Muslim Cartoon News Roundup: Fri. 17 Feb.

COMMENTLINE
Just when you think this story is about to wind down, another flash point erupts. Not to be out done by the West's bounty-call on Osama, this time we see some good ol' Islamic tit-for-tat action. I'll bet the cartoonist never once imagined his hot head would ever be worth a cool million. It's true what they say, "You mess with the bull, you get the horn."

For your contemplation, the latest tensions sparked by the Muhammad cartoons. In this post:

$1 million bounty offered to kill cartoonist.

Friday's cartoon protests ignite into violence again in Pakistan, 125 arrested.

CSM speculates on sociological causes of riots in Pakistan.

NEWSLINE
"If the West can place a bounty on Osama bin Laden and Zawahri, we can also announce reward for killing the man who has caused this sacrilege of the holy Prophet," Qureshi told Reuters, referring to the al Qaeda leader and his deputy Ayman al Zawahri.

NEWSBYTES
Cleric: $1 Million to Kill Cartoonist
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- A Pakistani cleric announced Friday a $1 million bounty for killing a cartoonist who drew Prophet Muhammad, as thousands joined street protests and Denmark temporarily closed its embassy and advised its citizens to leave the country. Police confined the former leader of...

Cleric offers reward to kill cartoonists
(Aljazeera.Net) -- A Pakistani Muslim cleric and his followers have offered rewards amounting to over $ 1 million for killing the Danish cartoonists who drew caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that have enraged the Muslim world.

Bounty offered on cartoonists as protests rage
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -- A Pakistani Muslim cleric and his followers offered rewards amounting to over $1 million for anyone who killed Danish cartoonists who drew caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad that have enraged Muslims worldwide.

Karachi shut down in new protests
125 demonstrators were taken into custody in Faisalabad
LAHORE, Pakistan (CNN) -- A general strike has shut the normally bustling port city of Karachi in southern Pakistan as demonstrators took to the streets to protest the publication of caricatures of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed, police said.

Cartoon Protesters Arrested in Pakistan
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) -- Police detained 125 prophet cartoon protesters for violating a ban on rallies in eastern Pakistan and put a radical Islamist leader under house arrest, amid fears of more deadly demonstrations Friday, officials said.

Pakistani riots about more than cartoons
Violent protests may have been influenced by poverty as much as religious fervor.
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (CSM) -- As elsewhere in the Muslim world, Pakistan has seen an upswing in violence following the publication in Danish and other newspapers of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad.

40,000 in Karachi Protest Cartoons of Muhammad
KARACHI, Pakistan, Feb.16 (AP) -- Tens of thousands of people marched through this southern Pakistani city Thursday, shouting "God is great!" and burning effigies of the Danish prime minister in the country's fourth day of protests over newspaper cartoons of the prophet Muhammad, police said.

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