The Religion of Peace Never Forgets

Offense to Islam never ends apparently. Ask Salman Rushdie.

Daniel Pipes notes:

Hamid Ansari, deputy head of the Khomeini Archives said on Iranian state television that “Imam Khomeini’s fatwa on Salman Rushdie has historic significance for Islam. It was not just a fatwa; it was a verdict that still holds today.”

Comment: “Not just a fatwa” but “a verdict that still holds today”: this alludes to the fact that a fatwa’s sanction dies with the mufti who issues it. Not so, Ansari says, with the Rushdie edict.

Such lovely people.