Gothamist: See Salman, Say Something

Clarice City

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:02:53 -0500

Salman looks really cute in that picture.

str1cken

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:27:15 -0500

Oh, my anti-Islamic and anti-Christian friends, can't we find common ground in the idea that religious fundamentalists of every stripe are cuckoo and dangerous? In other news, book agent in the restaurant? Holy blame the victim, batman!

Spiny

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:30:38 -0500

Unfortunately for your argument, The Edge, Salman Rushdie never had his head lopped off or his body dragged through a street, and he never got blown up in a shopping district. He did, however, have his life made much harder by the intolerance of a religious group. Just like a lot of people I know -- including Muslims, and also Jews, atheists, gay men and lesbians, people who are perceived as being gay men and lesbians but are not, unmarried mothers, would-be unmarried mothers, and yours truly, who was snubbed and openly criticized in high school by the overwhelmingly Baptist student body for being a non-Christian -- have had their lives made more difficult by members of another religious group. Some so-called Muslims have strapped bombs to children and blown up people in shopping districts. Some so-called Christians have abducted gay men, savagely beaten them, broken their bones, and dragged them behind vehicles, leaving them for dead. What's the difference? Violence is violence, depravity is depravity, hate is hate, and intolerance is intolerance, whether that intolerance emerges in acts of violence or in threats and verbal abuse. None of it should be tolerated by people of any religious faith (or lack thereof) who consider themselves accepting of human difference.

The Edge

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:41:01 -0500

#6- So you're going to compare shit that happened hundreds of years ago to shit that still goes on today? Yeah, the west still does fucked up shit, but lopping heads on video, burning and dragging bodies through streets, and sending kids with bombs strapped on them so they can blow themselves up in the middle of shopping districts isn't exactly "tolerance".

yg

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:08:35 -0500

Just like the crusades and the inquisition are testaments of the christian tolerance, Ides?

ides_of_march

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:30:37 -0500

Salman Rushie, a walking testament to Islamic tolerance.

mocanlagunas

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:10:45 -0500

He doesn't have a fatwa anymore... He does have a fat wallet, I guess...

citizenerased

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:47:43 -0500

Thats Salbass not Salman

mrguy

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:47:22 -0500

it was probably just Sal Bass.

thenamesdave

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:21:46 -0500

I don't know why, but I LOVED "See Salman, Say Something."