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Salman Rushdie n'est pas mort encore(peut etre le prix sur sa tete n'est pas assez eleve).Salman Rushdie parle meme de rushdisation elargie,sa vulgarisation.Ecoutez le plutot.
Heureux fin de Ramadan,car ces derniers jours sont les plus benis,surtout les longues nuits de priere.
S Keita
No More Fanaticism as Usual
November 27, 2002
By SALMAN RUSHDIE
It's been quite a week in the wonderful world of Islam.
Nigerian Islam's encounter with that powerhouse of
subversion, the Miss World contest, has been unedifying, to
put it mildly. First some of the contestants had the nerve
to object to a Shariah court's sentence that a Nigerian
woman convicted of adultery be stoned to death and
threatened to boycott the contest - which forced the
Nigerian authorities to promise that the woman in question
would not be subjected to the lethal hail of rocks. And
then Isioma Daniel, a Christian Nigerian journalist, had
the effrontery to suggest that if the prophet Muhammad were
around today, he might have wanted to marry one of these
swimsuit hussies himself.
Well, obviously, that was going too far. True-believing
Nigerian Muslims then set about the holy task of killing,
looting and burning while calling for Ms. Daniel to be
beheaded, and who could blame them? Not the president of
Nigeria, who put the blame squarely on the shoulders of the
hapless journalist. (Germaine Greer and other British-based
feminists, unhappy about Miss World's decision to move the
event to London, preferred to grouse about the beauty
contest. The notion that the killers, looters and burners
should be held accountable seems to have escaped notice.)
Meanwhile, in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hashem
Aghajari, a person with impeccable Islamist credentials - a
leg lost in battle and a résumé that includes being part of
the occupying force that seized the Great Satan's Tehran
embassy back in the revolution's salad days - languishes
under a sentence of death imposed because he criticized the
mullahs who run the country. In Iran, you don't even have
to have cheeky thoughts about the prophet to be worthy of
being killed. The hearts of true believers are maddened a
lot more easily than that. Thousands of young people across
the country were immature enough to protest against Mr.
Aghajari's sentence, for which the Supreme Leader,
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, duly rebuked them. (More than
10,000 true believers marched through Tehran in support of
hard-line Islam.)
Meanwhile, in Egypt, a hit television series, "Horseman
Without a Horse," has been offering up antiSemitic
programming to a huge, eager audience. That old forgery,
"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" - a document
purporting to prove that there really is a secret Jewish
plot to take over the world, and which was proved long ago
to have been faked by Czar Nicholas II's secret police - is
treated in this drama series as historical fact.
Yes, this is the same Egypt in which the media are
rigorously censored to prevent anything that offends the
authorities from seeing the light of day. But hold on just
a moment. Here's the series' star and co-writer, Mohammed
Sobhi, telling us that what is at stake is nothing less
than free speech itself, and if his lying show "terrified
Zionists," well, tough. He'll make more programs in the
same vein. Now there's a gutsy guy.
Finally, let's not forget the horrifying story of the Dutch
Muslim woman, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who has had to flee the
Netherlands because she said that Muslim men oppressed
Muslim women, a vile idea that so outraged Muslim men that
they issued death threats against her.
Is it unfair to bunch all these different uglinesses
together? Perhaps. But they do have something in common.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali was accused of being "the Dutch Salman
Rushdie," Mr. Aghajari of being the Iranian version, Isioma
Daniel of being the Nigerian incarnation of the same demon.
A couple of months ago I said that I detested the
sloganization of my name by Islamists around the world. I'm
beginning to rethink that position. Maybe it's not so bad
to be a Rushdie among other "Rushdies." For the most part
I'm comfortable with, and often even proud of, the company
I'm in.
Where, after all, is the Muslim outrage at these events? As
their ancient, deeply civilized culture of love, art and
philosophical reflection is hijacked by paranoiacs,
racists, liars, male supremacists, tyrants, fanatics and
violence junkies, why are they not screaming?
At least in Iran the students are demonstrating. But where
else in the Muslim world can one hear the voices of the
fair-minded, tolerant Muslim majority deploring what
Nigerian, Egyptian, Arab and Dutch Muslims are doing?
Muslims in the West, too, seem unnaturally silent on these
topics. If you're yelling, we can't hear you.
If the moderate voices of Islam cannot or will not insist
on the modernization of their culture - and of their faith
as well - then it may be these so-called "Rushdies" who
have to do it for them. For every such individual who is
vilified and oppressed, two more, ten more, a thousand more
will spring up. They will spring up because you can't keep
people's minds, feelings and needs in jail forever, no
matter how brutal your inquisitions. The Islamic world
today is being held prisoner, not by Western but by Islamic
captors, who are fighting to keep closed a world that a
badly outnumbered few are trying to open. As long as the
majority remains silent, this will be a tough war to win.
But in the end, or so we must hope, someone will kick down
that prison door.
Salman Rushdie is author, most recently, of "Step Across
This Line."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/27/opinion/27RUSH.html?ex=1039521235&ei=1&en=3c0c8ec73716d24c
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