Pakistani reiterates fatwa against Danish cartoonist
Dec 14, 2006 - 9:24:31 PM
, Reviewed by: Priya Saxena
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Qureshi, who has been critical of the US and has been leading anti-US rallies, clarified that he was not against American people.
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By RxPG News Service,
[RxPG] Islamabad, Dec 14 - A fatwa - issued for the killing of a Danish cartoonist who drew caricatures of the Holy Prophet will not be withdrawn, says the head priest of a prominent mosque in Pakistan.
The 'khateeb' of Peshawar's Mohabbat Khan Mosque, Maulana Muhammad Yousuf Qureshi, said Wednesday: 'We have put a price on the blasphemer's head and will pay one million dollars to the person who kills him.'
Qureshi told Daily Times that Washington had banned his entry into the US and refused him a visa after he issued the fatwa against the cartoonist working for Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
Qureshi, who has been critical of the US and has been leading anti-US rallies, clarified that he was not against American people.
He said he had visited the US every year between 1984 and 2000 but stopped going there after the 9/11 attacks. 'I am only against US government policies which are anti-Muslim.'
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