Muslim rage over Rushdie continues

Muslim rage over the knighthood of Sir Salmon Rushdie by Britain continues throughout the Islamic world, with threats, flag burnings and craziness galore.. Things are obviously ramping for the big day on Friday, when the imams get will get a chance to incite the faithful at the mosques.

Here are a few more shots of the latest Islamo-tantrum:







Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned Britain's ambassador to Tehran to protest against the knighting of author Salman Rushdie, calling it a provocative act, according to the official IRNA news agency .

"This insulting, suspicious and improper act by the British government is an obvious example of fighting against Islam," Ebrahim Rahimpour, Foreign Ministry director for Western Europe, was quoted as telling British Ambassador Geoffrey Adams.

The Brits have apologized...well, sort of.

Foreign Secretary Margaret Becker said today that Britain was 'sorry' if people were upset over writer Salman Rushdie's knighthood, but insisted it was awarded for his entire literary career.

"Obviously we are sorry if there are people who have taken very much to heart this honor, which is after all for a lifelong body of literary work," she said.

Home Secretary John Reid, who spoke before Beckett said that Britain won't apologize for honoring Rushdie.

"We have very strong laws about promoting racial intolerance. It isn't a free-for-all. We've thought very carefully about it," he said.

"But we have a right to express opinions and a tolerance of other people's point of view and we don't apologize for that."

Rather a mild reaction, considering that one of the ministers of the Pakistani government sanctioned homicide bombings in Britain over this.

As I said, Friday will be the big day to see how huge this is going to be with the Religion of Peace..