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Bombers Offer to Kill Cartoonists: Cleric
A Pakistani cleric who offered $1 million and a car for the death of cartoonists who made carricatures of the Prophet Muhammad (May his drip clear up without medication peace be upon him) said yesterday that suicide bombers had volunteered to kill the blasphemers. Yousaf Qureshi,  the imam, at the 300-year-old Moonbat Mohabat Khan Mosque in the northwestern city of Peshawar, announced the reward on Friday. The Prophet Muhammads blasphemers will not live and there are mujahedeen who visited me to assure that such people will not be allowed to live for their unpardonable act, the cleric told a news conference. Mujahedeen suicide bombers have contacted us and they are ready for this mission. They are college and university students.
| I guess that's one way to get out of exams. Thought of it myself, back when I was taking statistics... |
Five people died in Pakistan last week during a wave of violent protests against the cartoons printed in a Danish newspaper and other European publications.
| That'd be the cartoons that mocked Islamists for their propensity for violence... |
Qureshi is considered close to the Jamaat-e-Islami party, which is at the forefront of the ongoing campaign against the cartoons in Pakistan. The imam also hit back at criticism from both Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) chief Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu that rewards for murder were forbidden by the Quran. The OIC secretary-general is ignorant of Islamic teachings, he said.
| "So you can just shut yer fudge up or yer car'll go boom. That's in the Koran, too!" |
He said the Danish foreign minister lost sense after he realized the strength of the Muslim worlds reaction to the cartoons. The only solution to the crisis was the trial of the blasphemers under Islamic laws, Qureshi said. Nothing else is accepted than capital punishment under Islamic laws to the cartoonists, he said.
| Is it still considered a clash of civilizations when one side isn't a civilization? |
Posted by: Fred 2006-02-23 |
