 Algeria’s ambassador to Sweden on Monday condemned death threats from Al Qaeda in Iraq against a Swedish artist who drew a blasphemous cartoon of the Holy Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) and a newspaper editor who published it. “I vehemently condemn this kind of practice ... Islam has nothing to do with this, by any means,” Merzak Bedjaoui told AFP.
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An Al Qaeda front organisation in Iraq, the self-proclaimed Islamic State in Iraq, issued a statement on the Internet on Saturday offering $150,000 to anyone who slit the throat of Lars Vilks, the artist. It also offered $50,000 for the death of the editor-in-chief of the Nerikes Allehanda newspaper, Ulf Johansson, who published the blasphemous cartoon. |