Here is a very famous Fatwa that people have come to know. How can a decent Muslim conceivably tolerate such unethical exhibition of intolerance that invites violence and ultimately leads to so many deaths. Where is the outrage!?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sat...es_controversy
"One of the first well-known fatwas was proclaimed in 1989 by the Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, against Salman Rushdie over his novel The Satanic Verses. The reason was an allegedly blasphemous statement taken from an early biography of the Prophet Muhammad, regarding the incorporation of pagan goddesses into Islam’s strongly monotheistic structure. Khomeini died shortly after issuing the fatwa. In 1998 Iran stated it is no longer pursuing Rushdie’s death; however, that decree was again reversed in early 2005 by the present theocrat, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
In 1991, Rushdie's Japanese translator, Hitoshi Igarashi, was stabbed to death in Tokyo, and his Italian translator was beaten and stabbed in Milan. In 1993, Rushdie's Norwegian publisher William Nygaard was shot and severely injured in an attack outside his house in Oslo. Thirty-seven guests died when their hotel in Sivas, Turkey was torched by locals protesting against Aziz Nesin, Rushdie's Turkish translator."
My suggestion to all Muslims or Christians or any other religions of "Peace" members worldwide is to look deep down into their own culture and ask themselves if maybe science and a more open minded noble version of their cultural heritage (authors, poets, architects, artists etc) has served them a lot better through time than their own clerics. Maybe its time to graduate to something more decent, less hypocritical, less inviting of violence and more capable of uniting all people under the responsibility to face their common problems...Or maybe their clerics should finally prove more strongly that indeed are doing God's work on earth and not "Devil's".
Last edited by masque de Z; 03-01-2014 at 02:31 AM.