You can take a man out of the Khyber, but you can't take the Khyber out of the man.
Imran Khan the Pathan descended ex cricketer and Pakistani politician, has sold himself in the West, as a highly articulate and 'liberal' Muslim. The truth about the real state of his 'liberalism' occasionally surfaces, but is immediately dropped by the left-wing 'intelligensia' who want to think of him as the urbane face of Pakistan.
However, western educated he may be, but liberal? Ah there's a question. A story on the BBC this week indicated that his 'liberalism' certainly doesn't extend to freedom of speech where the religion of his family are concerned. He has announced that he will not participate in a conference in India because the author Sir Salman Rushdie is due to speak there. He claims that the author had "caused immeasurable hurt to Muslims", by writing 'The Satanic Verses'.
Blowing up mosques and school buildings, suicide bombers, bloody civil wars, sectarian murders on an industrial scale, terrorism worldwide, ethnic genocide on non Muslim minorities from Turkey, and Iraq through to Pakistan ..... none of these have apparently "caused immeasurable hurt to Muslims," but writing a novel that no Muslim has ever read if they were religious, or was ever forced to read (and about which they actually know nothing about), apparently has.
Educated he may be, but just as full of self righteous hypocrisy as any ragged arse illiterate sheik in the Afghan foothills. Mr Khan has no real idea what a liberal and tolerant society consists of .... 'freedom of speech and religion'. That's only for Muslims to use to shout hate about to the rest of the world. However it can never never be used for anyone in the rest of the world, to criticise Islam .... he's not much different from the worst of them, often speaking out in favour of Sharia laws. Faking liberalism has always been easy, and fooling the left-wing intelligentsia of the West even easier .... most of them believed Stalin in the 1930's was liberal for gods sake.
Ironically Mr Rushdies participation was or is (he will probably receive death threats from exponents of the religion of peace), to be entitled "The Liberty Verses - I am What I am and That's All That I am".
Imran Khan the Pathan descended ex cricketer and Pakistani politician, has sold himself in the West, as a highly articulate and 'liberal' Muslim. The truth about the real state of his 'liberalism' occasionally surfaces, but is immediately dropped by the left-wing 'intelligensia' who want to think of him as the urbane face of Pakistan.
However, western educated he may be, but liberal? Ah there's a question. A story on the BBC this week indicated that his 'liberalism' certainly doesn't extend to freedom of speech where the religion of his family are concerned. He has announced that he will not participate in a conference in India because the author Sir Salman Rushdie is due to speak there. He claims that the author had "caused immeasurable hurt to Muslims", by writing 'The Satanic Verses'.
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Blowing up mosques and school buildings, suicide bombers, bloody civil wars, sectarian murders on an industrial scale, terrorism worldwide, ethnic genocide on non Muslim minorities from Turkey, and Iraq through to Pakistan ..... none of these have apparently "caused immeasurable hurt to Muslims," but writing a novel that no Muslim has ever read if they were religious, or was ever forced to read (and about which they actually know nothing about), apparently has.
Educated he may be, but just as full of self righteous hypocrisy as any ragged arse illiterate sheik in the Afghan foothills. Mr Khan has no real idea what a liberal and tolerant society consists of .... 'freedom of speech and religion'. That's only for Muslims to use to shout hate about to the rest of the world. However it can never never be used for anyone in the rest of the world, to criticise Islam .... he's not much different from the worst of them, often speaking out in favour of Sharia laws. Faking liberalism has always been easy, and fooling the left-wing intelligentsia of the West even easier .... most of them believed Stalin in the 1930's was liberal for gods sake.
Ironically Mr Rushdies participation was or is (he will probably receive death threats from exponents of the religion of peace), to be entitled "The Liberty Verses - I am What I am and That's All That I am".
