The Attack On Salman Rushdie Is Symptomatic Of The Malady Of Intolerance Islam Suffers From
By
Sumit Paul, New Age Islam
13 August
2022
Islam Cannot
Tolerate Criticism Esp. Coming From Those Who're Non-Muslims And An Apatheist
To Boot
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Rushdie is tended to after he was
attacked during a lecture, on Friday, August 12 | AP
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" The
Abolition Of All Organized Religions Has Become Imperative. This Must Start
With Islam, Followed By All Religions And Their Gods."
Salman
Rushdie, immediately after the fatwa in 1989
75-year-old,
arguably the greatest living novelist Salman Rushdie was brutally attacked by a
24-year-old Shia Muslim extremist, Hadi Matar, in New York. Ironically, this
stabbing incident vindicated his own words that, " The memory of religious
fanatics lingers on and their hatred for the man who insulted their religion
and god remains implacable. This rabid hatred is particularly obvious among
Muslims for whom forgiveness for a sacrilegious act is a foreign word. "
So
chillingly and prophetically true! Even after thirty three years, Muslims
haven't forgiven him for insulting Islam and Muhammad in his book ' The Satanic
Verses.'
The biggest
joke is that in spite of a series of regular religious and blasphemous killings
across the globe since the inception of Islam, the apologists and followers of
this desert faith will still try to convince you that Islam is the religion of
peace! My foot!
Yours truly
has been getting threats from MUSLIM zealots for many years. I lost the first
phalanx of the middle finger of my right hand while saving my face from a
knife-wielding Muslim zealot in Hyderabad, Deccan. Every day, I find my Inbox
filled with hate mails mostly from Muslims from all parts of the world, who
threaten to sever my head. Agreed, Hindu nationalists also dislike me. But I'm
sure, they'll beat me but perhaps spare my life. And they did exactly that a
few years ago! But if a fanatic Muslim assaults, my life will not be spared.
Now the
eternally unanswered question is: What makes Muslims so hardcore and why don't
they believe in the dictum of let bygone, be bygone?
Islam
conditions its followers and benumbs their thinking. It's the only religion
that institutionalises hatred against the followers of other faiths. It
legitimises violence in the name of religion, Allah and its Messenger. Islam
indoctrinates its followers in a way that they become forever convinced that
it's the only true faith and all other faiths are false. What an obnoxious
example of religious assertiveness, nay, monomania!
Islam
cannot tolerate criticism esp. coming from those who're non-Muslims and an
apatheist to boot. That’s why, I'm an eyesore to most of the Muslims on this
forum. They call me an Islamophobic atheist, one gentleman subtly suggests, why
an atheist like me is invited to write on Islamic subjects as if writing on
Islam is the fiefdom of only Muslims. Someone says that I spread deliberate
lies against Islam with a hidden agenda. Why should that be their headache when
a surprisingly sane, sensible and level-headed Muslim editor allows and pays me
to write for his website? Do these fanatics patronize this website? Why can't a
non-Muslim criticise Islam?
That apart,
coming back to Salman Rushdie episode, it's time, the whole world must realize
that Islam has become a potential threat to the civilized world and the sane
voices from this primitive and prehistoric faith must come together to reach a
solution as to how to reform and revamp the whole religion, delete horrendous
verses from the Quran and rein in the wayward zealots. Islam has already earned
a very bad name for itself.
Kill me if
you want. To quote a poet from Aurangabad, "Patthar Ka Meri Simt Aana
Zaroor Tha/ Main Hi Gunhagaaron Mein Ek Beqasoor Tha " (The stone was
destined to be hurled at me/ As I was the only innocent among a posse of
sinners).
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A regular columnist for New Age Islam,
Sumit Paul is a researcher in comparative religions, with special reference to
Islam. He has contributed articles to world's premier publications in several
languages including Persian.
URL: https://newageislam.com/radical-islamism-jihad/rushdie-malady-intolerance-islam-suffers-/d/127705