The bloodthirsty Cartoon Jihadists want to execute an Arab newspaper editor in Yemen. Via BBC:
Yemeni lawyers have called for a newspaper editor to be sentenced to death for showing cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, his paper says.Muhammad al-Asadi was arrested after his publication, the Yemen Observer, showed the Danish cartoons in February.
He denies the charges of offending Islam, under which he is being tried.
The English-language newspaper has had its licence to publish suspended, although its staff have continued to produce material online.
Lawyers leading a civil case against publishers of the cartoons - in addition to the public case - cited precedents from Muslim history when the prophet was insulted by a woman and then praised her killer.
Prosecutors have reportedly requested that the Yemen Observer be closed permanently and have its property and assets confiscated.
What makes the case against al-Asadi all the more insane is how and why the Yemen Observer published the cartoons: the paper published thumbnail copies of some of the cartoons in its Feb. 4 edition, but covered them with a thick black cross to show its disapproval. In two accompanying articles, the paper condemned the cartoons and provided negative reactions from Muslims worldwide . Despite the context, the Cartoon Jihadists want al-Asadi dead because the thumbnail of one of the cartoons--o nly 1.5cm [0.6 of an inch] by 2cm [0.8 of an inch], he notes--appeared on the front page.
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