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India-Pakistan

Verma backs bounty for Danish cartoonist

2006-05-06

Virtually endorsing an Uttar Pradesh minister's announcement of a reward for anyone beheading those reponsible for caricatures of Prophet Mohammed, Samajwadi Party leader Beni Prasad Verma on Saturday said he would give half his properties to the person who killed the cartoonist. Speaking to reporters here, SP General Secretary Verma, alleged Christian countries had always been "anti-Muslim".

That's a true statement for much of history. Likewise, Muslim countries had been anti-Christian. Nowadays most Christian countries are falling over themselves to be 'fair' to Muslims, while most Muslim countries continue to be virulently anti-Christian. There's a seeming lack of symmetry there, but I'm not sure of Mr. Verma will see that. Actually, I'm sure he won't ...

Haji Yaqoob Qureshi, Uttar Pradesh's minister for Haj, had earlier announced a reward of Rs 51 crore for anyone who beheaded the artist reponsible for the cartoons first carried by a Danish publication. The move triggered a widespread controversy that cost Qureshi his ministerial post.

Verma said the Samajwadi Party had always fought for the dignity and pride of Muslims and would not tolerate their humiliation. Alleging that the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre was anti-Muslim, Verma claimed it had pressurised Uttar Pradesh Governor T V Rajeshwar not to give his assent to the Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar Urdu University Bill.

Posted by:ryuge

#6 Once again, this brings up the notion of having a "assassination dead pool" for villains like Verma.

If you're not familiar with it, it is different than a typical dead pool, because people place a wager on the individual dying on a particular date, and whoever is closest to the actual date, wins. You can enter as many times as you like, pushing the pool into the thousands or tens of thousands of dollars.

The entires and the payoffs are anonymous.

So, in effect, let's say you are just an ambitious young man who knows Mr Verma. You also believe that on a particular day next week, he might encounter a bullet. If you placed a mere $10 wager on that date, you might win the entire pool, which would then be discreetly "PayPal'ed" to your account.

Imagine Mr Verma's surprise when he discovers that people are predicting his death to the tune of $20,000 US. About 900,000 Rupees. A healthy sum for an ambitious young man in India, who just happens to be a good guesser.

I suspect that once word got out and the pattern was established that if you put out a contract, one will be put out on you, then a lot of this crap would end in a hurry.

Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-05-06 17:55

#5 Don't sweat it little purple penguin.

Posted by: Ignatz 2006-05-06 16:11

#4 Verma? Worm or Vermin?

Posted by: Frank G 2006-05-06 15:35

#3 Officer Bull Pupp, Mrs. Kwakk Wakk, Pauline Parrot, the Mock Duck, Walter Cephas Austridge, the Door Mouse, Krazy Katbird, Krazy Katfish, and Joe Stork all wish to express their anger at having the honorable and respectable Krazy Kat compared to Mohammed(MTLHMOHS).

Posted by: Korora 2006-05-06 14:26

#2 Verma isn't even muslim... but election time is near and he wants to win the muslim vote...

Posted by: john 2006-05-06 13:53

#1 Sounds like the country with the second-largest Muslim population in the world may be heading for an 'insurgency' expanded south of Kashmir. That is what this kind of rhetoric is about.

Posted by: Glenmore 2006-05-06 10:18

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