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Al-Qaeda threatens 'response' to Rushdie knighthood
AFP ^ | July 10, 2007

Posted on 07/10/2007 10:22:50 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative

Al-Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri said on Tuesday the group is preparing a "precise response" to Britain's decision to bestow a knighthood on author Salman Rushdie.

"I say to (Britain's Queen) Elizabeth and (former British Prime Minister Tony) Blair that your message has reached us and we are in the process of preparing for you a precise response," Zawahiri said in an audio recording posted on an Internet website often used by Islamic militants.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
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1 posted on 07/10/2007 10:22:54 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
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To: West Coast Conservative

What I can’t understand is why a culture that hates ours so much, gives a RAT’S about whom our culture esteems (as with knighthoods).

I mean, really. Would we really do more than roll our eyes if we heard that Osama bin Jerkin were given this-or-that order of nobility by, say, iran’s Grand Ayatollah? Who cares?


2 posted on 07/10/2007 10:25:19 AM PDT by pogo101
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I wonder what gave them the idea to grant him Knighthood now, after all these years.

Not that I object, it just seemed out of the blue, and the response is as expected from the terrorist organization known as Islam.


3 posted on 07/10/2007 10:27:07 AM PDT by Mr. K (Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
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To: West Coast Conservative

I really wish someone would do the world a favor and give ol’ al-Zawahiri a lead enema.


4 posted on 07/10/2007 10:29:08 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Press 1 for English, press 2 for deport)
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To: pogo101
They hate the West.
Why are they here ?
5 posted on 07/10/2007 10:29:48 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: pogo101
It is an affront to Islam. They proclaim that they do not see Mohammed as a god, that he is a prophet “like” Jesus or Moses, only they never protest insults to Jesus or Moses.
6 posted on 07/10/2007 10:32:51 AM PDT by weegee (If the Fairness Doctrine is imposed on USA who will CNN news get to read the conservative rebuttal)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Missionary work to expand the Empire of Islam.


7 posted on 07/10/2007 10:34:07 AM PDT by weegee (If the Fairness Doctrine is imposed on USA who will CNN news get to read the conservative rebuttal)
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To: pogo101
These are the most delusional, brain-washed mental m*****-f*****s that has ever walked on earth bipedally. A scourge to all those who just yearn to live free. They are a problem everywhere they sprout/thrive in. Thailand, India, Europe, the US, wherever they have numbers, they metastasize to a cancer.
8 posted on 07/10/2007 10:34:55 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Put the computer hackers to use in this country, spam the hell out of their websites with Mohammed pics, pig pics, women without burkas, sheep, whatever. I am so sick of hearing ‘Muslim outrage’. All jihad, all the time. End it.


9 posted on 07/10/2007 10:41:50 AM PDT by SueRae
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To: pogo101
They are just testing Brown.

They know he is a Leftist sissy so they are making a play for power and concessions exactly like they did with Spain.

As far as ‘outrage’ these guys get ‘outraged’ because it is Tuesday. The West does not behave like these barbarians and the barbarians consider that a weakness which they are more than willing to exploit, i.e., how many churches are there in any moslem country? They are the kings of one-sided rules and one sided outrage.

Nothing is going to appease them and they will not stop this bullying nonsense until the West show a little backbone. They believe correctly or not that we are weak naive fools. I wish I knew how this lunacy will end.

10 posted on 07/10/2007 10:46:05 AM PDT by picard (The Sphinx and Pyramids are an abomination to Allah! They must be destroyed!)
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To: onedoug

i wonder when the knighthood takes place? They’ve been talking about it for months.


11 posted on 07/10/2007 10:48:56 AM PDT by windcliff
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To: West Coast Conservative

oh noes! Some guy in a jeep is going to set himself on fire and run around screaming! oh noes


12 posted on 07/10/2007 10:53:02 AM PDT by Bladerunnuh
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To: West Coast Conservative

If it were 1947 and not 2007, these “people” would be rounded up and sent home.

Why do the Brits just sit there and take punch after punch on the chin?


13 posted on 07/10/2007 11:00:21 AM PDT by Adams
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To: pogo101

Exactly. And it is such a meaningless honor, with such trivial people having received it.


14 posted on 07/10/2007 11:02:58 AM PDT by Dante3
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To: Mr. K

I agree, the timing is really unbelievable. Someone along the line must have said: “If we chose to knight this man who has been hunted by radical Islam for more than a decade, don’t you think it’s immediately going to create a jihadi furor?” And maybe that’s why they did it, cause f*** ‘em, we can knight whoever we want. It’s pretty ballsy really. So while I marvel at the timing, I smile at the stubborness.


15 posted on 07/10/2007 11:06:46 AM PDT by americanophile
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To: SueRae

hahahaha....pig pics. Kudos.


16 posted on 07/10/2007 11:09:18 AM PDT by americanophile
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To: SueRae

hahahaha....pig pics. Kudos.


17 posted on 07/10/2007 11:09:22 AM PDT by americanophile
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To: Bladerunnuh; All
oh noes! Some guy in a jeep is going to set himself on fire and run around screaming!

Iowahawk: Well, That Didn’t Work Out So Great

18 posted on 07/10/2007 11:12:23 AM PDT by dighton
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To: americanophile
Someone along the line must have said: “If we chose to knight this man who has been hunted by radical Islam for more than a decade, don’t you think it’s immediately going to create a jihadi furor?” And maybe that’s why they did it, cause f*** ‘em, we can knight whoever we want. It’s pretty ballsy really. So while I marvel at the timing, I smile at the stubborness.

You give the UK Government too much credit. This is a multi-culti "diversity" sop. The bureaucrats who dreamed this up sincerely thought it would show their love of people of color, and tolerance of those of different religions, and lead to fluffy bunnies and rainbows and pet unicorns for everyone.

-ccm

19 posted on 07/10/2007 11:43:49 AM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Send a guided missle up his A@$!.....


20 posted on 07/10/2007 11:48:24 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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