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Why you should be really careful with Wikipedia

Here's part of the entry for Salman Rushdie [emphasis mine]:

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (Hindi: सलमान रश्दी Urdu: سلمان رشدی; born 19 June 1947) is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. He first achieved fame with his second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker Prize. Much of his fiction is set on the subcontinent of India. Increasingly, however, the dominant theme of his work has become the long, rich and often fraught story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the East and the West.

His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), provoked violent reactions from radical Muslims. After death threats and a fatwa (religious ruling) issued by Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini calling for his assassination, he spent years underground, appearing in public only sporadically. During the last decade, however, he has resumed a normal literary life. He was made a Knight Bachelor in June 2007,[1] which has raised eyebrows of the Muslim communities around the world.[2]

No read the CBS News version of what Wikipedia refers to as "raised eyebrows of Muslim communities":

"The West is accusing Muslims of extremism and terrorism. If someone exploded a bomb on his body, he would be right to do so unless the British government apologizes and withdraws the 'sir' title," ul-Haq said.

I love Wikipedia. I really do. But you really really do have to be really really careful.

posted by Lola @ 1:55 PM