The other figures on the list, with their photos displayed under the headline “Wanted Dead or Alive for Crimes Against Islam,” are Kurt Westergaard and Lars Vilks, two cartoonists who have already survived assassination attempts after drawing cartoons of Mohammad; Carsten Juste and Flemming Rose, editors at Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper that caused an international scandal by publishing Westergaard’s cartoons in 2005; Terry Jones, the Florida preacher best known for attempting to publicly burn the Quran in 2010; Geert Wilders, the leader of the right-wing Dutch Party for Freedom, known for his outspoken criticism of Islam; Morris Sadek, an Egyptian Christian activist based in Virginia, best known for promoting the anti-Mohammad film The Innocence of Muslims; and Salman Rushdie, the celebrated author who spent years in hiding after being threatened by Islamic fundamentalists over his book The Satanic Verses. (Several of the names are misspelled in Inspire’s graphic.)
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 07:06:16 +0000
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