Muslim Cleric Offers $1 Million Death Bounty For Cartoonist

Posted on February 17, 2006

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Hat tip: The Dread Pundit Bluto
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Pakistan - A Pakistani cleric announced Friday a $1 million bounty for killing a cartoonist who drew Prophet Muhammad, as thousands joined street protests and Denmark temporarily closed its embassy and advised its citizens to leave the country.

Police confined the former leader of an Islamic militant group to his home to prevent him from addressing supporters over the cartoons, amid fears he could incite violence, after riots this week killed five people.

Security forces were out in strength, particularly around government offices and Western businesses, as Muslims streamed onto the streets after Friday prayers. More than 200 people were detained, but most gatherings were peaceful.

In neighboring India, police used batons and tear gas to disperse thousands of angry worshippers who rioted in the southern city of Hyderabad. They burned Danish flags, pelted police with stones, and looted shops. Hundreds more protested in Bangladesh.

In the northwestern Pakistan city of Peshawar, prayer leader Mohammed Yousaf Qureshi announced the bounty for killing a cartoonist to about 1,000 people outside the Mohabat Khan mosque.

Qureshi said the mosque and his religious school would give $25,000 and a car, while a local jewelers’ association would give another $1 million. No representative of the association was available to confirm it had made the offer.

“This is a unanimous decision 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.

Qureshi did not name any cartoonist in his announcement. He did not appear aware that 12 different people had drawn the pictures.

Dread Pundit Bluto informs us that visits by Qureshi have been sponsored by Islamic groups in the United States. One of the groups is the “Islamic Valley” in 2002 in the New York State capital region:

Nightly, following the Salat Traweeh, listen to the renowned Islamic Scholar from Peshawar, Pakistan, MAULANA YOUSEF QURESHI. The Maulana will be at the MDQ New Mosque for the remainder of the most Blessed RAMADHAN. The Maulana is very well known in Pakistan, especially in the NWF. He is presently the KHATEEB at the famous MASJID MUHABAT KHAN in PESHAWAR.

These are the kind of dangerous organizations supporting radical Islamists that have embedded themselves into America posed as moderate, Islamic tolerance groups. These are the kind of groups that the ACLU supports….groups like CAIR and others. Many have ties to terrorism. The FBI needs to do some major crackdowns on these groups.

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One Response to “Muslim Cleric Offers $1 Million Death Bounty For Cartoonist”

LomaAlta on February 17th, 2006 1:07 pm

Ah ha! Now we know why the MSM in this country, and others, are running so scared. Free speech is valuable to them in the abstract, but not in practical day to day activities that frighten them. They want all the free speech they can get to release terrorists on the public, but not them, no not them.