A few weeks ago a man made a film that supposedly mocked Islam, and more specifically the prophet Muhammad. This film caused outrage in Islam countries and the filmmaker went into to hiding. A Pakistani minister, Ghulam Ahmad Bilour, has just stated that he is offering a bounty of $100,000 American to kill the filmmaker. He even openly invited the Taliban and members of al Qaeda to join in and find this man. Bilour has stated that he is a Muslim first, and a government official second. It has also been stated that this bounty is not the governments official stance, but its still active.
This is absolutely ridiculous to me. I am of course slightly biased because of my feelings towards religion. There is a thing known as separation of church and state. It basically implies that you should not make political decisions because of religious feelings. This didn`t happen here and its causing an already huge issue into an even larger one. Bilour placing a bounty one someone`s head because he insulted his own religion is stupid. And declaring that religion is more important to him than his country's' government is ludicrous. All in all, Bilour just made a bad situation much, much worse.
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