Islamic Cleric Still Offering $1M to Kill Danish Cartoonist
Charles Johnson
Fri Dec 15, 2006 at 12:49 pm PST • Views: 340
A leading Pakistani RoP cleric (who is denied entry to the US) says the fatwa calling for the murder of “the cartoonist” (actually, there are several cartoonists) responsible for the Danish Mohammed caricatures will not be withdrawn.
PESHAWAR: Mohabbat Khan Mosque Khateeb Maulana Muhammad Yousuf Qureshi said on Wednesday that a fatwa (decree) issued for the killing of a Danish cartoonist who had drawn caricatures of the Holy Prophet (PBUH), would not be withdrawn.
“We have put a price on the blasphemer’s head, and will pay one million dollars to the person who kills him,” Qureshi told Daily Times. Qureshi said that the US government had banned his entry into America and refused him a visa after he issued the fatwa against the cartoonist working for Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. Qureshi, who has been criticising the US and leading anti-US rallies, said he was not against Americans. He said he had visited the US every year between 1984 and 2000, but stopped going there after the 9/11 attacks. “I am only against US government policies which are anti-Muslim,” he said.
Frank says: