Lord Ahmed, Rushdie, and the "martyrs" of 9/11

What would one say if the Saudi or Afghan governments honoured the martyrs of the September 11 attacks on the United States?

Nazir is pretty cheesed off with Labour, but it didn't really bother anyone when he supported the Tories. So the Baron compares Rushdie to people who massacred 3000 workers in 2001. And calls them martyrs.

The Lahore street speaks

The clerics tried to gather the attention of the Data Darbar visitors over the issue.....Some passers-by were found asking, “Why are they protesting? Who is Rushdie?” “What do these clerics want?”

A "handful of clerics belonging to various religious parties" had gathered at the Data Darbar complex to represent 1.5 billion people and to canvas support for the murder of Rushdie. Daily Times, 23 June 2007

Teacher and cleric tells believers to kill apostate

"He is condemned to death. Whosoever is in position to kill him, he should do so"

Abdul Rashid Ghazi, cleric at the Red Mosque, Islamabad, and vice principal of two madrassahs in the city.

Fury of 1.5 billion represented by 20 Londoners

About 20 demonstrators protested at Regents Park mosque in London after prayers yesterday afternoon. Men with their faces covered to avoid identification waved placards, one of which read "God curse the Queen", and shouted slogans.

"We've come to demonstrate against the apostate Salman Rushdie," said one. "He has insulted Islam and the Prophet Muhammad. Salman Rushdie is the devil. We have a responsibility - he should be punished, he should be attacked. We should not be afraid of the kuffar (non-believer).

Guardian, 23 June.

Renewed calls to execute apostate

“The British and the supporters of the anti-Islam Salman Rushdie could rest assured that the writer’s nightmare will not end until the moment of his death and we will bestow kisses on the hands of whomsoever is able to execute this apostate.”

Forouz Rajaefar, general secretary of The Organisation to Commemorate the Martyrs of the Muslim World.