Posted on 02/17/2006 6:26:29 PM PST by voletti
LUCKNOW, MEERUT, FEBRUARY 17: The Minister for Minority Welfare and Haj in the Mulayam Singh Yadav government, Haji Yaqoob Qureishi, has announced a cash reward of Rs 51 crore for anyone who beheads the Danish cartoonist who caricatured Prophet Mohammad.
While the state government has defended the Minister’s remark as the “voice of someone whose religious sentiments have been hurt,” a senior member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board has slammed it calling the reward “anti-Islamic and anti-humanity.”
Speaking to The Indian Express, Qureishi defended his announcement saying it was a “concerted decision” and the killing of a person who blasphemed Islam was “justified.”
Addressing a gathering at the Faiz-e-Azam College in Meerut after Friday prayers today, Qureishi announced the reward and urged Muslims to show “proof” of being himayat-e-Islami by joining in the protest.
Taking the cue, several shopkeepers downed shutters with speakers demanding an apology from the Danish government. They also demanded that New Delhi snap diplomatic ties with Denmark.
When contacted, UP Principal Secretary, Home, Alok Sinha told The Indian Express: “The minister’s reaction was the voice of someone whose religious sentiments have been hurt. Moreover, since the reference was to a person who is far off, there is no question of an FIR being lodged against the minister.”
However, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board member and Naib Imam of Aishbagh Idgah, Maulana Khalid Rasheed Firangi Mahali, criticised the Minister’s call for the killing of the cartoonist.
“The Minister’s statement is anti-Shariat, anti-Islam and anti-humanity,” Mahali said. “The western media is already up against Islam, the minister’s statement will only add fuel to the fire.” The Prophet believed in pardoning others for “sins committed by them,” the Maulana said, “Who are we to issue such irresponsible statements?”
"^^^ Islamic spirit."
Would you like to take advantage of the Educational Opportunities offered to Carrot?
If you do, you will receive a free (FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!) Hill of Tara hat with a propellor.
"happy by scraping it off your screen."
No, no, no. You are supposed to MAIL it to me.
But if you don't want to, you can always deposit the funds into my numbered Credit Suisse Bank account.
The number is XV1437389458494004837a. Please understand that your lessons will not begin until the full payment arrives.
No thanks. The m@nkey from the hill(s) (Himalayas?) has kept my sanity in peak condition. And the endless hours of entertainment it provides me(during MY daytime) has kept me depression-free all this while.
But you've gotten me worried suddenly. Are you going away for a long time?
Too bad. You have to be content with pixel-based on-screen payments.
Monkey:"no, please please don't hurt me carrot. I'm just a little monkey..keep your hands AWAY FROM ME!"
"But you've gotten me worried suddenly. Are you going away for a long time?"
now why would you think that?
As long as you can stop yourself away from biting it or conversing with it, it'll stay fine.
You are more kooky than I thought you were.
Only if you can make it as good as a Tandoori meat curry.
Jiminy.
If you consume it, wouldn't it be cannibalistic on your part?
Hindus don't have to learn about muslims from the likes of you, muzzie. We have suffered enough at their end for hundreds of years (and unortunately, don;t seem to have learned our lessons as yet).
You're absolutely right....check out this thread for a brief historical analysis of the genocide of Hindus by these barbarians: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1565272/posts
Arrest UP minister for cartoonist statement: BJP
Press Trust of India
Posted online: Saturday, February 18, 2006 at 1706 hours IST
http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=63078
Chennai, February 18: The BJP today demanded the arrest and dismissal of Uttar Pradesh Haj minister Mohammed Yaqoob Qureshi who announced a reward of Rs 51 crore and gold on the head of the Danish cartoonist for lampooning Prophet Mohammed.
Terming the reward a result of a ‘mad competition’ of vote-bank politics between Samajwadi Party and Congress, former party M Venkaiah Naidu demanded immediate action of the centre and the UP governor in this regard.
"The BJP disapproves such caricatures, whether Danish or Indian. The so-called secularists have shown no Opposition to the caricature of noted painter M F Hussain," he told a news conference here.
"How can a minister give such a statement? This is cheap tactics and an attempt at vote bank politics", he said.
Turning to the issue of head counts of minorities in the Army, Naidu said his party would oppose tooth-and-nail the Centre's move as it was an "anti-national act".
"It is sectarian and divisive and demoralises the Army," he said.
The move was "fraught with dangerous implications" and so the "party has already advised its state governments not to cooperate with the Sacchar Committee constituted to study the status of minorities, he said.
In India, seems the opposition out of power (NDA) is a beacon of sanity. In the US, the opposition out of power (Democrat party) is a beacon of insanity.
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