Maulana Yousef Qureshi, Imam of Masjid Mohabat Khan, a major mosque in the city of Peshawar, said during a rally by hardline Islamists on Friday that
"Anyone who kills Asia will be given 500,000 rupees in reward from Masjid Mohabat Khan,"He also said that they would "strongly resist" any attempt to repeal blasphemy laws that sentenced Bibi to death.
He later told Reuters
"We expect her to be hanged and if she is not hanged then we will ask mujahideen and Taliban to kill her."No one has so far been hanged for blasphemy in Pakistan but accusations of blasphemy are common and many have been killed by mobs and fanatics after being acquitted on appeal.
In 2006, Qureshi and his followers offered over $1 million for anyone who killed Danish cartoonists that drew caricatures of Mohammed [in support of freedom of expression and against the Islamist threat to it].
Source: Reuters
Comment: Pakistan has ridiculous discriminatory blasphemy laws but no laws against clear, open and public calls for murder and terrorism.
Surely murder and incitement to murder are worse blasphemies (supposing that Islam really was against death for blasphemy) than mere words that insult.
So where is the outrage from the mythical and supposedly overwhelming majority of Muslims who they and the PC elites and the media keep saying are 'moderate', 'peaceful' and 'tolerant'?
Where are they and why don't they do something about it? And why didn't they already do anything about in 2006?
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