Accusations of Islamophobia are being levelled at anyone who dares to speak out against the hate-filled rhetoric of Islamic fanaticism, Salman Rushdie has claimed in a speech condemning ISIS and this new age of religious mayhem. Rushdie voiced his fears that the language of jihadi-cool is seducing young British Muslims, many via Twitter and YouTube, into joining the decapitating barbarianism of Isil, the group also referred to as Islamic State or Isis. In his PEN/Pinter Prize Lecture, the author said all religions have their problems But the overwhelming weight of the problem lies in the world of Islam, and much of it has its roots in the ideological language of blood and war emanating from the Salafist movement within Islam, globally backed by Saudi Arabia. For these ideologues, modernity itself is the enemy, modernity with its language of liberty, for women as well as men, with its insistence of legitimacy in government rather than tyranny, and with its strong inclination towards secularism and away from religion. We live in a time when we are too frightened of religion in general, and one religion in particular - religion redefined as the capacity of religionists to commit earthly violence in the name of their unearthly sky god... in which the narrow pseudo-explications of religion, couched in the new - or actually very old - vocabulary of blasphemy and offence, have increasingly begun to set the agenda. telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/11152718/Salman-Rushdie-condemns-hate-filled-rhetoric-of-Islamic-fanaticism.html
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 05:26:09 +0000
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