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NEW DELHI: The pre-planned, cold-blooded massacre of 12 people at the Paris office of a French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, has earned the wrath of everyone but one who says whoever dares disrespect Prophet Muhammad shall invite death. A Bahujan Samaj Party leader Haji Yakoob Qureshi justified the attack on the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo saying the magazine had been repeatedly lampooning Islam. The Meerut-based leader went on to say those who lampoon Prophet Mohammed deserves death and no legal procedure should be initiated against those who revenge the insult. Haji Yakoob Qureshi made headlines in 2006 after he declared a Rs 51 crore reward for anyone who killed the Danish cartoonist after he drew a controversial cartoon of the Prophet. Reacting to the attack on 'Charlie Hebdo', the BSP leader said he was ready to pay the money to the attackers if they came forward and demanded the reward. The youngest of three French nationals being sought by police f...