Bari: Satanic Verses “should have been pulped”

In an interview with the Telegraph, the head of the Muslim Council of Britain Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari complains that the government and media are creating “an air of suspicion and unease” about the Muslim community”. He appears to be blissfully unaware of his own contribution to this atmosphere.

Asked about Salman Rushdie’s knighthood, he said:

He caused a huge amount of distress and discordance with his book, it should have been pulped.

His attitude to Islamic hate literature, however, is far more liberal-minded:

The bookshops are independent businesses. We can’t just go in and tell them what to sell … I will see what books they keep, if they have one book which looks like it is inciting hatred, do they have counter books on the same shelf?

Fair enough. Pity he cannot see the contradiction.


6 Responses to “Bari: Satanic Verses “should have been pulped””

  1. R G says:

    I guess it’s too much to ask for joined-up thinking from religionists – but that’s kinda the crux of the problem, isn’t it?

  2. marc says:

    Relgion is to people what blinkers are to horses.

  3. Dan Factor says:

    Typical double standards. Books which offend Muslims should be pulped but we cannot tell bookshops which sell Islamic hate litrature what to sell.
    Didnt the MCB tell bookshops not to stock the Satanic Verus?

  4. marc says:

    Maybe we should write a letter in which we suggest that we’ll pulp the 1 copy of the Satanic Verses for every 1 copy of the Koran we pulp.

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  6. British Patriot says:

    Time and again these sort of people prove that Dr Watson was correct,Only today we had Trevor Philips saying that People had died to Preserve freedom of speech in this country, not to have People like the BNP making speeches at the Oxford University…