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July 20, 2012

Salman Rushdie: My Safety Is More Important Than Yours
— Open Blogger

-Warden

Not-American critic of U.S. constitutional rights, Salman Rushdie, has a big giant brain and wants you to know it.

And so upon hearing about the slaughter in Aurora, Rushdie raced to Twitter to drop this thoughtful insight:

The Â‘right to bear armsÂ’ is the real Bane of America.

Rushdie, fretful that everyone might be too focused on the horror of a baby being shot in the back at point blank range to properly appreciate what he'd done, capitalized Bane just to make sure everyone got the clever wordplay.

Surprising to no one whomever, Rushdie has a different take on guns when it's his own safety that's on the line.

Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born author whose novel ''The Satanic Verses'' prompted Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to call for his death, has spent the past six months living in British intelligence safe houses, cut off from friends and protected by armed guards, friends have said.
Ms. Wiggins has been quoted as saying she and her husband are keeping diaries, stay in touch with their families and with world events, and always have at least one armed bodyguard with them.

I guess a woman who's being stalked by an abusive ex-husband who's vowed to kill her should just hire a couple of 24 hour a day armed bodyguards, huh?

Same goes for the guy running a convenience store in a bad neighborhood.

Just about every loudmouthed gun control advocating celebrity has similar access to firearm-toting muscle. But you? Well, tough titty if you can't afford to hire out your protection.

They're leftists, they're rich, and they think correct thoughts, you see. And membership has its privileges.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 04:43 PM | Comments (94)
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1 He isn't worth even these few ones and zeros.

Posted by: eman at July 20, 2012 05:03 PM (bbW7j)

2 He called the Koran the Satanic Verses. Of course he's an idiot.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at July 20, 2012 05:04 PM (uhAkr)

Memo to Rushdie! there is no statute of limitations on fatwas

Posted by: Krazy Kat at July 20, 2012 05:05 PM (Qr9Rc)

4 Lefties are hypocrites? Who would have guessed?

Posted by: Arms Merchant at July 20, 2012 05:08 PM (+XVQe)

5 I am about to drop a fatwa on his ass.

Posted by: Tom Jefferson at July 20, 2012 05:08 PM (RJu6v)

6 You guys took me out of context.

Posted by: Salman Rushdie at July 20, 2012 05:09 PM (+XVQe)

7 Someone needs to go all medieval on him.

Posted by: Max Wedge at July 20, 2012 05:10 PM (koMEC)

8 Salman Rushdie is the Joker of over-rated world writers.

It's a Riddler why he's not won the Nobel Prize.

Such a shame Padma Lakshmi dumped the Twoface.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at July 20, 2012 05:10 PM (IGYyt)

9 Wow...never thought I'd have anything in common with the Islamists.

Posted by: Ezra's Equal at July 20, 2012 05:10 PM (roTBi)

10 Shocked, shocked etc.

Posted by: your winnings, sir at July 20, 2012 05:11 PM (QupBk)

11 What a dumbfuck. Seriously, for the 400 millionth time, MURDERERS DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT GUN LAWS. How abyssally stupid do you have to be to come up with a fictional formulation where they do?

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 20, 2012 05:11 PM (qN9Zh)

12 To make matters worse, he used to bang this. http://tinyurl.com/7cm3arg There is no God.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 20, 2012 05:11 PM (Rhie+)

13 Nice post. We can get by without ace for a bit....

Posted by: USA at July 20, 2012 05:12 PM (6Cjut)

14 12...she holds that bone real nice and gentle-like...

Posted by: Max Wedge at July 20, 2012 05:12 PM (koMEC)

15 Hack writer strives for relevance.

Posted by: Jack at July 20, 2012 05:12 PM (wUFaM)

16 When your big claim to fame is being threatened with death by some demented Muslim, you're really nothing special these days. His book Satanic Verses was on an interesting period of Muslim history, but he's always been an idiot leftist literati type.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 20, 2012 05:13 PM (r4wIV)

17 Of course. Because our freedom is much better guaranteed by Sharia than by silly stuff like the 2nd Amendment.

Posted by: Arms Merchant at July 20, 2012 05:13 PM (+XVQe)

18 13 Nice post. We can get by without ace for a bit....

Posted by: USA at July 20, 2012 09:12 PM (6Cjut)

But the hobos shall suffer...

Posted by: Max Wedge at July 20, 2012 05:13 PM (koMEC)

19 I thought he was supposed to be this amazing writer and he's reduced to puns?

Posted by: AmishDude at July 20, 2012 05:13 PM (J5tI6)

20 And people like to say they're just shallow hypocrites, they're not really *that* stupid. Yes, they are that stupid. It's not just lack of ethics or crass selfishness, they left are drooling idiots. Because you can see them falling for these idiot arguments every damned day.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 20, 2012 05:13 PM (qN9Zh)

21 In honour of Salman's wisdom, I now pronounce every future May 20th, the "Salman Rushdie Everybody Draw Mohammad Naked Day!"

Posted by: Stateless_Infidel at July 20, 2012 05:13 PM (8UijS)

22 12...she holds that bone real nice and gentle-like... Posted by: Max Wedge at July 20, 2012 09:12 PM (koMEC) Huhuhuhuhuhuh..... you said "bone"...... huhhuhuhuhu

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 20, 2012 05:14 PM (Rhie+)

23 But...but...but...THE THEATRE HAD A SIGN SAYING NO GUNS ALLOWED, MAN!!!

Posted by: Stoopid Mooonbat Hippie at July 20, 2012 05:14 PM (koMEC)

24 2 He called the Koran the Satanic Verses. Of course he's an idiot.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at July 20, 2012 09:04 PM (uhAkr)

Um, no, he didn't do that. He wrote about the Satanic Verses *in* the Koran. He is, indeed, an idiot, and not a very good writer, and a big baby as well (contrast Geert Wilders), but he does know his Koran. And that's about all he knows.

Posted by: tcn at July 20, 2012 05:15 PM (eFcVx)

25 Salman Rushdie is news, how? Kill this fucker. Period.

Posted by: Kim Jongs' Dong. Tiny, verry tiny at July 20, 2012 05:17 PM (B1ATi)

26 You gotta include Ace's tweet about this: "Second look at fatwa?"

Posted by: Rex Harrison's Hat at July 20, 2012 05:17 PM (aqfuo)

27 For a brilliant guy, he's kind of stupid.

Posted by: real joe at July 20, 2012 05:18 PM (RJu6v)

28 Note: I'm not saying they're *not* hypocrites, I'm saying they're hypocrites *and* abyssally stupid.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 20, 2012 05:20 PM (qN9Zh)

29 Seriously, for the 400 millionth time, MURDERERS DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT GUN LAWS.

If there were tough enough gun laws, guns would be the ONE ITEM OF CONTRABAND that bad guys totally wouldn't be able to get. Oh yeah, I get it now.

I guess living in a fairy tale world relieves libtards of the taxing burden of actually thinking things through. For once in their miserable fucking lives.

Posted by: Cicero at July 20, 2012 05:21 PM (QKKT0)

30 Did that fatwa get cancelled, Mr. Rushdi, or did you make a special arrangement.

Posted by: Jack at July 20, 2012 05:22 PM (wUFaM)

31 The libs aren't really opposed to their bodyguards having icky guns, it's more they don't like the idea of conservatives having them.

Posted by: real joe at July 20, 2012 05:23 PM (RJu6v)

32 Salman Rushdie can go "Fuck" himself. Oh wait, did I do that wrong? Oh well, he can still go fuck himself. Gee, Sal, you wrote one overhyped book and got a bounty on your balding pate and now you're going to fucking lecture US on OUR laws? In the wake of a horror show like we saw today? Gosh, maybe the Iranians are more nuanced that I thought.

Posted by: UGAdawg at July 20, 2012 05:24 PM (WYOrt)

33 Logic of the Left, part MCMLXXXI:

Prohibition on drugs causes more crime, and people should have the right to damage themselves.

Gun control will reduce crime, and people shouldn't have the right to defend themselves.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at July 20, 2012 05:25 PM (mIoJ0)

34 Brits haven't banned pointy objects yet, have they?

How many Artful Dodgers must be stabbed before they come to their senses?!

Posted by: derit at July 20, 2012 05:26 PM (ruiF1)

35 You know, I bet his Twitter account was hacked....

Posted by: A Former U.S. Rep. from NY at July 20, 2012 05:26 PM (geTNO)

36 Kinda describes Congress.

Posted by: soamibutwhatare you?? at July 20, 2012 05:26 PM (bK81x)

37 The right to bear arms had been part of Brit common law for many centuries. I'm sure it just coincidence that the defacto collapse of their society happened to coincide with the most serious attacks on that right.

Posted by: @PurpAv at July 20, 2012 05:27 PM (ZS4z4)

38 Regarding the idea of gun ownership: I was reading through the Atlantic's archives of Civil War era stuff, and one interesting thing that has stuck with me was the words of a white officer who was the first to command black Union troops: "for there is nothing in human history so momentous as the transit of a race from chattel-slavery to armed freedom" Freedom with arms is freedom with power: that's what scared the Democrats then, and continues to scare them today because they do not trust and sometimes even condescendingly despise their fellow man. For anyone interested in the article-- http://tinyurl.com/buzzytm All their old Civil War stuff is pretty sweet. The current stuff is a slightly different story, but oh well.

Posted by: Taft at July 20, 2012 05:27 PM (6g29P)

39 To make matters worse, he used to bang this. http://tinyurl.com/7cm3arg There is no God. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 20, 2012 09:11 PM (Rhie+) He was fucking her, but she was fucking his wallet.

Posted by: eman at July 20, 2012 05:28 PM (bbW7j)

Their answer to every problem is, "Become part of the ruling elite."

Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at July 20, 2012 05:29 PM (2Oas0)

41 Brits haven't banned pointy objects yet, have they?

Every once in a while, yes, they do have a ban on a certain kind of knife.

No, I am not kidding.

Posted by: AmishDude at July 20, 2012 05:29 PM (J5tI6)

42 in Bulgarian, the words for 'suck my thorny cock' are "Salman rushdie"

Posted by: Major _________ de Coverly at July 20, 2012 05:30 PM (Dll6b)

43 Taft- Thanks. That made my day better

Posted by: USA at July 20, 2012 05:30 PM (6Cjut)

44 Their answer to every problem is, "Become part of the ruling elite."Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse

"Have you seen the price of arugula?" B.O.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at July 20, 2012 05:31 PM (mIoJ0)

45 Gun control will work no better than drug control.

Posted by: eman at July 20, 2012 05:31 PM (bbW7j)

46 I concur USA. Nice one Taft.

Posted by: teej at July 20, 2012 05:32 PM (0SHei)

When the government gets around to giving me my own business, I'm gonna hang a sign in the window that says "No gun crimes permitted in this establishment".

Then when people ask about the stupid sign I can ask them if they really think it would be any less effective than a sign prohibiting guns.

Posted by: gebrauchshund at July 20, 2012 05:34 PM (iYwUw)

48 Good one.

Posted by: Dion at July 20, 2012 05:35 PM (q+FIa)

49 Gun control will work no better than drug control. Posted by: eman at July 20, 2012 09:31 PM (bbW7j) Immeasurably worse. Productive, well-adjusted, popular and thoughtful people do not, in large numbers, consider fighting their own government over availability of pot. A significant number of the citizens who make things work and support our government would become its enemies, at least politically and in terms of public propaganda. The consequences would be horrific, politically and economically, even leaving aside the issue of political violence (on both sides of the issue).

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 20, 2012 05:35 PM (qN9Zh)

50 If the simple presence of guns caused crime then why did Switzerland have more killings or attempted killings involving bladed weapons (69) then by firearm (34) when every one and their Swiss Mountain Dog is issued a gun by the government. (Stats from wikipedia via polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik der Schweiz (PKS))

Posted by: Ed Wood VS Godzilla at July 20, 2012 05:35 PM (pop1z)

51 Gun control will work no better than drug control.

I have a David Truby book with a bunch of picture in it of expedient guns manufactured by prisoners in the Canadian prison system while they were still in prison.

Making something that goes bang isn't that hard. Anyone with a moderate set of hand tools and some scrap steel and patience can do it.

Posted by: @PurpAv at July 20, 2012 05:37 PM (ZS4z4)

52 I remember when I tried to read 'The Satanic Verses' just to see what the fuss was about. To call it dull would be giving it an upgrade.

Posted by: epobirs at July 20, 2012 05:38 PM (kcfmt)

53 Isn't murder illegal, Mr. Rushdie? Then why are you hiding?

Posted by: t-bird at July 20, 2012 05:38 PM (FcR7P)

54 He is a douchebag. I cleared him years ago off a flight. He put his briefcase over his head when he walked off the plane, exited rampside off the jetway and was escorted by police out of the airport. Next day he was in the paper dancing in a club drinking and having fun. Really afraid for his life. He is an asshole, a self important one. His opinion means squat. Another assclown spotted. More to follow. Bloomberg is one too.

Posted by: assclownspotter at July 20, 2012 05:39 PM (Gng1W)

55 Posted this on my blog and something similar on FB.

So far the only class acts about Aurora, CO have come from Obama, Romney, and the NRA. As in they are offering condolences and prayers.

For the pond scum who have raced to clamber atop the still warm bodies of the victims to push their cause like Garibaldi waving his bloody shirt, I have one thing to say - "Have you no shame?"

Of course they don't. All things are politics first and always for them. They don't care who they hurt as long as they push their agenda. They are monsters in their own right. Lets all take a moment to pray for the victims and families. Go donate blood for your community and dedicate it to those in Aurora. CO. Move forward in a positive way for all those affected.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 20, 2012 05:40 PM (vPI6Y)

56 Last time I checked, Vermont had no significant gun control laws of its own, relying primarily on the existing Federal legislation. i.e you could carry concealed or openly in VT without any permits or licenses from the state.

VT is loaded with guns, and anyone could be packing, yet is not a slaughterhouse.

Posted by: @PurpAv at July 20, 2012 05:40 PM (ZS4z4)

57 So why do all these rich ruling-class folks have such little penises and nearly no discernible balls? I'm just asking here.

Posted by: tcn at July 20, 2012 05:42 PM (eFcVx)

58 Good post Warden.

Posted by: Journolist at July 20, 2012 05:42 PM (WzLTm)

59 Gun control, drug control, price control, micromanaging environmentalism all stem from the modern leftist notion that every facet of reality can be bent to fit their desires, if they only get the chance to make a rule that says so. This is what happens when personalities frightened of things like objective, stubborn reality, human nature, the laws of economics, an uncaring universe and other such big scary things get into politics. Instead of dealing with their neuroses people want to make more rules to make everything safe, failing to imagine that reality might dare to disobey their rules.

Posted by: kartoffel at July 20, 2012 05:43 PM (OgNv0)

60 "Staunch gun-control advocate Rosie O'Donnell insisted her personal body guard be issued a carry permit to protect herself and her children. "

Ted Kennedy's bodyguards used to illegally carry Uzis.

The goal of the left is to punish, terrorize, and ultimately destroy the middle class. That requires us to be victims.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at July 20, 2012 05:43 PM (uhAkr)

61 VT is loaded with guns, and anyone could be packing, yet is not a slaughterhouse.

Posted by: @PurpAv at July 20, 2012 09:40 PM (ZS4z4)

That's WHY it is not a slaughterhouse. So why aren't we parading this in front of all the douchnozzle libtards?

Posted by: tcn at July 20, 2012 05:43 PM (eFcVx)

62 James Taranto is slicing up Brian Ross on twitter: "James Taranto ‏@jamestaranto There's a Facebook page for a James Holmes of Aurora, Colo., a personal trainer. Interesting that @brianross didn't falsely accuse him."

Posted by: USA at July 20, 2012 05:44 PM (6Cjut)

63 So, Rushdie, can we assume that you're no longer surrounded by burly men packing heat? Interesting......

Posted by: Zombie Ayatollah at July 20, 2012 05:45 PM (fBsx6)

64 Right on, Rushdie. Gotta save yourself!

Posted by: That Dude Who Left His Baby On The Theater Floor And Drove Off. at July 20, 2012 05:46 PM (wsGWu)

65 Ace deserves a Pulitzer for this one: "I must be doing something wrong-- can you teach me how to fuck things up like a pro? @brianross"

Posted by: USA at July 20, 2012 05:47 PM (6Cjut)

66 How can Ace go on vacation when our public employees are suffering so much?

Posted by: Marry Cloggindrain from Drano VT at July 20, 2012 05:47 PM (h1lXu)

67 Warden - I think Mr. Rushdie should take a look at the ONT where Maetenloch listed how many people were killed as a result of World War I and World War II. Perhaps socialism turned to nationalism fused with fascism and communism registers more as a threat to our nation.

Posted by: Journolist at July 20, 2012 05:48 PM (WzLTm)

68 Ms. Wiggins, eh?

Posted by: Mr. Tudball at July 20, 2012 05:48 PM (2d71t)

69 It's not like I'd get a chance to talk to Rushdie, but I imagien I'd ask something like "I assume you only want to deny other people the ability to defend themselves, not yourself? So you're keeping the armed guards? Not going alone to Iran or anything like that?" He's a whining little piss-pot of a coward.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 20, 2012 05:48 PM (qN9Zh)

70 Hey! Obama said it could have happened to his kids too! Of course, he lied, as he and they have SS protection...

Posted by: Baldy at July 20, 2012 05:50 PM (kLFZR)

71 James Taranto linked to this post from twitter, calling Rushdie a hypocrite.

Posted by: USA at July 20, 2012 05:59 PM (6Cjut)

72 I know it's a Friday night, but dayum is this place dead.

Posted by: Brian Ross at July 20, 2012 05:59 PM (GEICT)

73 Damn sock.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at July 20, 2012 06:00 PM (GEICT)

74 I had a book store at the time his book came out and all the uproar started. It caught me by surprise, so, on general principles, I brought a copy home. It is unreadable. Almost as bad as Ulysses. The fact that it is a 1st edition is the only reason I still have it.

Posted by: Pecos at July 20, 2012 06:00 PM (2Gb0y)

I know it's a Friday night, but dayum is this place dead.

Wait till the bars close, it'll fill up.

Posted by: USS Diversity at July 20, 2012 06:01 PM (2d71t)

76 "[M]en can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them."

Geo. Orwell

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at July 20, 2012 06:01 PM (mIoJ0)

77 Rushdie will receive the Nobel Peace Prize...he has united Islamists, Christians, and Jews....ALL want his miserable, effete, squat to piss ass gone.

Posted by: redgrains at July 20, 2012 06:04 PM (TExGL)

78 James Taranto linked to this post from twitter

Shit, do we have to put our pants on now or something?

Posted by: Waterhouse at July 20, 2012 06:05 PM (ftTJ7)

79 Latest word is that the killer was known to be dangerously insane. But thanks to liberals, it's impossible to commit someone like that until after they kill. So liberals create the problem, blame us for the problem, and use that problem as an excuse to take away our freedom. Funny how liberals always care more about the rights of criminals and monsters than of ordinary decent people.

Posted by: pst314 at July 20, 2012 06:06 PM (mFPMV)

80 #77: Here's another great Orwell quote that seems appropo... "There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them."

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at July 20, 2012 06:06 PM (3yCFy)

81 80 Latest word is that the killer was known to be dangerously insane. But thanks to liberals, it's impossible to commit someone like that until after they kill. So liberals create the problem, blame us for the problem, and use that problem as an excuse to take away our freedom. I said earlier and I'll say again, this simply isn't true here in FL. You can have someone forcibly committed for up to 72 hrs for evaluation. Referred to as "Baker Acting" someone.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at July 20, 2012 06:09 PM (GEICT)

82 Hey, maybe we could outlaw murder, too? I assume Rushdie would support that, and therefore no one would ever kill anyone again...

Posted by: Paul Morphy at July 20, 2012 06:19 PM (3/Jl7)

83 They need to pass a law against breaking the law against breaking the law against breaking the law against breaking the law against killing people. *That'll* do it.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 20, 2012 06:22 PM (qN9Zh)

Nobody would have ever heard of him had he not got threatened. Yet like so many elitist prick gun control idiots who scream about guns, they have their own security. Rules are for the little people. Hey Sallyman. How about you get rid of your security and walk around unarmed, then we'll talk. Right after the Jihadi's make a sequel to Nick Berg and Daniel Pearl. Fucking hypocrite.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 20, 2012 06:25 PM (tmbXy)

85 At least Salman would be safe walking into a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts, am I right? Even in good old Scranton, where I was born, and where my good buddy Jack Murtha would tell you pretty much everybody's a redneck and a racist. Hey, stand up, Jack; let 'em see you!

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 20, 2012 06:33 PM (3yCFy)

86 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at July 20, 2012 07:18 PM (6o4Fb)

87 I said it on Twitter about Piers Morgan and I reiterate to Rushdie,FUCK YOU LIMEY,STAY IN THE UK,cocksuckers.

Posted by: steevy at July 20, 2012 07:20 PM (6o4Fb)

88 Everyone knows that Sal Bass is a better writer than Salman Rushdie anyway.

Posted by: SalvucciFumbles at July 20, 2012 10:31 PM (9ROHq)

89 "A quote advanced to support the armed populace fantasy is from Mohandas Gandhi, the leader of nonviolent resistance to British rule in India. His objective of Independence was achieved in 1947. Gandhi wrote in Chapter XXVII, "The Recruiting Campaign," in his autobiography, My Experiments with Truth: 'Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.'" Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was sent out to confront AK-47 wielding drug gangs with bean bags instead of bullets. Hey Obama - set an example by having your Secret Service protectors carry bean bags instead of bullets. Rushdie is a greatest novelist, but he is still a dick.

Posted by: Lionel Manboobs at July 21, 2012 05:54 AM (kyzl0)

90 Let this asshole fend for himself. Then we'll see for sure how effective gun control is.

Posted by: Dirty Old Man at July 21, 2012 06:58 AM (96HSt)

91 I always hoped that the fatwa would not get rushdie just so that the mullahs would be frustrated at not getting their "justice". Now, not so much...

BTW, his 15 minutes of fame had long expired, so, he had to raise him limp widdle wrist and wave him manicured widdle hand to say look at me the dangerous muslim who pissed off the mullahs, I am still here only now I am going to piss off thos ignorant redneck Amercians.

Posted by: Will Not Assimilate For Food at July 21, 2012 07:06 AM (kXoT0)

92 Actually, Rushdie's an atheist. He was born Shia, but quit the religion sometime before publishing The Satanic Verses. After the fatwa was issued, he apologized and briefly called himself a Muslim again to try to get the heat off him. It didn't work, so he went back to atheism.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at July 21, 2012 08:48 AM (3yCFy)

93 Of course every American has the right to a 100 round rifle magazine.

Posted by: occam at July 21, 2012 10:03 AM (71sq+)

94 I asked him to STFU on the twitter and he went all daisy on me. Got a lot of nice interaction from people who seem to appreciate shitty novels, though. Seems he is a "great man" and I am an asshole.

Posted by: MetricButtload at July 21, 2012 01:32 PM (S5gc7)

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