More fuss over Salman Rushdie, this time in a speech by Religious Affairs Minister Mohammed Ijaz ul-Haq before the Pakistan Parliament, following the offer of a knighthood to Rushdie:

“The West is accusing Muslims of extremism and terrorism. If someone exploded a bomb on his body he would be right to do so unless the British government apologises and withdraws the ‘Sir’ title”.

Isn’t that more or less saying:

“The West is accusing Muslims of extremism and terrorism. Funnily enough, I now confirm, as Religious Affairs Minister in a country where the dominant political force is Islam, that my own views at least are extremist and that I support terrorist acts”.

These guys are so far on another planet with their moral compass it is unbelievable. Let’s get this straight: the bestowing by an irrelevant historical figurehead of a pointless honorific title on a bloke who eighteen years ago wrote something about a bloke, whom I believe received instructions 1,500 years ago from a supreme supernatural being who created the universe, smoking weed, which I find personally insulting, means that it would now be right for people to attempt to blow other people, and themselves, up, unless the British government apologises and arranges for the grant of the pointless honorific title to be revoked.

Er, taxi for Mr Ijaz ul-Haq?

Labels: UK politics, war on terror