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India-Pakistan
Lawyers shower roses for governor's killer
2011-01-06
[Dawn] Lawyers showered the suspected killer of a prominent Pak governor with rose petals when he arrived at court Wednesday and an influential Mohammedan scholars group praised the murder of the outspoken opponent of laws that order death for those who insult Islam.

Mumtaz Qadri made his first appearance in an Islamabad court, where a judge remanded him in jug a day after he allegedly sprayed automatic gunfire at the back of Punjab province Gov. Salman Taseer while he was supposed to be protecting him as a bodyguard.

A rowdy crowd slapped him on the back and kissed his cheek as he was escorted inside. The lawyers who tossed handfuls of rose petals over him were not involved in the case.

As he left the court, a crowd of about 200 sympathizers chanted "death is acceptable for Muhammad's slave." The suspect stood at the back door of an armored police van with a flower necklace given to him by an admirer and repeatedly yelled "God is great."

More than 500 holy mans and scholars from the group Jamat Ahle Sunnat said no one should pray or express regret for the killing of the governor. The group representing Pakistain's majority Barelvi sect, which follows a brand of Islam considered moderate, also issued a veiled threat to other opponents of the blasphemy laws.
Because moderates issue veiled threats, unlike those parvenu radicals, who only veil their women. (And everyone else's women, when they can, but that's a separate issue.)
"The supporter is as equally guilty as one who committed blasphemy," the group warned in a statement, adding politicians, the media and others should learn "a lesson from the exemplary death."

Jamat leader Maulana Shah Turabul Haq Qadri paid "glorious tribute to the murderer ... for his courage, bravery and religious honor and integrity."

Mumtaz Qadri told interrogators Tuesday that he shot the liberal Taseer multiple times because of the politician's vocal opposition to the harsh blasphemy laws.
Posted by:Fred

#4  when all of a sudden they are all struck down, much like the Gomorrans of yore.
Posted by Anonymoose

Hurry along with that.... Arkansas bird-in-flight and fishes instant death testing will you?
Posted by: Besoeker   2011-01-06 16:30  

#3  Can you imagine the carnage if the CIA directed a homicide bombing, and did it right? I can imagine several hundred malefactors and ne'er-do-wells clustered together for some festivity, when all of a sudden they are all struck down, much like the Gomorrans of yore.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-01-06 08:56  

#2  OK - I'm ready for that Arc-Light strike. Drink up!
Posted by: Frank G   2011-01-06 08:18  

#1  Seems like all the well wishers should be on a Predator target list.
Posted by: Water Modem   2011-01-06 01:10  

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