Barack Obama was the affirmative-action president. Salman Rushdie is the affirmative-action literary big. Like Obama, Rushdie didn’t get to the highest of his career because of the depth of his expertise and energy of his mind. No, he acquired there because of the colour of his pores and skin and the leftism of his politics.
Separated by an ocean, united by Islam
And simply as Obama harmed Blacks and worsened race relations in America, so Rushdie has harmed the trigger he claims to carry most expensive: freedom of speech and of the inventive creativeness. Nonetheless, look on the brilliant facet. Rushdie is now probably the most well-known writers on this planet, feted by his fellow leftists in every single place from America to the Antipodes. He’s simply revealed a brand new ebook with a easy title and pretentious subtitle: Knife: Meditations on an Tried Homicide. It was written in response to the knife assault launched on him in 2022 by one of many numerous Third-World savages whom leftists like Rushdie have imported into the West for the reason that Second World Conflict.
He was fortunate to outlive. However the odds had been at all times much better for him than they had been for the Glaswegian shopkeeper Asad Shah, who was attacked by one other Third-World savage in 2016. Like Rushdie, Shah was accused of blaspheming in opposition to Islam. Not like Rushdie, Shah wasn’t instantly helped by a pleasant crowd when the savage started stabbing. That’s why Rushdie is alive and Shah is useless. However the dwelling Rushdie has by no means acknowledged the useless Shah or explored the disturbing parallels between these two knife-attacks separated by the Atlantic and united by Islam. A part of the explanation for Rushdie’s silence on Shah could also be that Rushdie has no need to share the limelight. I’ve by no means been impressed by the depth of Rushdie’s literary expertise, however I’ve at all times been impressed by the dimensions of his ego.
Knife is one other automobile for Rushdie’s ego and one other alternative for White and Jewish leftists to bathe him with reward. And sure, I agree with among the reward. Rushdie has responded with braveness and humor to a near-fatal assault and months of painful therapy in hospital. However his writing hasn’t gotten any higher and his evaluation of artwork and Islamic pathologies hasn’t acquired any much less pretentious or any extra sincere. The literary critic Erica Wagner mentioned that “Knife is a tour-de-force, during which the good novelist takes his brutal near-murder and spins it into an impressive essay on artwork, ache and love.” She additionally described how Rushdie tries to know his would-be murderer, a Lebanese migrant known as Hadi Matar:
About two-thirds of the way in which by means of Knife, Rushdie conducts his personal imaginary interview with this assailant, “my would-be Murderer, the Asinine man who made Assumptions about me, and with whom I had a near-lethal Assignation” – Rushdie’s wordplay by no means fails him — and makes an attempt to conceive of the younger man’s motives. (“Overview: Salman Rushdie’s memoir is horrific, upsetting – and a masterpiece,” The Day by day Telegraph, fifteenth April 2024)
In truth, Rushdie’s wordplay by no means fails to be adolescent. And Matar’s “motives” actually aren’t as advanced or mysterious as Rushdie tries to fake. In The Satanic Verses, the character primarily based on the Prophet Muhammad bears one other piece of Rushdie’s adolescent wordplay. He’s known as Mahound. Get it? Rushdie resurrected a medieval European model of Muhammad’s title to affiliate Muhammad with canine, that are after all unclean animals in Muslim eyes (Mahound has additionally been repeatedly used by Christians to vilify Muhammad because the founding father of a false faith). Elsewhere in The Satanic Verses, there are prostitutes named after Mahound’s wives. A type of wives is useless and the prostitute named after her incites “necrophilia” in her purchasers, “who forbade her to make any actions.” Rushdie was mocking and subverting Islam. Orthodox Muslims have responded to the mockery and subversion in completely wholesome and predictable trend: by attempting to kill him.
The evils of Islam
It’s completely wholesome from the viewpoint of Islam, that’s. Orthodox Muslims imagine in being feared, not in being liked or admired for his or her tolerance. Whereas Christianity within the West tolerates abominations like Piss Christ (1987) and continues to decay and dwindle, Islam within the West responds with violence to abominations like The Satanic Verses and continues to develop in measurement, energy, and affect. There was a quite simple method of avoiding this drawback, however for apparent causes Rushdie and his supporters refuse to say it. Non-White Muslims ought to by no means have been allowed to colonize the West. As it’s, not solely have Muslims been allowed to colonize the West: they’re being closely backed to breed and to deepen the roots of their evil faith.
And I feel “evil” is a good description of Islam. Take this horrible story from fourteen years in the past:
My mum has at all times had a particular place in her household as a result of she was the primary woman to stay past childhood. 5 of her sisters died as infants or toddlers. It was not till a few years later that anybody labored out why so many youngsters died and three boys had been born deaf. At this time there is no such thing as a doubt amongst us that this tragedy occurred as a result of my grandparents had been first cousins. …My household is just not distinctive. Within the UK greater than 50 per cent of British Pakistanis marry their cousins – in Bradford that determine is 75 per cent – and throughout the nation the observe is on the rise and likewise widespread amongst East African, Center-Jap and Bangladeshi communities.
Again when my grandparents had been having youngsters, the medical information weren’t established. However at this time in Britain alone there are greater than 70 scientific research on the topic. We all know the kids of first cousins are ten occasions extra more likely to be born with recessive genetic issues which might embody toddler mortality, deafness and blindness.
We all know British Pakistanis represent 1.5 per cent of the inhabitants, but a 3rd of all youngsters born on this nation with uncommon recessive genetic ailments come from this neighborhood. Regardless of overwhelming proof, within the time I spent filming Dispatches: When Cousins Marry, I felt as if I used to be breaking a taboo slightly than addressing a actuality. Pakistanis have been marrying cousins for generations. …
All through I needed to remind myself that this can be a well being story – nothing extra. It’s not about faith or cultural id. It’s about avoidable struggling such at that skilled by Saeeda and Jalil Akhtar, whom I met in Bradford. They’re first cousins and have six youngsters, three with the genetic illness mucolipidosis sort IV. This stops the physique eliminating waste correctly and impacts mind capabilities controlling imaginative and prescient and motion.
Mohsin, their second eldest, is 17 and blind. He wanders aimless and helpless, usually crying in frustration. His sisters Hina, 13, and Zainab, 11, have the identical situation. They stay in nearly full darkness. Saeeda is worn down from years of round the clock care. She spoon-feeds them, attire them and fears for them. Neither she nor her husband can fairly settle for that their familial hyperlink is the reason for this ache.
This can be a main public well being problem that has large implications for different providers. The fee to the NHS is many thousands and thousands of kilos. On common, a youngsters’s hospital will see 20 to 30 recessive gene issues a decade, however one hospital in Bradford has seen 165, whereas British Pakistani youngsters are thrice extra more likely to have studying difficulties, with care costing about £75,000 a yr per baby. Nevertheless throughout this investigation we discovered no efforts to introduce any nationwide awareness-raising marketing campaign. Why? (“The best taboo: One girl lifts the lid on on the tragic genetic penalties of when first cousins marry,” The Day by day Mail, twenty third August 2010)
The reply to the query is straightforward. Why? As a result of leftists would a lot slightly enable youngsters to undergo horrifically than criticize a doubly sacred minority: brown-skinned Muslims. Leftism collaborates with the evil of Islam. For additional examples, take Asad Shah once more. If Rushdie had, per impossibile, tamed his egomania in Knife and written about Shah’s homicide, he would have needed to start the story with the death-sentence imposed in Pakistan on a Christian girl known as Asia Bibi. Her conviction for blasphemy in opposition to Islam was grossly and blatantly unfair, nevertheless it was enthusiastically supported by mainstream Muslim teams in Pakistan.
A mainstream mosque in Maryland honors the hero-martyr Mumtaz Qadri
When a Muslim politician known as Salmaan Taseer started to marketing campaign on Asia Bibi’s behalf, one in every of Taseer’s bodyguards expressed his disapproval by machine-gunning Taseer to dying. The bodyguard, Mumtaz Qadri, then peacefully surrendered to the authorities and calmly accepted his subsequent execution for homicide. His picture later appeared on a poster issued by a mainstream mosque in Maryland, USA. Pakistani colonists in America had been celebrating the anniversary of his dying and hailing him as a ghazi-shahid, a hero-martyr.
Headchopping for Muhammad
Are Salman Rushdie and his leftist admirers disturbed that Muslims in America are celebrating Mumtaz Qadri, a assassin for Muhammad and devoted enemy of free speech? They need to be. In any case, it’s sure that Qadri would simply as fortunately have machine-gunned Salman Rushdie as he machine-gunned Salmaan Taseer. However Rushdie and his fellow leftists have ignored the mosque in Maryland. They don’t wish to face the true scale of the catastrophe they’ve inflicted on the West. That’s additionally why Rushdie and his fellow leftists have ignored the homicide of Asad Shah in Glasgow, which was carried out in direct imitation of Mumtaz Qadri by a Pakistani migrant known as Tanveer Ahmed. That homicide earnt Ahmed the title of ghazi, “hero,” however Britain now not has the death-penalty, so he didn’t go on to develop into a shahid, “martyr,” too.
Many different Muslims in Britain could be very glad to earn the title of ghazi. That’s why a schoolteacher who labored within the Yorkshire city of Batley remains to be in hiding. He confirmed his religious-studies class some satirical cartoons of Muhammad in 2021 and roused the wrath of native “Islamists,” as conservatives and libertarians dishonestly name them. They’re not Islamists: they’re mainstream Muslims. And the death-threats they issued to the trainer had been completely plausible. In any case, a trainer known as Samuel Patey had not too long ago been beheaded by an “Islamist” in France after he was falsely accused of displaying blasphemous cartoons of Muhammad to one in every of his lessons. Libertarians and conservatives blame such murders not on Muslim migration however on “liberal cowardice.” We’ve acquired to behave robustly in protection of free speech and cease treating Muslims like youngsters. However a decadent Western state that enables mass migration by Third-World savages isn’t going to behave robustly in opposition to them.
To ask is to reply
And what if, per impossibile, Britain did start to “act robustly”? Suppose the state had responded to the death-threats in Batley by looking down and jailing those that had issued or impressed them. Would which have pacified or infected the scenario? Would the “Islamists” have been cowed or emboldened by this infidel persecution? Would these despatched to jail have seen the error of their methods and ended their sentences as staunch supporters of free speech? Merely to ask the questions is to reply them. There are solely two sorts of “sturdy motion” that may resolve the worsening Third-World pathologies within the West, together with the Muslim struggle on free speech. The primary is a direct and everlasting finish to Third-World migration into the West. The second is the deportation of all non-Whites now resident on Western soil again to their homelands.
However leftists and their libertarian allies can’t admit the reality. That’s why they’ll flip Knife right into a best-seller. It presents them comforting fantasy slightly than uncomfortable actuality. And observe that Rushdie can’t even be lifelike in regards to the central reality of the ebook: the murderous try on his personal life. He indulges in adolescent wordplay about “my would-be Murderer, the Asinine man who made Assumptions about me, and with whom I had a near-lethal Assignation.” However an “assignation” is agreed by each events. Rushdie didn’t comply with that assembly with a Third-World savage. It was imposed on him in opposition to his will. Simply as Third-World migration has been imposed on unusual Whites in opposition to their will by the hostile elites of Western nations. Not like Salman Rushdie, numerous unusual Whites haven’t survived their one-sided “assignations” with Third-World savages. I wrote about a type of unusual Whites in an earlier article about Rushdie and his “asinine murderer.” In the identical month because the tried homicide of Rushdie, an 87-year-old grandfather known as Thomas O’Halloran was murdered in a “surprising act of unprovoked violence” while using his “mobility scooter in broad daylight.” A Black profession prison known as Lee Byer is because of go on trial for the homicide.
A selection between reality and lies
Leftists ignored the precise homicide of Thomas O’Halloran, however wailed in shock and horror in regards to the tried homicide of Salman Rushdie. And now, in April 2024, they’re heaping reward on Rushdie’s Knife and ignoring the homicide of one other White grandfather by one other Third-World savage. A so-called asylum-seeker known as Ahmed Alid has simply been discovered responsible of murdering 70-year-old Terence Carney in October 2023. Like Hadi Matar, Salman Rushdie’s would-be murderer, Alid used a knife. Not like Matar, he was profitable in slaying an infidel for Islam.
Two Third-World savages imported by leftists: Hadi Matar and Ahmed Alid
However there will probably be no shut evaluation of Terence Carney’s homicide by leftists like Salman Rushdie. That’s why I can attain a easy conclusion. I don’t know the that means of life however I do know the that means of Knife. Rushdie’s tour-de-force is but extra proof of how leftists by no means hesitate when given a selection between reality and lies, between actuality and fantasy, between going through information and feeding their very own egos. It’s lies, fantasy and ego each time.
