A spokesman for Pakistan's prime minister said the government "absolutely disassociated" itself from Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour comments after Bilour offered to personally pay a reward for the death of the anti-Islam filmmaker, BBC News reported.

Still, despite the fact that the minister’s declaration was not, in any way, official party policy, his offer, which came a day after at least 15 died in clashes in Pakistan, seems to highlight the fact that many in the Middle East do not understand the difference between the United States official policies and the actions of individual citizens which are protected under the constitution, Jody Armour, a professor at the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law told the Seattle Times.

"To them, the movie dialogue denigrating the Prophet Muhammad is all the evidence needed to pursue justice - vigilante or otherwise - against Nakoula Bassely Nakoula, an American citizen originally from Egypt.”

That sentiment can easily be seen in through the minister’s remarks. During the news conference Bilour said:

"You should make laws regarding people insulting our Prophet. And if you don't, then the future will be extremely dangerous."

The United States Embassy has paid for adverts on Pakistani TV showing President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemning the film, but that has done little to change the anti-Western sentiments stoked from the video BBC News reported.

Just this Sunday, Pakistani teachers led children in the streets chanting, "Death to America," CNN reported.

The people protesting America as a whole for the film do not understand that repressing speech, even hateful speech, is a violation of individual rights which is crucial to American democracy, the Seattle Times reported.

“Repressing Nakoula's right to make the video would set the U.S. on a slippery slope that might eventually lead to censorship of such shows such as "South Park," which often pokes fun at Jesus Christ, and other religious parodies that are "woven into the American way."

At the news conference where Bilour called for the bounty, he said, as reported by The Telegraph:

"I invite the Taliban brothers and the al-Qaeda brothers that they should join me in this sacred mission. Along with others, they should also join in the good work. And God willing, whoever is successful (in killing him) I will present one lac dollars (100,000 U.S. dollars) to him."

When Bilour was asked whether he concerned about committing or condoning a crime as a government official, the minister again highlighted the different level of value that many in the Middle East assign to religion in comparison to individual freedoms, like free speech, when he said:

"I am a Muslim first, then a government representative." 

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