tim
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 Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:31 pm Post subject: The Cartoonists Must Die |
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Under the dictionary words "hypocritical", "absurd" and "perverse" I offer the following example: a $1,000,000 reward offered by religious leaders to impoverished Islamic zealots for the murder of a cartoonist:
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A Pakistani cleric announced a $1-million US bounty for killing a cartoonist who drew the Prophet Muhammad caricatures, as thousands rallied across the country Friday and authorities arrested scores of protesters.
(...) Mohammed Yousaf Qureshi, prayer leader at the historic Mohabat Khan mosque in the conservative northwestern city of Peshawar, announced the mosque and the Jamia Ashrafia religious school he leads would give a $25,000 reward and a car for killing the cartoonist who drew the prophet caricatures - considered blasphemous by Muslims.
He also said a local jewellers association would give $1 million, but no representative of the association was available to confirm it had made the offer.
"This is a unanimous decision of by all imams (prayer leaders) of Islam that whoever insults the Prophet deserves to be killed and whoever will take this insulting man to his end will get this prize," Qureshi told about 1,000 people outside the mosque after Friday prayers.
Qureshi did not name any cartoonist in his announcement and did not appear to be aware that 12 different people had drawn the pictures. The crowd outside the mosque burned a Danish flag and an effigy of the Danish prime minister.
(...) "Give enough power to the Muslim countries and enable them to take revenge," said Qari Saeed Ullah, a prayer leader in Islamabad.
(...) Four effigies representing Danish, German, French and Norwegian leaders were hanged from lampposts. |
While Bill Clinton is quoted in the article as condemning the cartoons, conspicuously absent is dissent by an Islamic leader. Please, someone tell me there is an Islamic leader who has a working moral compass and who will condemn this Qureshi.
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