Salman Rushdie cancels trip to India after death threat

Salman Rushdie cancels trip to India after death threat. 25 yrs after publication of “The Satanic Verses”, Salman Rushdie still getting death threats. This one was undoubtedly precipitated by Sarah Palin and other Tea Partiers using the word “target.”

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  • Cradle to grave brainwashing at it's finest!!! Guaranteed to show just how peaceful Islam is.

  • All he did was tell the truth. The muslims can't stand the facts.. For instance, muhammad was, by his own accounts, a murderer, a thief, a drunk, a liar, a pedifile and most probably kept a caprine love interest penned for those special arabian nights.

    • Sounds more like Al Capone then a religious leader..Like I said before this is nothing but the world's largest gang....a criminal enterprise that makes the drug cartels in Mexico look like children. Instead of red or blue like the crips and the bloods, these guys and gals where tablecloths and bedpans on their head. they kill, steal, run drugs, extort, and kill non-believers, and fight over turf..There is no difference between say the nortenos and surenos and the muslims. Stop treating it as a relegion, start treating it like a criminal enterprise which it is. A bunch of funny dressed thugs with some kinky hangups.

  • *Gasp*, you mean the religion of pieces is still threatening to kill people who dare expose their buffoon of a prophet for what he is?

    May Mr. Rushdie live another 25 years, and continue pissing terrorists off.

    • That aint the way I heerd it, Johnny! The way I heerd it, Ayatollah Cockamamie was more peedee-ohdee about the "Mad Mullah" character in the book, which he felt bore more than a passing resemblance to himself.

      In other news, Assahola Cockamamie can read.

      /Hey, where's Princess Bedpan?