 Denmark and Norway on Monday condemned as incitement to “murder” a Pakistani cleric’s offer of a reward for anyone who kills any of the 12 Danish cartoonists who lampooned the Prophet Mohammad.
| No scare quotes required. "Murder" is murder. And you forgot to say "PTUI" after you mentioned the Profit. |
“It’s murder and murder is also forbidden by the Holy Quran,” Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller told a news conference with his colleague Jonas Gahr Stoere from Norway, which has been dragged into the row after a paper there published the cartoons. “Islam is also a religion of peace, mercy and forgiveness.
"That is why it is my opinion, but also the opinion of many Muslims, this is un-Islamic,” he said.
| And equally demonstrably it's the opinion of learned but fly-blown Pak and Indian holy men that it's just as Islamic as can be. |
A Pakistani Muslim cleric and his followers offered rewards on Friday amounting to more than $1 million for killing one of the Danish cartoonists, who have been under police protection since the storm of protest broke out last month. “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,” cleric Maulana Yousef Qureshi said, referring to the al Qaeda leader and his deputy Ayman al Zawahri.
| The cartoonists didn't kill anyone, but that doesn't matter, does it? |
At Friday prayers in the city of Peshawar, he set a bounty of 500,000 rupees and two of his congregation put up rewards of $1 million and one million rupees plus a car.
| My patience meter is heading for the sub-zero area. I don't have any money, but anyone who pops a holy man will definitely receive my best wishes. |
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