Monday, February 14, 2005

About that fatwa on Salman Rushdie...

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards still back it:
"The imam's historic fatwa, issued in the days when the infidel leaders who champion liberal democracy and Zionism devoted all their energies to fighting Islam, is testament to Muslim greatness and the revolutionary dynamism of Koranic and Islamic thought."


The guards' comments came a month after Khomenei's successor as Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said he still believed the British novelist deserved to die.


"They talk of respect for all religions but they support an apostate worthy of death like Rushdie," Khamenei complained in a message to Iranian pilgrims on January 19
It's those pesky democratic types again.Click here: Yahoo! News - Iran guards say Rushdie still faces execution

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