[lit-ideas] Re: Olivier Roy, Daniel Pipes and Oriana Fallaci

  • From: Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:21:49 -0500


Eric: Ever since Rushdie, I've wondered why the world is so complacent about Death Fatwas.

Judy: You weren't worried about them before that? (Complacent, well... Rushdie was put under armed guard.)

Eric: Yeah, death fatwas didn't get my notice until Rushdie, and then more so when Rushdie's Japanese translator was murdered by one of the holy hit-men. And merely protecting people from these holy hitmen is...yes...complacent.

Why do we tolerate Death Fatwas at all? Not merely protect their victims, but stop the practice altogether?

It's like the Pope goes psycho one day and issues a Papal Bull that Benny Hill had insulted Saint Peter's Church, and was subsequently to be put to death by any true believer. It'd be time to throw the Pope in the slammer.

Sure there are Counter-Fatwas to Islamic Terrorism Fatwas, mostly issued by the Islamic communities in the regions blighted by them. Yet Death Fatwas are personal, and so it seems, less ideological and more criminal, in that criminal culpability lies with the person(s) issuing the death fatwa against an individual.

You call for somebody's death and offer incentives, you do the jail time.





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