I read that piece already Ohio.
CH & NYA - what I find irritating about this fellow - and yes NYA, I have some of his writings, not like I haven't - but what I find damnable about him is his treachery. He thinks he is someone who is doing Islam a service - but when did he? It's the other people whose plights he is highlighting that have gone and done all the work. He's just harping on it, and that too in a false light, sorry. Nowhere in any of his news articles that I have read, do I see him trying to shed a light on what he himself ever did. And this "Islamists" word, I have been reading constantly, constantly, constantly. It just gets to you. The fellow is a hypocrite alright. He claims to be doing some service to Islam, but he can't call Muslims, Muslims? What the heck is that? I don't think calling a group pf people "Islamist" in any way mitigates or absolves the rest of the muslim world from blame for our ills, moderate or not. Whoever is doing wrong and wrecking havoc everywhere, if they believe in Allah, they are from our society, they are one of us. Simple. There's no bracketting off of "U r an Islamist and I'm not" BS. Only a person who himself is not a muslim would say something like that, in which case, that's fine.. but then don't claim to be some insider scholar on Islam either, and think u can speak for the muslim community. That ain't gonna work, and I'm not going to stand for it.
Half the muslim world's "moderates" adore Rushdie, the other half abhor him. That's coz the goose keeps switching sides, and changing his speeches. He has no ruddy idea what he heck he is himself in the first place, how dare he go around pointing fingers at others. And if he does pont fingers and use his power of free speech, fine, so do a thousand other journalists and writers.. let him shut up and take his position in line like the rest of them and do his job like the rest of them without humongous publicity and massive crowds raining flower petals on him, rather than going around the world saying "I'm a Muslim and I know what's best for Islam". Dichotomy in muslim societies everyone can see.. all the rest of the world's writers who believe in free speech aren't dead yet.
He has the arrogance to think people are following him.. that's pathetic! I see what the fellow's up to... being the chingari that can ignite a huge fire. He likes it. His articles are nothing more than jabs at Islam, a poking in the ribs. He has a high and mighty tone that Haar always accuses me of, but u can just tell this guy is not genuine. Gut feeling. He's doing it for the money and that's all.
After all, where was he when he should have been writing all these great progressively-minded articles after the SV fatwas? Why stagnate then? Islam was dead in the world then? Islamic practice in societies al those years did not deserve his meritorious attention? Why didn't he damn people to hell before.. WHY NOW?? When the whole world can see what's wrong now.. and the fellow chose to shup up all these years.. what happened to democracy and the welfare of Islamic society then?
Arrite I 4got the rest.. l8r.
