Salman Rushdie attacked on stage

Losing an eye, pierced liver and nerve damage...unless his in top tip shape health wise before the attack, he will likely have a very long road to recovery...I'm fearful that we will see the worst outcome from this I'm afraid

These are fair questions. I think it is difficult to justify a ban on the head covering alone but full burqa, I would go with what the English Tory MP Philip Hollobone said, he requested that Muslim constituents who wish to visit him in his surgery and who ordinarily wear a burqa take it off as he insisted on seeing constituents faces. Shouldn't be too much to ask.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/mar/23/philip-hollobone-burka-paper-bag

You see the knuckle dragging Islamic animals on Twitter (see below) celebrating this attack on the poor man.

The usual suspects on here trying to make excuses for it as well. I do hope he pulls through but at his age it's probably touch and go.

Some of those lovely comments that are ok with twitter

Nicked Artery will kill you fast, nicked liver, stomach or intestine will kill you slowly

Lisa Smith in Ireland. Have been a number in the UK, France and elsewhere. I think it's a lot higher than 1 one in a 1000. The majority are male, no-ones denying that but putting this into the 'men are toxic' frame favoured by some elements of the left is not going to work. Which is what you're trying to do, aren't you?

Even when we broaden it out to include examples of terrorism unrelated to Islam, we find several prominent female terrorists:

(1) IRA and similar - Marian Price, Dolours Price, Mairead Farrell, off the top of my head.

(2) The far left German terrorist group Baader-Meinhof was named after the two leaders, Andreas Baader and Ulrika Meinhof. Several of the other prominent members were also women.

Have been more than a few female Palestinian suicide bombers also. I know some folk don't agree that the Palestinian campaign is terrorism due to the Israelis engaging in acts of alleged repression/instigation, but that's for a different thread.

I did, thousands praising the attack in the vilest of manners.

Yeh, we all know about it Sunni/Shia split. But are you seriously suggesting Sunni’s had no problem with Rushdie?

Sunni extremists from ISIS and Al Qaeda to the Muslim Brotherhood wanted him dead, regardless of the Iranian fatwa.

Speculation/news so far that the attacker had Iranian sympathies.

Well said Bill Maher & Piers Morgan

The two gay men murdered and 1 other man lost an eye from the same Muslim man in Sligo earlier this year amazing how that story dropped off the news so quickly

There seems to be some with short memories around here.

Yeah Bill Maher while funny, has a great way of getting the message across. Piers Morgan is trying to be a knight in shining armour but comes off as a loser dressed in tinfoil.

And even more in traffic accidents. What matters is that these attacks are attacks on our values and freedoms, not the body count.

Yeah both analogies were wrong and I shouldn't have given any thought about replying in the first place. I'm not going into any more whataboutery about Christianity or other religion when we all know which religion is to blame here.