My friend Bryan Preston of Junkyard Blog and I returned safely from the nutball Danish embassy protest convened by radical black Muslims in D.C. yesterday. We took video and photos and will have more soon. Meantime, here are reports from Conserva-puppies and The Red Hunter.

I asked protest organizer Malik Shabazz whether he supported the bounties placed on the heads of the Danish cartoonists by radical imams overseas. He smirked, “I do not denounce them“–and then went back to extolling his brand of the Religion of Peace.

The latest death threat against the Danish cartoonists:

A minister in India’s Uttar Pradesh state government has offered a reward of $11.5 million to anyone who would kill any of the cartoonists who drew the images of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).

Muhammad Yaqoob Qureshi, minister of state for Haj and Minorities Welfare in the Uttar Pradesh government, told a rally in Meerut, 65 km east of New Delhi, after Friday prayers that he would give “the avenger” 510 million rupees ($11.5 million) and his weight in gold.

“Drawing a cartoon of the Prophet is blasphemous and Muslims will not tolerate this insult,” he said in a speech that was broadcast by Indian television stations. “The money will be paid by the people of Meerut,” said Yaqoob.

He repeated his call to behead the cartoonists.