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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Supporters of Malaysia’s hardline Islamic party protested outside the British embassy on Wednesday against the award of a knighthood to Salman Rushdie, whose novel the “Satanic Verses” outraged Muslims worldwide.

Chanting “Destroy Salman Rushdie” and “Destroy Britain,” some 30 members of the opposition Parti Islam se-Malaysia urged Britain to withdraw the honor or risk the consequences.

Meanwhile, on another part of the planet:

Addressing an open session of the Islamic Consultative Assembly here in Tehran on Tuesday, Mohammad Reza Bahonar lambasted Queen Elizabeth and described the knighting of Salman Rushdie as an unwise action.

“The United Kingdom has embarked on such an action because it imagines that it still enjoys a huge awe as a super power of the 19th century, thinking that the world still attaches importance to the titles granted by the British queen,” he continued.

The world doesn’t particularly. He does.

Hardliners have upped the reward offered to any successful assassin. Well obviously. He’s worth more as a knight, isn’t he?

I fear that there may be violence on Friday, after the easily-led have been preached to by the oh-so-spiritual.

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