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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 09:41 PM Original message |
Why was there a fatwa against Rushdie? |
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Kagemusha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 09:43 PM Response to Original message |
1. Uh, you're assuming the followers live in a free country. |
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Kutjara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 09:45 PM Response to Original message |
2. I suppose, if the book were to be unnamed... |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 09:57 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Why couldn't governments that banned the book have |
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Kutjara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 09:59 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Well, part of the fatwa was a death sentence against Rushdie... |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 10:22 PM Response to Reply #4 |
12. Well, copyright law already deters people from "writing" |
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Kutjara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 10:26 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Presumably, because writing the book was the offense for which the... |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 10:33 PM Response to Reply #4 |
15. It may have been very serious and very legal, but... |
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Kutjara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 10:38 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Many countries have tried people "in absentia..." |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 10:01 PM Response to Original message |
5. Jeez, what's with the Rushdie obsession? |
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riderinthestorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 10:11 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Yeah cause why the fuck would anyone want to explore the possible rationale |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 10:18 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Ahem. |
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riderinthestorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 10:32 PM Response to Reply #8 |
14. Is this GD thread a response to an R/T post? |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 10:39 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. That's what I'd like to know. |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 10:18 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Reading Silas Marner in high school made me want to go Fatwa on |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 10:10 PM Response to Original message |
6. issued by self-important priest class members to generate cash and power nt |
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lvx35 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 10:18 PM Response to Original message |
9. Are you kidding? I bet it was total a total PR victory. |
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soothsayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 10:18 PM Response to Original message |
10. Because his book was really boring and plodding? |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 10:34 PM Response to Original message |
16. Seriously?Rushdie offended theocratic rulers who have power to issue long-distance death sentences |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 10:44 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Is God not blasphemed when a manuscript is written, but |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-23-07 12:22 AM Response to Reply #19 |
22. You will have to consult with extreme fundamentalist Muslim clerics for that answer. nt |
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TheBaldyMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 10:44 PM Response to Original message |
20. A short history of the Satanic Verses controversy |
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porphyrian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 10:44 PM Response to Original message |
21. It was the defense mechanism of a threatened meme made manifest. - n/t |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-23-07 08:38 AM Response to Original message |
23. Even protests that don't specify the name of the object of the protest |
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