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Offline Delfos

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Re: Sir Salman Rushdie...
« Reply #15 on: July 04, 2007, 05:10:28 AM »
my guess Tehran is one of the most socially advanced cities in middle east, probably the most advanced in whole region, where you have strong religion side but everything else runs like in a western country. Iranians are not radicals, less radicals than catholics i might say *points to inquisition*.

agreed with Myroria about sad society with info eating problem, although it's how we run, the way we get info isn't going to change for some centuries.

true that whoever knights it's their problem, but it's something the English should loose imo, 'lords chamber'? 'knights'? points to irreversible aristocracy, aristocracy rules the people, people have to eat it. All those ceremonies, knighting, lords chambers, court of justice where they use same outfits 300years ago or whatever. It's tradition i applaud it, but it's fit to a theater of reconstruction imo. It was this kind of things that led the English have million different things from other European countries that in my fucking honest opinion think they were made JUST to be different. "Oh the french use meters, let's use inches!" "The french use long scale, let's invent short scale!" "the french use euro, let's keep our dear coin!" "the french eat frogs, let's spread the word that eat frogs is disgusting!" ...things like that.

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Re: Sir Salman Rushdie...
« Reply #16 on: July 05, 2007, 01:06:50 PM »
SD, you could not be more correct.  Salman Rushdie was surely rolling in royalty checks by the time this got through the media circuits.

1. Islam is still a peaceful religion. The Iranians are radical, but don't let their actions fool you into thinking all Muslims are like that.

2. Some random author gets knighted and is discussed all about the world, and a genius like Syd Barrett dies and the world goes about their lives as usual? What a sad society we live in.

Myro, your insight quite nearly blinds me.  I am highly agreed on both counts (if that's even grammatically correct, which it probably isn't).

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Re: Sir Salman Rushdie...
« Reply #17 on: July 05, 2007, 10:57:16 PM »
1. Islam is still a peaceful religion. The Iranians are radical, but don't let their actions fool you into thinking all Muslims are like that.


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Re: Sir Salman Rushdie...
« Reply #18 on: July 05, 2007, 11:07:17 PM »
Ehehehehee... That reminds me that living in Christian State makes "Allah ackbar!" one of the funniest exclamations on certain occasions.
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Re: Sir Salman Rushdie...
« Reply #19 on: July 06, 2007, 09:03:53 PM »
Ehehehehee... That reminds me that living in Christian State makes "Allah ackbar!" one of the funniest exclamations on certain occasions.
I am using God is great instead of Allahu Akbar in the christian countries








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Re: Sir Salman Rushdie...
« Reply #20 on: July 07, 2007, 09:24:44 PM »
Who Britain knights is Britain's business, the major winner in all of this though is Rushdie, who will laugh all the way to the bank with the larger royalty checks this publicity will bring him.

Certainly.  I wonder if his book, The Satanic Verses, would have gotten nearly the recognition it had if the Iranians hadn't issued that decree for his death for blasphemy.  The Ayatollah really helped Rushdie out!  Aside from his living under the fear of possible assassination, I guess.

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Re: Sir Salman Rushdie...
« Reply #21 on: July 09, 2007, 01:30:10 PM »
True, that.  It is as they say: "There's no such thing as bad publicity."

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Re: Sir Salman Rushdie...
« Reply #22 on: July 09, 2007, 02:33:40 PM »
No, it's "The only bad publicity is no publicity."
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« Reply #23 on: July 09, 2007, 03:01:10 PM »
^ Also a good one.