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Say, produce your proof, if what you say is true. (Al Quran 2:111, 27:64)
Promoted post: In the Face of the Cartoon Row: Collection of Articles: Freedom of Speech — A Core Islamic Value! And: Salman Rushdie’s Tragedy: Is It Continued Holy War or Crusade Between Christianity, Islam and Now Atheism?
President Biden and the first lady, Jill Biden, issued a statement later in the day saying they were “shocked and saddened” upon hearing of the attack on Mr. Rushdie. They pledged their solidarity with the writer and emphasized “the ability to share ideas without fear.”
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT – Salman Rushdie, 75, is on a ventilator and unable to speak following hours of surgery after the novelist was stabbed onstage at a lecture in New York state https://t.co/JZdBfGQVWB pic.twitter.com/Z2nnrpIrrU
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 13, 2022
You can strongly detest Salman Rushdie’s work, yet passionately condemn attacks on him. The two are not mutually exclusive.
Here is a piece I wrote after Charlie Hebdo to explain 5 salient features of free speech as taught by Islam. https://t.co/rpGY8ZFAxO
— Kashif N Chaudhry (@KashifMD) August 12, 2022
The cowardly attack on Salman Rushdie is a strike on the freedom of expression that our world relies on. No one should be threatened or harmed on the basis of what they have written. I’m wishing him a speedy recovery.
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) August 13, 2022
Like many of you, I’m thinking about Salman Rushdie now.
The threat he has lived under for so long–which was so horrifically realized today–was the product, not merely of the hatred and zeal of religious fanatics…
— Sam Harris (@SamHarrisOrg) August 13, 2022
For 33 years, Salman Rushdie has embodied freedom and the fight against obscurantism. He has just been the victim of a cowardly attack by the forces of hatred and barbarism. His fight is our fight; it is universal. Now more than ever, we stand by his side.
— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) August 12, 2022
Appalled that Sir Salman Rushdie has been stabbed while exercising a right we should never cease to defend.
Right now my thoughts are with his loved ones. We are all hoping he is okay.
— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) August 12, 2022
In response to the attack on that admirable gentleman Sir Salman Rushdie, I reproduce an article I wrote in 2012. I’m also reminded of Archbishop George Carey’s infamously cowardly attack on The Satanic Verses as an “outrageous slur on the Prophet”.https://t.co/8Y2iMY6bAE
— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) August 12, 2022
‘The attack on Salman Rushdie on-stage in New York is deeply shocking. What happened in New York today cannot be allowed to win. The illiterate cannot be allowed to dictate the rules of literature’
✍️ Douglas Murrayhttps://t.co/imSggK1lkm
— The Spectator (@spectator) August 12, 2022
Attack on Salman Rushdie is condemnable. Regardless of theological differences, no one deserves to be assaulted in any shape or form.
Ubay bin sulool verbally abused the Holy Prophet of Islam (sa), and yet he (sa) forgave him. That’s my prophet and the Islam he brought.
— Murabbi Faran Rabbani (@Faran_Rabbani) August 13, 2022
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— TheMuslimTimes (@TheMuslimTimes2) July 17, 2017
Attack on Salman Rushdie is condemnable. Regardless of theological differences, no one deserves to be assaulted in any shape or form.
Ubay bin sulool verbally abused the Holy Prophet of Islam (sa), and yet he (sa) forgave him. That’s my prophet and the Islam he brought.
— Murabbi Faran Rabbani (@Faran_Rabbani) August 13, 2022
Categories: Blasphemy, Free Speech, hate speech
When , it comes the time of punishing the insolvent person , all are either condemning or be silent . It is strange that those who were propagating that murder in the name of insolence , is so good that the best at least 72 ladies of heaven , wait for the killer with their arms wide open , are choosing the path of responsibility ? Those who brought the ummah to the road for murder , and made promise the showering the ram of rewards , are also making a chorus of condemnation ! What message they are giving ? Should it be believed that finally they have agreed with the views of ahmadiyya muslim community that there is no worldly punishment for insolvent in the holy quran and sayings of the prophet SAW ? Or it is the path of hypocrisy that there is one islam in the muslim majority society and just opposite islam in the muslim minority society ? If the first probability is true , it is the beginning of much awaited new era , a era of peace , tolerance and brotherhood . If second probability is true , should hypocrisy be accepted ? Should ideology of hypocrisy be survived ? Blasphemy laws are blot on the face of human values . It opens the doors of lawlessness . Is calling the son of god , merely a prophet , not the insult of christian ideology ? So , if peace and order is to be established , and to save the muslim emotional youths to become murders of human values , the civilized world must address the blasphemy .