A Pakistani cleric today offered 1.5m rupees (£9,600) and a car as a reward to anyone who killed the cartoonist who drew images of the prophet Muhammad.
Mohammed Yousaf Qureshi, a prayer leader at the Mohabat Khan mosque in Peshawar, made the announcement to a 1,000-strong crowd outside the mosque after Friday prayers.
“This is a unanimous decision by all imams that whoever insults the prophet deserves to be killed, and whoever will take this insulting man to his end will get this prize,” he said.
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Meanwhile, a radical “Islamic” leader is arrested along with 100 others in Pakistan over violent protests.
No doubt, more arrests will follow.
Offering money to kill the cartoonist is a bit ridiculous, IMHO. Violence leads to no where and it’s about time people realise this. There’s already a major backlash against Muslims living in Europe and I am sure it will just get worse in time.
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Irfan hussain of dawn exudes exactly the same sentiment…
http://dawn.com/weekly/mazdak/20060211.htm
For me, the most trenchant comment came in the form of a cartoon sent by an American reader. In the first panel, a bearded man clad in the cartoonist’s version of shalwar-kameez is frothing at the mouth, shouting “Blasphemy! Death to cartoonists!”, while behind him a wall bears the legend: “Outrage over some cartoons”. In the next panel, the graffiti in the background says: “Outrage over the treatment of women, hostage beheadings, suicide bombings, honour killings.” Our bearded hero is shown here looking at his watch and mumbling: “Oops… Getting late. Gotta go.”
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Its called Freedom of Speech. Deal with it. After all I have not heard a single statement of sentiment with regard to the Holocaust Trial in Austria? Or is Freedom of Speech denied when it doesn't agree with your own political and ideological agenda?