{"id":48272,"date":"2022-08-12T23:06:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T21:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=48272"},"modified":"2022-08-15T20:09:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T18:09:06","slug":"gonzalez-pons-blames-religious-fanaticism-for-the-attack-on-rushdie-and-omits-islamism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/08\/12\/gonzalez-pons-blames-religious-fanaticism-for-the-attack-on-rushdie-and-omits-islamism\/","title":{"rendered":"Gonz\u00e1lez Pons blames 'religious fanaticism' for the attack on Rushdie and omits Islamism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was Salman Rushdie threatened with death by Catholics, Jews, Mormons, Yazidis or Zoroastrians? Reading certain opinions, one gets doubt.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/08\/12\/the-stabbing-of-salman-rushdie-and-the-terrorist-state-that-has-instigated-it\/\">The stabbing of Salman Rushdie and the terrorist state that has instigated it<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/01\/19\/the-6-communist-and-37-islamic-regimes-that-most-persecute-christians-in-2022\/\">The 6 communist and 37 Islamic regimes that most persecute Christians in 2022<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Let's see an example. <strong>Esteban Gonz\u00e1lez Pons is a Spanish MEP and deputy secretary for institutional action of the People's Party<\/strong>, as well as vice president of the European People's Party. This afternoon he posted <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gonzalezpons\/status\/1558134194479534080\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a curious comment<\/a> about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/08\/12\/the-stabbing-of-salman-rushdie-and-the-terrorist-state-that-has-instigated-it\/\">the-salman-rushdie-stabbing<\/a> in which he states: <em>\"<strong>It is urgent to stop normalizing religious fanaticism<\/strong> as if it were just another cultural manifestation when it is nothing more than historical backwardness\"<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"margin:20px 0 20px 0;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">El atentado contra Salman Rushdie tambi\u00e9n es contra la libertad de pensamiento y expresi\u00f3n. Urgente dejar de normalizar el fanatismo religioso como si se tratase de una manifestaci\u00f3n cultural m\u00e1s cuando no es otra cosa que atraso hist\u00f3rico. \u00a1Viva la literatura libre! Que se oiga.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Gonz\u00e1lez Pons (@gonzalezpons) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gonzalezpons\/status\/1558134194479534080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Let us remember that Rushdie has been threatened with death for decades due to a fatwa issued by a Muslim leader<\/strong>, Ayatollah Khomeini. The work for which he has been suffering this persecution was a work that dealt with Islam. But <strong>instead of warning against Islamism, Gonz\u00e1lez Pons takes the opportunity to spread the blame to all religions<\/strong>, as if they were all dedicated to doing the same thing as Islamic fundamentalists.<\/p>\n<p>In case Gonz\u00e1lez Pons has not heard, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/07\/28\/las-ideologias-y-creencias-que-invocan-las-organizaciones-terroristas-en-la-actualidad\/\">the vast majority of terrorist groups in the world are Islamist-inspired<\/a>. In total there are more than a hundred, and they are more than the sum of the other terrorist groups of different stripes together. <strong>But for Gonz\u00e1lez Pons the problem is \"religious fanaticism\", in general.<\/strong> There is no worse blind person than the one who does not want to see.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/populares\/52177766277\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Partido Popular<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was Salman Rushdie threatened with death by Catholics, Jews, Mormons, Yazidis or Zoroastrians? Reading certain opinions, one gets doubt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10712],"tags":[763,15884,641,17183],"class_list":["post-48272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-eng","tag-esteban-gonzalez-pons","tag-european-peoples-party-epp","tag-partido-popular","tag-salman-rushdie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}