Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Rushdie’s Marriage Ends
The prize-winning British author Salman Rushdie and his fourth wife, Padma Lakshmi, a model, actress and the host of the television show “Top Chef,” plan to divorce.
Some gossip columns say it is because he is colossally self-centred and she is an airhead.
IMO: I would have thought that could make them an ideal couple, but anyway ....
Others say: The Muslim world is weary of those who, in the name of human rights, want to impose Western culture of homosexuality, free sex, alcohol and similar aspects that go counter to Islamic principles. There is outrage about the recent knighthood of Salman Rushdie, whose novel, “The Satanic Verses,” angered Muslims for a long time. His recognition comes from supposed services to literature, but the fact is Rushdie is hardly known as a literary figure except for his offensive and insulting novel against Islam.
IMO:Fair enough, I'm not a Muslim but I would consider some of his work insulting to Muslims and much of it to any Indian. What's far worse: some of his stuff sounds like the sort of spoofs that the innocent might take as fact, as if he had stated as an impressive truth that buggery is normal behaviour and ceremonial for every Catholic Pope (which may be true anyway FAIK).
Some say: What, then, is the argument against honoring him? It can only be this fuzzy idea that we must not dare offend those who were offended by Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses".
IMO: He has written a few other books. I have read some of them and they all are a waste of time to the serious reader. I think, as a lover of 'Finnegan's Wake', that my comment is a fair one.
Some gossip columns say it is because he is colossally self-centred and she is an airhead.
IMO: I would have thought that could make them an ideal couple, but anyway ....
Others say: The Muslim world is weary of those who, in the name of human rights, want to impose Western culture of homosexuality, free sex, alcohol and similar aspects that go counter to Islamic principles. There is outrage about the recent knighthood of Salman Rushdie, whose novel, “The Satanic Verses,” angered Muslims for a long time. His recognition comes from supposed services to literature, but the fact is Rushdie is hardly known as a literary figure except for his offensive and insulting novel against Islam.
IMO:Fair enough, I'm not a Muslim but I would consider some of his work insulting to Muslims and much of it to any Indian. What's far worse: some of his stuff sounds like the sort of spoofs that the innocent might take as fact, as if he had stated as an impressive truth that buggery is normal behaviour and ceremonial for every Catholic Pope (which may be true anyway FAIK).
Some say: What, then, is the argument against honoring him? It can only be this fuzzy idea that we must not dare offend those who were offended by Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses".
IMO: He has written a few other books. I have read some of them and they all are a waste of time to the serious reader. I think, as a lover of 'Finnegan's Wake', that my comment is a fair one.
# posted by uv : 6:54 AM
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