Look who’s a book critic now
Michiko Kakutani, the terror of the NYT books section, has nothing on Al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri:
Zawahri also criticized Britain’s controversial decision to award author Salman Rushdie a knighthood, saying Queen Elizabeth had sent a clear message to Muslims by honoring a novelist who had insulted Islam, and vowed that the militant group was preparing a response. [Link]
He added,
Also, I felt the story arc in Fury didn’t cleanly join up with the meta-narrative. When I plunk down my hard-stolen Afghanis, I want to read a quality novel. Death to Rushdie.
My question is, how are we going to distinguish between attacks because of Rushdie and attacks just because? Constantly changing justifications for war — I don’t mean to be mean, but he’s starting to sound like Dick Cheney.
Zawahri’s definitely going to hell, but fortunately it’s no different from being assigned to read the slush pile.
on Tuesday, July 10th, 2007, 2:50 pm in Humor, Literature, Religion, Salman Rushdie › 
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Manish, I am Michiko Kakutani and I do not approve of your message.
Rushdie is one great Jonathan livingston seagull with a gift of wings and writing, despite being hated by his own flock and Iam sure he is going to fly high no matter what and write great stuff…
I always thought Rushdie was nobel prize material like Naipaul and was expecting him to win nobel prize anyday..but now it makes me wonder if he will ever get it, with so many threats God knows how many award commitees and countries will be backing out of giving him the credit for his literary genius which he richly deserves..