Pakistan disowns bounty on anti-Islam filmmaker
Source: AP-Excite
By ASIF SHAHZAD
ISLAMABAD (AP) - The Pakistani government on Monday distanced itself from an offer by one of its Cabinet ministers to pay $100,000 for anyone who kills the maker of an anti-Islam film, saying the offer does not represent official government policy.
The offer by Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour has drawn criticism in Pakistan even though anger against the film runs high in this predominantly Muslim country.
Bilour said Saturday that he would pay the reward money out of his own pocket. He also appealed to al-Qaida and Taliban militants to contribute to "a noble cause" of eliminating the filmmaker.
The film, made in the United States and entitled "Innocence of Muslims," has enraged many Muslims around the world for its portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad as a fraud, a womanizer and a child molester. At least 51 people, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya, have been killed in violence linked to protests over the film, which also has renewed debate over freedom of expression in the U.S. and in Europe.
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Pakistani Shiite Muslim women chant anti U.S. slogans during a demonstration that is part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012 in Lahore, Pakistan. The woman, center, wear a banner that reads, at your service Hussein. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
rfranklin
(13,200 posts)It would be just as logical as their riots.
dkf
(37,305 posts)Doesn't Pakistan need to show they won't tolerate that by getting him out of the government?
socialindependocrat
(1,372 posts)If their cabinet leaders can through around $100K then why do they need
all the support money we send them every year!
Let them eat croissants!
Festivito
(13,452 posts)Some group or it could be groups paid the film maker and the protesters.
It could be our enemies foreign and domestic, or just domestic.
Missycim
(950 posts)everything that goes wrong in the world? lol
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Festivito
(13,452 posts)You're sorry while LOLing?
Missycim
(950 posts)nt
jsr
(7,712 posts)4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)still holding the same job with no reduction in pay.
Take that!
randome
(34,845 posts)I'm so confused!