Muslim Imam offers $1 million to anyone who kills the Danish cartoonists

[Real American]

How savage are these people?




http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/658C2197-3E84-497C-B4DF-DF5E989FFC6A.htm

A Pakistani Muslim cleric and his followers have offered rewards amounting to over $1 million for killing the Danish cartoonists who drew caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that have enraged the Muslim world.


The cleric offered the bounty during Friday prayers as Muslim anger against the cartoons flared anew in parts of Asia.

 

Weeks of global protests over the cartoons have triggered fears of a clash of civilisations between the West and Islam, and have led to calls on all sides for calm.

   

On Friday, thousands rallied in Pakistan; police in Bangladesh blocked demonstrators heading for the Danish embassy in Dhaka and in the Indian city of Hyderabad, police fired teargas shells and batons to beat back hundreds of protesters, who had stoned shops and disrupted traffic.

 

Denmark temporarily shut its embassy in Islamabad citing security reasons while Pakistan recalled its ambassador from Copenhegan for consultations.

 

Five deaths

 

"If the West can place a bounty on Osama bin Laden and Zawahri, we can also announce reward for killing the man who has caused this sacrilege of the holy Prophet"

Maulana Yousef Qureshi, Pakistani cleric
 
Protests in Pakistan this week have resulted in at least five deaths and hundreds of detentions, and on Friday it became the latest country where Denmark has decided to temporarily close its embassy.

   

The Danish foreign ministry also issued a travel warning for Pakistan, urging Danes to leave as soon as possible.

 

In the north western Pakistani city of Peshawar, cleric Maulana Yousef Qureshi said he had personally offered to pay a bounty of 500,000 rupees ($8400) to anyone who killed a Danish cartoonist, and two of his congregation put up additional rewards of $1 million and one million rupees plus a car.

 

"If the West can place a bounty on Osama bin Laden and Zawahri, we can also announce reward for killing the man who has caused this sacrilege of the holy Prophet," Qureshi told Reuters, referring to the al Qaeda leader and his deputy Ayman al Zawahri.

   

The cleric leads the congregation at the historic Mohabat mosque, on street known for goldsmith shops in the provincial capital of North West Frontier Province - a stronghold of Pakistan's Islamist opposition parties.

   

The cartoons were first published in Denmark last September; but last month newspapers and magazines in Europe and elsewhere began republishing to assert principles of freedom of expression.

   

Muslims believe images of the Prophet are forbidden.

 

Embassy shuts

 

 
Protests in Pakistan have been
large and violent
 
Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said it was recalling its own ambassador from Copenhagen for consultations. It did not elaborate further.

   

The Danish ambassador in Islamabad said, however, that relations had not been broken off because of the furore.

 

"I'm still in Pakistan and in a secure place," Bent Wigotski, the ambassador, told Reuters.

   

"There is no question of broken relations or anything like that," he said, adding that the German embassy was looking after Denmark's consular affairs.

   

Denmark has already shut its missions in Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Indonesia as a result of violence or threats of violence.

   

Protests in Pakistan have been large and violent and many have taken on a distinctly anti-US tone. Demonstrators, in addition to burning Danish flags, have attacked US fast-food outlets and burned George Bush, the US president, in effigy.

   

Islamist parties have called for a nationwide strike on 3 March, around the time President Bush is expected to visit Pakistan, despite the unrest.

   

Appeals for reason

 

 
Clinton said he saw nothing wrong
with the Muslim reaction
 
Western leaders have been calling for calm.

 

Bill Clinton, the former US president, and Jacques Chirac, the French president, both said on Friday that it was a mistake to publish the cartoons.

   

Clinton, on a private visit to Pakistan, said he saw nothing wrong with Muslims around the world demonstrating in a peaceful way, but he feared a great opportunity to improve understanding had been squandered.

   

"This is not a time to burn bridges; this is a time to build them," he said, adding, "...I can tell you that most people are horrified that this much misunderstanding has occurred."

 

Chirac was blunt. "I am appalled by what happened as a result of the publications of these cartoons," Chirac told India Today news magazine which published an interview with him on Friday.

 

"I am, of course, in favour of the freedom of the press, which is a pillar of democracy. But I am equally for respecting everyone's sensibilities... So I deplore the situation," said Chirac, who visits India next week.

[Real American]

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Taliban bounty for killing cartoonist


Wednesday 08 February 2006, 23:39 Makka Time, 20:39 GMT   

 
The cartoon row has turned violent in Afghanistan
 
 

A top Taliban commander has offered a reward of 100 kilograms of gold to anyone who kills the person responsible for "blasphemous" cartoons of the Prophet Muhammed, the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) has reported.

If someone killed the cartoonist responsible for the cartoons in Denmark, the "Taliban will give 100 kilograms (244 pounds) of gold," Mullah Dadullah said in a telephone call to AIP from an unknown location, the Pakistan-based private news agency reported on Wednesday.
 
Dadullah also said the Taliban would give five kilograms of gold to anyone who killed a Danish, Norwegian or German soldier, AIP said.
   
AIP said Dadullah was operating as chief commander of the Taliban waging an anti-government insurgency in Afghanistan.
   
The agency quoted Dadullah as saying the Taliban's list of would-be suicide bombers had grown since the publication of the cartoons.
   
Eleven demonstrators have been killed since Friday in violent protests over the cartoons in Afghanistan.

[King Tech Quadafi]

a million dollaz? DAMN

TELL ME WHEN TO GO
TELL ME WHEN TO GO
TELL ME WHEN TO GO

[Eihtball]

Man, I would kill almost anyone for a million dollars, provided they didn't have a lot of bodyguards or anything.

[Real American]

Man, I would kill almost anyone for a million dollars, provided they didn't have a lot of bodyguards or anything.

Why do you think Muslims always try to kill anyone who says something that they don't like?

[h cottie is bac-tive?]

Man, I would kill almost anyone for a million dollars, provided they didn't have a lot of bodyguards or anything.

Why do you think Muslims always try to kill anyone who says something that they don't like?

you make racist posts against muslims all the time.....and you don't see me trying to kill you 

Owned

[J Bananas]

shit for a million dollars i'll kill that bitch

[Eihtball]

Why do you think Muslims always try to kill anyone who says something that they don't like?

I think it's more a matter of, the hatred for the West already exists, and they're just looking for an excuse to act on it.  So the cartoons may be the trigger of their rage and violent threats, but it's hardly the cause.

Kinda like how you're always looking for an excuse to rail on Muslims because of your thinly veiled hatred for them, and then you claim it's because Islam is somehow against free speech, which makes no sense.

[Sikotic™]

I'll do it for $500,000

[Real American]

I think it's more a matter of, the hatred for the West already exists, and they're just looking for an excuse to act on it.  So the cartoons may be the trigger of their rage and violent threats, but it's hardly the cause.

Kinda like how you're always looking for an excuse to rail on Muslims because of your thinly veiled hatred for them, and then you claim it's because Islam is somehow against free speech, which makes no sense.

But Muslims are against free speech, and it has nothing to do with the West.

I am sure you have heard of Salman Rushdie, the Iranian author who wrote the controversial book the Stanaic Verses back in the 1980's. Because there were some chapters that Muslims considered blasmphemous, there was a worldwide bounty placed on his head, and he had to go into hiding in the UK. Two people who worked for the publishing company were killed. Also, a couple of years ago the Miss World pageant was in Nigeria and a newspaper published an article saying Mohhamed might have wanted to marry one of the contestants. Well, hundreds of Nigerian Muslims rioted and a bunch of people died.

Clearly, Muslims react with violence to views they don't like, and it has nothing to do with the West as people like Tech have stated on this message board. Muslims are just backwards, violent, and intolerant.

[J @ M @ L]

I can go out in the streets, find some pathetic redneck cracker son of a bitch... give him like $50, a couple bottles of miller light, and a big mac... he'll kill anyone I ask him to

[Eihtball]

But Muslims are against free speech, and it has nothing to do with the West.

I am sure you have heard of Salman Rushdie, the Iranian author who wrote the controversial book the Stanaic Verses back in the 1980's. Because there were some chapters that Muslims considered blasmphemous, there was a worldwide bounty placed on his head, and he had to go into hiding in the UK. Two people who worked for the publishing company were killed. Also, a couple of years ago the Miss World pageant was in Nigeria and a newspaper published an article saying Mohhamed might have wanted to marry one of the contestants. Well, hundreds of Nigerian Muslims rioted and a bunch of people died.

Clearly, Muslims react with violence to views they don't like, and it has nothing to do with the West as people like Tech have stated on this message board. Muslims are just backwards, violent, and intolerant.

Yes, I am familiar with both of those examples.  There's no denying that Islam is prevalent in these backwards-ass third world countries that are filled with illiterate, intolerant people who have yet to move forwards and are thus inclined to overreact this way.  But you need to stop buying into the idiocy of assholes like Daniel Pipes.  The main thing that's disturbing about you is how obsessed you are with trying to prove your point.  Just as Infinite has a tendency to annoy people with his preachiness, you have a tendency to annoy people with your Islamophobia.

[coola]

fucking cAve men.

[h cottie is bac-tive?]

But Muslims are against free speech, and it has nothing to do with the West.

I am sure you have heard of Salman Rushdie, the Iranian author who wrote the controversial book the Stanaic Verses back in the 1980's. Because there were some chapters that Muslims considered blasmphemous, there was a worldwide bounty placed on his head, and he had to go into hiding in the UK. Two people who worked for the publishing company were killed. Also, a couple of years ago the Miss World pageant was in Nigeria and a newspaper published an article saying Mohhamed might have wanted to marry one of the contestants. Well, hundreds of Nigerian Muslims rioted and a bunch of people died.

Clearly, Muslims react with violence to views they don't like, and it has nothing to do with the West as people like Tech have stated on this message board. Muslims are just backwards, violent, and intolerant.

Yes, I am familiar with both of those examples.  There's no denying that Islam is prevalent in these backwards-ass third world countries that are filled with illiterate, intolerant people who have yet to move forwards and are thus inclined to overreact this way.  But you need to stop buying into the idiocy of assholes like Daniel Pipes.  The main thing that's disturbing about you is how obsessed you are with trying to prove your point.  Just as Infinite has a tendency to annoy people with his preachiness, you have a tendency to annoy people with your Islamophobia.

Props 4 eihtball, he hit it right on the head (and im not talkin about the penis gaystalker)

[Real American]

I am not Islamophobic. I am just addressing their Christianaphobia.