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No time limit for bounty on Danish cartoonists: Cleric |
2006-03-16 |
In his office in Peshawar's historic Mohabat Khan mosque, prayer leader Maulana Yousaf Qureshi smoothes his beard from the white roots to the henna-orange tips. "There's no time limit. If someone kills the cartoonist in 50 years he will still get the million dollars," he says. In a blazing sermon on February 17, Qureshi promised the money — and a new car — to whoever assassinates any of the 12 Danes whose drawings of the Prophet Mohammed ignited a firestorm of protest across the Muslim world.d. On the same day, anti-cartoon protests in the conservative northwestern city turned into full-fledged anti-western riots that left foreign fast-food joints and businesses in flames. The unrest has abated since then, but not the anger. "We want them to spend the rest of their days like prisoners, under police protection," nods the imam, between two sips of sweetened green tea. |
Posted by:Fred |
#4 Zenster - why wait |
Posted by: DMFD 2006-03-16 23:10 |
#3 Collect the GPS coordinates of every imam and mosque issuing these death fatwas and the instant a single one of the cartoonists (including their loved ones) are harmed or killed, bomb every single stinking one of the cesspits back to the stone age. |
Posted by: Zenster 2006-03-16 14:36 |
#2 No time limit on shortening his life, either. Just sayin', 's all. |
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-03-16 13:21 |
#1 Wow! A Jihadi Savings Plan(TM). Collect $1m (and a new car) and spend not a penny of it while you're cooling your heels in prison for the rest of your life. Interestingly enough, this guy is publicly issuing a murder contract, but has not been arrested by the Pakistani government. This says a little something about the character of that government. |
Posted by: Zhang Fei 2006-03-16 06:55 |