Anti-Islam film: Pakistan minister offers bounty

[Atheist-Lite]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19687386

Anti-Islam film: Pakistan minister offers bounty

A Pakistani government minister has offered a $100,000 (£61,616) reward for the death of the maker of an anti-Islam film produced in the US.

Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour told reporters that he would pay the reward for the "sacred duty" out of his own pocket.

He suggested even the Taliban and al-Qaeda would be eligible for the reward.

His comments came a day after at least 20 people died in clashes between anti-film protesters and police.

Friday's violence occurred in cities throughout Pakistan, with Karachi and Peshawar among the worst hit.

"I will pay whoever kills the makers of this video $100,000," the minister said. "If someone else makes other similar blasphemous material in the future, I will also pay his killers $100,000.

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[Rum]

He's a fucken minister of the railways and he should be sacked on the spot, the superstitious moron.

[klr]

To think that a member of the UK government could lose his job over calling a police officer a "pleb", whereas in Pakistan, you can put a bounty on someone and not got fired (never mind arrested) immediately.

[Rum]

Something's wrong somewhere..

..well of course it is.

[MiM]

"The time is out of joint..." -Really. They live in a society centuries behind ours, but globalisation does not allow such disparate societies to coexist peacefully...

[kiki5711]

[Rum]

The Pakistani government have 'distanced' itself from his remarks. Though for now his position is secure..apparently.

[kiki5711]

they get upset about cartoons and stupid movies that insult their (so called) prophet, but act like ugly god damn bastards towards their own wives and daughters.

"Seventeen year old Neela is one of more than 2,700 victims of acid attacks in Bangladesh over the past 10 years. ‘My husband was angry…because he claimed a dowry but my family couldn’t provide one’, she says. ‘His plan was to sell me in Saudi Arabia - when I refused he threw acid on me and he fled.’"

www.independent.c...

[kiki5711]

And the USA gives Pakistan money, why, ?? Still don't understand that one.

[JimC]

And the USA gives Pakistan money, why, ?? Still don't understand that one.

Partly, it's a stupid cold war legacy. The Soviet Union assisted India in various ways back in the day, and so...

These things develop a momentum of their own...

[Clinton Huxley]

Damned buffoon.

[Audley Strange]

Can't we get a kickstarter on the go to get some serious cash and offer a reward for the death of Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour?

[JimC]

It simply must be via being tied to railway tracks somewhere, by someone in black with a permanent sneer, and a moustache that can be twirled...

[Audley Strange]

In pakistan? You'll get all of that no problem as long as you can wait for a fucking train to arrive on time to run over said Pakistani Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour.

Personally I think they should club him to death with shoes made from cured pork.

[JimC]

Or buggered to death by a giant wild boar...