Threats Mount Over Dutch Cartoon Contest With Bounty Placed on Wilders

Voice of America

28 August 2018

A Pakistani cricketer has offered a reward for the murder of firebrand anti-Muslim Dutch politician Geert Wilders for organising a cartoon contest depicting Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. “Less than a week in office, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has made blasphemy one of his first issues, empowering militants and initiating international moves, long heralded by Saudi Arabia, that would restrict press freedom by pushing for a global ban,” argued James Dorsey, an analyst at the RSIS in Singapore.

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