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Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-19-07 09:21 PM
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Poll question: Which term best describes the Satanic Verses?
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Buzz Clik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-19-07 09:22 PM
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1. Other: a book I bought but never read.
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Wiley50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-19-07 09:23 PM
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2. Black Sabbath's Best Works
Edited on Sun Aug-19-07 09:28 PM by Wiley50
"We All Came Out To Montrose
on the Lake Geneva Shoreline
to make music with the Mothers.....

Frank Zappa and the Mothers
Had the Best Place Around
'til Some Stupid with a Flare Gun
Burned the Place to the Ground"


Slow Motion Walter
Farmers in Disguise............
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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-19-07 09:27 PM
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5. LOL!
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deadmessengers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-19-07 09:45 PM
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7. uhm... that's Deep Purple n/t
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Wiley50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-19-07 10:13 PM
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10. OOPS! You're Right! (Forgeting Gives Me Creds that I was Really There)
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-19-07 09:24 PM
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3. Oh good, we needed another "politically incorrect" poll
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Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-19-07 09:26 PM
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4. It's not in the thread title. It's simply one option in a poll.
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BleedingHeartPatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-19-07 09:28 PM
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6. Allegorical?
A pretty good book, all in all. MKJ
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Lilith Velkor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-19-07 10:06 PM
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8. Boring. n/t
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Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-19-07 10:11 PM
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9. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini would probably disagree with
that assessment, unless perhaps he was so bored that he wanted the author to be assassinated.
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Lilith Velkor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-19-07 10:24 PM
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11. Maybe if he were alive
Y'know, it's possible he got bored to death...

:yoiks:
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Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-19-07 10:42 PM
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13. He didn't challenge Rushdie to a duel.
Had he been bored to death, Rushdie's life might never have been in danger.
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CJCRANE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-20-07 07:03 AM
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17. The Ayatollah can't disagree with anything these days.
He's gone to meet his maker.
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Help me help Earth Donating Member (217 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-19-07 10:34 PM
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12. A mediocre book with good references to real life figures.
Cat Stevens and Yellowman both make appearances.
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BleedingHeartPatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-20-07 07:24 AM
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20. Maggie Thatcher gets a bit a of a lambasting, as well.
MKJ
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NuttyFluffers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-19-07 11:27 PM
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14. a tiresome book that survived on hype alone
when i finally read the "taboo book" i was so underwhelmed. just chalk it up to the zeitgeist getting a bout of dyspepsia. y'know, just like the reason why the Davinci Code became such a phenomenon.
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Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-20-07 06:53 AM
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16. Is it possible that Khomeini was also underwhelmed and
Edited on Mon Aug-20-07 07:31 AM by Boojatta
chose to threaten the author as a deliberate ploy to give publicity to the book and distract people from more intelligent published criticisms of Islam?
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Jed Dilligan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-20-07 12:39 AM
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15. Barely readable postmodernist claptrap
that could only survive on controversy. But I would defend to the death (and I mean to the death) his rights and his publisher's rights to write and distribute the book.
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spindoctor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-20-07 07:13 AM
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18. I can only agree.
And why are we still discussing this 10 years later?
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Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-20-07 07:44 AM
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21. Here's one reason why...
The honour was intended to recognise the contribution to literature by one of Britain's most high-profile - and much vilified - writers. But the government's decision to give Salman Rushdie a knighthood has generated the kind of international furore that once threatened to engulf his career and put his life at risk.

(...)

The Pakistan parliament called on the British government to reverse the decision or face further protests from Muslim nations.

(...)

He (Ijaz ul-Haq, Pakistan's minister for religious affairs) urged Muslim countries to break diplomatic ties with London.


Source:
"Rushdie knighthood rekindles 18-year-old controversy"
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2106133,00.html

Perhaps the people who planned and carried out the attacks of 9/11 also are the puppet masters who control Pakistan's minister for religious affairs?

:tinfoilhat:
:crazy:
:silly:
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spindoctor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-20-07 07:58 AM
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22. Has it been 18 years already?
Time flies.

Anyway, not all fanatical orthodox muslems were involved in 9/11. Most just talk the talk. Islamabad will not break diplomatic ties with London and neither will any other country based on these words.
Rushdi only has to fear from nutcase loose canons but I imagine that they have better things to do lately.
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InkAddict Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-20-07 07:17 AM
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19. Oh, for Pete's sake
it was FICTION! I enjoy Rushdie's writing and the creativity of his "politically incorrect" mind. If Satanic Verses was not PC, then certainly he deserves yet a double-whammy dose of it for Shalimar the Clown--equal time, yuh know.
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