People and Politics by Patrick Roberts

With friends like the Pakistanis who needs enemies? -- Minister there appeals to “Taliban and Al Qaeda brothers” to kill filmmaker

Posted on Monday, September 24, 2012 at 08:28 AM

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Pakistan's railways minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour

We are led to believe that Pakistan is our ally in the most dangerous region of the world.

We send billions in aid and hope for the best when it comes to stopping the Taliban and Al Qaeda militants who populate large regions of that country’s Northwest frontier.

Yesterday we had yet another example of what wonderful allies we have in the Pakistanis.

It appears that a Pakistani minister has offered $100,000 reward to anyone who murders the maker of that horrible video "The Innocence of Muslims" -- and he is calling on his Taliban and Al Qaeda friends to help.

"I announce today that this blasphemer, this sinner who has spoken nonsense about the holy Prophet, anyone who murders him, I will reward him with $100,000," railways minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour told a news conference, to applause.

"I invite the Taliban brothers and the al-Qaeda brothers to join me in this blessed mission."

“Taliban brothers and Al-Qaeda brothers”?

Oh you mean the blokes who killed thousands of Americans and continue to do so, especially American soldiers?

What are we supposed to do here?

Keep working with these guys? Send a few more billion?

Or declare a spade a spade and say we are sending no more money until this guy is fired from the government.

Otherwise we are just laughing stocks, fashioning a rod to beat ourselves with.

Or in other words, plain stupid.

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rbrochard | Oct 02, 2012, 01:35 PM EDT

patrick ..

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Smyrnian | Oct 02, 2012, 07:11 AM EDT

That's what Islamists do. They kill, destroy, pull down, attack, damage, behead, torture etc. etc. They never build anything, write anything, invent anything or contribute anything to society... kill, destroy, burn, blow up, threaten and mutilate their fellow human beings... but it's the "religion of peace", don't you know.

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McNamara31 | Sep 27, 2012, 05:44 PM EDT

Patrick The reason we send "billions in aid and hope for the best" as you put it, is that Pakistan is armed with 90 nuclear warheads.The potential of the extremists getting one is a major concern for the U.S. and Pakistan's neighbors as well. Pakistan was, and is, a greater threat than Iraq ever was.

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WoundedKnee | Sep 24, 2012, 03:29 PM EDT

I read that there's a Muslim protest march in Dublin later this week. I expect it to be peaceful--this time. Muslims are flooding into Ireland, just like other foreign groups. The Irish are very hard to teach--they have learned nothing from the experience of Muslim migration in other European countries. In a couple of years, they'll see the violent product of their own stupid immigration policies.

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