From: "Randy H" 

fatwah != "Death Warrant."


"Gary Wiltshire"  wrote in message
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>A Hush Over Hollywood
>
> by Pat Sajak
> Posted Nov 30, 2004
>
> Picture this:
>
> Somewhere in the world, a filmmaker creates a short documentary that
> chronicles what he perceives as the excesses of anti-abortion activists.
> An anti-abortion zealot reacts to the film by killing the filmmaker in
> broad daylight and stabbing anti-abortion tracts onto his body. How does
> the Hollywood community react to this atrocity? Would there be angry
> protests? Candlelight vigils? Outraged letters and columns and articles?
> Awards named in honor of their fallen comrade? Demands for justice? Calls
> for protection of artistic freedom? It's a pretty safe bet that there
> would be all of the above and much more. And all of the anger would be
> absolutely justified.
>
> So I'm trying to understand the nearly universal lack of outrage coming
> from Hollywood over the brutal murder of Dutch director, Theo van Gogh,
> who was shot on the morning of November 2, while bicycling through the
> streets of Amsterdam. The killer then stabbed his chest with one knife and
> slit his throat with another.
>
> . . .
>
> http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=5905
>
> --
> Gary Wiltshire
>
> P.S. Contrast this with the media's recent commiseration with Yusuf Islam
> (Cat Steven) ejected from our midst - one who had supported the Ayatollah
> Khomeini's fatwa (death warrant) against Salman Rushdie.

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