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Rs 51-crore reward for Danish cartoonist’s head, says UP Minister ($10 million, India)
Indian Express ^ | 2/16/06 | MV Rao

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?”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bounty; cartoons; deaththreat; india; islam
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To: Hill of Tara

"That's not what it sounds like by the way you are talking. It seems like you are glad that Europe will fall. "

Lets cry together. Me go boo, you go hoo.


61 posted on 02/17/2006 8:49:19 PM PST by sagar
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To: CarrotAndStick

"You are sounding very wierd."

Now that was an intelligent comment.

Not to mention that you mispelled weird.


62 posted on 02/17/2006 8:50:17 PM PST by Hill of Tara
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To: Hill of Tara
Your reasoning is extremely juvenile...

And your opinion of Europe murdering 100+ million people is the mark of a genius.

63 posted on 02/17/2006 8:51:15 PM PST by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: sagar

ok. Ready?

boo-hoo boo-hoo.

Your turn now.


64 posted on 02/17/2006 8:51:25 PM PST by Hill of Tara
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To: CarrotAndStick

"And your opinion of Europe murdering 100+ million people is the mark of a genius."

It's better than Europe falling to the Muslims.


65 posted on 02/17/2006 8:52:01 PM PST by Hill of Tara
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To: Hill of Tara
Not to mention that you mispelled weird.

Oh, the last resort-picking on a typo. LoL!

66 posted on 02/17/2006 8:53:17 PM PST by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: voletti

Thanks for the link voletti!

"P.S: Exerminating 50 million people? That exceeds the total tally in WWII. Its easier said than done."

I know, but the only other alternative is Europe falling to Islam and other pagan forces.

"That buffoon clintoon bombed the wrong side in the Bosnian war else the world could've seen what a civil war outcome would foretell in Europe."

Yep.


67 posted on 02/17/2006 8:54:37 PM PST by Hill of Tara
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To: Hill of Tara

And what will you do with the 100 million bodies? Make products? The Nazis must have inspired you.


68 posted on 02/17/2006 8:54:40 PM PST by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: indcons

Most of India is pro American and they see the benifits of Democracy . Muslims have slaughtered Hindus for years in India in the past .


69 posted on 02/17/2006 8:56:11 PM PST by binkdeville
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To: CarrotAndStick

"Oh, the last resort-picking on a typo. LoL!"

No, just pointing it out, since you called me juvenile. Apparently even juveniles can spell better than you can.

Still no response to my last posts (or an explanation for your stamp)


70 posted on 02/17/2006 8:56:24 PM PST by Hill of Tara
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To: voletti

"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."

Maybe there should be a price on the head of Haji Yaqoob Qureishi. Considering how little is inside it except for worms, maggots, and rotten flesh, I doubt it would come anywhere near the price of Rs 51 - whatever the hell that is.

Nice to know our Indian outsource people are as fond of us as the Red Chinses villains who are making millions from selling us cheap furniture.


71 posted on 02/17/2006 8:56:25 PM PST by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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To: Hill of Tara
http://amywelborn.typepad.com/openbook/2005/04/empty_churches_.html

At Mass last Sunday, Amiens's gothic cathedral, the largest in France, was virtually empty. Not just sparsely filled--it was, except for a handful of tourists, vacant. Mass was being conducted in a side chapel fit for the couple dozen worshipers who showed up for it (I among them).

Amiens is hardly the exception. Europe's largest churches are often unused these days, reduced to monuments for tourists to admire. And there is a reason for this neglect. In "The Cube and the Cathedral," George Weigel describes a European culture that has become not only increasingly secular but in many cases downright hostile to Christianity. The cathedral in his title is Notre Dame, now overshadowed in cultural importance by the Arc de la Defense, the ultramodernist "cube" that dominates an office complex outside Paris. "European man has convinced himself that in order to be modern and free, he must be radically secular," Mr. Weigel writes. "That conviction and its public consequences are at the root of Europe's contemporary crisis of civilizational morale."

72 posted on 02/17/2006 8:57:47 PM PST by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: Hill of Tara

I doubt it...although some of Europe is FINALLY waking up to the reality of Islam .


73 posted on 02/17/2006 8:57:53 PM PST by binkdeville
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To: CarrotAndStick

"And what will you do with the 100 million bodies?"

bury them, burn them, whatever.

No, not make products. It's interesting that YOU thought of such a thing. Is that what they do in India? Yes, I do recall hearing tales of rampant cannibalism and the like in Hinduland. Whose the real Nazi, Friese Indishche Korps GruppenFuehrer?


74 posted on 02/17/2006 8:59:04 PM PST by Hill of Tara
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To: binkdeville

"although some of Europe is FINALLY waking up to the reality of Islam ."

Yes..it is a start. The rest will wake up gradually. Give it time.


75 posted on 02/17/2006 8:59:48 PM PST by Hill of Tara
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To: Hill of Tara
I'm sure you felt better. Watching too much lord of the rings to evade the reality?

Muslims protest outside the Danish consulate in New York February 17, 2006.

Concentrate on America. Developed part of Europe is by spirit Islamic(I'm not talking about rural eastern europe) and lost its backbone when silly they killed each other (by borrowing eastern mythological stories) by tens of millions 60 years ago. Your whiny masochistic Lord Of the Rings talk is just feel good and you know it.

76 posted on 02/17/2006 9:00:23 PM PST by sagar
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To: CarrotAndStick

and you trust information from some BLOG?


77 posted on 02/17/2006 9:00:27 PM PST by Hill of Tara
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To: Hill of Tara

there may not be ENOUGH time in some cases.


78 posted on 02/17/2006 9:01:02 PM PST by binkdeville
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To: sagar

"Your whiny masochistic Lord Of the Rings talk is just feel good and you know it."

What the hell are you talking about?


79 posted on 02/17/2006 9:01:43 PM PST by Hill of Tara
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To: binkdeville

"there may not be ENOUGH time in some cases."

True, but I hope there is. I still believe that Europe will defend itself in the end.

Kind of like the Lord of The Rings, come to think of it, now that Sagar mentioned it.


80 posted on 02/17/2006 9:03:14 PM PST by Hill of Tara
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