British actor coverts to Islam

[Tribesman]

It must be that sudden jihad syndrome , what with an attack on the press and all thathttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6595297.stm

[Xiahou]

a quick note about thread titles

[Strike For The South]

Tribesman you're so smart. You used Hugh Grant who isnt muslim to prove that muslims aernt the only people that can be violent. Although one would think this would be common knowledge, you just made sure we were all on the same page! thanks!

[Louis VI the Fat]

Funny thing is, that when British celebreties really do convert to Islam, freedom of expression really is attacked by them in the name of Islam:

Here's the story of Cat Stevens, aka Yussuf Islam:

Salman Rushdie controversy
On February 21, 1989 Yusuf Islam addressed students at Kingston University in London about his journey to Islam and was asked about the controversy in the Muslim world and the fatwa calling for Salman Rushdie's execution. He claims to have only stated the legal consequences from the Qur'an - that blasphemy is a capital offense - and not actually have made any claims of support for the fatwa. Newspapers quickly denounced Yusuf Islam's support for a possible assassination of Rushdie. The next day he released a statement saying that he was not personally encouraging anybody towards vigilantism.[22]

However, on May 23, 1989, the New York Times reported on comments Yusuf Islam had made on a British television courtroom-style program, Hypotheticals,[23] in an episode ("A Satanic Scenario") that had already been recorded to be broadcast the following week, and that Islam had in a later interview reaffirmed the comments he made:

[Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie] I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.[24]

[If Rushdie turned up at my doorstep looking for help] I might ring somebody who might do more damage to him than he would like. I'd try to phone the Ayatollah Khomeini and tell him exactly where this man is.[24]

On March 8 1989, while speaking in London's Regents Park Mosque, when asked by a Christian Science Monitor reporter how he would "cope with the idea of killing a writer for writing a book" he is reported to have replied:

In Islam there is a line between let's say freedom and the line which is then transgressed into immorality and irresponsibility and I think as far as this writer is concerned, unfortunately, he has been irresponsible with his freedom of speech. Salman Rushdie or indeed any writer who abuses the prophet, or indeed any prophet, under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death. It's got to be seen as a deterrent, so that other people should not commit the same mistake again.[25]

He added that if Rushdie should manage to escape the death sentence he would still have to "face God on the day of judgement."[25]

He has never retracted his statements about Rushdie

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Good for him.

[Kanamori]

Ah, the coveted covert conversion... I had always expected this from a shady one like Hugh. What's more, he's causing all sorts of confusion... he ought to be shot before he becomes too much of a problem, obviously.

And that concludes my post of the week, thanks for tuning in!

[Banquo's Ghost]

It appears that this thread belongs under a bridge.

Thank you Xiahou for referencing the thread title guidelines.