Qaeda calls for killing of Swedish cartoonist

boston.com ^ | September 16, 2007 | Reuters

[rdl6989]

The head of an Al Qaeda-led group in Iraq has offered a $100,000 bounty for someone to kill a Swedish cartoonist for his drawing of Islam's Prophet Mohammed, and has threatened to attack major Swedish companies. Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the self-styled Islamic State in Iraq, also offered $50,000 to anyone who kills Ulf Johansson, the editor of the newspaper that published the drawing by Lars Vilks.

Sweden's Nerikes Allehanda daily newspaper published the drawing, part of a series that art galleries in Sweden had declined to display, last month. The cartoon showed the Prophet Mohammed with a dog's body. (snip)

[Berlin_Freeper]

“The cartoon showed the Prophet Mohammed with a dog’s body.”

That’s an insult to dogs.

[Ready4Freddy]

[donna]

People should post drawings of Mohammed with a dog’s body on every lamp post and street sign in Sweden.

[DB]

If the western world’s media had any guts at all they would publish the “cartoons” in every paper in every major city and take the heat off the few that have.

But instead they’re cowards letting a the few people that took a stand for freedom at great personal risk hang out to dry.

Pathetic.

[DB]

How about the western world.

[rickmichaels]

Muck Fohammed.

[Judges Gone Wild]

How do they know it’s Mohammed? It is forbidden for Muslims to display images of the prophet. No one knows what he looked like.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

"The award will be increased to $150,000 if he were to be slaughtered like a lamb."

i.e. with his throat cut and head sawed off.

Religion of Peace, right?

[Loud Mime]

If Satan were to start a religion on earth, how would it differ from Islam?

[donna]

Well, Satan would call it “the religion of peace” . . .

Oh, never mind.

[Loud Mime]

My point, exactly.

[Nathan Zachary]

"How do they know it’s Mohammed? It is forbidden for Muslims to display images of the prophet. No one knows what he looked like."

Actually that is all a bunch of B.S. Muslims have always used images and likenesses of Mohammad. Of course they make him look bigger than he was. He was actually a short, fat, flea infested dumpy looking psychopath.

[Nathan Zachary]

"If Satan were to start a religion on earth, how would it differ from Islam?"

Islam IS Satan's religion, the Koran his bible. That's why it's a jumbled up book full of contradictions, twisted Jewish fables, and hatred for Christians and Jews.

[JeepInMazar]

Cartoons, Al-Qaeda’s Prophet, and Hadi Elmi of the Islamic Education Center in Houston

[Gorzaloon]

If Satan were to start a religion on earth, how would it differ from Islam?

The Serpent was the subtlest of beasts.

He allowed Islam to be made up as a farce in order to ridicule the concept of religion, as he sometimes does for His amusement. Scientology, for example, may have been allowed while He was drunk and frisky.

Were Old Mister Devil to actually create a religion, it would be one that would masquerade as an enlightenment- Everyone loves everyone, all value systems and cultures are equal, there is no absolute right and wrong.

Oh. Wait. We have that one...

[ricks_place]

Very Sad to See the Testosterone Drained from Viking Heirs!

[Clintonfatigued]

It’s a vulgar, unnecessary cartoon that accomplishes nothing worthwhile. But the cartoonist should not have published it. But he doesn’t deserve to die for it.

[Clintonfatigued]

This isn’t in the Middle East, but it’s relevant, given Al Quaeda’s role in it.

[Loud Mime]

He was actually a short, fat, flea infested dumpy looking psychopath.