"Sir" Salman Rushdie: Day Two
The saga continues...
"HAND OVER RUSHDEI TO PAKISTAN FOR TRAIL IN SHARIAT" (Bad Protest English-to-Regular English translation: "Hand Over Rushdie to Pakistan for Trial in Sharia!")
That's The Religion of Peace for ya, folks. Death is an appropriate punishment for writing a dreadfully boring book.
If this keeps up, I think we might have yet another DAY OF RAGE on our hands, and if it's going to rise to Day of Rage levels, it's bound to happen this Friday. Keep your eyes peeled for some Grade-A entertainment, folks!
Update: Eagle-eyed reader AMDScooter spotted a familiar face in the crowds! How'd I miss that??
Pakistan's protesters chant slogans to condemn the British government for awarding a knighthood to Salman Rushdie in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, June 19, 2007. Pakistan's government summoned the British ambassador Tuesday to protest the knighthood awarded to Salman Rushdie, denouncing the author as best known for 'offensive and insulting writings' against Islam. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
"HAND OVER RUSHDEI TO PAKISTAN FOR TRAIL IN SHARIAT" (Bad Protest English-to-Regular English translation: "Hand Over Rushdie to Pakistan for Trial in Sharia!")
That's The Religion of Peace for ya, folks. Death is an appropriate punishment for writing a dreadfully boring book.
If this keeps up, I think we might have yet another DAY OF RAGE on our hands, and if it's going to rise to Day of Rage levels, it's bound to happen this Friday. Keep your eyes peeled for some Grade-A entertainment, folks!
Update: Eagle-eyed reader AMDScooter spotted a familiar face in the crowds! How'd I miss that??
See-Also:
Day Four, Day Three, Love Letter from Londonistan, "Sir" Salman Rushdie, Day 1
As always, click on the first picture to start the slideshow!
These next two are almost too good to be true. Which, of course, means there's the slightest chance they've been "enhanced."
"Queen Elizebith Shame to you"
"Rushdi is the Evil"
"Students are ready to Kill Rushdi"
He wants to make the Prophet Mohammed (ptui) a slave? How terrible!
I'm throwing this last guy in as a "free" bonus. He's not connected to Salman Rushdie in any way, but he's well worth your time.
A Pakistan's protester chants slogans to condemn the British government awarding a knighthood to British author Salman Rushdie under a placard which reads 'Death to Salman Rushdie,' in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, June 19, 2007. Pakistan's government summoned the British ambassador Tuesday to protest the knighthood awarded to Salman Rushdie, denouncing the author as best known for 'offensive and insulting writings' against Islam. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
Activists from Awami Hamayat Tehrik (People's Support Movement) shout slogans in front of an effigy of Salman Rushdie during a protest in Islamabad June 19, 2007. Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses", which many Muslims consider blasphemous and believe ridiculed the Koran and early history of Islam, was first published in Britain five months before the February 12 bloodshed in Islamabad, a critical time in Pakistan's history. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood (PAKISTAN)
Pakistani protesters burn an effigy of British author Salman Rushdie to condemn the British government awarding a knighthood to him, in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, June 19, 2007. Pakistan's government summoned the British ambassador Tuesday to protest the knighthood awarded to Salman Rushdie, denouncing the author as best known for 'offensive and insulting writings' against Islam. Britain told Pakistan on Tuesday that it was deeply concerned by a Pakistani minister's statement that the knighthood could justify suicide attacks. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)
These next two are almost too good to be true. Which, of course, means there's the slightest chance they've been "enhanced."
Islamic harliners torch a mock Union Jack during a protest in Lahore. A Pakistani minister has accused Britain of undermining the war on extremism after it complained about his comment that a knighthood given to Salman Rushdie justified suicide attacks.(AFP/Arif Ali)
Pakistanis torch Britain's flag during a protest rally in Lahore. A Pakistani minister accused Britain of undermining the war on extremism after it complained about his comment that a knighthood given to Salman Rushdie justified suicide attacks.(AFP/Arif Ali)
Pakistan's protesters burn Britain's Union Flag to condemn the British government awarding a knighthood to British author Salman Rushdie, in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, June 19, 2007. Pakistan's government summoned the British ambassador Tuesday to protest the knighthood awarded to Salman Rushdie, denouncing the author as best known for 'offensive and insulting writings' against Islam. Britain in return told Pakistan on Tuesday that it was deeply concerned by a Pakistani minister's statement that the knighthood could justify suicide attacks.(AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)
Supporters of Pakistan's Religious Party hold a protest rally to condemn the British government awarding a knighthood to British author Salman Rushdie in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, June 19, 2007. Pakistan's government summoned the British ambassador Tuesday to protest the knighthood awarded to Salman Rushdie, denouncing the author as best known for 'offensive and insulting writings' against Islam. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)
"Queen Elizebith Shame to you"
"Rushdi is the Evil"
"Students are ready to Kill Rushdi"
Supporters of Pakistan's Religious Party hold a protest rally to condemn the British government awarding a knighthood to British author Salman Rushdie in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, June 19, 2007. Pakistan's government summoned the British ambassador Tuesday to protest the knighthood awarded to Salman Rushdie, denouncing the author as best known for 'offensive and insulting writings' against Islam. Banner in bottom reads' Rushdie should be killed.'(AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)
Pakistani protesters chant slogans to condemn the British government awarding a knighthood to British author Salman Rushdie, in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, June 19, 2007. Pakistan's government summoned the British ambassador Tuesday to protest the knighthood awarded to Salman Rushdie, denouncing the author as best known for 'offensive and insulting writings' against Islam. Placard on right reads 'ready to die for slavery of prophet Mohammed.' (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)
He wants to make the Prophet Mohammed (ptui) a slave? How terrible!
Pakistani Islamists chant slogans in front of a burning effigy of Indian born author Salman Rushdie during a protest in Karachi. Muslim radicals have burned an effigy of Queen Elizabeth as Pakistan summoned the British ambassador over Rushdie's knighthood and Iranian hardliners turned their fury on the monarch.(AFP/Asif Hassan)
Pakistan's protesters burn an effigy of British author Salman Rushdie who was awarded knighthood by the British government, at a protest rally in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, June 19, 2007. Pakistan's government summoned the British ambassador Tuesday to protest the knighthood awarded to Salman Rushdie, denouncing the author as best known for 'offensive and insulting writings' against Islam. Pakistan on Monday joined Iran in condemning the honor. Protesters burned effigies of Rushdie and Queen Elizabeth II, and a Cabinet minister saying the award could justify suicide bombings. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
Activists of Awami Hamayat Tehrik (People's Support Movement) burn an effigy of author Salman Rushdie during a protest in Islamabad June 19, 2007. Pakistan summoned the British ambassador on Tuesday and told him awarding a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie was insensitive and contrary to efforts to foster understanding between religions. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood (PAKISTAN)
Activists of Jamiat Talba-e-Arabia chant slogans against British author Salman Rushdie in Karachi June 19, 2007. Pakistan summoned the British ambassador on Tuesday and told him awarding a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie was insensitive and contrary to efforts to foster understanding between religions. REUTERS/Athar Hussain (PAKISTAN)
Activists of Jamiat Talba-e-Arabia chant slogans against British author Salman Rushdie in Karachi June 19, 2007. Pakistan summoned the British ambassador on Tuesday and told him awarding a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie was insensitive and contrary to efforts to foster understanding between religions. REUTERS/Athar Hussain (PAKISTAN)
Pakistanis protesting in Lahore against Britain's awarding of knighthood to author Salman Rushdie. The row has thrown Rushdie back in the eye of the storm, 18 years after he was sentenced to death by Iran's revolutionary founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini for blasphemy in a fatwa that has never been revoked.(AFP/Arif Ali)
I'm throwing this last guy in as a "free" bonus. He's not connected to Salman Rushdie in any way, but he's well worth your time.
A Kashmiri protester shouts pro-freedom and pro-Pakistan slogans during the joint funeral procession of Bilal Ahmed Dar and two rebels in the village of Narwara, some 40 Kilometers (25 miles) southwest of Srinagar, India, Tuesday, June 19, 2007. Thousands of people marched in Indian-controlled Kashmir Tuesday protesting the killing of 17-year-old Bilal Ahmed Dar by government forces, who locals claim had no ties to militant groups. The teen was killed along with two rebels Monday in a gun battle between police and suspected Kashmiri rebels in the village of Chewdara. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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Rushdie, Muslim rage, and the West
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II bestows the title of Sir to author of "The Satanic Verses", Salman Rushdie and the Muslim world reacts with ... cartoon-like anger. "Pakistan's parliament passed a resolution to condemn the action as an affront to Muslim