Muslims protesting for Rushdie’s knighthood(UPDATED)

Photos from AP h/t JihadWatch:

In England:

Muslims protest outside Regents Park Mosque in central London against the knighthood of Salman Rushdie. Friday June 22, 2007. Muslims angered by Britain’s decision to honor author Salman Rushdie with a knighthood held a rally in London Friday, warning the furor threatens to match the fierce reaction to publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in Denmark in 2006. Also Friday, a high-level Iranian hard-line cleric declared that the religious edict calling for Rushdie’s killing remains in place and cannot be revoked, and he warned Britain was defying the Islamic world by granting the honor. (AP Photo/Will Wintercross).

Muslims protest outside Regents Park Mosque in central London against the knighthood of Salman Rushdie. Friday June 22, 2007. Muslims angered by Britain’s decision to honor author Salman Rushdie with a knighthood held a rally in London Friday, warning the furor threatens to match the fierce reaction to publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in Denmark in 2006. Also Friday, a high-level Iranian hard-line cleric declared that the religious edict calling for Rushdie’s killing remains in place and cannot be revoked, and he warned Britain was defying the Islamic world by granting the honor. (AP Photo/Will Wintercross).

Female Muslims stand behind their placards as they protest outside Regents Park Mosque in central London against the knighthood of Salman Rushdie. Friday June 22, 2007. Muslims angered by Britain’s decision to honor author Salman Rushdie with a knighthood held a rally in London Friday, warning the furor threatens to match the fierce reaction to publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in Denmark in 2006. Also Friday, a high-level Iranian hard-line cleric declared that the religious edict calling for Rushdie’s killing remains in place and cannot be revoked, and he warned Britain was defying the Islamic world by granting the honor. (AP Photo/Will Wintercross).

Muslims protest outside Regents Park Mosque in central London against the knighthood of Salman Rushdie. Friday June 22, 2007. Muslims angered by Britain’s decision to honor author Salman Rushdie with a knighthood held a rally in London Friday, warning the furor threatens to match the fierce reaction to publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in Denmark in 2006. Also Friday, a high-level Iranian hard-line cleric declared that the religious edict calling for Rushdie’s killing remains in place and cannot be revoked, and he warned Britain was defying the Islamic world by granting the honor. (AP Photo/Will Wintercross).

UPDATE: They also burned St.George’s Cross:

Muslims burned the flag of St George and called for the Queen to ‘Go to Hell’ in a furious rally held in London over Salman Rushdie’s knighthood.

In Pakistan:

Pakistani lawyers hold a rally to condemn the British government for awarding knighthood to British author Salman Rushdie in Lahore, Pakistan.  The decision to award Rushdie a knighthood has sparked a harsh reaction throughout much of the Muslim world. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)

Activists of the Pakistan Awami Tehrik party protest against British author Salman Rushdie in Karachi June 21, 2007. A group of hardline Pakistani Muslim clerics has bestowed a religious title on Osama bin Laden in response to a British knighthood for the author Salman Rushdie whose novel “The Satanic Verses” outraged many Muslims around the world. REUTERS/Zahid Hussein (PAKISTAN)

Pakistani protesters rally against the British government for awarding a knighthood to British author Salman Rushdie in Lahore, Pakistan. Pakistan and Iran have summoned ambassadors to protest against Rushdie’s knighthood award.  (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)

 

Pakistani traders sing anti-British slongans in Pakistan.

Pakistan’s protesters burn a representation of British author Salman Rushdie at rally to condemn his knighthood award in Lahore, Pakistan on Friday, June 22, 2007. About 2,000 Pakistanis rallied across Pakistan on Friday against Salman Rushdie’s knighthood, calling for the author to be killed and for a boycott of trade with Britain. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)

The inscription reads “Please obey Allah and his Profet“.

From Jihad Watch:

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani traders on Thursday announced a reward of Rs 10 million for anyone who beheads Salman Rushdie, following Britain’s decision to award the novelist a knighthood. The announcement came during a protest by 200 traders at Aabpara market, Islamabad, an AFP photographer said. “We will give Rs 10 million to anyone who beheads Rushdie,” the secretary general of the Islamabad traders association, Ajmal Baluch, told the cheering crowd. He also called on Islamic countries to boycott British products in protest at the honour to Rushdie, the author of The Satanic Verses.

10 million Pakistani rupees is currently about $165426 U.S. dollars, by the way. Meanwhile, the Punjab Assembly speaker says he’d do it himself. “‘I’d kill blasphemer’,” from the Daily Times.

In Kashmir:

Kashmiri Muslim protesters throw stones at police officers during a protest against Britain and author Salman Rushdie in Srinagar, India, Friday, June, 22, 2007. Most shops, offices and schools were closed Friday in India’s Muslim-majority Kashmir region to protest Britain awarding a knighthood to Rushdie, who has been accused of insulting Islam. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Muslim protestors walk on a poster of British Prime Minister Tony Blair and shout slogans against author Salman Rushdie during a protest in Jammu, India, Friday, June 22, 2007. Most shops, offices and schools were closed Friday in India’s Muslim-majority Kashmir region to protest Britain awarding a knighthood to Rushdie, who has been accused of insulting Islam. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

In Iran:

Iranian cleric Ahmad Khatami delivers a sermon during Friday prayers in Tehran June 22, 2007. Khatami said on Friday the fatwa death warrant against author Salman Rushdie issued by the late Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989 was “still alive” in the Islamic Republic. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl (IRAN). [Khatami, the one who denies having shook hands with a brunette during his trip to Europe… ].

In Indonesia:

A demonstrator(L) shouts slogans as police officers with riot shields stand by during a protest outside the British High Commission in downtown Kuala Lumpur. The government insisted Wednesday it was right to knight Salman Rushdie for his literary career, adding it was “sorry” if it had caused distress(AFP/Tengku Bahar)

UPDATE 2: You can see more about the Muslim rage here. Please see the video inside: “Muslims can build mosques in non-Muslims countries but non-Muslims cannot build their temples on Muslim land, because Muslims know the truth and non-Muslims do not“. This same imam said “If you’re  [a] single [woman], you’re public property“. Yes, of course, don’t make me laugh [another ugly Islamist moron who wouldn’t have any woman if he was not a Mooooozzzzzzzzlim and they weren’t forced to marry him… ]

Hirsi Ali has written about the Muslim rage caused by Rushdie’s knighthood h/t Winds of Jihad: “By knighting Salman Rushdie, the queen has honored the freedom of conscience and creativity cherished in the West, making her a symbol of the essence of our way of life”.