Should this man be part of Britain's decision-making process?

ion · June 23, 2007

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml...wrushdie322.xml

A Muslim peer compared Salman Rushdie to the September 11 hijackers today as the row over the author's knighthood escalated.

Interviewed in Le Figaro newspaper in France, the Labour peer Lord Ahmed of Rotherham added fuel to the row when he hit out at Mr Rushdie.

"This honour is given in recognition of services rendered to Great Britain," he said. "Salman Rushdie lives in New York. He is controversial man who has insulted Muslim people, Christians and the British. He does not deserve the honour.

"Two weeks ago Tony Blair spoke about constructing bridges with Muslims. What hypocrisy.

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

Apart from the disturbing inability to see a difference between someone who writes words and people who have committed mass murder, the use of the word "martyrs" reveals more than he perhaps intended. I can only presume he's referring to the so-called Islamists and not the CIA, George Bush or Zionists...

Does he also not wonder why those same "Christians and British" who he says have been insulted do not appear to have been calling for Rushdie's death?

Should this man be Lording it over the community?

Paul B · June 24, 2007

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