A group of hardline Pakistani Muslim clerics has bestowed a religious title on Osama bin Laden in response to a British knighthood for the author Salman Rushdie.
A group of clerics, the Pakistan Ulema Council, has given bin Laden the title “Saifullah,” or sword of Allah, in response to the honor for Rushdie, the council’s chairman said on Thursday.
“If a blasphemer can be given the title ‘Sir’ by the West despite the fact he’s hurt the feelings of Muslims, then a mujahid who has been fighting for Islam against the Russians, Americans and British must be given the lofty title of Islam, Saifullah,” the chairman, Tahir Ashrafi, told Reuters.
Don’t you love religious “leaders” who rely on the same crap as professional patriots. Keep the True Believers happy and you get to stay in power.
Been waiting for a long time to hear from clerics denouncing Bin Laden and the hijacking of their religion.
waiting… waiting… still waiting
#18 – hhopper,
Just remember that I already have the patent on the idea. So, just send me $50 off the top for each of your customers.
#19 – RBG,
No thanks on the art over the fireplace. I think it has already been done. Think Han Solo …
As for any war you’re attributing to me, please let me know what I’ve said that makes you think I’m violent? I’m more in line with the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement,, though not actually a member.
http://www.vhemt.org/
#18, you also beat me too it. That was my first thought.
I guarantee 21m3 of organic-free mud, carefully monitored in an oxygen free environment until all traces of moisture have been chemically and mechanically removed, followed by encasement in concrete and finally burial in a guaranteed non-development site…..
…Aw crap, I’ll just have you stuffed for 100 bucks.
May be I can hire a bunch of illegal immigrants to carve my likeness into the side of a mountain. I should probably do this before the immigrants are shipped back into their own country.
How about atheist bring back the Roman games where muslims and christians fight to the death. The WWE would have a hard time competing with that.
#20, Glib, Milo – I would have agreed back in the time of Satanic Verses; but, his later stuff has been pretty good. Prizewinners in their own right..
My question to them would be: Feel any better now?