Salman Rushdie fatwa: 30 years on - BBC Newsnight

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  • Опубликовано: 20 июн 2024
  • It’s been 30 years since a fatwa was issued against Salman Rushdie over his novel, The Satanic Verses.
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    How did that seismic event change perceptions of Islam and the debate around free speech?
    His lawyer at the time, Geoffrey Robertson QC, human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell and Dr Farzana Shaikh join Emily Maitlis.
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Комментарии • 2,1 тыс.

  • @waqasarqum
    @waqasarqum 5 лет назад +1345

    Muslims hated this guy so much that they made him rich and famous 😂

    • @xxxzz8413
      @xxxzz8413 5 лет назад +12

      That's how every religion works dumbo.
      I would be happy if "kamasutra" got so much publicity.

    • @blackmancool9983
      @blackmancool9983 5 лет назад +12

      looooooooooool

    • @andrewmartin6445
      @andrewmartin6445 5 лет назад +67

      @dickcheeze They fly into an infantile rage if criticised or challenged too. It's impossible to have a civilised disagreement.

    • @waqasarqum
      @waqasarqum 5 лет назад +5

      Damn you guys in the comments really hate Muslims dontcha 😂

    • @MrMoo272
      @MrMoo272 5 лет назад +25

      So we're all in agreement then? Islam sucks. 😂

  • @johnnybgoodeish
    @johnnybgoodeish 5 лет назад +181

    Loved: "murder is not a form of literary criticism"!

  • @whatsgoingonwhy9096
    @whatsgoingonwhy9096 5 лет назад +380

    can any muslim apologist answer a question without diverting to something not asked?

    • @whatsgoingonwhy9096
      @whatsgoingonwhy9096 5 лет назад +12

      @@ikiliousdasylouiyasbdetyw9124 no it can't, it is not an issue for the non-muslim side. point to an example rather than just saying, yes it is.

    • @ludjakkivication
      @ludjakkivication 4 года назад

      Whatsgoingon why ask me a question and I will answer it

    • @user-hb7sd2vy3g
      @user-hb7sd2vy3g 4 года назад +1

      ludjakkivication you ask me a question and I’ll answer it

    • @AvarClan
      @AvarClan 3 года назад +2

      Lol why don’t you do some research ? This was addressed 1400 years ago while you ask now ? What a clown :)
      Maybe now you know why your question is dumb and why Rushdie is a fraud

    • @adrianmargean3402
      @adrianmargean3402 3 года назад +5

      Camel Amar damn bro, you triggered?

  • @chumptown259
    @chumptown259 5 лет назад +421

    I remember when I was a child, people supported the Islamist calling for Rushdie's death including members of my own family. I am so embarrassed.

    • @kennethleoganda9805
      @kennethleoganda9805 5 лет назад +39

      At least ur still sane

    • @ahmedmaniyaruni4300
      @ahmedmaniyaruni4300 5 лет назад +35

      I used to feel the same way when I was a kid... Evidently sadly.

    • @wautd
      @wautd 4 года назад +11

      Glad you kept your sanity.

    • @sunnyearthling192
      @sunnyearthling192 4 года назад +3

      @Dave HY. Jeong
      Wait what?

    • @sunnyearthling192
      @sunnyearthling192 4 года назад +2

      @Dave HY. Jeong
      I am surprised and confused by your previous comment. You said to not be embarrased for doing the right thing. The original comment said he was embarrased for supporting the death Salman Rushid, so are are you supporting killing people over fairytales or am I getting something wrong here?

  • @theesotericcunt5029
    @theesotericcunt5029 5 лет назад +121

    Remember when Shirley Williams was on Question Time criticising Rushdie's knighthood and Christopher Hitchens said, "I think that's a contemptible statement and anyone who applauded it should be ashamed of themselves"

    • @jonb5493
      @jonb5493 5 лет назад +9

      This exchange is on youtube. Hitchens really had a talent for putting stupid windbags in their place.

    • @iainrae6159
      @iainrae6159 5 лет назад +3

      Classic Hitch nailing it .

    • @abuamanah9176
      @abuamanah9176 5 лет назад +1

      @@jonb5493 "White woman never mind fat Jewish, non-deferential white women - were for fucking and throwing" Satanic Verses page 261

    • @deonliberator8953
      @deonliberator8953 5 лет назад +2

      over many years had been that Allah of the Qur'an was in fact a pagan Arab "Moon-god" from pre-Islamic times.

    • @abuamanah9176
      @abuamanah9176 5 лет назад +1

      @@deonliberator8953 :) Allah is The Creator Who created all that once begun to exist, including you too.
      Peace be upon you.

  • @nameless9867
    @nameless9867 5 лет назад +703

    How can a religion be so weak to a point of people losing their minds over a book 📖

    • @desiangraiz6497
      @desiangraiz6497 5 лет назад +27

      nameless how can american called themselves civilized when they used atomic bombs on civilians in japan

    • @wackey2k10
      @wackey2k10 5 лет назад +88

      @@desiangraiz6497 look at the okinawa islands wars documentary, then come back to me with that stupid statement.

    • @clemalford9768
      @clemalford9768 5 лет назад +8

      Because it is a mental insanity condition.

    • @theodorherzl4695
      @theodorherzl4695 5 лет назад +45

      @@desiangraiz6497 The war would've lasted to at least 1948 and millions more would've died if they hadn't dropped the bombs.

    • @Cube930
      @Cube930 5 лет назад +23

      Thats what they put their faith in, a holy book. Makes sense they would lose their shit over another one

  • @wautd
    @wautd 4 года назад +72

    I'm always amazed at how eager muslims can get to confirm all negative stereotypes around Islam (anti free speech, anti science, bigoted, violent,...)

    • @kenosabi
      @kenosabi Год назад +3

      Well. Unfortunately as much as people hate it stereotypes tend to start with some varying fragment of the truth.

    • @uzairazhar2564
      @uzairazhar2564 Год назад +3

      @@kenosabi a stereotype may be born from “a truth” but not necessarily “the truth”.

    • @hermanrowell3081
      @hermanrowell3081 Год назад

      so do stereotypes hold certain degrees of truth 30% 55% 72% is the reason a stereotype never dies is because its continually being reinforced

    • @hermanrowell3081
      @hermanrowell3081 Год назад

      stereotypes are earned

    • @R-Righteous
      @R-Righteous Год назад +1

      @@hermanrowell3081 yes, but a stereotype is a stereotype, its not true in every single case

  • @wnapholi
    @wnapholi 5 лет назад +613

    Wish so much that Christopher Hitchens was still alive to speak on this. He is so very missed.

    • @notnotness4765
      @notnotness4765 5 лет назад +2

      I sometimes wonder if they killed him.
      Easily done. Offer him a radiation cigar. He walked in those circles.

    • @gloryinme523
      @gloryinme523 5 лет назад +4

      not notness There there now., lets not assert assumptions as far fetched as those.

    • @notnotness4765
      @notnotness4765 5 лет назад +2

      @@gloryinme523 im not saying he insulted the clintons or anything ;)

    • @gloryinme523
      @gloryinme523 5 лет назад +1

      not notness On the contrary, don’t get me started on the Iraq war during Bush regime.

    • @notnotness4765
      @notnotness4765 5 лет назад +1

      @@gloryinme523 yeah, he went a bit rogue there didnt he! Goes to show they all thought it would be a cake walk though. Silly buggers

  • @Sticklemako
    @Sticklemako 5 лет назад +259

    Have the so called moderate Muslims even read the book with an open mind.. Most 'moderates' from other religions actually read the stuff that criticizes them

    • @amaansaddiq888
      @amaansaddiq888 5 лет назад +4

      Racist and narrow minded idiots

    • @ikiliousdasylouiyasbdetyw9124
      @ikiliousdasylouiyasbdetyw9124 5 лет назад

      @dickcheeze Wrong

    • @drd.n4695
      @drd.n4695 4 года назад +30

      Islam is one of the most close-minded religion ever known.
      ~ To claim Allah and Mohammed as the only God and Prophet as against Allah as a form of God and Mohammed as one of the Prophets makes the world shun Muslims, they like it or not ... while the Western world has dropped Christianity's absolutism, the Middle-East is being littered with ex-Muslims for the same reason ... why?
      ~ To claim every land under Islam, to wipe every other civilization and ethnicity out makes Muslims a scary lot to deal with ... Like it or not, Islam sadly is a cult that controls people through its halaal/haraam rhetoric.
      ~ To claim the Qur'an, the caliphate, the Shari'ah law and the hijab for a sole way of living makes Muslims very unpopular. To see every Islamic community synonymous with terrorism in the name of jihad is not an accident.
      Is it any surprise that Muslims get into trouble wherever they live? Back in their own so-called Islamic lands too?
      Let Rushdie write his book ... let van Gogh make his video.
      Murdering the latter or threatening the former only confirms Muslim psyche.
      This comment is called a critique. Not hate.

    • @RichardEnglander
      @RichardEnglander 4 года назад +22

      @@amaansaddiq888 islam isnt a race. There is nothing bigoted about speaking out against totalitarian theocratic ideology.
      Time and again the believers show how intolerant, reactionary and hypersensitive they are. They hate the west and the unbelievers, that's bigoted.

    • @Isochest
      @Isochest 3 года назад +2

      @dickcheeze They don't even do that. They just listen to their mullah's lies

  • @alias201
    @alias201 5 лет назад +73

    I did rushdie at uni. It was very interesting and we were all shocked at the reaction it had when it came out. How could a BOOK cause such barbarity

  • @codswallop321
    @codswallop321 Год назад +33

    "The extraordinary thing was that no one seemed to have read the book"
    And Islamists wonder why no one takes them seriously... 🙄

    • @mattfarley4996
      @mattfarley4996 Год назад

      That didn’t age well.

    • @chinmayjoshi3592
      @chinmayjoshi3592 Год назад +5

      @@mattfarley4996 this guy wrote it two weeks ago, Islamists aren't taken seriously, but the damage done by them is certainly taken seroiusly

    • @mattfarley4996
      @mattfarley4996 Год назад

      @Chinmay Joshi one person’s Victory is another’s Defeat. Muslims would disagree with that…

    • @czgibson3086
      @czgibson3086 Год назад +4

      The illiterate don't get to make the rules of literature.

    • @codswallop321
      @codswallop321 Год назад +4

      @@mattfarley4996 yep, we still don't take them intellectualy seriously due to the crazy things they believe. But we take the security risk that they represent seriously.

  • @shubhamhissaria707
    @shubhamhissaria707 Год назад +14

    The book is not offensive nor does it says that what's written is truth. The problem with this case is that there are a bunch who are offended by anything but are ashamed of nothing.

    • @jimj2683
      @jimj2683 5 месяцев назад

      Whether or not the book is offensive is irrelevant! The problem here is that Islam teaches all muslims to be violent against anyone that goes against their religion; and to spread Islam by any means. The end game of Islam is that the entire planet is converted and everyone is a walking zombie that is forced to believe in the same crap.

  • @richlondonrich
    @richlondonrich 5 лет назад +219

    Look how entrenched Islam has become in England. These are the darkest days we have ever faced.

    • @Zenhumanist
      @Zenhumanist 5 лет назад +4

      Is it that bad?

    • @richlondonrich
      @richlondonrich 5 лет назад +23

      @@Zenhumanist yeah, they are completely entrenched at all levels of society and in positions of authority. Any resistance would be crushed. Conservative predictions expect a white minority by 2060. However that's a current immigration levels. As the second and third generation immigrants take their positions in our society I would predict a vast acceleration.

    • @matthewomalley6732
      @matthewomalley6732 5 лет назад +5

      What about that time in the 20th century when millions of white people were trying to destroy England? You know WW2?
      You make the mistake of believing England or Great Britain is a racial grouping. They're an ideology. The ethnic makeup of the 'native' population isn't even Anglo Saxon for Christ's sake.

    • @shaz3r786
      @shaz3r786 5 лет назад +4

      You're in the dark days because of bankers and politicians who are probably predominantly christian.

    • @muslima4andproud579
      @muslima4andproud579 5 лет назад +4

      @Ted Wilson well if you dont want to become a minorty then have more children

  • @1stulees
    @1stulees 5 лет назад +192

    Burning Books mmmm? I’ve seen that before. 🤔

    • @WOEEW
      @WOEEW 5 лет назад +31

      nazi Germany

    • @humanbeingscanb2evil
      @humanbeingscanb2evil 5 лет назад

      stuart lees yeah them nazi days
      Hey nz now bans books....sounds nazi to me
      Oh wait yeah thats right that is what im meant to be according to our lefties in power
      But im not banning books,so it really cant be me.
      Nope its them lefties,yip they really are the true nazis

    • @blackwhitehaze9785
      @blackwhitehaze9785 5 лет назад +16

      @@Sufi78645 Hitler hated Christianity actually. He was an atheist. He even once said this about Christianity and Islam, "The Mohammedan religion would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?" So, apparently Hitler was a fan of Mohammed and his religion but hated Christianity, geez, I wonder why.

    • @Sufi78645
      @Sufi78645 5 лет назад

      @@blackwhitehaze9785 pretty sure he had alot of Christians allied with him like the Catholics of Poland

    • @blackwhitehaze9785
      @blackwhitehaze9785 5 лет назад +9

      @@Sufi78645 Well, Hitler captured Poland actually, kinda didn't ally with them.

  • @BallyBoy95
    @BallyBoy95 5 лет назад +152

    This is the religion of peace. How dare anybody be so racist as to disagree with that statement? Disappointed!
    (If you didn't get it the first time, I am being sarcastic).

    • @naz8703
      @naz8703 5 лет назад +2

      @batshitcrazy007 and the Hindu mob? You will say anything, like India is safe for women too. Ha ha.

    • @jonathangeorge787
      @jonathangeorge787 5 лет назад

      M F Husain... Remember him? Every religion is the same.

    • @stormyzvox2185
      @stormyzvox2185 5 лет назад +15

      @@naz8703
      pakistan is safe for women? or do they have to wear that binbag?

    • @Zorbastyle
      @Zorbastyle 5 лет назад

      Stormyz Vox bin bag hahaha fucking A

    • @theunknown9123
      @theunknown9123 5 лет назад +4

      @@jonathangeorge787 you comparing MF HUSSAIN to SALMAN RUSHDIE?
      you must be really high on weed.....
      Criticism is welcome in any Civilized society but not vulgarity...
      Take for example you....if someone writes a critical analysis of your character revealing ur darkest malign nature....you can't do anything legally....
      But if someone clicks naked/obscene pictures of ur wife,mother or sister and post it online.....it is a punishable offence in any country......
      So think twice before you open ur mouth......

  • @ratbatnufftime2861
    @ratbatnufftime2861 5 лет назад +41

    I saw the book for sale in a store and hesitated, then didn't buy it. Missed an opportunity. But I will buy it next time I see it.

    • @satwatapathak5620
      @satwatapathak5620 2 года назад

      it is availabele as pdf.

    • @tylertyler82
      @tylertyler82 2 года назад

      Get a library card and support your local libraries.

    • @kstarrify
      @kstarrify Год назад

      @@tylertyler82

    • @czgibson3086
      @czgibson3086 Год назад +3

      I've bought it again this week to replace a copy I gave away. It deserves to be an international bestseller.

  • @gadfly7677
    @gadfly7677 Год назад +32

    Now our duty is to read this book, n encourage everyone to read it. We do have the duty to continue reading and writing and publish them. We should write about them so that they get used to being criticized n let ppl think read n write happily

    • @barjeestariq8132
      @barjeestariq8132 Год назад

      Read it he called white people Indians Bastards and the only purpose of white women is to get raped are you ok with this book read it

  • @jka4323
    @jka4323 5 лет назад +405

    so proud that I left Islam

    • @abdull4h
      @abdull4h 5 лет назад +24

      So pathetic

    • @jka4323
      @jka4323 5 лет назад +72

      Abdullah H so ignorant

    • @abdull4h
      @abdull4h 5 лет назад +26

      Jameel Asad
      Says the man who relies his faith on a political circumstances
      That’s the real ignorance

    • @jka4323
      @jka4323 5 лет назад +55

      I know Islam more than you do I read and write and speak Arabic fluently

    • @abdull4h
      @abdull4h 5 лет назад +15

      Jameel Asad
      Another proof of ignorance, you don’t know anything about me except my avatar and my first name, and yet you made a judgment about my knowledge to win an argument

  • @325133
    @325133 4 года назад +220

    What a legend. He made possibly the biggest enemy in the world and not only did he survive but they made him rich

    • @shianzekri7629
      @shianzekri7629 2 года назад +5

      but it was very risky

    • @samik4714
      @samik4714 2 года назад +3

      And he got other people killed

    • @MrMalmir
      @MrMalmir 2 года назад +5

      He lives in constant fear doesn't matter how much money he has he's literally a prisoner

    • @silversnail1413
      @silversnail1413 2 года назад +1

      @@samik4714 He didn't get anyone killed. Why should he be held responsible for the actions of a bunch of homicidal religious zealots? Because he published a book they didn't like? The only people responsible for those deaths are the murderers themselves.

    • @samik4714
      @samik4714 2 года назад +4

      He knew his book will create chaos and he still did it, by law he didn't do anything wrong.but looking at it from humanity point of view than the answer to that is very clear

  • @msingh2333
    @msingh2333 5 лет назад +12

    So happy I left Islam and became a Sikh

    • @yatesy117
      @yatesy117 5 лет назад +3

      Hinduism and Sikhs the true peaceful religions NOT Islam. You made a wise decision hope you live a pleasant life my friend :)

    • @heewatamsuen7252
      @heewatamsuen7252 5 лет назад +1

      God bless you wise decission. My question to you have you accepted Jesus christ as lord and saviour? God loves you and wants you too seek him.

  • @mogznwaz
    @mogznwaz 5 лет назад +19

    Absolutely disgraceful the way we capitulated to death threats and thuggery over a book. We should have defended Salman Rushdie *without reservation or hesitation*. Our weakness in defence of our own values only emboldened the religio-fascists and look at the results.....

  • @zerototalenergy150
    @zerototalenergy150 5 лет назад +81

    "religion was created when the first conman met the first fool"MT

    • @snowforest4159
      @snowforest4159 3 года назад +2

      No idiot, even looking at the scientific explanation ignoring whether some religions are true or not, religion was created to bond humans together and creat a coherent society living under one law which all should follow

    • @brianmitchell4479
      @brianmitchell4479 2 года назад +1

      @@snowforest4159 bullshit. Organized religion was the original form of government. It was a way to herd the filthy, uneducated, illiterate masses into a fleecable flock.

  • @stevyd6349
    @stevyd6349 5 лет назад +95

    Imagine living your life through a book that was written back when they thought the world was flat and the sun was 17 miles away. A book that tells you not to think but does the thinking for you. An ideology.

    • @kenosabi
      @kenosabi Год назад +6

      It's the longest running and most successful psyop in the world.

    • @FarhanAli-qo9we
      @FarhanAli-qo9we Год назад +5

      one of the most repeated phrases in the qur'an is literally "do they not reason?"

    • @mustakimrahman8527
      @mustakimrahman8527 Год назад +3

      What a troll 🤣😂. Qur'an is all about thinking and contemplating. Btw, they were doing algebra when u were living in forests praying to the sun. People would do anything for a few likes but won't read the book itself.

    • @charbadarc4167
      @charbadarc4167 Год назад

      The whole Islamic culture is a mess. Men rule with an iron fist. If women are being beaten by husbands their own mother will take them back as not to dishonour the family. Sex abuse victims are told to keep quiet or worse blamed. Apostate laws only exist in Islamic countries. I used to work for a charity that helped 100s of girls escape crazy family members that all supported the abuse.

    • @007ptb007
      @007ptb007 Год назад +2

      @@mustakimrahman8527 can I ask you is voilence, revenge, murder allowed in the Qur'an?

  • @mystory2972
    @mystory2972 5 лет назад +146

    exmuslim here too.. best decision ever!

    • @Soulkollextor
      @Soulkollextor 3 года назад +4

      Lies

    • @spinningonthatdizzyedge7583
      @spinningonthatdizzyedge7583 3 года назад +2

      How did you become an ex-Muslim?

    • @optimusprime4090
      @optimusprime4090 3 года назад +19

      @@spinningonthatdizzyedge7583 I am an ex Muslim as well. I think I can answer this question for him. At some point he will have likely realised how much wrong and evil there is in the religion that is Islam. I personally as a child disagreed with it. However there are many ex Muslims who spent decades as devout Muslims before seeing reason. There are ex Muslims who convert to Christianity. Others are atheists like myself. There is just a so much stuff that many would find very wrong in it.

    • @spinningonthatdizzyedge7583
      @spinningonthatdizzyedge7583 3 года назад

      @@optimusprime4090 That's very interesting. I am not asking, by the way, because I don't know about Islam or cannot imagine why someone would leave it - I just want to know authentically from ex-Muslims themselves. I've been researching Islam too and I want to be able to critique in the presence of people who say it's Islamophobic to do so. I am very interested in people's individual stories and I would love to know real anecdotes rather than just taking the lives of Yasmine Mohhammed, Sarah Haider and Ayaan Hirsi Ali and generalizing them.

    • @optimusprime4090
      @optimusprime4090 3 года назад +13

      @@spinningonthatdizzyedge7583 yeah no need to generalise. We all have our stories. No two are the same. I had my family tell me that because I am a man I'm a born rapist unless I am provided with a woman. A woman in an Islamic marriage cannot refuse sex. If she does and the man goes out and rapes somebody then it's HER fault. Stuff like that really disgusted me. I kept quiet but eventually couldn't anymore and now I don't speak to my family anymore. I am sure not every Muslim believes this. However the hijab. The reason why women in Islam have to be covered from head to toe is for this reason. Simply because a man will rape if sees a woman who isn't completely covered.

  • @georgekurie9778
    @georgekurie9778 5 лет назад +18

    Blaming the author, and not the crazy mob.... As usual.
    These people should be ashamed. But they have no shame...

  • @Chatterbox-94
    @Chatterbox-94 Год назад +13

    Great writing comes from careful analysis. A level of creativity. Expressing one’s thoughts and beliefs. Freedom of speech. And trying to tell a brilliant story from a different point of view. Apparently the people threatening to kill him don’t understand that at all.

  • @emonhusaain2808
    @emonhusaain2808 5 лет назад +175

    Proud of you salman Rushdie.
    Now thousands leaving 1400years old a myith

    • @pretty-micky3737
      @pretty-micky3737 5 лет назад +15

      MD HABIB rehan it’s the fastest growing religion wtf you on about??

    • @t.m.i123
      @t.m.i123 5 лет назад +5

      @@pretty-micky3737 brother counts himself to be equal to thousands 😂 glad he left Islam. We don't need stupid people like him!

    • @emonhusaain2808
      @emonhusaain2808 5 лет назад +36

      @@pretty-micky3737 look
      At Your family or your home countrys census for last 20 years
      How many bby produce by a couple
      Than compare with a western country or a Cristian country census, its simple.
      16 % saudis have left Islam quietly
      According to pew research.
      But they won't publishe themselves as leaving Islam is punishable by death.

    • @represent3508
      @represent3508 5 лет назад +2

      Myth????
      Okay

    • @xxxzz8413
      @xxxzz8413 5 лет назад +2

      @@emonhusaain2808 Islamic heaven is coming. Get ready for punishment

  • @Pradeep.Singh.d
    @Pradeep.Singh.d 3 года назад +21

    Salman Rushdie is the true face of freedom of speech. Hats of to such great man. Allah praise you.

    • @lemortedbrian6070
      @lemortedbrian6070 Год назад +3

      some text in one of Rushdie's books, Midnight's Children, was offensive to Indhira Gandhi (the Indian Prime Minister) and she took him to court. He was forced to delete text as part of the settlement.
      Curiously that point is never raised when Rushdie and his supporters opine about freedom of speech.
      freedom of speech for western society = right to insult other cultures and religons you deem inferior

    • @Pradeep.Singh.d
      @Pradeep.Singh.d Год назад +1

      @@lemortedbrian6070 why do you care 😂

  • @dreadfulbodyguard7288
    @dreadfulbodyguard7288 Год назад +5

    Anyone here after the incident?

  • @jabariali5368
    @jabariali5368 5 лет назад +59

    i left islam...thank you satan.

    • @josh6028
      @josh6028 5 лет назад +5

      Are you from somalia i am somali ex muslim

    • @einc70
      @einc70 5 лет назад +2

      Aka Allah. He misleads "the wrongdoers" to the wrong path. The Quran.

    • @jabariali5368
      @jabariali5368 5 лет назад

      mr raaraale hhh haa Sxb

    • @josh6028
      @josh6028 5 лет назад

      Then wht did you become christian or athiest

    • @josh6028
      @josh6028 5 лет назад

      Can we contact each other

  • @nagaashura2350
    @nagaashura2350 Год назад +12

    Now I have to read this

  • @bahulecticmethod509
    @bahulecticmethod509 Год назад +13

    The stormy clouds have finally gathered and caught up with Mr. Rushdie. It only took thirty years; who would hold a grudge that long for something as small as a tittle? Fifteen people swept up to defend him and pry the book-arsonist extremist away in the Chatauqua Festival. Writers truly are one of the bravest communities, and they will not be swayed.

  • @soundshackmusic
    @soundshackmusic 5 лет назад +6

    As ever, we are told that Islamic barbaric behaviour has nothing to do with Islam. I think we’re all beyond that rhetoric now.
    I would simply prefer honesty please.

    • @czgibson3086
      @czgibson3086 Год назад

      Isis quote from the Qur'an on practically every page of their propaganda magazine, Dabiq, but of course that has nothing to do with Islam.

  • @amirag1155
    @amirag1155 3 года назад +40

    He’s so smart
    He exposed their primitive thinking and violence just by writing a book exposing that their book wasn’t perfect as they stated on many occasions

    • @azataliking8302
      @azataliking8302 Год назад +2

      Don't make the Muslim world laugh. He actually offended the Muslims by making lies and that's why Muslims got so angry all over the world.

    • @r58302
      @r58302 Год назад +4

      @@azataliking8302 name a lie

    • @azataliking8302
      @azataliking8302 Год назад

      @@r58302 Haha you must of never been to school or even graduated middle school. I feel sorry for you.

    • @azataliking8302
      @azataliking8302 Год назад +1

      @@r58302 fake account

    • @licensed_beheader
      @licensed_beheader Год назад +7

      @@azataliking8302 You still haven't named the lie .

  • @OliverDobbs
    @OliverDobbs Год назад +13

    Pull through Salman.

    • @chicomodello911
      @chicomodello911 Год назад +1

      Hopefully he doesn’t

    • @thecinematicmind
      @thecinematicmind Год назад

      @@chicomodello911 ☠️

    • @czgibson3086
      @czgibson3086 Год назад +1

      @@chicomodello911 Do you ever respond to disagreements with reasoned argument or do you just go straight to hoping your opponent dies?

    • @chicomodello911
      @chicomodello911 Год назад

      @@czgibson3086 ehhh both tbh

    • @czgibson3086
      @czgibson3086 Год назад

      @@chicomodello911 OK. So what is your reasoned argument for wanting Rushdie to die? You seem to have missed that part out on this occasion.

  • @RatherA
    @RatherA 5 лет назад +68

    Salman Rushdie is from kashmir not Iran

    • @zaprese
      @zaprese 5 лет назад +16

      He’s from a Indian Muslim background.

    • @the69prophet47
      @the69prophet47 5 лет назад +11

      I think he is from Mumbai.

    • @SumanthLazarus
      @SumanthLazarus 5 лет назад +1

      @@the69prophet47 Like MF Hussein, good on both of these good chaps of the old country.

    • @sanamsultan2679
      @sanamsultan2679 5 лет назад

      No he ain't this dog is from India get your facts right prick

    • @hectoreduardohernandocarrasco
      @hectoreduardohernandocarrasco 3 года назад

      Salman Rushdie was born in Mumbai (India).

  • @aliboss52
    @aliboss52 2 года назад +43

    i'm so proud of Rushdie. He spoke nothing but the truth.

    • @kstarrify
      @kstarrify Год назад

      And now he's been attacked - are you proud now?

    • @aliboss52
      @aliboss52 Год назад

      @@kstarrifySHOUT! SHOUT! LET IT ALL OUT. EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD.

    • @aliboss52
      @aliboss52 Год назад

      @@kstarrify Taken from the album, Songs from the big chair.

    • @paracosms1220
      @paracosms1220 Год назад +1

      @@kstarrify we are proud that he survived more then 75 years without any power 🤩🤗🦸but we are sad for Muhammad who remain in power but can't service more then 62 years😔

  • @loekbhagaskara2481
    @loekbhagaskara2481 5 лет назад +33

    Well this is how dangerous my religion is

  • @zzebowa
    @zzebowa 5 лет назад +8

    And in the mean time the muslim population of Britain has grown five fold.

    • @wautd
      @wautd 5 лет назад +2

      Even more so in prison population

    • @fizzycrush4021
      @fizzycrush4021 Год назад

      Indeed in the West too

  • @Berg864
    @Berg864 5 лет назад +35

    Lady on the TV justifying killings done by Saudi prince 😂😂😂😂

    • @jess-qe5ed
      @jess-qe5ed Год назад +2

      The only way to save Salman Rushdie, Patty Samuel , Nupur Sharma and Kanihya Lal is to promote free speech critical of Mohammed and Quran. Offense is the only defense.

    • @uzairazhar2564
      @uzairazhar2564 Год назад

      Improve your comprehension, you dolt.

  • @andrewdaws7275
    @andrewdaws7275 5 лет назад +26

    Peter Tatchell deserves to be knighted for his service to us all. He has consistently defended human rights, and the rights of minorities.

  • @jojosaylor8996
    @jojosaylor8996 5 лет назад +20

    Now I want to read the Satanic Verses 📖...
    Where can I find it?
    Has anyone read his book?

    • @notnotness4765
      @notnotness4765 5 лет назад

      It's not very good. That's the joke

    • @abc-qv1pe
      @abc-qv1pe 5 лет назад +4

      @@comanchio1976 Seems as if she is just trying to start an honest conversation about the topic, no need to be a dismissive wanker.

    • @comanchio1976
      @comanchio1976 5 лет назад

      Luke Mc I must have missed the last question. In any case, I take your point and accept the rebuke.
      It was uncalled for.

    • @abc-qv1pe
      @abc-qv1pe 5 лет назад +1

      @@comanchio1976 All good mate.

    • @fizzycrush4021
      @fizzycrush4021 Год назад

      Funny thing is there is not a single satanic verse in the Quraan

  • @lycanblud
    @lycanblud Год назад +6

    Mr. Rushdie is metal asf

  • @sonnywhittington9672
    @sonnywhittington9672 5 лет назад +7

    Rushdie was right to do what he did- He wrote a literary work of fiction.
    ...& Islam demanded a government apology because they were offended....

  • @shubhamhissaria707
    @shubhamhissaria707 Год назад +10

    I have some Muslim friends from "bohra muslim" community whose ancestors where forcefully converted to Islam. They acknowledge this that their forefathers were humiliated, raped and converted at gunpoint but they are now are afraid to take any steps back because they fear in their community in which they live now could harm them and the 2 generations who have lived in fundamental islamist environment has lost their old identity. Salman Rushdie correctly said this has been happening in the east and now i am seeing the same happening in west as well. My friends just don't want to go back to their home.

  • @nauf971
    @nauf971 2 года назад +22

    These people made a massive advertisement to that book, and thank you, it was one of the best books I’ve read!!

  • @googleuser3620
    @googleuser3620 4 года назад +30

    And now, millions of anti Islamic books, videos, channels, posts grows on and on.
    Islam won’t survive the internet.

    • @prometheus5405
      @prometheus5405 3 года назад +6

      Islam is very insecure.
      Syari'ah shut down people & execute the Ex-Muslims so they keep silent.
      commanded by a coward god.

    • @user-kg6rw2ty9v
      @user-kg6rw2ty9v 3 года назад +1

      Islam can’t rule the Internet but it’s the fastest growing religion and will soon rule the world. People like Rushdie devils have a long life. Their END IS a PAINFUL TORMENT! ☠️

    • @Luffytoro
      @Luffytoro 3 года назад +4

      @@user-kg6rw2ty9v Islam can't rule the internet but internet rules the world! Islam may be fastest growing religion and it's also true that ex Muslims population is growing!

    • @JeremiahTatola
      @JeremiahTatola 3 года назад +2

      All religion won't survive the internet :)

    • @prometheus5405
      @prometheus5405 3 года назад +3

      @@JeremiahTatola The world wide web is one of the best things that happen to us.

  • @WarmPotato
    @WarmPotato 4 года назад +10

    “The far right” ~ what a buzzword

  • @commonsense5401
    @commonsense5401 5 лет назад +8

    I just watched the BBC documentary, “ 30 years on”? Utterly depressing, the UK is in a mess that in can never extricate itself from.

  • @kkentertainment1990
    @kkentertainment1990 5 лет назад +10

    Truth always shine and it can not be blocked by any bad people,so Salman Rushdie is also freely move in world

  • @thefirm4606
    @thefirm4606 3 года назад +12

    I was a young Muslim at the time (15). I remember reading the book and wondering what everybody was so upset about. My religion surely was stronger than any book that was written by a human???
    A little later I bought a copy to read properly. Honestly compare to his other stuff it’s a mediocre book. However it elicited so much hate just sitting on my shelf that I eventually covered it in newspaper so nobody would be able to recognise it. The majority of Muslims I met who would get offended, were offended because somebody told them to be. My simple question every time somebody asked me why I had that book was ‘have you read it?’; Inevitably the answer was always no.
    Even now many Muslims in the UK see the book as deeply offensive.
    Liberal or not, the lady speaking as a moderate Muslim in this video is still in a place where she mourns the silence of moderate Muslims, But I was there. At the time there was no moderate Muslim. You were either with us or against us. I was one of a very small number you chose the ‘wrong’ side!

    • @paulmc3457
      @paulmc3457 Год назад +1

      I've never read it, so many thanks for your brief explanation, and especially from a member of the Muslim world. Cheers from Canada

    • @jimj2683
      @jimj2683 Год назад

      If you had any sense you would have left islam a long time ago. Religion is for the scared and ignorant.

    • @thefirm4606
      @thefirm4606 Год назад

      @@jimj2683 I have and I did; decades ago. 😁
      Religion… opiate… masses!

  • @0Er0
    @0Er0 5 лет назад +13

    EX MUSLIM AND PROUD🤟

    • @agilenjeyamraj1739
      @agilenjeyamraj1739 5 лет назад

      Why "ex", what happened?

    • @0Er0
      @0Er0 5 лет назад +2

      @@agilenjeyamraj1739 converted my friend and he went nuts then made me realise the facade.

    • @agilenjeyamraj1739
      @agilenjeyamraj1739 5 лет назад

      @@0Er0 you don't need to reply, but what did you understand?

    • @0Er0
      @0Er0 5 лет назад

      @@agilenjeyamraj1739 sorry what do you mean by understand... understand what?

    • @agilenjeyamraj1739
      @agilenjeyamraj1739 5 лет назад

      @@0Er0 what did he Makenna you realise?

  • @TouchedAlot
    @TouchedAlot 5 лет назад +9

    "I beseech you, resist it while you still can and before the right to complain is taken away from you, which will be the next thing. You will be told you can't complain because you're Islamophobic. The term is already being introduced into the culture as if it was an accusation of race hatred, for example, or bigotry whereas it's only the objection to the preachings of a very extreme and absolutist religion." - Christopher Hitchen

  • @yanis7440
    @yanis7440 4 года назад +7

    When you start digging into islam it falls apart

    • @fizzycrush4021
      @fizzycrush4021 Год назад

      Not at all , once people read the Quraan and compare it with the bibles they embraced Islam in hoards

  • @IsThereAPubeOnMyHead
    @IsThereAPubeOnMyHead 4 года назад +13

    Dr Shaikh's last point is abysmal... people might be self-censoring when they speak about gender, class and race but no matter what you say about these things, no one is going to put a three million pound bounty on your head for having said it

  • @ambassador8524
    @ambassador8524 Год назад +5

    Well this aged well

  • @VIVEKtheTRAVELLER
    @VIVEKtheTRAVELLER 5 лет назад +18

    Proud ex muslim😎😎☺️🌝

    • @amalialavric7164
      @amalialavric7164 3 года назад

      How was your Journey since you left islam? Did you embrace a different faith or you are still thinking? How do you feel today about your decision?

  • @MrDlt123
    @MrDlt123 4 года назад +10

    If his book came out today, the British government would have him arrested.

  • @voxpopuli735
    @voxpopuli735 Год назад +3

    He was stabbed today in NY. I decided to read his book.

  • @MrZZooh
    @MrZZooh 4 года назад +6

    All the guests on here are right about what they're saying. The older gentleman's point about Khashogi's murder being state-sponsored terrorism is just as valid as his point about the Fatwa. The purple-shirted gentleman's point about the liberals' timidity to not speak out in fear of offending super religious people of Muslim faith leaving a vacuum for far right people is absolutely true, as was the lady's point about self-censorship extending to every uncomfortable and touchy subject. Very articulate discussion. Can you compare the civility and level of this sort of panel discussion with the garbage one hears on Fox?

  • @blue---monday
    @blue---monday 2 года назад +4

    to think that a book-a fucking book-created all that mayhem, is mind boggling. in a good way and a bad way. on one hand, it's truly one of the most pathetic and depressing things i've ever seen in my life. on the other hand, it truly goes to show the sheer and often underestimated power of literature

  • @John-xk2sd
    @John-xk2sd Год назад +4

    Religion poisons everything- Christopher Hitchens.

  • @nishhnishh1088
    @nishhnishh1088 Год назад +2

    What a warrior Salman Rushdie is. 70+ years old and survived a stabbing by a young fanatic man with a mission to kill.

  • @jacksonbrown4112
    @jacksonbrown4112 5 лет назад +15

    So much peace.

  • @TouchedAlot
    @TouchedAlot 5 лет назад +3

    Every idea should be subjected to scrutiny, criticism and ridicule.

  • @tonyjesuslover
    @tonyjesuslover Год назад +4

    The corious fact is that the second name of his atacker is Matar, and Matar means kill in spanish.

  • @keelerrobinson5772
    @keelerrobinson5772 Год назад +2

    The right of a writer to write what he wishes. I love the English language

  • @EyeShotFirst
    @EyeShotFirst 3 года назад +5

    Religion can be a beautiful thing. When religion governs a nation, that's when things start getting iffy. You see the corruption in every religion that have complete rule over people. You see it in Islamic, Christian, and Jewish nations. I have my beliefs, and I don't want them forced on people. I will always believe in separation of church and government. They do not belong together.

    • @kenosabi
      @kenosabi Год назад

      There isn't a religious text on this planet that hasn't been morphed or shaped or outright fabricated by man's grubby corrupt little hands.

    • @hermanrowell3081
      @hermanrowell3081 Год назад

      no rule religion me

  • @majeedm689
    @majeedm689 Год назад +4

    This is what my fellow Muslims should do when someone insults our great Nabi (SAW)?
    I believe that when someone insults our Nabi (SAW) it is nothing but a test from Allah'tala.
    Allah is testing us to ensure we maintain our composure, our restraint, our patience, our tolerance against those who degrade the image of our beloved Prophet (SAW).
    Whenever we detect an insult, we should approach those who have no respect for our Nabi (SAW) and embrace them with compassion and humility.
    We must do this to show how amazing Islam is - in that we persevere in the face of hate and criticism. We must love and respect those who hate our Prophet. These are the teachings.
    When these evil people see what Muslims are, and what Islam teaches they will immediately abandon their own belief and accept Islam.
    Our beautiful deen will grow faster than ever before. Alhmadulliah.
    Allah will be pleased as we've passed the test and we will all enter Jannah inshAllah.
    What is happening now is a failed test. After every insult our Muslim brothers and sisters go on a witch hunt against those who insult, with assaults, killings, bombings, stabbings, death threats, violence, anarchy and general mayhem. Even those who silently support these radical Muslims are failing the test. Those who were thinking of embracing Islam will now turn their backs on the greatest religion of Peace because of these extremists. This makes Allah'tala very angry and you will bring his curse upon you.
    Once you fail the test there is no coming back. Jahanam is your final resting place.

    • @mehmeteminkadiroglu1994
      @mehmeteminkadiroglu1994 Год назад

      Wow brother such a wise word. Where are you from

    • @majeedm689
      @majeedm689 Год назад

      @@mehmeteminkadiroglu1994
      It's wise but according to 99.999% of Muslims I'm wrong?
      They believe the honour of Muhammed must be protected at all costs?
      What do you think?

    • @mehmeteminkadiroglu1994
      @mehmeteminkadiroglu1994 Год назад

      @@majeedm689 muslims from some extremist countries like Pakistan and iraq behave harshly and have no tolerance. They dont think other people as human beings

    • @majeedm689
      @majeedm689 Год назад

      @@mehmeteminkadiroglu1994
      What is your takeaway on Salman Rushdie and his controversial book?

  • @syedalehasnaatshah
    @syedalehasnaatshah 5 лет назад +3

    BBC can you please release the videos of SR when he was in hiding up peoples lofts I want to see the whole documentary

  • @efemie
    @efemie 5 лет назад +6

    Satanic verses is a quite a good book, for us that has read the Islamic scriptures 📘📚

    • @fizzycrush4021
      @fizzycrush4021 Год назад

      Funny thing is there is not a single satanic verse in the Quraan

  • @user-jp7mo3ze2u
    @user-jp7mo3ze2u 3 года назад +3

    all Muslims should read this book in their mosques because it is the truth

    • @fizzycrush4021
      @fizzycrush4021 Год назад

      We don't rely on human writers we rely on the Quraan only

  • @karimabdullah2925
    @karimabdullah2925 5 лет назад +4

    A true muslim will engage in good, civilised and polite conversations as long as the people remain respectful within the dialogue. Triggering reactions is purposeful and hence it becomes frustrating
    I challenge anyone who is open minded to go seek a true representative of Islam, engage in good positive dialogue and not walk away removing misconceptions.

    • @carmenismyname
      @carmenismyname 5 лет назад +3

      Then do not get triggered, it's just that simple.

    • @jim409
      @jim409 2 года назад

      I'm afraid of true muslims.. true muslims are found in the Isis
      Or there's a lack of true muslims that why muslims act like this all the time... It's this particular religion that's threatening the world peace in the 21st century more than anything.. so sad that they don't find anyone except themselves respectful

    • @bernice6867
      @bernice6867 Год назад +2

      If a certain group get's triggered at the slightest provocation: that's frustrating.

    • @karimabdullah2925
      @karimabdullah2925 Год назад

      @@bernice6867 but why cause disrespect to our faith? Are we not allowed to defend it? It is our right to do so. We are taught to tolerate everyone's belief, not respect it but at the same time not be vocal about it to cause discord like this money maker was. Fame and fortune only lasts but only a short while and then you're gone. It's not worth upsetting a whole religious group

    • @migslife9144
      @migslife9144 Год назад

      So you mean as long as i dont critized your religion then you will kill us for thinking different

  • @alshli22
    @alshli22 5 лет назад +8

    I only knew about this because of Larry David

    • @Admiralmoti
      @Admiralmoti 5 лет назад

      That is quite sad, but hey at least you have good taste with it comes to comedy.

  • @matty7026
    @matty7026 Год назад +8

    you know you’re doing something right when it gets muslims angry 🙏🏻

  • @ytehrani3885
    @ytehrani3885 5 лет назад +5

    I'm actually shocked the BBC showed this episode. They're usually so wary of offending Muslims, it's almost spooky that they green lit this show.
    The West must maintain its Liberal, Democratic ethos & never be shy in defending those who are critical of Islam.
    13:30 re Ms Shaikh's comments - yes, there is an appalling level of censorship around many issues, but none so deadly as that which attends critics of Islam. Some, & not a small number, of Muslims are uniquely sensitive to any offence & present a uniquely chilling response to anyone critical of their faith.

    • @lucianmacandrew1001
      @lucianmacandrew1001 5 лет назад +2

      That is simply you suffering from "hostile media effect".BBC and CNN have never been wary of offending Muslims, and have never painted Islam as a better religion than the rest. Some people (mainly nationalists), have made up that Mainstream media are driving a globalist agenda and so on, but that is simply not true, neither is it true that they have been careful of offending Muslims.

    • @ytehrani3885
      @ytehrani3885 5 лет назад +2

      @@lucianmacandrew1001 Are you kidding?
      This kind of thing would never happen with any other religion today. The media are utterly cucked. They won't report any story re Islam without prostrating themselves to some Muslim community leader, lk Mohammed Shafiq, or the British Council of Muslims, or some Imam. Social media bans anyone remotely critical of Islam. Tommy Robinson is portrayed as a racist Nazi for just noticing & being critical of the Islamification of the UK. Britain First's Jayda Fransen & Paul Golding were jailed for their critiques. The media refused to show the relavent Charlie Hebdo cover or Danish Cartoons for fear of offending Muslims.
      The first thought signalled after a terrorist attack is 'oh dear, hope there's no back lash against Muslims', even though there has barely ever been one.
      Hate crime reports are often inflated, & often are hoaxes, but you never hear about the hoaxes.
      Police have to get permission from the local Imam before applying search warrants on suspected terrorists in certain Muslim majority neighbourhoods.
      The UK establishment is trained to view Muslims as this poor, powerless minority under siege by an army of racists. What utter BS.
      Muslim grannies can come onto LBC & proudly say how they don't want their grand kids to marry outside the faith. They get no push back. Could you imagine if a white granny said 'I want my grand kids to only marry other whites'? There'd be protests galore & probably police inquiries.
      Academia, social media, the police & politicians prostrate themselves before Islam & Muslims. They do everything possible to not offend. They actively uphold Shariah based blasphemy laws in how they report stories & deal with critics. See recent stories re West Yorkshire Police. See how the rape gangs story was ignored for decades.
      I could go on and on.
      And, before you say I'm a racist, I suggest you look at my name. I was born a Muslim. According to the Left's definition of a racist, only whites can be racists. So, I will use my minority status & this identity politics game to my advantage. I, as a born Muslim, say the British Establishment is completely cucked by Islamists and are persecuting anyone critical of this ideology.

    • @czgibson3086
      @czgibson3086 Год назад

      @@ytehrani3885 You are entirely correct. No other religion produces as much fear as Islam today. It's not even close.

    • @hermanrowell3081
      @hermanrowell3081 Год назад

      @@ytehrani3885 you sound creditable

    • @nishhnishh1088
      @nishhnishh1088 Год назад

      Its because islam people lives dont revolve around family life but a religious life. Praying 5 times a day, only hanging out with fellow muslims, religious education(madrassa) etc

  • @funguy29
    @funguy29 Год назад +3

    any thinking that wants to ban books much less kill the author deserves condemnation.

  • @theviker
    @theviker 5 лет назад +3

    The writing ( pardon the pun ) was on the wall all those years back.

  • @Twocat5side
    @Twocat5side 3 года назад +2

    Imagine all the books they would buy just to burn it

  • @hindurashtra63
    @hindurashtra63 Год назад +8

    Evil continues to prevail when a Good men decide to stand and watch and do nothing.

  • @joshuawongji-fung9655
    @joshuawongji-fung9655 5 лет назад +20

    I am so proud that I left Islam after I fell in love with a Hindu Boy . I am now a proud Hindu married Girl.

    • @atanusola4869
      @atanusola4869 5 лет назад +1

      Hey its good. Polytheism isn’t bad itself. Compartmentalized and our gods are not jealous enough to kill who become apostle. 😁

    • @yusufaden5401
      @yusufaden5401 5 лет назад +2

      What is it that u r so proud of?
      U just left one religion to take another one!

    • @JS-bo9yi
      @JS-bo9yi Год назад +1

      Left a religion for a man

  • @saikatroy2332
    @saikatroy2332 3 года назад +8

    Years after Rushdie affair in Bangladesh writers were killed because of their books or blog posts, and many liberal media personalities and politicians were quick to announce that they (the writers) have brought these upon themselves. I brought the matter of Bangladesh up because most of the clips of agitation in this video were from Bangladesh, just in front of the National Mosque, Baitul Mukarram, which later became a norm for people to gather in front of this mosque mostly after Friday Prayer to protest against writers, many a time demanding death.
    In the neighbouring India Hindu Nationalists used these incidents to justify their suppression of muslim and dalit rights and muzzling dissenting voices. It shows clearly how an absence of courageous stance from liberals empowers illiberal sects with completely opposite views, not to mention putting lives in line of fire.

    • @deerlikely
      @deerlikely Год назад

      I agree completely. As an expat from India, it shames and saddens me to see how human rights have degraded in the Subcontinent as a result of the escalating religious fundamentalism in each of its countries. Society there has only become more illiberal and backward in the 75 years since independence.

    • @hermanrowell3081
      @hermanrowell3081 Год назад

      that's the most informative sad story

    • @Lookmaxxed_Pikachu_69
      @Lookmaxxed_Pikachu_69 Год назад

      Dalits are Hindus..Hindu nationalist suppressing other Hindus?

    • @hermanrowell3081
      @hermanrowell3081 Год назад +1

      if i really was to vent my true feelings about Friday Prayer and Demanding Death it surely wouldn't be nice words. it's not my goal to hate religions nor religious people but when a religion calls for a person's death it's a trying of my soul

    • @saikatroy2332
      @saikatroy2332 Год назад

      @@Lookmaxxed_Pikachu_69 Yes, Unfortunately they are. Like adherents of all hateful ideology ends up doing so.

  • @nickokona6849
    @nickokona6849 4 года назад +2

    The telling point is that there isn’t wide spread fear of any other religion for writing things. That speaks more force than anything else. Nobody would ever have to fear a Jain if you wrote something. Islam desperately needs a reformation. Shaikh herself saying liberal Muslims in Pakistan being afraid only drives the point home more so.

  • @vp1929
    @vp1929 5 лет назад +3

    Leaders generated recentment, people died & Rushdie made his millions... Wish we could instill stoicism in the world.

  • @nerdy4172
    @nerdy4172 2 года назад +6

    Unfortunately! We have never heard of anyone who has written a reply to that book. So it clearly shows that he, on his own, was successful in dismantling a whole religion. I haven’t read the book, but the response on Muslim behalf shows that they were incapable of giving a logical reply. So they wanted to ban the book.

  • @SiVlog1989
    @SiVlog1989 Год назад +3

    In many ways, it's an extreme example of how protests about something can inadvertently lead to it becoming widely viewed.
    Another example was the Christian Community's reaction to Monty Python's Life of Brian. After funding for the film was rejected by EMI, George Harrison of the Beatles founded his own film company, Hand Made Films, to get the film made. As the film was announced, various towns in Britain banned showings of the film in cinemas, believing it to be blasphemous towards Jesus Christ. Michael Palin and John Cleese of Python were invited to a debate show with two church leaders.
    The contrast between the emotions of the two pairs of people, the Church Leaders not taking taking the debate too seriously and Michael Palin and John Cleese passionately defending the film. One barb that back fired on one of the church leaders was a remark he gave where he said:
    "Don't worry, you'll get your 30 pieces of silver eventually,"
    *the 30 pieces of silver was a reference to the amount paid to Judas to betray Jesus to the Romans.
    In truth, while the initial concept behind the film was one based on Jesus, the concept title being, "Jesus Christ: Lust for glory," when they did research for it, they found that there really was no way or reason to ridicule such a soft spoken and well intentioned religious figure. Therefore, their focus shifted to the ones listening to and interpreting Jesus. It was here that they found the humour for the film, particularly in one set of lines: "I'm not the Mosiah!" "I say you are Lord and I should know, I've followed a few," in other words, it was about someone who happened to come into existence at the same time as Jesus and was mistaken for him as such

    • @JohnSmith-ry7wh
      @JohnSmith-ry7wh Год назад

      It's not the same. Christians are called to LOVE their enemies. Muslims and their false prophet Muhammad call for you to commit atrocities on your enemies.
      Did any Orthodox Christian Patriarch or Pope call for the death of the Monty Python crew? No. It was blasphemy but we do not kill for that.

  • @Hotlooksamerica
    @Hotlooksamerica Год назад +2

    That feeling when it takes 30 years to make good on a fatwa…

  • @Hakiimthedream
    @Hakiimthedream Год назад +4

    what other religion behaves like this to books?

    • @drtg101we7
      @drtg101we7 Год назад

      Christianity. By the conquistadors in Mexico, by the Church of England during the Middle Age/Renaissance, in France and in many other places...

    • @khalidbinwaleed5072
      @khalidbinwaleed5072 Год назад +1

      Jeudaism

    • @Hakiimthedream
      @Hakiimthedream Год назад +1

      @@khalidbinwaleed5072 currently?

    • @PodcastCentral333
      @PodcastCentral333 Год назад

      @@khalidbinwaleed5072 nope, us jews are liberal and secular.

    • @drtg101we7
      @drtg101we7 Год назад

      @@PodcastCentral333 Right? If there is one thing you cant say about the Jews its that they are religious fanatics. Except for the Haredi but they are a minority...

  • @JamchesterBoozle
    @JamchesterBoozle Год назад +4

    Here is the religion of peace Everyone...

  • @samirenda
    @samirenda 5 лет назад +3

    You see I was looking for one book for almost a year and then found it here in London in one bookshop...anyways the owner told me, the Saudi Arabia pays a shitload to publishing houses and to bookshops not to seel that book, since it explains Quran in Aramaic way, which is very controversial towards the muslim society nowadays. The book is by a Sudanese philosopher and Islam critique - Muhammad Mahmoud, it's called "The Prophecies of Muhammad". Anyways this kind of medieval censorship is awful, but I somehow get it. These people were raised in the Islamic society and therefore the religion for them isn't just an individual philosophical aspect of life. It is their whole identity and, therefore, whenever you tell them that they might think differently, they'll get mad, because you're not telling them their belief might be wrong, you're basically telling them "your identity is wrong".

  • @dps3902
    @dps3902 2 года назад +3

    The religion of peace. My ass.

    • @tarekj5951
      @tarekj5951 2 года назад

      It is. How isn’t it ? Todays Islam is nothing like how Islam started.

  • @MuhammadAhmed-qw3qp
    @MuhammadAhmed-qw3qp 2 года назад +1

    Not a single person with knowledge of Islamic theology to describe how serious the issue is.

  • @jhamptonjr
    @jhamptonjr 3 года назад +7

    Cat Stevens keeps trying to rehabilitate His Image. It might work with the younger crowd when he sings Peace Train, but those of us in our 50s and 60s remember very well when he called for the murder of another human being.

  • @alexlandherr
    @alexlandherr 4 года назад +17

    The Monty Python film “The Life of Brian” went through roughly similar trials of accusations of blasphemy and “insulting Christ”. It was banned in Norway.

    • @esthermas4703
      @esthermas4703 4 года назад +9

      One things is that you denounce smth to the authorities and end up backing you or not. Which is not the same as a mob ready to kill you.
      For example, christian groups have denounced many times Charlie Hebdo drawings, but nobody in his sane mind went there with a kalashnikov. We have mechanisms in our society to denounce smth you consider a criminal offense and it will depend on that country's law and circumstances of the case.

    • @highlifedevere9327
      @highlifedevere9327 2 года назад

      Shit film

    • @assyrianrelief
      @assyrianrelief Год назад

      But no one issued a fatwa or death threats. A 3 million pound bounty to kill the creator. Islam is a religion of violence.

    • @funnycat1957
      @funnycat1957 Год назад

      Not "roughly similar': no one received a death threat over Life of Brian.

  • @stevenkrenz183
    @stevenkrenz183 5 лет назад +2

    The Islamic world is highly diverse? Ha! That has to be funniest statement I've ever heard.

    • @therack1610
      @therack1610 3 года назад

      It is actually anti diversity

    • @gavinwoodward2813
      @gavinwoodward2813 Год назад +1

      They are the most inbred group of people on earth

  • @JamchesterBoozle
    @JamchesterBoozle Год назад +2

    How can that woman say that Saudi Arabia doesn't speak for the Muslim world, it's laughable. Saudi Arabia contains the religious heart of Islam in Mecca and Medina. All Muslim's are obliged to visit Saudi Arabia during their lifetimes.
    Also glossing over the fact that even though it's a specific interpretation of the Quran, Wahhabism is a credible interpretation of Islam....and unfortunately mainstream.

  • @geniusofmozart
    @geniusofmozart 5 лет назад +17

    Why are so many of the comments on here unrelated to the Rushdie Affair?

    • @damandarin5415
      @damandarin5415 5 лет назад

      People have lost their way, while nationalist have increased as well as fake news spreading false news. All this publicity will only cast Islam in a bad light and we have straight fabricated sources fooling them. No one will comment about the actual affair, because generally everyone who watches these videos are filled hate, and love to point fingers...

    • @blaaaaaaahhhhkathi
      @blaaaaaaahhhhkathi 5 лет назад

      not notness you really don't understand what a ban of free speech is, if you think the west has one...

    • @samnicholson5051
      @samnicholson5051 5 лет назад

      Like much of the rest of youtube, the comments are not so much about the topic at hand but instead being a far-right soapbox.

    • @lewisbracken5520
      @lewisbracken5520 5 лет назад

      @@samnicholson5051 "far right"?
      you are hilarious.

    • @cortomaltese5038
      @cortomaltese5038 5 лет назад

      @@samnicholson5051 Than a man have to go back and look into Qouran and Haddids to search for the essence of Islam. What it makes people so violent when someone says something against it? www.google.com/amp/s/m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/britain-not-prepared-to-offer-asylum-to-persecuted-pakistani-christian_uk_5be3342be4b0dbe871a61b95/ This the point when sauverignity of the State is very questionable.

  • @rustyshackleford8473
    @rustyshackleford8473 3 года назад +4

    *ReLiGIon oF pEaCe*

  • @Jabberstax
    @Jabberstax Год назад +1

    30 years but they still got him

  • @languagefreeassangeteacher5338
    @languagefreeassangeteacher5338 4 года назад +2

    Dear Salman Rushdie, I have always had the feeling that you defend freedom and that you support those in need. Today I would like to ask you to say some sentences in public demanding the release of Julian Assange. Assange has been fighting for free information and bringing war crimes to the eyes of the public. He is a journalist and helps all of us the understand what´s going on. Thus reducing
    wars and the possibilities of successful `war lies´.
    Thank you
    for your understanding and all the best.
    Michael Haas