(The kite Runner) & Error

(The kite Runner) & Error


By Freeyad Ibrahim

16 – 6 - 2015

If you want to be a celebrity in a shortcut time, you have to do one of the two things-;- to praise Israel and defend Jews case´-or-to insult Islam and glorify US and UK.
That is what happened in the past. Some examples:

Salman Rushdie
Dan Brouwn
Orhan Pamok
Naguib Mahfouz
Theo van Gogh
Salman Rushdie, Naguib Mahfouz Noble Prize winner attacked Islam. Jorge Luis Borges and Dan Brown glorified the Jews in their writings. The latter sacrificed even the truth of history at the cost of praising and defining the Jews as the people who gave shelter and abode , care and protection to the alleged daughter of Jesus in France.

A recent example is the Afghan author of the international best seller (The Kite Runner) Khalid Hosseini. He praised Israel, US and UK and demolished and degraded Islam, offended the Muslims in his book.
I quote here a few fragments out his book. In chapter eleven (11), he writes: (There are only three real men in this world: America, the brash savior, Britain and Israel, the rest of them are like gossiping old women.)
For this reason, ‘logic’ enough has the publisher forgiven him for the enormous error and fatal mortal mistaking about the slingshot Hassan held outstretched in his hand. It turned into a pistol in the writer’s episode.
In chapter five: ( Hassan had pulled the wide elastic band all the way back. In the cup was a rock the size of a walnut. He held it pointed -dir-ectory at Assef’s face). As a result, Assef had surrendered and retreated shouting defenseless: (put it down you motherless Hazara.)
In the previous lines Khalid Hosseini has, nevertheless, described Assef in the following way: (his reputation for savagery proceeded him whenever he went in the neighborhood.) and: (he towered over his friends, strong and broad shouldered.)
In chapter 22 he comes back to the ‘machined-gun-slingshot’:
(The slingshot made an thwiiiiiii sound where Sohrab, the son of Hassan, released the cup.) Then Assef fell down screaming with his hand palm squeezed against his right eye out which blood oozed.
Be just and fair, I address especially those who know what a slingshot is and ask them: has anyone ever feared a slingshot? Any one has ever used slingshot must have laughed in pain and bitterly when reading these lines about the miraculous superpower slingshot. The essential question is : a slingshot is no a weapon, it is rather a play tool for children to knock down, if lucky, a sparrow from a tree´-or-a telephone cable. Then how it could, possibly, be used in a fight. Even though it would ever be used as a defending´-or-a fighting device, the chance to hit the target is one percent 01 % .

Likely ,the author’s mistake is justified by the publishing house just because he has wondered the three states mentioned previously in this essay.
Seemingly, praising and glorifying Israel, US and UK has overpowered and blinded the eyes of publishers and reviewers. And that is how THE KITE RUNNER has become an international bestseller. To be just, I must not deny that it is really a nice and interesting novel, but to forgive the wrong story of the slingshot is unforgivable mistake, a sinful act, even it is overshadowed by the author’s manifest manners to deal with the personalities and events in a hypocritical way.

Freeyad Ibrahim

( Kurdish Dutch, writer, author-novelist, translator, poet, political analyst, and essayist.)

[email protected]

www.Freeyad Ibrahim.nl

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