[BBC] The Pak PM's front man has condemned a minister's $100,000 (£61,600) reward for the killing of the maker of an amateur anti-Islam video."Oh, yasss! We condemn it most heartily!"
Shafqat Jalil told the BBC the government "absolutely disassociated" itself from comments by Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour.
"Rilly. It wudn't us."
The film, produced in the US, has led to a wave of protests in the Mohammedan world and many deaths. The bounty offer came a day after at least 20 died in festivities in Pakistain.
The film sez Moslems have a penchant for mindless violence, so what else could they do?
Friday's violence, which saw protesters pitted against armed police, occurred in cities throughout Pakistain, with Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
and Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
among the worst hit.
See here for today's Karachi Korpse Kount. We don't keep a separate category for Peshawar since it usually runs into the days' Khyber Agency festivities so it's hard to extricate the discrete threads...
"I will pay whoever kills the makers of this video $100,000," the minister said. "If someone else makes other similar blasphemous material in the future, I will also pay his killers $100,000.
I'd call that incitement to murder. That sort of thing's a crime in the civilized world. Places where Islam holds sway it's perfectly okay, since the Prophet (PTUI!) says they gotta kill people for this and that...
"I call upon these countries and say: Yes, freedom of expression is there, but you should make laws regarding people insulting our Prophet. And if you don't, then the future will be extremely dangerous."
"Freedom of expression" includes, by definition, the freedom to make fun of the Prophet (PTUI!). You can't have one without the other.
At one point, he even called for the help of the Taliban and al-Qaeda in killing the filmmaker.
... thereby reaffirming which side he's on...
His ANP party, which is part of the governing coalition, told the BBC this was a personal statement, not party policy, but added that it would not be taking any action against him.
Nobody expects them to, to include me...
Mr Jalil said: "He is not a member of the (ruling) PPP (Pakistain People's Party), he is an ANP politician and therefore the prime minister will speak to the head of the ANP to decide the next step.
... which will consist of agreeing to meet again to discuss the step after that...
They are not ruling out action against him but say he will stay in his post for now."
... and probably forever, unless he holds dual citizenship or becomes a Hindoo...