Re: Iraq

On 25 Sep, 00:24, "Pete Dashwood" <dashw...@removethis.enternet.co.nz>
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> Yes, I read "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" when they threatened  Dan
> Brown with a Law suit, and because one of the authors was a Kiwi :-) (It i
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> nowhere near as well written as the Da Vinci Code, but then it wasn't
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> Very provocative, but probably hurtful to people who take their Religion
> seriously (I don't... but I'm seriously Atheist :-)).
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> This is the dilemma an author faces when he/she writes a fictional work th
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> disagrees with the received wisdom. Make it provocative, you sell lots of
> copies; make it too provocative, you could end up with a Fatwah on your
> head...(I read Rushdie's "Satanic Verses" and found nothing offensive in i
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> over London), yet the guy has to have 24 hour protection even to this day.
> (I give him credit for courage, if not for good sense...))
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Don't you think it interesting that the West will do business with the
very country that raised the Fatwah and consistently refuses to remove
it? And we do nothing to persuade/force the Iranians to lift the
Fatwah nor do we anything to require British/Western muslim scholars
to denounce the Fatwah. The right to do business is obviously of
greater importance than the rights to freedom of expression and
freedom to practice your religious rights.

I dom worry what I would do if these terrorists did manage to force
Isalm upon the UK and the West.