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Rushdie vs. bin Laden

Í dag sendi MEMRI frá sér þýðingu á hluta af grein sem Dr. Sa'd Bin Tefla, fyrrverandi upplýsingarmálaráðherra Kuwait skrifaði í Lundúnarblaðið Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. Sjá: Former Kuwaiti Information Minister: Where are the Fatwas Against bin Laden? – 'We Left the World with the Impression that the Arabs are All bin Laden'
Hann veltir fyrir sér muninum á viðbrögðunum við Salman Rushdie á sínum tíma og Osama bin Laden.

Religious legal rulings were disseminated one after another banning Salman Rushdie's book and calling for him to be killed. Iran earmarked a reward of one million dollars for whoever would implement Imam Khomeini's fatwa and kill Salman Rushdie. [3] Our impoverished publishing houses reacted by printing books and pamphlets refuting the [book's] contents, despite the fact that it was banned in all the capitals of the Muslim world. There were those who read reactions, refutations, and rebuttals of the book without ever having read or familiarized themselves with its contents! There were those who lay in wait for Salman Rushdie in order to kill him, desiring in this way to get closer by [Rushdie's] blood to Allah [in heaven], or out of desire for the million dollars that Iran had earmarked at the time. The British authorities raised the level of security surrounding Salman Rushdie, who became very famous on account of the fact that an entire nation had decided to assassinate him…

[...] Have any protests been held condemning bin Laden's actions in any of the Islamic capital cities? Perhaps there were some that demonstrated in his favor. The [Muslim] satellite stations competed amongst themselves in broadcasting his sermons and fatwas, instead of preventing their dissemination as they did in the case of Rushdie's book. Have we earmarked a reward for anyone who kills bin Laden as we did for anyone who kills Rushdie on account of his book?

"With our equivocal stance on bin Laden we from the very start left the world with the impression that we are all bin Laden."

Í gær sendi MEMRI frá sér fréttaskýringu á viðbrögðum arabísku pressunnar við hryðjuverkunum í Beslan: Arab and Muslim Reactions to the Terrorist Attack in Beslan, Russia. Athyglisverð lesning - fyrir áhugasama.
Agust skrifaði 09.09.04 23:41

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