on
02/15/2004 8:56:50 PM PST
by
chance33_98
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To: Terpfen
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posted on
02/15/2004 9:10:48 PM PST
by
vp_cal
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