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Rushdie: Islamic extremists have sexual fear - West underestimates sexual fear among Islamists
AFP on Yahoo ^ | 1/18/06 | AFP

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: extremists; fear; honor; humiliation; islam; islamic; islamists; pride; rushdie; sexual; sexualfear; shalimartheclown
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To: NormsRevenge
.....his latest novel, "Shalimar the Clown", dealt with the deep anxiety felt among many Islamic men about female sexual freedom and lost honor.

Incoming fatwa!

21 posted on 01/18/2006 10:16:53 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: theDentist

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


22 posted on 01/18/2006 10:25:09 PM PST by Dad yer funny
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To: NormsRevenge
PR Karen Hudges should get Rushie aboard. Seems that area may be a big part of the problem in Iraq and can be neutralized.

I wonder, just what is Karen's approach?

23 posted on 01/18/2006 10:34:33 PM PST by duckln
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To: nopardons
Bump, or bttt as you prefer.

What do you think? Interesting I thought.

24 posted on 01/18/2006 11:12:11 PM PST by duckln
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To: NormsRevenge

When you follow a cult started by a pedophile, you get what you deserve.


25 posted on 01/19/2006 12:36:03 AM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (The Democratic Party-Jackass symbol, jackass leaders, jackass supporters.)
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To: NormsRevenge

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.


26 posted on 01/19/2006 12:46:33 AM PST by gleeaikin (Question Authority)
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To: edweena
I can only say, if I were a Muslim woman rather than an American, I'd be severely tempted to post naked pictures of myself

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

27 posted on 01/19/2006 12:52:44 AM PST by freepatriot32 (Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
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To: NormsRevenge
"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."

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".

28 posted on 01/19/2006 1:04:17 AM PST by garbanzo (Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

Maybe they need a telethon to find a cure for premature jihadulation..


29 posted on 01/19/2006 1:41:03 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Drop 'shrinking' gas over Iran, for starters.


30 posted on 01/19/2006 2:50:46 AM PST by hershey
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To: NormsRevenge
Hey muzzies: You have no chance. Zero. Image hosted by Photobucket.com
31 posted on 01/19/2006 2:57:49 AM PST by milemark (Proud to be an infidel.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Sounds reasonable to me.....


32 posted on 01/19/2006 3:03:21 AM PST by Jackknife ( "I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father'." —Will Rogers)
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To: The Drowning Witch

Ping!


33 posted on 01/19/2006 3:04:03 AM PST by Jackknife ( "I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father'." —Will Rogers)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL
Can't happen. The Muzzies do FGM, so there will be no 'pleasing' of their partners.

Animals.

34 posted on 01/19/2006 5:26:05 AM PST by doberville
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To: satchmodog9

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.


35 posted on 01/19/2006 6:51:26 AM PST by When do we get liberated? ((God save us from the whining, useless, irrelevent left...))
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To: NormsRevenge

I too have a sexual fear of Islamics. They multiply like maggots.


36 posted on 01/19/2006 6:59:12 AM PST by R.W.Ratikal
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To: R.W.Ratikal

Actually maggots grow up one day. Jihadi's don't.


37 posted on 01/19/2006 7:13:04 AM PST by When do we get liberated? ((God save us from the whining, useless, irrelevent left...))
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To: brwnsuga

That is not so much an Islamic thing as an African one. Islamics in the rest of the world don't do it.


38 posted on 01/19/2006 7:17:31 AM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: edweena

I like you already....lol


39 posted on 01/19/2006 7:33:25 AM PST by When do we get liberated? ((God save us from the whining, useless, irrelevent left...))
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To: NormsRevenge

Religions based on control of women's sex organs tend toward the totalitarian. Salman Rushdie's right on this one...


40 posted on 01/19/2006 7:37:43 AM PST by GOPJ
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