This story lists two bounties, one for 100 million Pakistani rupees and the other for 10 million rupees. 100 million rupees is slightly less than a million US dollars, so the total bounty amounts to just under $1,100,000 dollars.
Where is the global condemnation of this bloodlust and thuggery?
“Sacrilegious caricatures: Bounties announced on Charlie Hebdo cartoonists, publishers,” Express Tribune, January 23, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
PESHAWAR / SHABQADAR / KP: Several bounties were announced on the staff of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Friday as protests against its publication of sacrilegious cartoons continued across the province.
Charsadda
Religious parties Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) and Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) announced a bounty of Rs100 million on the people who made and published the caricatures.
Hundreds of activists led by JI’s Abdul Mastan, JUI-F’s Amir Hidayatul Haq and ASWJ leaders protested against the cartoons on Friday in Shabqadar and adopted a declaration urging people to boycott French products.
Addressing the protest, Mastan demanded that the federal government expel the French ambassador from Pakistan, while JUI-F’s Maulana Wakeel Ahmad said Pakistan should call a session of the United Nations and rally for a ban on publications insulting religion and Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).
A similar demonstration was also held in Tangi tehsil at Farooque Azam Square where JUI-F MNA Maulana Gohar Shah, JUI-F Charsadda Amir Hashim Khan, JI Charsadda Amir Misbahullah along with other leaders demanded action against the controversial cartoonists and urged the Islamic world to unite against such freedom of speech.
Mardan
Led by JUI-F MNA Maulana Muhammad Qasim, scores of JUI-F activists took to the streets and demanded action against the magazine. Malakand Road remained blocked for several hours due to the protest.
Mardan Anjamum Tajiran (traders association) announced a bounty of Rs10 million on the magazine staff and urged the UN to make a law against blasphemy.
Peshawar
Hundreds of activists of JI, JUI-F and JUI-S took out a protest rally from Khyber Bazaar to Qissa Khwani Bazaar in the provincial capital following Friday prayers. JI’s Hakeem Abdul Wahid, JUI-F K-P Amir Maulana Gul Naseeb, JUI-S Central Deputy Secretary Maulana Hamidul Haq, prayer leader of Qasim Ali Khan Mosque, Mufti Shahabuddin Popalzai, and other religious leaders led the protest. Demonstrators chanted slogans against the French magazine and government and demanded leaders of Muslim countries suspend relations with France. Maulana Naseer said European countries have set punishments for insulating the Pope and Queen Elizabeth but remain silent on the issue of blasphemy against the Holy Prophet (pbuh). Mufti Popalzai appealed to Muslim countries to lodge a writ petition with the International Court of Justice against the magazine staff. Activists of the recently outlawed organisation, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, also protested outside the Peshawar Press Club.
Hazara Division
Traders of Mansehra district observed a complete shutter-down strike against the publications.
On the call of Anjuman Tajran (traders association), shops, shopping malls and markets remained closed throughout the day, while rallies were taken out by different political parties and traders’ bodies.
All protest processions converged at Khatm-e-Naboovat Chowk where leaders of JUI-F, JUI-S, ASWJ, PML-N, PPP and PTI addressed the participants and condemned the caricatures.
Similar rallies were taken out in Kohistan, Battagram, Abbottabad and Haripur. Demonstrators demanded diplomatic ties with France be severed until legal action is taken against Charlie Hebdo and an official apology is issued.
Shangla
The residents of Shahpur took to the streets after Friday prayers under the leadership of Maulana Imdadullah and Maulana Zahiruddin and chanted slogans against the French government. The local bazaar remained closed due to the protest.
Chitral
A joint protest was held in Chitral by JUI-F and JI at PIA Chowk after Friday prayers. Led by JI Chitral chief Haji Maghfirat Shah, JUI-F leader Maulana Abdur Rehman and others, the protesters demanded a change in Pakistan’s relations with France. The religious leaders said France should respect all religions and avoid such publications.
Mohmand
JI, JUI-F, PPP and ANP leaders also led a protest in Mian Mandi and Ekka Ghund areas of Mohmand Agency, urging the government to call the French ambassador and register its protest over the caricatures.
Neil Jennison says
Wake up Obama, wake up Cameron.
“”The future does not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam”
Slander: “”the action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person’s reputation.””
For it to be slander, it has to be FALSE. I would also point out that you cannot slander the dead anyway.
Mirren10 says
Slander
”For it to be slander, it has to be FALSE. I would also point out that you cannot slander the dead anyway.”
This is certainly true in the civilised West, but not in mohammedan countries.
There, slander is :
r2.2 Slander (ghiba) means to mention anything concerning a person that he would dislike…
(Umdat – al salik. or Reliance of the Traveller).)
So “slander” does not have to be untrue, or damaging, or financially harmful. It simply has to be **disliked by** the person on the receiving end.
Consequently, when mohammedans say the ‘prophet’ has been slandered, they mean someone has told the unpleasant truth about him.
mortimer says
Correct about slander, but this is blasphemy which is covered by:
“There is no indemnity obligatory for killing a non-Muslim (harbi) at war with Muslims.” -Reliance of the Traveller, o4.17, p.593
The punishment for ‘fighting Islam’ verbally is to be killed. Fighting Islam means using words to suggest Islam is morally at fault, imperfect or unbelievable.
Clifford Hall says
Who is being blasphemed (defamed)? Is it the Mohammed of the Jihadists or the Mohammed of the ‘religion of peace’? If the latter, please explain why not the former. If the former, explain why not the latter.
This for Obama and Cameron.
Don McKellar says
How do you slander a fictional character like Mohammad? Especially a fictional character who was, according to the Islamic texts, a rapist, a thief, a liar, a pedophile, a hate monger, a slaver, a mysogenist, an anti-semite, an inciter of violence, completely intolerant, a murderer, had a weird phobia about dogs, a cross dresser, ran an extortionist racket, et al, et, and on and on and on.
But yes, what do Cameron and Obama think about these things? We’ll never really know, will we? All we can do is look at their actions and assess where they stand.
mortimer says
Mohammed is a larger than life tribal totem. Mohammed is similar to Stalin in Stalinism, Hitler in Hitlerism or Mao in Maoism…semi-divine know-it-alls.
Most Mohammedans know almost nothing about Mohammed.
Don McKellar says
“Most Mohammedans know almost nothing about Mohammed.”
I have come to believe this is true of even many of mainstream media’s token moslems used in the disinformation stories following every endless round of jihad mass murder! Sure, they are skilled liars, but it seems they don’t seem to know very much about Mohammad’s background as documented in the texts outside of the Koran.
Paul says
You make perfect sense, but slimy snake oil salesmen Cameron
and Obama are obviously NOT on our side. They know exactly what
the score is. God willing, they will will in time be replaced by those
who have the best interests of Britain and the US at heart. If they’re
not replaced, or we have more of the same, then we are
screwed big time.
mortimer says
Cameron and Obama are on our side, but they are playing a diplomatic game with Soddy Barbaria, the guardians of this Death Cult. The Soddies don’t actually believe in Islam either, but it brings in a couple of billion every year.
The entire system is built on lies. The Soddies know that Mecca is unhistorical, that’s why they’re making it a Disneyland.
Paul says
Saudi-Arabia are undoubtedly part of this problem , as
they are with everything else. The Saudi kingdom is in
very great danger of being consumed by the very monster
they’ve created, which I believe will happen. Just you watch.
duh_swami says
There is a doctrine about slander…it is called ‘sitr’ and stems from a conversation Mahound had with a pious member who was unsure of reporting the actions of another pious. Mahound said not to report him because that was slander, as it had a tendency to make Islam look bad. it is deeper than just slandering Mahound himself.
Shane says
Islamic meaning of slander – telling truths about Islam that Muslims don’t want known – Robert Spencer. We Westerners should do something to offend Muslims every day and the Muzzies will have to get over it.
mortimer says
Neil Jennison wrote: “you cannot slander the dead anyway”… true in Common Law, but not in Sharia law which is what we are discussing!
The alleged moral perfection of Mohammed is an Islamic doctrine defended by a death sentence!
No one may judge Mohammed’s alleged perfection; it judges us. This is an example of “Begging the question”. It is not proved that Mohammed is perfect; that is merely an unproven CLAIM. However, Mohametans use a second fallacy to defend the first: the Fallacy of the Sword…’believe this or I’ll hit you with the sword’. Neither fallacy proves Mohammed is perfect.
katnis says
In response to a cartoon that the muslims don’t like, they place a $1 million bounty on the life of another human being?
This is so backwards that it’s hard to know what to say. The reaction is disproportionate and ludicrous. I’d like to say muslim leadership needs to step in, but clearly they are the ones encouraging it.
somehistory says
Will they pay with the American dollars they have been given to support war on terrorism, extremism or whatever it is being called now?
The beast rages on. For now, but not for much longer.
mortimer says
Soliciting murder is normative Islam. Just make a blasphemy complaint and the accused becomes unable to make a defense. Death is the only outcome of mere accusation.
That is what all Muslims accept (or they have left Islam) and why they cannot be trusted to be honest citizens in a modern, secular country. They must lie about defending the laws of a modern constitution when they take the oath of allegiance. If Muslims take such an oath, they invalidate and renounce their allegiance to Sharia.
Angemon says
somehistory posted:
“Will they pay with the American dollars they have been given to support war on terrorism, extremism or whatever it is being called now?”
That was exactly what crossed my mind when I read the title.
particolor says
ME TOO !!..
Zebo says
Just 1 million dollar?
Al Qaida is paying 60 mio dollars bounty for coptic priest Zacharia Boutrous-
for committing the crime of quoting hadith and quran quotes muslims are not supposed to hear .
Salah says
@ Zebo
You’re right, Zebo. That was 4 years ago. Raymond Ibrahim wrote about it here:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2011/raymond-ibrahim/hes-back-islam%E2%80%99s-public-enemy-1/
Today, this brave old priest is still doing a fantastic job unveiling the filth of Islam and converting millions of Muslims to Christianity.
Shmooviyet says
Spot-on, somehistory & Angemon:
That 7.5 billion aid will come in handy.
Ross says
I don’t know what the gun laws are in France (probably illegal to own) but it would be nice if Charlie Hebdow people were waiting with 12ga shotguns.
No more soft targets. Load up.
particolor says
France need Swiss Laws !!..Come to think of it We All Do !!
John Smith says
Swiss laws kinda suck, the Czech Republic has it all.
That’s what we need.
Angry says
Stop ALL foreign aid funding to pakistan, who use our money to fund jihad.
Protest like never before at your government if they are giving ‘aid money’ to pakistan.
In Britain, UKIP said they won’t give ANY financial help to pakistan, simply because they don’t need it nor deserve it.
Michael Copeland says
Did they announce a bounty on the killers of the Peshawar schoolboys?
Paul says
Not in a billion years. It only ever matters who the perpetrator
is. If it’s the Brits, the Americans, the Jews, or, in this case, the
French, then we see more fake, contrived Muhammaden outrage.
If, however, the perpetrators of genuine atrocities are of the
mysogenistic, paedophilic, hateful, and murderously homophobic
(and repressed homosexual) variety with their irrational and
barbaric treatment of animals, then we hear absolutely nothing
from their ilk whatsoever. It’s this satanic conduct that they worship,
in the spirit of Muhammed himself. I only wish that the lottery numbers
were as easy to predict as this fake bullshit outrage!
CogitoErgoSum says
If these Muslim religious groups in Pakistan are capable of raising this kind of money as bounties for the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists why should any Western country be sending sending any kind of financial aid to Pakistan? The Pakistanis obviously have plenty of money. Their nuclear weapons be damned. Let them eat their nukes. Stop all foreign aid to Pakistan now! And FREE ASIA BIBI!!!!!!!!
dlbrand says
C.E.S.
You asked: “If these Muslim religious groups in Pakistan are capable of raising this kind of money as bounties for the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists why should any Western country be sending sending any kind of financial aid to Pakistan? ”
Answer: Because the Muslim religious groups in Pakistan rely on us to provide them with the capability to have, at hand, this kind of money, as needed, for, say, bounties for the likes of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists.
What’s more, they count on us, sending this kind of financial aid to Pakistan to aid it in its aim and devotion to the realization of the supremacy of Islam.
Georg says
I didn’t think there were enough losers on Earth to pool that much money. Geesh.
Salah says
There are: You and me, i.e. Western Tax Payers!
Richie says
The true agenda here is that Muslims are demanding people- under penalty of death- obey Islamic blasphemy laws.
The west must not give in one inch to these stone age barbarians
particolor says
Stone Age Barbarians would be OFFENDED by being compared to those troglodytes !!
dumbledoresarmy says
Yep. Stone Age ‘barbarians’ painted amazing pictures (e.g. The animal paintings in the 35 000 year old Cave of Chauvet; the paintings of Lascaux and Altamira), made music (35 000 year old bone flute has been discovered), and kept pet dogs. all things that the sharia of Islam forbids.
Champ says
Where is the global condemnation of this bloodlust and thuggery?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Great question …
And imagine if a Christian group placed a bounty on anyone for drawing cartoons about Jesus Christ …boy it would be front page news from around the world!
Seth says
‘Where is the global condemnation of this bloodlust and thuggery?’
Lost in the soft bigotry of low expectations.
mortimer says
SOLICITING MURDER? Normative Islam, rather than an aberration.
Sharia permits the murder of anyone who verbally opposes Islam, since they are at war with Islam:
“There is no indemnity obligatory for killing a non-Muslim (harbi) at war with Muslims.” -Reliance of the Traveller, o4.17, p.593
milad meah says
$1OOOOO AMERICAN DOLLARS SENT AS AID AS REWARD – BRAVO
Papa Whiskey says
“… the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog …”
— Winston Churchill, “The River War”
Raymond Hietapakka says
Do you think that someday there will be an OPEN SEASON on muzzle’ems?
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Funny, the radical extremist hijackers are only a tiny minority, but the posting of a ransom, which would never be needed to motivate a mujahidin, is aimed at activating a regular Moslem into doing a revenge murder on behalf of Islam.
I am starting to suspect that it’s not really a religion of peace, and that the tiny minority is a vast majority in which individual Moslems differentiate only in their levels of momentary activism and death targets.
Moslems are black light bulb that is always on shining dark light in which neither they nor their targets can see.
PJG says
“The religious leaders said France should respect all religions…”
Yes, just like Pakistan does; it sets such a good example for religious tolerance, doesn’t it?
Paul says
Any chance of them placing a bounty on the heads of those
who brutally butchered the Christian couple who had been sold
into slavery late last year, or those responsible for getting Asia
Bibi sentenced to death – you know, GENUINE human rights
abuses? No, of course not! To expect a proper humane placing
of priorities from that lot would firstly require a relocation to Cloud
Cuckoo Land, the same place where there beliefs are of any value
to humanity.
Paul says
*”their beliefs”
Dave J says
Arrest them immediately! These are open death threats and incitements to murder, not some cartoon teasing.
Actually, take their money and arrest them. Having a death penalty for making death threats might be appropriate. I bet it would cut down on the threats.
duh_swami says
There is nothing in the US constitution that calls for foreign aid. All foreign aid, except actual humanitarian should be halted. The politicians are giving away money that does not belong to them. It’s a form of wealth redistribution, which is really theft…
particolor says
EXACTLY !!
Angry says
“Where is the global condemnation of this bloodlust and thuggery?”
There isn’t any, nor has the pakistani government condemned the ‘bloodlust and thuggery’ threats against satirical cartoonists.
Isn’t it case of double standards, whereas the bloodlust thugs are allowed to show absolute hatred and bigotry, while foaming at the mouth, whereas any opposition to their hateful actions is silenced by our left-wing dictators.
It seems that the potential butcherers for islam is allowed a free reign, but not the rest of us.
Destroy left-wing authoritarianism so that we can have back our democratic right to free speech, and opposition to radical islam, accepted. And also stop foreign aid money going to terrorist nations.
religion.is.abuse says
Muhammad would not approve this.
He invented Allah so he wouldn’t have to pay killers.
dlbrand says
Indeed, “Allah,” Muhammad’s, happy, ever-willing-revelation-at-the-ready puppet.
“Revelation” short order cook.
Islam, the worst insult ever to the handy work of God, who created man in his image, equipped that “man” with a sound mind, sound body, and in such, all those facilities therein, there for good reasons: to nurture, to build, to use.
Sunil Chaurasia says
And the award of bounty goes to ???????? those killers who killed children of these people in Peshawar few weeks ago. It is shocking. It is strange. It is incredibly mind boggling but true that people of the nation are awarding to those very persons who killed their children brutally. What a disgrace.
BlueRaven says
There is no $1Million award in Islam, because the Mohamedians send a brain dead Muzzie to kill anyone they dislike. They know, the clown who will do the deeds will not escape the West and most probably going to meet his faith. There is absolutely no one in that toxic crowd that is taking on the responsibility to give away $1M. All of these toxic and frothing Pakistanies are hot air like their religion.
Psycho says
So many good comments on the hypocrites of Pakistan & all Islamic-led nations. I especially agree with Angemom & Angry. All Islam seems to be doing is propagating & maintaining barbaric views that were around even before Muhammad was born. As an example, the sentencing to death of Hypatia, a Greek philosopher, in Alexandria in 400 A.D. While Western Civilisation has evolved over recent centuries to include Free Speech, democracy, equality of Women (well, almost), the world of Islam fights against the tide of progress. As others commented, they insist on free speech for them (including vile anti-semitism) but condemn to death non-Muslims exercising freedom of speech. Talk about double standards! Just watch the arguments from authority coming to the top of the rubbish heap of fallacies of logic. I agree, no financial aid to Muslim States. Why fund their war on the Western World?