Salman Rushdie Quotes
But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
Rushdie, Salman. "Yes, This Is About Islam." The New York Times, 2 Nov. 2001.
Muslim clerics throughout the world had been relatively mild in their criticism of Islamic Extremists and Terrorists. Delic was one of those who urged stronger moral statements. Many of the Muslim clerics in the world actually were themselves holders of Wahhabi and other extremist views. However, many also opposed terrorism and felt that there was nothing in Islam that could justify the indiscriminate killing. However, a number of these were intimidated lest an extremist Muslim cleric issue a Fatwa calling for his death for heresy. Most of us did not then, and even today, do no really understand the extent and frequency of these threats in the Muslim world (and even in the West) and the very frequent assassination or serious wounding of those Muslims who publicly criticize the extremist terrorists. Delic had much more courage than most.
ISIS and other terrorist organizations were using these platforms for propaganda, and recruiting. See {36908}, {36909}, and {36911} for the views of the companies who Carlin claimed were being exploited. See {583142} for the message Carlin believed that was being transmitted.
ISISm or Daesh as teh Syrians called it had occupied Mosul and had brutalized and murdered many of the residents enforcing their own extreme version i=of Islamic fundamentalism. The Iraq and Kurdish armies were trying to take Mosul back, but the ISIS fighters were deeply embedded in the large inner city. Dislodging them was very difficult and they took many casualties. The United States provided logistical, tactical, and air support. The Iraqui military had asked for an airstrike on a target and unfortunately about 200 Mosul mcivillians were killrf in the aitstrike. Thisd was one resident's question oif the U. S. Military Advisors. The investigation verified that the strike had inadvertantly killed all those civillians.
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie FRSL is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His work, combining magical realism with historical fiction, is primarily concerned with the many connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, with much of his fiction being set on the Indian subcontinent.
