Lord Ahmed: at it again
Lord Ahmed is at it again. The man who is happy to cavort with a virulent antisemite, giving Israel Shamir a platform in the House of Lords, has now waded in to the Sir Salman Rushdie controversy:
Labour Lord Ahmed, 48, said Verses triggered “violence around the world”.
...Lord Ahmed added: “Honouring a man who has blood on his hands goes too far.”
He told BBC Radio 4: “Two weeks ago the Prime Minister was calling for building relations between the Muslim world and Britain, then suddenly this knighthood is given to a man who has not only been abusive to Muslims but also to Christians — because he used abusive language towards Jesus Christ.”
He went on: “This man not only provoked violence around the world because of his writings, but there were many people who were killed around the world.”
What a revealing piece of logic. Sair Salman wrote a book. That's all. It didn't instruct anyone to do anything. It didn't recommend anyone do anything.
The inspiration for violence - no, not the inspiration, but the command - came from Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwah. Not one jot of responsibility for any violence with Sir Salman.
BTW, this is no laughing matter but the Sun's headline is inspired:
Pakistan orders smoked Salman
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Toby Belch
June 19th, 2007 10:16amStephen, You forget it is alwats our fault that they are 'inflamed'
Mike Sharpe
June 19th, 2007 5:32pmIt is utterly fatuous for Lord Ahmed to say that Salman Rushdie has blood on his hands. This is an oft-used tack for people who are themselves responsible for inciting or actually causing violence. These hothead Pakistanis are an offence to reasonable people. Lord Ahmed is not fit to speak in the Upper House of our civilised nation. He should immediately apologise for his immoderate comments, and the Labour Party should disown him.(They won't, of course). Mike Sharpe