Bounties on Cartoonists' Heads

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We have more attempts at Dhimmitude. The Danish cartoonists who drew the harmless drawings of Muhammad have gone into hiding after the riots broke out.  That, however, wasn't good enough. Now, a Pakistani cleric has put a bounty on their heads.

A Pakistani Muslim cleric and his followers have offered rewards amounting to over $US1 million ($A1.35 million) for anyone who kills Danish cartoonists who drew caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad that have enraged Muslims worldwide.

Maulana Yousef Qureshi, a cleric in the north-western city of Peshawar, said during Friday prayers he has personally offered to pay a bounty of 500,000 rupees ($A11,377), and two of his congregation put up additional rewards of $US1 million ($A1.35 million) and one million rupees plus a car.

Qureshi repeated the offer at rally later in the city to protest against the cartoons.

"If the West can place a bounty on Osama bin Laden and Zawahri we can also announce rewards for killing the man who has caused this sacrilege of the holy Prophet," Qureshi told Reuters, referring to the al-Qaeda leader and his deputy Ayman al Zawahri.

The radical jihadists have upped the ante in their attempts at dhimmitude of the press by announcing this bounty.  They are betting that media outlets will refrain from writing, drawing, or publishing anything that could be interpreted by fanatical jihadists as offensive to Islam.  Will they be right?

Update: Stop the ACLU reminds us of the images that should outrage Muslims.

Update II: According to Dread Pundit Bluto, Qureshi visited upstate New York to "give inspirational talks to American Muslims."  Does this cleric have any real influence in the American Muslim population?  This is really scary.

Update III: Michelle Malkin is reporting that the bounty placed on the heads of the cartoonists has topped $11 million.

Michelle also reported this about the protest in Washington DC: [Michelle] asked protest organizer Malik Shabazz whether he supported the bounties placed on the heads of the Danish cartoonists by radical imams overseas. He smirked, "I do not denounce them"--and then went back to extolling his brand of the Religion of Peace.

Malik Shabazz is president of the New Black Panther Party.