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Robert Nowall br> Cape Coral, Florida /p>

You can describe Rushdie's knighting as pointless, or you can describe it as exactly the point. It represents very well Britain's condition of mental health and politics since the Second World War. This should be different how? More likely they will now be competing with the Nobel "Peace" Prize for the ridiculous.

p>It will be a small step in removing the twitting of Islamists in response for their fatwa of a man within the borders of another civilization. Next time they'll be right in line with Jimmy Carter. br> -- James Wilson /p> p> Knighting Salman Rushdie was a great idea if only to expose Islam for the primitive ideology that it is ... again. We certainly cannot fight an enemy effectively if we are afraid to insult him. br> -- Joe Wood /p>

Leaving aside the merits of conferring a knighthood on Rushdie, anytime someone sharpens a stick and pokes it into the eye of Islamists I am a happy camper.

p>Next step, the throat. br> --

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