Murdering for Muhammad
Pakistani Minister Offers Bounty Over Anti-Islam Video
By DECLAN WALSH, NYT
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Pakistani cabinet minister offered a $100,000 reward on Saturday for the death of the person behind the anti-Islam video made in the United States that has roiled Muslims around the world, even suggesting that Taliban and Al Qaeda militants could carry out the killing.
Ghulam Ahmad Bilour, the federal railways minister, said at a news conference in the northwestern city of Peshawar that he would personally finance a bounty aimed at the maker of a crude, low-budget video that denigrates the Prophet Muhammad.
Mr. Bilour acknowledged that incitement to murder was illegal, but said he was “ready to be hanged in the name of the Prophet Muhammad.” And he invited the Taliban and Al Qaeda to be “partners in this noble deed,” according to news reports.
The incendiary statements came a day after violent protests paralyzed Pakistan’s largest cities, leaving 23 people dead and more than 200 injured, and invited fresh criticism of the government’s handling of the crisis.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Pakistani cabinet minister offered a $100,000 reward on Saturday for the death of the person behind the anti-Islam video made in the United States that has roiled Muslims around the world, even suggesting that Taliban and Al Qaeda militants could carry out the killing.
Ghulam Ahmad Bilour, the federal railways minister, said at a news conference in the northwestern city of Peshawar that he would personally finance a bounty aimed at the maker of a crude, low-budget video that denigrates the Prophet Muhammad.
Mr. Bilour acknowledged that incitement to murder was illegal, but said he was “ready to be hanged in the name of the Prophet Muhammad.” And he invited the Taliban and Al Qaeda to be “partners in this noble deed,” according to news reports.
The incendiary statements came a day after violent protests paralyzed Pakistan’s largest cities, leaving 23 people dead and more than 200 injured, and invited fresh criticism of the government’s handling of the crisis.
(More here.)
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