Hassan Nasrallah, head honcho of Hezbollah, wants Nakoula Basseley Nakoula and everyone else involved in that
anti-Islam film, "Innocence of Muslims", dead. It doesn't matter that the bulk of the cast and crew had no clue what they were involved with. Nah, he wants blood.
Nasrallah's fatwa has called upon all Muslim youth, particularly those in the West, to do the dirty deed.
"I issue a fatwa and call on the Muslim youth in America and Europe to do this duty, which is to kill the director, the producer and the actors and everyone who helped and promoted the film,"
Amazing to think that the Lebanese, who you don't think of as quite so 'backwards' as some other citizens of Muslim majority countries, voted for Nasrallah and Hezbollah in a democratic election.
And here's some irony for you: apparently, Salmon Rushdie- who is himself a
targeted man- believes Nakoula deserves it. On the Today Show, Rushdie said:
"He [Nakoula] did it on purpose. He set out to create a response and he got it in spades," he said.
"He's done something malicious, and that's a very different thing from writing a serious novel. He's clearly set out to provoke, and he's obviously unleashed a much bigger reaction than he hoped for. I mean, one of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting."
Yes, disgusting, but calling for someone's death is even more disgusting.
Source
IB Times
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