Adding insult to injury. An update on this story. "Sialkot: police charges crowd at funeral for young man killed in prison for blasphemy," by Fareed Khan in AsiaNews, September 16 (thanks to C. Cantoni):
Lahore (AsiaNews) - Police used tear gas and charged mourners who had gathered for the funeral of Fanish Masih, the 20-year-old Christian man who was killed in prison during the night of 14 and 15 September. Police justified their action by saying that they wanted to prevent further disturbances during the burial of the young man who died in jail from injuries caused by his jailers.
Nadeem Anthony, a member of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), told AsiaNews that Fanish was buried today in a Catholic cemetery in Sialkot. Hundreds of mourners took part in the ceremony.Yes, indeed.
Using tear gas, police attacked people present and arrested a number of Christians, the activist said. Many were injured and that the situation went from bad to worse. After news channels began reporting what was happening, several civil society groups staged protests in Lahore.
Tensions remained high throughout yesterday. The young man's family protested; they placed his body in a central street of the town, and demanded that the police officers responsible for his death be arrested.
Local sources report that 13 stores and a number of cars were damaged during the protest, which ended only when senior police officers assured the demonstrators that justice would be done.
The National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP) of the Catholic Church of Pakistan has firmly condemned the "killing of Fanish in custody."
In a tough statement, Mgr Lawrence John Saldanha and Peter Jacob, respectively chairman and executive secretary of the NCJP, said they "refuse to accept the version of local authorities that he committed suicide spontaneously after he was shifted to jail from police lock up."
Sialkot's District Police Officer Waqar Ahmad Chohan had earlier stated that the deceased, who had been accused of insulting the Qur'an, had committed suicide in jail.
In reality, local Muslims did not like the idea that the young man could have a relationship with Hina Asghar, a young Muslim woman, whose mother is said to have witnessed the act of blasphemy....Yesterday, the Punjab Minority Affairs Minister Kamran Michael said that the police did not handle the case properly. "I have seen the body and there were torture marks on it," he said....
In their statement, Catholic leaders have called on all sections of Pakistani society to realise how dangerous the blasphemy laws are. "For religious minorities these laws have proven to be a catastrophe which can surface anytime, anywhere," Mgr Saldanha and Peter Jacob noted....
What if a Muslimah could marry the man of her choice? No more Islam.
Police justified their action by saying that they wanted to prevent further disturbances...
Then...Using tear gas, police attacked people present and arrested a number of Christians...
So the way to prevent a disturbance is to create one...Islamic logic?
Ah, blasphemy.....the victimless crime.
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"In reality, local Muslims did not like the idea that the young man could have a relationship with Hina Asghar, a young Muslim woman..."
If I were her and wanted to stay alive, I'd head for the hills...
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If these three snips/quotes don't send absolute pangs of terror up and down your spine, then you have no spine!
The last snip (re: blasphemy laws) is precisely the sort of concept the Useless Nations would love to shove down our infidelic throats so that the RoP (cough! hack!) is made superior to all other freedoms.
How I long for the day when we have another Thomas Jefferson of John Adams in the White House, who will tell the OIC and the muslims to take their damn cult and go back to Arabia where they belong!
false accusation, innuendo, rumor ... stuff that brings SHARIA "alive."
these folks have a different concept concerning the Rule of Law. Sharia Law should not be allowed in America or anywhere people desire liberty and value life.
Very sad.
Hello
this is where i had a disagreement with a fellow christian
He believed that christians should not resist
and there is biblical evidence to support this.
Now i on the other hand take a more forceful approach
Which is if you try to do that crap to my family
I will DEFNINATLY RESIST and willl try to kill you..
Your not going to murder my family and then try to arrest
me while i am burying them..
Hell NO you will have a fight on your hands.
Not because i am so tough or brave no..
but because i believe that if dont stand up
and say NO - with some force behind it that
this will get worse and worse with more attrocities
During wwII when the first orders came in to begin the final solution - some german soldiers resisted.
But after much pressure and force they gave in and began the downwards slide to despitism..
Studies have shown if you tolerate something for any length of time soon you become acclimated to it
then it doesnt seem to bother you too much
finally in the end you find yourself saying
That isnt so bad or a crime is it?
No
We the people said no
And I have seen a lot of good people like robert here
taking a great intellectual stand against this evil.
And i say to all of the muslims ...
You are sinning against god when you KILL christians just because your founder mohammed was a monster..
You will pay for this.
you will face God in the end
But in america you will face justice.
this is why we fight agaisnt the evil tyrannical leaders in the muslim world.
For they and islam brought us all DEATH on 9/11
we will not foget and we cannot let you continue on
your campaign of mass murder..
it is vile
it is wrong..
it is against God what you are doing.
Feel the peace, man....
When I think about the fact that some of my tax money
is going over to aid Pakistan it makes me want to
throw eggs at the White House and the Capital.
As far as the Christians in Pakistan they should heed the
words of the late Pope John Paul when he said as young man,
let he wants to fight with a gun to resist the Germans do so,
and let he who wants to resist using other means do so also.