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The purported head of al-Qaeda in Iraq has offered a reward for the murder of a Swedish cartoonist over his drawing depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

The $100,000 (£49,310) reward would be raised by 50% if Lars Vilks was "slaughtered like a lamb" said the audio message aired on the internet.

The speaker, said to be Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, threatened a new offensive during the holy month of Ramadan.

Last month's cartoon showed Prophet Muhammad's head on a dog's body.

Several Muslim countries protested.

"It is fundamental for Western thinking to be able to express one's artistry without making exceptions for holiness"
Lars Vilks
Swedish cartoonist

Last year there were riots over Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, first published in September 2005 by the newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

Muslims regard any visual representation of the Prophet as blasphemous. Many Muslims also regard the dog as an impure animal.

Economic targets

The latest cartoon was published by the Nerikes Allehanda newspaper on 18 August.

Last week, Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt met ambassadors from 22 Muslim countries in an effort to defuse the row.

But Saturday's taped message said the militants were announcing a "call to shed the blood of the Lars who dared to insult our Prophet".

"During this generous month we announce an award worth $100,000 to the person who kills this infidel criminal," the speaker said.

He also announced a $50,000 reward for the killing of the editor of the newspaper.

And he said the Swedish government ought to apologise - otherwise al-Qaeda in Iraq would target "their economy and giant companies such as Ericsson, Volvo, Ikea, Scania".

The cartoon's creator, Lars Vilks, told Reuters news agency he was not worried by a threat from people representing "a very small branch of our Muslims".

But he could not disregard it, either, and was in contact with the police.

"It is fundamental for Western thinking to be able to express one's artistry without making exceptions for holiness," he said.

Factional threats

The speaker in the 30-minute tape also said he was "honoured to announce at the beginning of Ramadan an offensive in the name of... the martyr of the Islamic nation Abu Musab al-Zarqawi" who was killed in a US air strike last year.

And days after saying they had killed a well-known Sunni cleric opposed to them, the speaker accused the main Sunni party, the Islamic Party in Iraq of co-operating with US-led forces.

He also vowed to keep targeting members of the minority Yazidi community over their leaders' refusal to allow Yazidis to convert to Islam.

Meanwhile, in northern Iraq, a Sunni Arab tribal leader told the BBC that local groups had created a new alliance to fight al-Qaeda.

Fawwaz al-Jarba, who heads the Shammar tribe in the Mosul area, said local Sunni Arab tribes had joined Kurdish, Christian and Yazidi groups in a new front.

He said the new alliance would not work directly with the United States military, but only through the Iraqi government.

In July, the US announced that a top al-Qaeda militant arrested in Iraq had told interrogators that Iraq's supposed al-Qaeda kingpin, Omar al-Baghdadi, was only a front.
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Lovely.

I hope the same countries that protested against the cartoon are going to protest against this.

Some stupid prophet who is long dead is not as important as a human being alive today is.

Belief in the necessity of killing someone for insulting a dead prophet or for any other religious belief is just as logical and civilised and acceptable as boiling explorers in pots and eating them after scalping them because they trod on the hallowed ground of Hanuger-ga-Bunga, the God of anal-fissures.

If someone protests against your beloved prophet, it doesn't matter, get over it. Protest against something that people should give a shit about like how oppressive your leaders are, or why people in the world are still starving or even protest against illegal wars against sovereign nations.
But don't bring your prophet into all of this, it really discredits you.
 
An audio message aired on the internet? How...authoritative.

I will offer one million US dollars to the killer of The Monkey. For posting news on this forum he must be slaughtered like a lamb!
 
They'll never kill the cartoonist.

... and if they do, we must all draw naked prophets.
 
I have relatives that live on the same street as that guy. It really is a small minority that riots like this and it is not the goverment of the nations where this is happening that is behind the rioting either.
 
"nations where this is happening that is behind the rioting either."

Remember when the Danish embassy was burned in Syria? Nothing was done to prevent this by the authorities. Theocratic governments like to let things like this happen, much like they incite their people to be angry at anyone but themselves.
 
Nemesis6 said:
"nations where this is happening that is behind the rioting either."

Remember when the Danish embassy was burned in Syria? Nothing was done to prevent this by the authorities. Theocratic governments like to let things like this happen, much like they incite their people to be angry at anyone but themselves.
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They are in power for religious reasons, if they go against the religious extremists they will go against those that allow them to have that power. I would say most of the leaders are more concerned with an image of being religious rather then actually being religious.
 
Sulkdodds said:
An audio message aired on the internet? How...authoritative.

I will offer one million US dollars to the killer of The Monkey. For posting news on this forum he must be slaughtered like a lamb!
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Some loon on the net will prolly take the bet. Thanks a lot Sulkdodds!
HunterSeeker said:
I have relatives that live on the same street as that guy. It really is a small minority that riots like this and it is not the goverment of the nations where this is happening that is behind the rioting either.
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The embassador of Egypt wanted us to change the law to make sure Muhammad couldn't get desecrated.
 
The Monkey said:
Some loon on the net will prolly take the bet. Thanks a lot Sulkdodds!
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What's your address?

The embassador of Egypt wanted us to change the law to make sure Muhammad couldn't get desecrated.
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I want Egypt to change their law so that they hold Ronald McDonald in the highest reverence.

It's a request that makes equal sense!
 
Wow, Arabs really can't take a joke.

There's little comic strips that make fun of Jesus Christ that are published all the time... he gets made fun of on cartoons such as South Park in pretty much every episode.

Same thing with Muhammad, what the hell makes this one comic strip so different?
 
The thing that makes this different is that Imams in the Western countries do all in their power to blow every single thing out of proportion. That is how the "cartoon-crysis" started.

I believe YAAFM said it best: http://youtube.com/watch?v=eyTsDweDDLU

By the way, it wasn't only the Arabs, it was the entire Muslim world.
 
Nemesis6 said:
By the way, it wasn't only the Arabs, it was the entire Muslim world.
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You have no idea what your talking about. "The entire muslim world" I have friends who are muslims who didn't give two ****s about that comic strip.
 
Knowing Al-Qaeda, they'll probably blow up the whole frakking "Nerikes Allehanda newspaper" office block.
 
And this is why a warrior religion (I refer to those who take it way too far, like these guys.) is not a good idea in this day and age. Seriously, they want to KILL the guy over a cartoon? These people are nuts.
 
People can be retarded sometimes. It makes me laugh so much how islam claims to be a peacefull religeon and now muslims are demanding that this artist be killed. Sounds like a very peacefull religeon to me.
 
THE_END said:
People can be retarded sometimes. It makes me laugh so much how islam claims to be a peacefull religeon and now muslims are demanding that this artist be killed. Sounds like a very peacefull religeon to me.
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The muslims I know are peaceful
 
Just like with Christianity, the only good aspects of Islam are the ones that have appeared the last century.
 
Actually, the good aspects of Islam is its past. Its present contributions to mankind is slim to non. Well, except for its music, which rocks even if its Islamist music! :D
 
/looks at picture

"Is it an insulting characature of Mohammed?"

"...I wish... It's machine code"
 
But wait... Islam is a religion of peace according. Even President Bush said this, so why would he fear any harm from a religion that is largely peaceful just like Christianity? I think he's Islamophobic and that's the real reason why he hides: To give a false impression that Islam is violent. If anything, Christianity is the real "violent" religion!

/European socialist politician
 
Did Monkey just post a news story reporting worldwide that the man had gone into hiding?
 
Death to those who blaspheme Islam! By Allah, another blasphemous cartoon has been printed... It doesn't contain Muhammed, but the use of his name is enough! ALLAHU AKBAR!

http://images.somewhereinblog.net/p...ramblog_1190127958_1-p_alo_cartoon1.jpg&w=400
WARNING: BLASPHEMOUS, INFIDELIC, IMAGE OF A CAT, A BOY, AND A DOG ABOVE!

Translation:
* Boy, what is your name?
- My name is Babu.
* It is customary to mention Muhammed before the name.

* What is your father’s name?
- Muhammed Abu

* What’s this in your lap?
- Muhammed cat
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And here's the best part:
Dhaka, Sept 18: Authorities in Bangladesh on Tuesday ordered the arrest of a cartoonist and confiscated copies of a major newspaper’s weekly supplement for publishing a “blasphemous” caricature.

“The government has confiscated the issue as the cartoon hurt the religious sentiment of the people. Moreover an order was issued to arrest cartoonist Arifur Rahman,” an official statement said, referring to the weekly caricature supplement “Alpin” of the Prothom Alo newspaper.

The mass-circulated daily, however, immediately apologised and announced withdrawal of the cartoon.

A group of people torched copies of the paper after publication of the cartoon yesterday and several Islamic groups protested, saying the drawings ridiculed prophet Mohammad and his close aides.

They demanded “exemplary punishment” of the paper’s editor and the cartoonist.
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