Another Blasphemer shot dead in Pakistan, A Christian, in the Pakistani Government?
How does a Christian even get into politics in Pakistan without being killed just for that
(Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead Pakistan's only Christian government minister on Wednesday for challenging a law that mandates the death penalty for insulting Islam, the second top official killed this year over the blasphemy law.
The assassination of Shahbaz Bhatti, minister for minorities, is the latest sign of deep political instability in the nuclear-armed U.S. ally. Frequent militant attacks and chronic economic problems have raised fears for Pakistan's future.
Pakistani Taliban militants claimed responsibility for killing Bhatti, with a Taliban spokesman saying the minister was a blasphemer.
Bhatti was shot in broad daylight while traveling in a car near a market in the capital, Islamabad, police said.
"The attackers were wearing shawls and opened indiscriminate fire as they got close to the minister's car," Islamabad police chief Wajid Durrani told reporters.
The windshield of Bhatti's car had four or five bullet holes and blood covered the back seat. A hospital spokesman said Bhatti, who had spoken out against the anti-blasphemy law, received several wounds.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Blasphemer!
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Pakistan Taseer killer turns hero on Facebook
Ah Facebook, Where else can you openly show your support for Terrorism on the internet.
Oh yeah, YouTube.
Oh well, this just shows Islam for what it really is, a murderous death Cult.
Killing a man for speaking out against killing people for a few words that some call Blasphemy, is just insane.
Hindustan Times
Hundreds of Facebook users welcomed the killing of liberal Pakistani politician Salman Taseer as a strike against reformers of the country's tight blasphemy laws. The Punjab governor was shot on Tuesday by one of his guards, 26-year-old Mumtaz Qadri, who confessed to the murder because of Taseer's
vocal opposition to the law that was recently used to sentence a Christian woman to death.
Analysts say the assassination underscores how deeply religious extremism has penetrated Pakistan's conservative society, with even the Internet-literate elite resorting to Facebook to rally support for the killer.
Nearly 2,000 Facebook users joined one group on the social networking site praising Qadri, and dozens of "fans" joined other pages set up in Qadri's honour in the hours after the shooting.
All the pages had been removed by Wednesday. Facebook was not immediately reachable for comment. But other private account holders used their Facebook status updates to make comments such as: "We salute you Mumtaz Qadri," "thank God he (Taseer) is not alive (any) more" and praise for the attacker as "a soldier of Islam".
In a sign of mainstream media opposition, Pakistan's leading Urdu-language newspaper, Jang, ran a front-page story declaring: "There should be no funeral for Salman Taseer and no condemnation for his death."
Friday, December 31, 2010
Islamists lead Pakistan strike in political crisis
Thousands of supporters of Islamic parties chanting anti-American slogans rallied in the southwestern town of Chaman bordering Afghanistan and warned the government against any move to change the blasphemy law.
Can you Blame them?
How else are they going to get their fill of accusing innocent people of Blasphemy, and having weekly stonings and Hangings.
(Reuters) - Business centers were shut in Pakistan on Friday in a strike called by Islamists to pressure the ruling party which is scrambling to stop its main coalition partner from pulling out of the governing coalition...
Thousands of supporters of Islamic parties chanting anti-American slogans rallied in the southwestern town of Chaman bordering Afghanistan and warned the government against any move to change the blasphemy law.
The law came under the spotlight after a Christian woman was sentenced to death in November by a court on charges of insulting Islam. Critics say the law is used to persecute religious minorities, fan religious extremism and settle personal scores.
"This government is planning to change the blasphemy law under foreign pressure but Muslims of this country will never allow it to do so," Abdul Raheem Mazhari, a cleric and a local leader of the Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Islam party, told protesters.
Monday, November 29, 2010
Pakistan PM barred from pardoning Christian woman
Because it is better to kill someone and be wrong about it than not to kill and be right !
Assbackwards rejects of the world.
(Reuters) - A Pakistani court Monday barred President Asif Ali Zardari from pardoning a Christian woman sentenced to death on charges of insulting Islam, in a case that has sparked criticism over the country's blasphemy law.
Asia Bibi, a 45-year-old mother of four, requested a pardon from the president after a lower court sentenced her to death on Nov 8 in a case stemming from a village dispute.
The Lahore High Court barred Zardari from pardoning Bibi in a petition filed by Shahid Iqbal, a Pakistani citizen. Iqbal's lawyer Allah Bux Laghari told Reuters a pardon was illegal as the court was already hearing an appeal against her sentence.
We believe it is the court's duty to evaluate the evidence against her, not individuals, and if she is found innocent, she should be freed," he said.
Human rights groups have demanded the repeal of the law, which they say discriminates against religious minorities who make up roughly 4 percent of Pakistan's 170 million population.
Last week, a government minister said an initial inquiry into the case of the Christian mother said she had not committed blasphemy but was falsely accused after a quarrel.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Pakistani Christian sentenced to life for blaspheming islam
Islam...the religion of tolerance. Canadian Free Press
A court in Faisalabad, Pakistan, sentenced to life imprisonment Imran Masih, a young Christian, for having insulted and desecrated the Koran, according to the Minorities Concern newsletter.
On July 1, 2009 Masih, a shopkeeper by profession, was brutally tortured by a group of Muslims, then arrested by police on charges – allegedly fabricated- that he had burned pages of the Koran.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
World Church body to Pakistan: Drop death penalty for blasphemy
The World Council of Churches has called Pakistan to drop it's mandatory death sentence for blasphemy. There should be no punishment for blasphemy. USA Today
GENEVA — The World Council of Churches is calling on Pakistan to repeal the mandatory death penalty for blasphemy in the country's penal code.
The WCC's governing body, which met in Geneva Aug. 26-Sept. 2, issued a statement Tuesday (Sept. 1) urging Pakistan to "guarantee the rights of all religious minorities in the country."
The church council said the law has become "a major source of victimization and persecution" of religious minorities who are living "in a state of fear and terror."
Since the penal code of Pakistan was amended in 1986, "Christians in particular have become targets of harassments and persecutions," according to the WCC, which also noted that human rights organizations say blasphemy accusations are often used to have people imprisoned over business or land disputes.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Another ‘blasphemy’ case
Muslims are such a peace loving people ! I find it Hilarious that they don't need one shred of evidence to support a claim , Before they send themselves into a tizzy And start Rioting ! These people will never make it in a real society !
Daily Times....
LAHORE: An angry mob attacked the house of a 60-year-old woman in Sanghar district in Sindh in another alleged incident of desecration of the holy Quran, a private TV channel reported late on Wednesday. Following the attack, the police shifted the woman, Akhtari Malkani, to the police station from a katchi abadi area in the district. The District Bar Association officials assured the mob that a case would be registered against the woman if she was found guilty. Despite assurance from the lawyers and police, the people demanded that the woman should be handed over to them and pelted stones at the police station building and burned tyres on road. daily times monitor
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Afghanistan editor arrested for blasphemy
Our number mistake was to allow Afghanistan and Iraq to use shariah law as the highest authority. Now we have stories like Afghanistan wanting to execute a convert from islam to Christianity, an Afghan on death row because he stood up for woman's rights and this newest case of blasphemy in Afghanistan. APKABUL (AFP) — An Afghan news editor has been arrested for a publishing a newspaper article rejecting that religions, including Islam, were passed to humans through divine revelations, an official said Wednesday.
The news editor of a small Kabul newspaper, Payman Daily, was picked up Tuesday, days after the allegedly blasphemous article was printed, the deputy attorney general, Fazel Ahmad Faqiryar, told AFP.
"He was arrested for publishing an article in which he has rejected revelation. This is an insult to Islam and the rest of the religions," Faqiryar said.
The journalist, whom Faqiryar would not name, was being investigated. If found guilty under Afghanistan's law, which is based on Islamic Sharia law, he could face a sentence ranging from a reprimand to the death penalty, the official said.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
UN anti-blasphemy measures have sinister goals, observers say
The Combating Defamation of Religions Resolution which was passed on Monday by the UN General Assembly has two goals.
1. To make it illegal to critize islam
2. To stop people linking islam with terrorist attacks which are carried out in its name.
I wonder which 42 countries absented from voting. They could've stopped the resolution if they had voted against it. Canada.com From Jihad WatchUNITED NATIONS - Islamic countries Monday won United Nations backing for an anti-blasphemy measure Canada and other Western critics say risks being used to limit freedom of speech.
All the people who are in prison because of blasphemy laws are all in islamic countries....
Combating Defamation of Religions passed 85-50 with 42 abstentions in a key UN General Assembly committee, and will enter into the international record after an expected rubber stamp by the plenary later in the year.
But while the draft's sponsors say it and earlier similar measures are aimed at preventing violence against worshippers regardless of religion, religious tolerance advocates warn the resolutions are being accumulated for a more sinister goal.
"It provides international cover for domestic anti-blasphemy laws, and there are a number of people who are in prison today because they have been accused of committing blasphemy," said Bennett Graham, international program director with the Becket Fund, a think tank aimed at promoting religious liberty.
"Those arrests are made legitimate by the UN body's (effective) stamp of approval."Passage of the resolution is part of a 10-year action plan the 57-state Organization of Islamic Conference launched in 2005 to ensure "renaissance" of the "Muslim Ummah" or community.
While the current resolution is non-binding, Pakistan's Ambassador Masood Khan reminded the UN's Human Rights Council this year that the OIC ultimately seeks a "new instrument or convention" on the issue. Such a measure would impose its terms on signatory states.
"Each time the resolution comes up, we get a measure of where the world is on this issue, and we see that the campaign has been ramped up," said Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based monitoring group UN Watch.
While this year's draft is less Islam-centric that resolutions of earlier years, analysts note it is more emphatic in linking religion defamation and incitement to violence.
That "risks limiting a broad range of peaceful speech and expression," Neuer argues.
The 2008 draft "underscores the need to combat defamation of religions, and incitement to religious hatred in general, by strategizing and harmonizing actions at the local, national regional and international levels."
It also laments "Islam is frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and terrorism."
Friday, November 7, 2008
Pakistani Christian accused of blaspheming Islam
Islamic tolerance. Spero NewsA Christian man, Gulsher Masih, and his daughter, Sandal, 18, have been charged with blasphemy under Article 295 B of the Pakistan Penal Code for allegedly tearing pages from the Koran on October 9, 2008 in the village of Tehsil Chak Jhumra, in Faisalabad district.
Some Muslims who walked by the Gulsher home said they saw Sandal Gulsher and her father Gulsher Masih tear some pages from the Quran and throw them into the street. The story eventually made to the village mosques so an enraged mob, including people from neighboring villages, marched through the village calling for the death of the blasphemers, the news agency stated.
Deputy Inspector Faryad told Asia News that once the mob was at the Gulsher home they began stoning the building, striking doors and windows with sticks. They also stoned a nearby Protestant church. Police took the entire Gulsher family into custody for their “own protection,” he added. “Vans full of Muslims were driving to the village but were stopped by police.”
Friday, October 24, 2008
Three Algerian Christians Face 3 Years in Prison for Blasphemy
The 3 Christians were brought to the attention of the authorities by an islamist who lied about converting to Christianity in order to get dirt on them. Grouping for AlgeriaOctober 23, 2008 Algeria (International Christian Concern)-On October 21, 2008, an Algerian court held a hearing on the case of three Christians who face three years of prison and a fine of 500 euros. The Court held the hearing in Ain Turk, a town 267 miles away from Algiers, the capital of Algeria.
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The three Christians are Youssef Ourahmane, Rachid Seghir and Hamid Ramdani. The public prosecutor accused them of “insulting Islam, its prophet and threatening the former professing Christian that complained against them.”
Earlier, a lower court agreed with the prosecutor and handed down a 3 year prison sentence and 500 euro fine. The defendants were not present at the time of the decision. The defendants then appealed the decision of the lower court on July 15, 2008. The appeal court postponed the hearing until October 21, 2008.The case against the three Christians was brought by the public prosecutor with the help of Mr. Shamouma Al-Aid. Mr. Al-Aid “converted” from Islam to Christianity for a period time during which he also attended a Bible school. According to Compass Direct News, Mr. Al-Aid continued to maintain relations with radical Muslims while attending churches and the Bible school.
Later he “reconverted” to Islam and alleged that the three Christians were blaspheming Islam and its prophet Mohammed. He also alleged that the Christians were threatening him for “reconverting” to Islam.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Afghan man receives 20 years for blasphemy
Allowing the Iraqis and Afghans to make shariah the highest law shows that the State Department has no clue who and what we are fighting.
It's a depressing situation, al Qaida, the taliban, al Shabaab, and every other jihadist groups are fighting to implement shariah/islamic law across the whole world. We're fighting them to supposedly stop them from achieving their goal. Yet we've allowed shariah to be implented in Afghanistan and Iraq.
It's necessary to fight al Qaida etc...but at the same time we must be sure what we're fighting for. The peaceniks in the State Department certainly don't. CBCAn Afghan appeals court has overturned a death sentence for a journalism student convicted of blasphemy and instead sentenced him to 20 years in prison.
A three-judge panel sentenced Parwez Kambakhsh, 24, to prison Tuesday after a day of arguments between the student's defence lawyer and state witnesses.
Kambakhsh was studying journalism at Balkh University in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif and writing for local newspapers when he was arrested in October 2007 for allegedly distributing material downloaded from the internet that asked questions about the role of women in Islam.
The material, written in Farsi, the language of Iran, asked why a Muslim man may have four wives but women can't have multiple husbands.
The material also said Muslim fundamentalists err in their interpretation of the Qur'an by insisting women have to be subject to men.
A lower court sentenced him to death in a trial that human rights groups have condemned as illegal. Kambakhsh has said he was forbidden to speak in his own defence.
Friday, October 10, 2008
Lawyer demands release for Afghan reporter on death row
An Afghan reporter has been rotting in jail for more than a year for writing an article critical of the way islam treats women. The reporter was sentenced to death back in January
We should have never of let the Afghans put shariah law as their highest law into the Afghanistan constitution. That's what we're fighting to prevent here. AFPKABUL (AFP) — The lawyer of an Afghan reporter sentenced to death on blasphemy charges accused authorities Thursday of holding his client beyond a legal deadline, as the young man neared a full year in detention.
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The appeal of Perwiz Kambakhsh -- arrested last October and sentenced to death by a primary court in January -- has been repeatedly delayed because witnesses who had first testified against him did not turn up to court.
"Based on the law, an appeal court can hold a suspect only for two months. Within this two months, it either should rule or otherwise the suspect must be freed," lawyer Mohammad Afzal Shormach Nuristani told reporters.A university student of journalism, he was convicted of blasphemy for distributing an article he downloaded from the Internet which questioned aspects of Islam.
The article raised issues about the Koran, the Prophet Mohammad and Islam's views on women.
Afghanistan's judicial system is based on Islamic Sharia law, which forbids criticism of Islam and rules that the death penalty should be applied in cases of blasphemy.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Pakistani Man Sentenced to Death for Blasphemy
I never knew Pakistan has a death penalty for blasphemy. But it doesn't surprise me the least. Reuters
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani man was sentenced to death for blasphemy on Wednesday after he defiled the Muslim holy book and used derogatory language to refer to the Prophet Mohammad, a police official said.
Convictions for blasphemy are fairly common in predominantly Muslim Pakistan, with most cases involving members of religious minorities, but death sentences have never been carried out usually because convictions are thrown out on a lack of evidence.
The convicted man, Mohammad Shafeeq, a Muslim in his early 20s, was arrested in 2006 in a village near the eastern city of Sialkot where the trial was held in the court of Justice Shoaib Ahmad Roomi.
