While 'they' are pondering upon the rights and wrongs of the Salman Rushdie affair,perhaps 'they' should also give some thought to this question.What does the Qur'an say about Israel?

www.middleeastfacts.com/koran.php

Fact: Salman Rushdie did NOT fabricate the 'Satanic Verses'.

Fact: The 'Satanic Verses' were originally spoken by the prophet Muhammed.

Fact: You don't have to take MY word for this.Anybody interested in researching this subject for themselves can do so.

I suggest that all interested parties should start their personal investigations here:

www.answering-islam.de/Main/Responses/Saifullah/sverses.htm

My local newspaper already has an article on muslims' protest against Sir Salman in UK.  That's faster than I predicted.  This is gonna be more serious than the Danish Mohammed cartoons.  As usual, those muslims protest without even read Rushdie's Satanic Verses, which is a parody as his other books.  BTW the fatwa to kill him is back active again.  This time UK may wake up.

For the Dutch speaking ex-muslims, non-muslims or muslims who want to learn more: join the Dutch affiliate of the Faithfreedom.org site: www.dutch.faithfreedom.org

Anybody,indeed,EVERYBODY,Muslim,ex-Muslim and non-Muslim alike, reading this article needs to ask themselves the simple question,Why? Why,Why,Why, would these people risk their lives in such a courageous manner? For an inkling,I recommend the following website:

www.Faithfreedom.org

If you REALLY care about these individuals,then the very least you can do is to take the time to  study this website at length.Otherwise,forget the pretense that you care and move on with your lives.

Still interested? Then let the debate begin.

The Israelites at the time of Moses entered into a covenant with their God, which they chose to do and didn't have to.  Now the verses talk about "entice secretly", meaning in absence of such enticement, there's no cause for punishment according to the covenant.  Furthermore, the Mosaic covenant no longer applies after the death of Jesus, who fulfilled the Mosaic law.

In contrast, muslims would search to destroy apostates that they don't even know, under Allah's command (Allah is Mohammed's alter ego)

What to think about the fact Pakistanis are demonstrating to prostest against Sir Salman's knighthood.  What business is theirs to protest?  But wait!  There will be many killings of non-muslims under that pretext, even there're very few of them in Pakistan or Malaysia or Indonesia.  Those muslims are really Mohammed's killer robots.

New converts to Islam appear vehemently supportive of 'Islamism' whereas ex-Muslims are at the ready to attack the religion. There is nothing abnormal about this, however, this situation serves to inflame tensions.

Vocal ex-Muslims are my heroes.  It's so typical that the lefty elites in the West, who so often talk about "brave" intellectuals (often in reference to themselves), don't support the truly brave people who REALLY speak truth to power and face violent retaliation as a result.

Ex-muslims who dare to go public are very courageous.  They've been sentenced by default to death by muslims all over the world who obey the Quran to take upon themselves to kill muslim apostates.  Yet world leaders still talk about Islam as "religion of peace". Duh!

"Too many things in the media...have been geared to pandering to the political Islamic movements and Islamic organizations".

- Maryam Namazie.(The Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain).

For anybody who hasn't done so already - Muslim, ex-Muslim and non-Muslim alike - I recommend they check out the mini Al-Qaeda soap opera, "Sands of Passion", hosted at www.Nationalbanana.com

Ridicule trumps Radical EVERY time.