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.
I dunno, havn't met too many. But then I only got 2,000,000 of them within an hours drive. Perhaps I need a bigger pool to select from?
This is a section of it that is a good sumation:
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The isnad, or chain of reciters, introducing the Hadith reads: Ibn Mumayd-Salamah-Muhammad Ibn Ishaq-Yazid bin Ziyad al-Madani-Muhammad bin Kab al-Qurazi: I share this because of what happened to Salman Rushdie. He wrote a novel based upon what these champions of Islam had to say. Muslims went berserk. They had Rushdies book banned and panned. They nailed Satanic Verses to crosses and burned it during hostile rioting. The Ayatollah Khomeni, the leader of the Islamic world at the time, put a fatwa on Rushdie, offering his fellow Muslims a million dollars for the writers head.
Yet Rushdie had merely exposed Islams own Traditions. So why get mad at him? Was Muhammad so perverse and Islam so corrupt that modern clerics have to hide the truth for their doctrine to survive? Apparently, yes.
This is what follows: Tabari VI:108/Ishaq:165 The Messenger saw his tribe turn on him. He was pained to see them shunning the message he had brought from Allah. So he [abandoned both his message and his god because he] longed for something that would reconcile his tribe to him. With his love for his tribe and his anxiety over this it would have delighted him if the obstacle which had made his task so difficult could be removed [so he could accept their generous offer of power, sex, and money]. The only points of contention, thus obstacles to reconciliation, were: Kaaba custodianship, the number of gods, and the top gods identity (Allah or Ar-Rahman).
So Muhammad debated with himself and fervently desired such an outcome. Then Allah revealed: By the Star when it sets, your comrade does not err, nor is he deceived; nor does he speak out of his own desire. [In truth, he did all three and was about to prove his guilt.] And when he came to the words: Have you thought about Al-Lat, Al-Uzza and Manat, Satan, when he was meditating upon it and desiring to bring reconciliation, cast on his tongue, because of his inner longings and what he desired, the words: These are exalted high-flying cranes (goddesses). Verily their intercession is accepted with approval. Simply stated, Muhammad said, I accept the Quraysh Bargain.
But at what cost? The Quranic recitals had been filled with assertions that there were no intercessors. And four gods were at least three too many for a monotheistic religion. Muhammad had therefore abandoned the central plank of his mission: There is no ilah but Allah. Islam was no longer monotheistic. Whats more, the prophets grandiose and Messianic claim of being Allahs intercessor was pummeled, stoned by a trio of rock idols. And that wasnt the worst of it. Islams lone spokesperson had just aligned himself with Satan.
Its little wonder the Ayatollah wanted Rushdies book burned. Its little wonder the Quran urges Muslims not to pry too deeply into Islam or ask questions. The truth is devastating. The Quraysh Bargain and Satanic Verses confirm that Muhammad was demon possessed and that the Quran was inspired to advance his personal agenda. These Hadiths prove Islam was a fraud, as counterfeit as a $3 bill. Whats more, the Profitable Prophet Plan has been elevated from highly probable to undeniable.
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The Satanic verses is out of their own "holy" books that mentions when Mohammad decided to worship 4 gods for money and power and girls. It proves that Mohammad was not a prophet of God, but a man out for gain using religion for his tool. It is called satanic verses because it proves that Islam is a sham, the Imams like to keep this part hidden and in Arabic only.
Rushdie's sin is he fictionalized it and exposed their own teachings to the world.
I had walked about four blocks from the store when it was destroyed by a blast of TNT left in a briefcase, killing about a dozen people.
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