$1M bounty offered on cartoonists as protests rage
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Bounty offered on cartoonists as protests rage
Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:50 AM ET168
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By Simon Cameron-Moore
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani Muslim cleric and his followers offered rewards amounting to over $1 million for anyone who killed Danish cartoonists who drew caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad that have enraged Muslims worldwide.
The cleric offered the bounty during Friday prayers as Muslim anger against the cartoons flared anew in parts of Asia.
Weeks of global protests over the cartoons have triggered fears of a clash of civilizations between the West and Islam, and have led to calls on all sides for calm.
On Friday, thousands rallied in Pakistan, police in Bangladesh blocked demonstrators heading for the Danish embassy in Dhaka and in the Indian city of Hyderabad, police fired teargas shells and batons to beat back hundreds of protesters, who had stoned shops and disrupted traffic.
Protests in Pakistan this week have resulted in at least five deaths and hundreds of detentions, and on Friday it became the latest country where Denmark has decided to temporarily close its embassy.
The Danish foreign ministry also issued a travel warning for Pakistan, urging any Danes to leave as soon as possible.
In the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, cleric Maulana Yousef Qureshi said he had personally offered to pay a bounty of 500,000 rupees ($8,400) to anyone who killed a Danish cartoonist, and two of his congregation put up additional rewards of $1 million and one million rupees plus a car.
"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," Qureshi told Reuters, referring to the al Qaeda leader and his deputy Ayman al Zawahri.
The cleric leads the congregation at the historic Mohabat mosque, on street known for goldsmith shops in the provincial capital of North West Frontier Province -- a stronghold of Pakistan's Islamist opposition parties.
The cartoons were first published in Denmark last September, but last month newspapers and magazines in Europe and elsewhere began republishing to assert principles of freedom of expression.
Muslims believe images of the Prophet are forbidden
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non-muslims can claim or not?
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I think this pakis cleric ought to spend his money to give his countrymen a decent meal and a shower.
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Haiz...these religious fanatics....
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What kind of religion will reward those who kill in cold blood? Even the Wiccans shy away from things that will harm other people despite claims that they worship the Devil.
Now we know who the real Satanists are. The actions of Khomeini and others are living proof of it. -
haiz...dont they know that killing will only create more hatred, and serves to strength the cycle of hatred?
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It is true. Their actions will only isolate themselves further and further from the rest of the civilised world.Originally posted by abao:haiz...dont they know that killing will only create more hatred, and serves to strength the cycle of hatred? -
someone is instigating those attacks man..
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Erhmm isn't it a bit out of context here? What Osama did killed hundreds of people, what the cartoonist did may have insulted them but a bounty of his head?Originally posted by LazerLordz:Bounty offered on cartoonists as protests rage
Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:50 AM ET168
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"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," Qureshi told Reuters, referring to the al Qaeda leader and his deputy Ayman al Zawahri. -
To these nutcases Osama is a hero who killed thousands of infidels .....
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one of the rare times the US isn't involved, they get their embassy firebombed
the idiots are paranoid!
so far, the lies believed are:
the cartoons originated in the US and were put in Danish hands because the Danes are patsies of the US..
bird flu was invented by the Jews to infect the Arabs...
well hey! i guess if they believed such things, they would believe Iran needs nuclear weapons to protect the Arab world against the terror that is The Cartoon! -
Sad to see such big rewards being offered for violence....
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sibei boliao these people.
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It's called conspiracy theories, fantastised and immortalised by religious bigots who have fallen way astray, and eventually ending up worshipping themselves instead of their sacred deity.Originally posted by the Bear:one of the rare times the US isn't involved, they get their embassy firebombed
the idiots are paranoid!
so far, the lies believed are:
the cartoons originated in the US and were put in Danish hands because the Danes are patsies of the US..
bird flu was invented by the Jews to infect the Arabs...
well hey! i guess if they believed such things, they would believe Iran needs nuclear weapons to protect the Arab world against the terror that is The Cartoon!
Pathetic.
But more so are the lemmings that feed on their every word... -
These people always believe in all sorts of wild conspiarcy theories as long as it implicates Jews, George Bush etc.
But give them the truth that put them under a bad light and they will demand more proof to the truths. They demand proof that Osama is a terrorists even though Osama openly admitted it. They think those Osama tapes were faked by Jews.
They can do no wrong and others are always to be blamed. -
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CorrectOriginally posted by av98m:To these nutcases Osama is a hero who killed thousands of infidels ..... -
Jerry Maguire says: SHOW ME THE MONEY!Originally posted by LazerLordz:Bounty offered on cartoonists as protests rage
Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:50 AM ET168
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By Simon Cameron-Moore
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani Muslim cleric and his followers offered rewards amounting to over $1 million for anyone who killed Danish cartoonists who drew caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad that have enraged Muslims worldwide.
The cleric offered the bounty during Friday prayers as Muslim anger against the cartoons flared anew in parts of Asia.
Weeks of global protests over the cartoons have triggered fears of a clash of civilizations between the West and Islam, and have led to calls on all sides for calm.
On Friday, thousands rallied in Pakistan, police in Bangladesh blocked demonstrators heading for the Danish embassy in Dhaka and in the Indian city of Hyderabad, police fired teargas shells and batons to beat back hundreds of protesters, who had stoned shops and disrupted traffic.
Protests in Pakistan this week have resulted in at least five deaths and hundreds of detentions, and on Friday it became the latest country where Denmark has decided to temporarily close its embassy.
The Danish foreign ministry also issued a travel warning for Pakistan, urging any Danes to leave as soon as possible.
In the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, cleric Maulana Yousef Qureshi said he had personally offered to pay a bounty of 500,000 rupees ($8,400) to anyone who killed a Danish cartoonist, and two of his congregation put up additional rewards of $1 million and one million rupees plus a car.
"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," Qureshi told Reuters, referring to the al Qaeda leader and his deputy Ayman al Zawahri.
The cleric leads the congregation at the historic Mohabat mosque, on street known for goldsmith shops in the provincial capital of North West Frontier Province -- a stronghold of Pakistan's Islamist opposition parties.
The cartoons were first published in Denmark last September, but last month newspapers and magazines in Europe and elsewhere began republishing to assert principles of freedom of expression.
Muslims believe images of the Prophet are forbidden
Read the rest of the article here http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=uri:2006-02-17T145019Z_01_SP176544_RTRUKOC_0_US-RELIGION-CARTOONS.xml&pageNumber=1&summit=
Lwflee asks: WTF IS A CLERIC DOING WITH $8400 when the average income of a pakistanis is about $600?!?!
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This is the disease of any organized religion, frankly I'm not surprised ... you see priests driving Mercs and Beemers right here in Singapore too anyways (while people struggling to get by are pressured to tithe more of their income than they can afford, go figure ) people should wake up and not be brainwashed by religious dogma, preached to you by MAN, HUMAN BEINGS, how they control you is through FEAR, you're just fulfilling THEIR agendas. satisfying their GREED ..... people should try to see things as they really are ...Originally posted by lwflee:Jerry Maguire says: SHOW ME THE MONEY!
Lwflee asks: WTF IS A CLERIC DOING WITH $8400 when the average income of a pakistanis is about $600?!?!
Cnuts.
in anycase, those people are really spoiling the image of their professed religion, they remind me of spoilt, spiteful children .... like kids in kindergarten taking turns hitting each other ....
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That reminds me of a news article in today's West Australian says that evangelical mega-churches are turning into big businesses. CHC comes to mind almost immediately.Originally posted by Fatum:This is the disease of any organized religion, frankly I'm not surprised ... you see priests driving Mercs and Beemers right here in Singapore too anyways (while people struggling to get by are pressured to tithe more of their income than they can afford, go figure ) people should wake up and not be brainwashed by religious dogma, preached to you by MAN, HUMAN BEINGS, how they control you is through FEAR, you're just fulfilling THEIR agendas. satisfying their GREED ..... people should try to see things as they really are ... -
Growing into big business ok cos biz makes the world go round.
As long as they don't fund fanaticism no problem. -
muslim ppl like tat one
childish and spoilt ppl
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not all muslims lah, just the fanatics.
my muslim frens are open minded. they don't care the cartoons.
the fanatics that riot & issue threats are bullies. Bullies are control freaks. They want to force their will on you, dominate you, humiliate you and make you respect them, treat them preferentially and even fear them. Fear is the fuel of the fanatical bully. He becomes stronger by instilling fear as fire become bigger with gasoline.
So how would you deal with the bully? The worst thing is to show fear and try to appease him. Your fear and retreat only makes him bolder and he will demand more. -
Put the culprit in a public venue and any Muslim who has never sinned who thinks he/she deserves to stone him be the first to stone him.
How?