This would be a joke if it wasn’t real, Pakistani bounty placed on anti-Islam filmmaker:
A Pakistani minister offered $100,000 on Saturday to anyone who kills the maker of an online video which insults Islam, as sporadic protests rumbled on across parts of the Muslim world.
“I announce today that this blasphemer, this sinner who has spoken nonsense about the holy Prophet, anyone who murders him, I will reward him with $100,000,” Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour told a news conference, to applause.
“I invite the Taliban brothers and the al Qaeda brothers to join me in this blessed mission.”
A spokesman for Pakistan’s prime minister said the government disassociated itself from the minister’s statement.
For what it’s worth, he’s a member of a secular Left party. Or perhaps I should say “secular,” because in much of the Islamic world even “secular” people agree that Islam should be the state religion.
