Posted on 03/24/2011 9:37:17 AM PDT by Nachum
Well, Florida pastor Terry Jones has gone and done it. The evangelical minister, who threatened last September 11 to burn a copy of the Koran and then backed down in the face of public pressure, has made good on his incendiary promise. With 30 people present as witnesses, he set fire to a copy of the embattled religious text.
And, as happens in the event of real or imagined slights, the other shoe summarily dropped. No sooner had Jones fired up his Bic than an Islamic “court” in Pakistan found him guilty of the crime of desecrating the religion’s most holy book. The court then issued a fatwa—loosely translated as “death order—against him, as is their wont.
But here is where the story gets interesting. Pakistan’s Jamaat-ud-Dawah, a banned Islamic organization and suspected terrorist group, announced a bounty of 10 crore rupees for anyone who fulfills the fatwa on Jones. In case you’re wondering, that amount is equivalent to around $2.2 million—not exactly chicken feed. What ever happened to 72 virgins?
I became curious about whether this most supernal of religions actually sanctions killings for hire, so I did a little digging and found that indeed it does. One of the most famous examples of a fee-for-service fatwa involved Taslima Nasreen, an exiled Bangladeshi writer, who had been targeted for execution by Indian Muslim scholars. After Juma prayers at the Tipu Sultan mosque in Calcutta, Majidulla Khan Farhad announced “unlimited financial reward” to anybody who would kill the author.
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In other news, a Christian Group Places $2.2 Million Bounty on Head of Crucifix in Urine Taxpayer Supported Artist.
/sarc
Actually, they do burn bibles. Those confiscated by Saudi customs are often burned.
I am Sparticus.
Where can I get a copy of the Koran printed on one ply paper. I don’t want to clog my plumbing.
PayPal?
Our own military burns Bibles.
Military burns unsolicited Bibles sent to Afghanistan
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/20/us.military.bibles.burned/
*snicker*
5 Million USD for any Jamaat-ud-Dawah pelt.
Sure you can. And after you collect it they will charge you a 100% jizya for being a non believer, then kill you for ... well ... just because.
Ya know.. we could learn from Sharia Law.
When Islamists (political Islam, Sharia Law advocates) insult our heritage by such acts as demands that we adopt their laws we should have laws that make those insults capital offenses. How could Islamists object? They demand that we adopt Sharia.
...or the one putting up the money.
Frank Beckmann, the 9-12 host at WJR in Detroit, had him on this morning. Why? Jones is coming to Michigan to protest in front of a mosque in Dearbornistan, the nation’s largest. Frank gently took him to task for being “incendiary” but Jones is still planning to come.
I’ll be sure to avoid the area. Not like I have an excuse to go to Dearbornistan, ever...
Anyone care to guess how many Nation of Islam recent graduates of the Federal or Florida prison systems live within a 50 mile radius of this pastor?
They don't have the money and even if they did, they wouldn't pay out.
But this does make me wonder...
I wonder how much the bounty would be if there was someone ripping out the pages and wiping their butt with it? Or have some pig chew on it?
Touch the pastor and the mosque dies!
I can foresee a string of tragic accidents. A long, long string.
The end times are here.
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