Voices
TAUFIQ
RAHIM
HUFFINGTON
10.07.12
A Tale
of Two
Islams
“I WILL PAY WHOEVER kills the
makers of this video $100,000. If
someone else makes other blasphemous material in the future, I
will also pay his killers $100,000.”
These words were uttered
not by a firebrand cleric but by
a cabinet minister in Pakistan,
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Ghulam Ahmad Bilour, pushing
the reaction to a provocative film
(vacuously) satirical of the Prophet Muhammad to even more
absurd levels.
We witnessed something different altogether in Libya, after
the initial violence. On September 11 of this year, anti-film protests in Benghazi, combined with
what is now regarded as a coordi-
Taufiq Rahim
is a Dubaibased political
analyst who
blogs regularly
on TheGeopolitico.com.