"DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The head of an al-Qaida-led group in Iraq offered
$100,000 for the killing of Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks over his drawing
depicting the Prophet Mohammad. 'From now on we announce the call to shed the
blood of the Lars who dared to insult our Prophet... and during this munificent
month we announce an award worth 100,000 to the person who kills this infidel
criminal,' said Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the self-styled Islamic State in
Iraq, in an audiotape posted on a Web site on Saturday."
They are really showing their hand on this one. This isn't about hating the West because of our involvement in their lands. This is about control. They want to be able to control not only their people, they also want to control the west. This is an act of terrorism and we cannot back down to terrorists. Today they are threatening us to keep our voices silent about what they view as an insult to their religion. Meeting that demand would only strengthen them to ask for greater demands. The freedom and the culture of the western world is at stake here.
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