The Fatwa Lives - Rushdie stabbed on stage.

[Jolly]

Livers can be tough. ICU, on the vent. Doesn't look good.

[Jolly]

As I said earlier, they are effective. The fatwa goes out and they kill you, sooner or later.

Just as a thought exercise, what if Christians acted this way?

[Catseye3]

@Jolly said in The Fatwa Lives:

Just as a thought exercise, what if Christians acted this way?

I don't know. Ask a mafioso.

[Jolly]

@Catseye3 said in The Fatwa Lives:

@Jolly said in The Fatwa Lives:

Just as a thought exercise, what if Christians acted this way?

I don't know. Ask a mafioso.

That's a bit different. Those guys tend to kill for business, not for religion.

[Catseye3]

@Jolly

Their religion doesn't stop them from killing, though.

[George K]

I wouldn’t make too much of him being on a ventilator..yet.

Long surgery with trauma to head and neck, perhaps airway injury. This could all be on the side of caution. I’ve put countless patients on a ventilator after a long procedure out of caution. Remember, he is older and we don’t know what comorbidities he might have.

[George K]

@Catseye3 said in The Fatwa Lives:

@Jolly

Their religion doesn't stop them from killing, though.

Mafiosi kill in spite of, not because of.

There’s a difference, you know.

[jon-nyc]

@George-K said in The Fatwa Lives:

Remember, he is older and we don’t know what comorbidities he might have.

I hope the Jihadi doves don’t start making ‘die-of-the-fatwa’ vs ‘die-with-the-fatwa’ distinctions now.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in The Fatwa Lives:

@George-K said in The Fatwa Lives:

Remember, he is older and we don’t know what comorbidities he might have.

I hope the Jihadi doves don’t start making ‘die-of-the-fatwa’ vs ‘die-with-the-fatwa’ distinctions now.

LOL

[Doctor Phibes]

@Jolly said in The Fatwa Lives:

Just as a thought exercise, what if Christians acted this way?

[George K]

"Ayatollah Khomeini's offer of paradise to Rushdie's assassin has caused writers and public officials in Western nations to become almost exclusively preoccupied with the author's rights.

While Rushdie's First Amendment freedoms are important, we have tended to promote him and his book with little acknowledgment that it is a direct insult to those millions of Moslems whose sacred beliefs have been violated and are suffering in restrained silence the added embarrassment of the Ayatollah's irresponsibility.

This is the kind of intercultural wound that is difficult to heal. Western leaders should make it clear that in protecting Rushdie's life and civil rights, there is no endorsement of an insult to the sacred beliefs of our Moslem friends."

Jimmy Carter

I guess that "restrained silence" got loud yesterday.

[George K]

@George-K said in The Fatwa Lives:

We may never know the motive...

[Jolly]

The paper of record.

[Horace]

@George-K said in The Fatwa Lives:

@George-K said in The Fatwa Lives:

We may never know the motive...

Like me, they are waiting for more information before rushing to judgment.

[Jolly]

Thank God that wasn't Fox News or (dare I say it out loud?) Breitbart.

[Jolly]

Perp's name is Hadi Matar.

I have my doubts about his being of Irish ancestry.

[Copper]

@Doctor-Phibes said in The Fatwa Lives:

@Jolly said in The Fatwa Lives:

Just as a thought exercise, what if Christians acted this way?

These guys don't set the agenda for the Christian church.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Copper said in The Fatwa Lives:

@Doctor-Phibes said in The Fatwa Lives:

@Jolly said in The Fatwa Lives:

Just as a thought exercise, what if Christians acted this way?

These guys don't set the agenda for the Christian church.

Obviously, the IRA and Protestant terrorist groups weren't anything like Khomeini, but the conflict was both religious and ethnic in nature. People find excuses to kill people they don't like in the name of all kinds of things.

One of Salman Rushdie's other books, Midnight's Children, painted Indira Gandhi in a very poor light. She was eventually killed by Sikh extremists after her operation at the Golden Temple led to 3000 Sikh's being killed.

Next time there's a mass shooting in the US, let's all make sure we point out that it's an American doing it. Unless of course it's not.

[kluurs]

Seems odd to me that there wasn't better security - given he was giving a public lecture in NY. IF I were an assassin, this would be about as good an opportunity as I might expect to have to get close enough to him to accomplish an attack.

[George K]

@kluurs good point.

But, it's been 40 years, so memories fade.