You couldn't make it up dept. no.66: sure, they love him in Peshawar

[fpb]

The context is scary. The situation is potentially deadly, and will inevitably grow worse. But what seems to have led up to it is simply too hysterical for words:
From The Guardian:

The committee that recommended Salman Rushdie for a knighthood did not discuss any possible political ramifications and never imagined that the award would provoke the furious response that it has done in parts of the Muslim world, the Guardian has learnt.

It also emerged yesterday that the writers' organisation that led the lobbying for the author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses to be knighted had originally hoped that the honour would lead to better relations between Britain and Asia...

One of my first pieces when I started this blog four years ago was about the ludicrous incompetence of the British ruling class. It was not welcomed then - http://fpb.livejournal.com/4790.html. I rest my case now.

Comments

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

... and the British left suffers a headlong collision between its intellectualism and its multi-culturalism. Wonder which one will stagger from the collision still walking?

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

I'm as clueless as the British on this.

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

A number of Muslim organizations have put prices on his head, adding up to dozens of millions of dollars.

Incidentally, is anything being done to treat those Muslim organizations as criminal conspiracies and begin rounding up their memberships? In Britain? In America (where there was a bombing back in the 1980's on this issue)?

Not expecting us to, really, just wishing that we would be a bit more offended, or frightened, at the obvious threat of Muslim censorship of our own media.