2 hours, 41 minutes ago PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A Pakistani cleric announced Friday a $1 million bounty for killing a cartoonist who drew Prophet Muhammad, as thousands joined street protests and Denmark temporarily closed its embassy and advised its citizens to leave the country. Police confined the former leader of an Islamic militant group to his home to prevent him from addressing supporters over the cartoons, amid fears he could incite violence, after riots this week killed five people. Security forces were out in strength, particularly around government offices and Western businesses, as Muslims streamed onto the streets after Friday prayers. More than 200 people were detained, but most gatherings were peaceful. In neighboring India, police used batons and tear gas to disperse thousands of angry worshippers who rioted in the southern city of Hyderabad. They burned Danish flags, pelted police with stones, and looted shops. Hundreds more protested in Bangladesh. In the northwestern Pakistan city of Peshawar, prayer leader Mohammed Yousaf Qureshi announced the bounty for killing a cartoonist to about 1,000 people outside the Mohabat Khan mosque. Qureshi said the mosque and his religious school would give $25,000 and a car, while a local jewelers' association would give another $1 million. No representative of the association was available to confirm it had made the offer. "This is a unanimous decision by all imams (prayer leaders) of Islam that whoever insults the prophet deserves to be killed and whoever will take this insulting man to his end, will get this prize," Qureshi said. Qureshi did not name any cartoonist in his announcement. He did not appear aware that 12 different people had drawn the pictures. A Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, first printed the prophet pictures by 12 cartoonists in September. The newspaper has since apologized to Muslims for the cartoons, one of them showing Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban with an ignited fuse. Other Western newspapers, mostly in Europe, have reprinted the pictures, asserting their news value and the right to freedom of expression. In Islamabad, former U.S. President Bill Clinton criticized the cartoons but said Muslims wasted an opportunity to build better ties with the West by holding violent protests. "I can tell you, most people in the United States deeply respect Islam ... and most people in Europe do," he said on a visit to sign an HIV- AIDS project by his foundation. Denmark announced it had temporarily closed its embassy in Pakistan. It also advised against all travel to Pakistan and urged Danes still in the country to leave. "We have decided to do so because of the general security situation in the country," Foreign Ministry spokesman Lars Thuesen said. Denmark has already temporarily closed its embassies in Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Indonesia after anti-Danish protests and threats against staff. Pakistan, meanwhile, recalled its ambassador to Denmark for "consultations" about the cartoons, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said. Unrest over the cartoons has spiraled in Pakistan, even as it has ebbed in the rest of Asia and in the Middle East. Big riots in Lahore and Peshawar this week caused millions of dollars in damage, as hundreds of vehicles were burned and protesters targeted numerous U.S. and other foreign-brand businesses, including KFC, McDonald's, Citibank, Holiday Inn and Norwegian cell phone company Telenor. Intelligence officials have said scores of members of radical and militant Islamic groups, such as Jamaat al-Dawat, joined the unruly protests in Lahore on Tuesday and had incited violence in a bid to undermine President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's government. On Friday, police confined Jamaat al-Dawat's leader, Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, to his home in Lahore to stop him from addressing supporters in the city of Faisalabad, about 75 miles away, his spokesman Yahya Mujahid said. Saeed used to lead Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, a militant group closely associated with Jamaat al-Dawat and banned by Musharraf four years ago. A senior police official in Lahore who confirmed Saeed's detention said the government had ordered police to restrict the movement of all religious leaders who might address rallies and to round up religious activists "who could be any threat to law and order." The official spoke on condition of anonymity as he wasn't authorized to discuss the matter with media because of its sensitivity. Police used tear gas and batons in isolated incidents at Friday's protests, but generally they were free of violence. About 7,000 protested in Rawalpindi, 5,000 in the southwestern city of Quetta and 5,000 in Karachi.
So much for freedom of speech and open minded inquiry in the west. Hypocrites Stefan Meller, Poland's Foreign Minister, has ruled out allowing any Iranian researchers to examine the scale of the Holocaust committed by the German Nazis on Polish soil during World War II. Meller's remarks came after repeated denials of the Jewish Holocaust by Iranian officials and their suggestions that more research is needed to establish the truth about what happened to European Jews. "Under no circumstances we should allow something like that to take place in Poland," Meller told Polish news agency PAP on Friday. "It goes beyond all imaginable norms to question, even discuss or negotiate the issue." Last week Iran's ambassador to Lisbon, who in the past served as a diplomat in Poland, said in an interview on Portuguese radio that according to his calculations based on a visit to the camp, now a museum, it would have taken the Nazis 15 years to burn the corpses of 6 million people.
Looks like James the Loser is back to closing my threads. Read the last post in Israeli World Domination. Read the article below. Wake up to reality. An explosion and fire occurred at a chemical plant Friday in Bakersfield, the Kern County Fire Department said. The blaze at Hondo Chemical was a three-alarm fire, the fire department said in a recorded statement on a media information line. It said crews would be at the scene into Friday night. KUZZ-AM radio reported that a forklift accident sparked the blaze and 10,000 gallons of glycerin was on fire. Two employees were in the building where the fire started and both escaped unharmed, KUZZ reported. Thick black smoke was visible for miles, The Bakersfield Californiannewspaper reported on its Web site. Hondo Chemical creates custom blends of soil fertilizers for farms, golf courses and landscapers. Another company, American Biofuels, also operates on the site. Bakersfield is in the southern San Joaquin Valley about 100 miles north of Los Angeles.
A million WOW maybe we should introduce this cleric to the word opinion. OH noo a chemical plant caught fire its all so clear. having iran "research" the holocaust would be like letting creationist "research" evolution. They would only make problems where there are no problems manipulating the information for their own agenda.
Do you honestly believe a pakistan muslim would pay 1 million to a infidel, hell i would gladly kill him for a million too, if i was sure of payment, its easier to extract water from stone, than to get money out of a paki. Now if the loonies in iran offered it, you might recieve payment, as they are throwing there oil money at terroists worldwide.
Happeh, JamesR amalgamated a couple of threads mainly because in each of them myself, sockpuppetpath, leopold, spidergoat and a few others were poking fun at your stupidity. You has asked why you couldn't see my posts - they seemed blank to you. Within minutes the group I mentioned had figured out what was going on and were exchanging comments on your ignorance quite openly that you were unable to see. All this was in a thread where you had claimed how much smarter you were than any of us. JamesR took pity on you because we had ganged up on you to poke fun. It was, perhaps, not especially pleasant of us to do so. But then you are not an especially pleasant person. You wont listen to reasoned argument - all that is left for your detractors is piss taking. Fortunately you make it quite easy to do that. The poor sod still doesn't seem to understand what went on. How he can claim to be smart!!! Most persons of low intellect that I know are smart enough to know they are not very bright. Not this one.
This is from the swedish television today : The minister of the local government in Uttar Pradesh, India is offering a reward of about 13 millions $ to anyone , who beheads any of the danish cartoonists ........ Times of India claims that the minister now risks 7 years prison for offering the reward ... So 100 kilo of gold from Taliban and 1 million $ (Pakistan) + 13 millions $ (India) is now the total reward !!!!!!
" ... a 1948 Red Cross report details nearly 250,000 (NOT 6,000,000) Jews died in Nazi concentration camps but found no evidence of Genocide. This is in distinct contrast to the figure (of 6 million) touted nowadays by the mainstream media and portrayed by Hollywood. At the time the Red Cross was a neutral body with no political axe to grind, so why the difference? And we need to ask ourselves, not only why there is such a difference in the numbers but also why those who ask such questions are being silenced?" "In August 2000, two Zionist lawyers in Germany almost succeeded in winning an injunction against publishers of the Bible in an attempt to redact the words of Jesus because they regarded them as "anti-Semitic". Family Minister Christian Bergmann eventually rejected their application to have the Bible banned or placed on the "dangerous books" list." (Michael James in Frankfurt, Germany β 14 December 2005)
You would think mighty allalalaah would be capable of making him pay himself. He is after all an all powerful deity.
The cartoonists of the world must be overjoyed. Their profession has never been so significant! I saw a funny t-shirt on the subject that said: Look, a cartoonist! Stone him!
