TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian newspapers are reporting that a religious foundation has increased a reward for killing British author Salman Rushdie to $3.3 million from $2.8 million in response to alleged insults to the Prophet Muhammad.
The Sunday reports in the hardline Jomhoori Eslami daily and other newspapers appeared to be a reference to an anti-Islam film that sparked a series of protests across the Muslim world.

The report said that the 15 Khordad Foundation will pay the prize to whoever acts on the 1989 death fatwa issued by Iran's late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini against the author of the novel "The Satanic Verses," calling his book blasphemous.
The reward started at one million U.S. dollars and is occasionally increased.


http://news.yahoo.com/report-iran-adds-reward-rushdies-death-110326038.html

Did I just go back in time? Didn't he insult them by writing that book like 23 yrs ago?

In the name of Allah, the merciful, the beneficent....

Winston Churchill on Islam (from his book The River War, 1899):

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent
in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this
life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the
final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.

White007: Did I just go back in time? Didn't he insult them by writing that book like 23 yrs ago?

We in the civilized world find it abusurd that here 20 odd years later that this group is still calling for the death of this man. The point is they never, never, never forget. A middleeastern person/Arab/muslims will harm or kill a person for a preceived insult 10, 20, or made a generation ago. They are a whole society of Hatfields and McCoys, and will never stop, as long as they have breath, they will seek vengence.

allah will be very proud. welldone my boys take 50 virgins.

No humane group of people would ever try to kill an author for writing about his beliefs. Muslims are vile...full of anger and hate.

Chongaiman: In the name of Allah, the merciful, the beneficent....

lol

Could you imagine your church announcing a reward for an assassination ?

Lets see... Mohammad says kill Rushdie and my followers will pay you 3.3 million dollars for the hit. Jesus says let the one without sin throw the first stone.

Why are you all acting surprised? You already know that Islam is a backwards, primitive religion.

ekt_bear: Why are you all acting surprised? You already know that Islam is a backwards, primitive religion.

How is islam different form ancient religions like that of the aztec,th incas and co,that uses human sacrifices to appease their gods?

I got this from yahoo:
"At first I was unconcerned over the headlines of "America
will pay" til I clicked on the link
and seen a bunch of kids in their
pj's walked down the road and
now i'm simply terrified."
lol

Words of a muslim leader:
"Prophet of God, we offer
ourselves, our blood and our
kin for the sake of your dignity
and honor."