Posted on 01/18/2006 8:31:37 PM PST by NormsRevenge
BERLIN (AFP) - British author Salman Rushdie said the West had failed to grasp the extent to which Islamic extremism was rooted in men's fear of women's sexuality.
Rushdie told German weekly magazine Stern that his latest novel, "Shalimar the Clown", dealt with the deep anxiety felt among many Islamic men about female sexual freedom and lost honor.
When asked if the book drew a link between "Islamic terror and damaged male honor", Rushdie said he saw it as a crucial, and often overlooked, point.
"The Western-Christian world view deals with the issues of guilt and salvation, a concept that is completely unimportant in the East because there is no original sin and no savior," he said, in comments printed in German.
"Instead, great importance is given to 'honor'. I consider that to be problematic. But of course it is underestimated how many Islamists consciously or unconsciously attempt to restore lost honor."
When asked why he probed the issues in his new novel in the context of a love triangle, he said: "It has a lot to do with sexual fear of women."
Rushdie, 58, said that much of the anger toward the West was provoked by that split on sexual issues.
"(It is) because Western societies do not veil their women. Because they do not defuse this potential danger," he said.
The Indian-born Rushdie, who lives in New York with his fourth wife Padma Lakshmi, told Stern that he has lived without security protection for seven or eight years.
"I go where I please," he said. "I went to India often in the last few years, which I enjoyed."
Rushdie was forced into hiding after the late Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or religious edict, in 1989, calling for his execution because of alleged blasphemy and apostasy in his novel "The Satanic Verses".
The author had a 2.8-million-dollar bounty placed on his head by a Tehran-based foundation.
Incoming fatwa!
bookmk ping , and great post theDentist,
two yrs ago,right before Thanksgiving on a dreary NYC day
Salman was walking toward me on West 44th St
baseball hat,sunglasses,huge overcoat
I stuck out my hand as I greeted him with "Hey Baby"
he slapped me five , made my week
I wonder, just what is Karen's approach?
What do you think? Interesting I thought.
When you follow a cult started by a pedophile, you get what you deserve.
You will recall that one of the early acts in this past few years US terror activity was the release of Anthrax at a newspaper which killed at least one person. That building housed the tabloid "Globe".
A few weeks before that attack I read an article in the "Globe" explaining why Osama was so anti-American. One reason they said was that an American women he dated, deeply insulted his "manhood". At the time I remember thinking, oh boy, Osama isn't going to like this. Then a few weeks latter, poff, Anthrax.
Girls/woman, all I can say is let em down easy, be kind. You may start the next war if you don't.
oh come on go ahead and post them anyway!If you do not post them on the internet you can just go ahead and freepmail me the pics :-D
This is pretty much the key to understanding pretty much all of the problems of the Arab Mideast. Take the Arab-Israeli conflict - much of it stems from the "dishonor" of having Muslim lands ruled by "infidels".
Maybe they need a telethon to find a cure for premature jihadulation..
Drop 'shrinking' gas over Iran, for starters.
Sounds reasonable to me.....
Ping!
Animals.
Ever see "Kentucky Fried Movie"? This guy reminds me of the thrill seeker... Dons a helmet and hockey armor...runs into a mosque and yells "Dunecoons" and hauls rectum out the door with turbans in chase.
I too have a sexual fear of Islamics. They multiply like maggots.
Actually maggots grow up one day. Jihadi's don't.
That is not so much an Islamic thing as an African one. Islamics in the rest of the world don't do it.
I like you already....lol
Religions based on control of women's sex organs tend toward the totalitarian. Salman Rushdie's right on this one...
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