The DRDGEREPORT today recounts that an islamic cleric in Pakistan has written a fatwa,authorizing the payment of $1,000,000, to the dedicated soul who will KILL the cartoonist (in Denmark), who was responsible for those cartoons. I have a few questions:
-if MURDER is allowed under islamic/sharia law, is it permissable to pay a reward/ :eek:
-should the successfull assasin murder the WRONG person (there were I believe, 12 cartoonists), what punishments would be in order/
-does the muslim world REALIZE just how SERIOUSLY us crazy, athiestic Westerners take all of this?
AND: can you (as an observant muslim) CONDONE a call to murder someone on the charge of drawing an insulting cartoon?
Inquiring minds want to know! :eek:
I can say only that all of the Muslims I know condemn a call to murder someone.
Islam is buggy software, honey. There is nothing to prevent a lone nut with a degree from an extremist madrasah from saying any fool extremist thing that comes into his fool head.
If you ask me, Islam ought to download a patch for this security hole. Look at all the viruses that get in.
As a gesture of contempt and absurdist humor, someone in the west should issue a bounty of, say, three Euros for killing that iman.
Gah, it just hit me that the perfect bounty should be $.01 – one friggin’ cent, U.S., on the premise that loony-tune, fanatic, Wahhabbist clerics are a dime a dozen…
You do recall the number of Americans that wanted Robert Mapplethorpe silenced, or jailed, or deported, or hung, for his “crime” of producing & showing art that was degrading to an image of Jesus?
We don’t tend to riot, but a lot of “christian” extremists (and a lot of so-called mainstream beleivers too) get pretty uptight when they’re on the receiving end of what they consider an insult to their religious sensitivities.