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April 01, 2009
Cleric Offers Reward For Cartoonist's Head
How's this for a "religion of peace"? A Pakastani Muslim cleric is offering a $25,000 reward to anyone that kills the artist of cartoons creating so much controversy, voilence, and destruction throughout the world. The Toronto Star has more:
Mohammed Yousaf Qureshi, prayer leader at the historic Mohabat Khan mosque in the northwestern city of Peshawar, announced the mosque and the Jamia Ashrafia religious school he leads would give a 1.5 million rupee ($25,000) reward and a car for killing the cartoonist of the prophet pictures that appeared first in a Danish newspaper in September.
"Whoever has done this despicable and shameful act, he has challenged the honour of Muslims. Whoever will kill this cursed man, he will get $1 million dollars from the association of the jewellers bazaar, one million rupees from Masjid Mohabat Khan and 500,000 rupees and a car from Jamia Ashrafia as a reward," Qureshi said.
"This is a unanimous decision of by all imams (prayer leaders) of Islam that whoever insults the prophet deserves to be killed and whoever will take this insulting man to his end, will get this prize," Qureshi said.The media through a fit over Pat Robertson's remarks to have Hugo Chavez "taken out." Where's the same outrage over the countless Muslims and Cleric Quereshi?
Posted by Rich Vos at April 1, 2009 12:00 AM
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This seeming double-standard is VERY easy to explain. You see, we already know that people like this Qureshi guy are crazy. However, when a famous preacher OVER HERE lives says something worthy of a rabid jihadist, it's instructive to point it out. You won't find many people in this country who don't think Qureshi is a crazy jihadist, but you will find people who don't realize that Robertson is. Since Robertson has a much bigger effect on our lives, it is far more important to make this point rather than one that everyone generally agrees with. You may try to convince yourself that there are lot of Americans who think that Islam is a "religion of peace", but I don't really hear that except from politicians trying to be PC (like Bush, when he said it). It will make a lot more sense if you stop trying to demolish a straw man.
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