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Originally Posted by FlameOn
Apparently a federal Pakistan minister has offered $100k bounty for the death of the makers of the "Innocence of Islam".
http://tribune.com.pk/story/440855/f...lmmakers-head/
For a supposedly educated Muslim this seems to be going way WAY too far. Moderate Muslims always claim that it's always the uneducated masses that are causing problems, this goes right against that. Then again this could be just another one of the instances of "hey we are a corrupt government, but look everyone, it's the West's fault for our stealing and oppressing you" |
Many Pakistani government employees are barely more than thugs, and if they aren't thugs themselves, they employ thugs. Landowning is the name of the game in that country (they don't call them feudals in Pakistan for no reason), and if you want something done for you or your family, you go to your patron (your landowner). The result? A number of large landowners in government that act as demagogues because they know what those that live on their land and receive their patronage want to hear.
This is no where as evident as with the ANP. The ANP is the Pathan (Pashtun) nationalist party in Pakistan (and the party this man represents). When you think of guys hiding out in caves waiting to attack American soldiers in Pakistan, you're thinking, basically, of Pathans. They are easily the most anti-American group in Pakistan, and the power base of the Pakistani Taleban.
So this, to me, isn't so much an educated moderate Muslim saying something outlandish, so much as a thuggish hereditary landowner from the Peshawar Valley pandering to his followers and playing on their fundamentally religious, anti-American sentiment.