Here is yet another example of how Pakistan's blasphemy laws are used to abuse and terrorize religious minorities in that country. "Punjab: young Christian man accused of blasphemy killed in prison," by Fareed Khan for Asia News, September 15 (thanks to C. Cantoni):
Sialkot (AsiaNews) - The young Christian man who was arrested on 12 September in a village in Punjab accused of blasphemy was killed last night in prison. Police had Fanish, 20, remanded into their custody in order to continue their investigation. This morning prison guards in Sialkot district prison found the lifeless body of the young man with visible signs of injuries.
For Nadeem Anthony, member of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), his death was judicial murder. Condemning in the strongest terms the latest anti-Christian outrage, the activist told AsiaNews that for police the young committed suicide by hanging himself in jail, something that for him does not make sense. Instead, "it is a torture killing" because "we can see signs of torture on his body in the picture."
AsiaNews also received photos of the lifeless body. In it the type of injuries that can be seen appear unrelated to strangulation by hanging....
Fanish (pictured in prison) was arrested last Saturday after accusations of blasphemy were made against him. A day earlier a Muslim mob had gathered in front of the church in the village of Jaithikey, not far from the town of Samberial, in the district of Sialkot (Punjab), to teach the local Christian community a "lesson".
Extremists damaged the building before setting it on fire. They also pillaged two homes near the church.
A relationship between the 20-year-old Christian man and a young Muslim woman appears to be the cause of the turn of events.
Fanish was accused of provoking the young woman and of throwing away a copy of the Qur'an she had in her hands.
Fr Emmanuel Yousaf Mani, director of the National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP) of the Catholic Church, said that "Muslims cannot stand the idea that a Muslim woman might fall in love with a Christian."...
Yes. Because it is against Islamic law for a Muslim woman to marry a non-Muslim man.
"Yes. Because it is against Islamic law for a Muslim woman to marry a non-Muslim man."
The KKKorant in three words: Convert, pay, or die.
Sickening.
Why on earth do we continue to pay jizya to a sharia regime?
Fanish was accused of provoking the young woman and of throwing away a copy of the Qur'an she had in her hands.
As usual an accusation is all that is needed for moslems to act like irrational children.
You guys, we need to cut these poor Muslims a break. All these killings seem to be provoked by that very real and dangerous disorder, Sudden-Christian-Qu'ran-Throwing-Syndrome. Christians need to be vaccinated against this disorder as no one ever seems to survive it.
But also, someone needs to do something about Sudden-Muslim-Church-Burning-Syndrome and Muslim-Lying-Sack-of-Sh-t-Syndrome.
"...might fall in love with a Christian."
...the best kind to fall in-love WITH! :)
Fanish is now among the true martyrs of the true God. His torture likely was to get him to convert to Islam, which he obviously did not.
May the Holy Trinity grant him rest and peace. May Christ come soon.
May the Holy Trinity grant him rest and peace. May Christ come soon.
They didn't do much to help him whilst he was alive, now did they?
My guess is the Easter Bunny will arrive before any deity turns up to help mankind.
Truly a thoughtful response. What do you suggest?
I'm with James on this, my prayers for the poor man who died.
Maybe one day the evil in their hearts will be extinguished so they realise what they've done. But I'm sure the Pope will visit England before those murderous creatures face any kind of justice...
Torture killing, honor killing, koran defamation killing, apostate killing, movie-selling killing, alcohol selling killing, killing killing, drinking water during ramadamadingdong attempted killing...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32811883/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia
An AP article reported by... MSBCN... ???
I wonder when the journalist who decided to print this will join the unemplowment lines along with at least 6 ACORN members.
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American shot over drink of water
In Kabul, the capital, an American service member and an Afghan police officer got into an argument because the American was drinking water in front of the Afghan police, who are not eating or drinking during the day because of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, said the district chief, Abdul Baqi Zemari.
The police officer shot the American and seriously wounded him, while other American troops responded and seriously wounded the police officer, Zemari said.
Lt. Robert Carr, a U.S. military spokesman, confirmed an incident between Afghan police officers and a U.S. police mentoring team. He could not provide information on the conditions of the two men.
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I have copied the web page in .pdf just in case this story 'disappears'.
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A relationship between the 20-year-old Christian man and a young Muslim woman appears to be the cause of the turn of events.
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This poor young man.
I wonder what the authorities (sic) are doing to safeguard this young Muslimah, who had the temerity to fall in love with a Christian? Will she meet the same fate as her lover, perhaps at the hands of her own family?
"...it is against Islamic law for a Muslim woman to marry a non-Muslim man."
Our liberal/Lefty friends and loved ones have to be informed about this and the many other discriminatory facets of Islamic law and custom. For Americans, the "Jim Crow" analogy has profound cultural resonance...please use it!
i forget... are we not fighting Muslim "extremists" these days?
according to the reporter, these of the Muslim mob are like all their extremist brothers elsewhere who do not tolerate Christians or believers of other religions. They destroy churches, pillage houses, rape, burn. They believe that they may murder. they gleefully live under sharia;presumably they follow it well, like all slaves who obey their master.
The Holy Trinity remembers the blood spilled from faithful martyrs of Christ, who are preserved by Him. Come Lord Jesus.
Unfortunately, the eschaton has not arrived in 2,000 years, and meanwhile Muslims have throughout history, according to one estimate, massacred over 250 million people, and tortured, enslaved, raped, and oppressed in various ways millions more (not to mention the innumerable other non-Islamic horrors that have occurred, large and small, during that time right up to the present). The West did not have the benefit of the eschaton the last time that an evil and militantly supremacist expansionism threatened the world in the 1930s and 40s, yet the West after much blood, sweat and tears roundly defeated it and in many ways is the better for it.
No need to wait for the eschaton; for those who believe in God it is enough to believe in His talents he has given us to do the job ourselves.
lest we not forget the old Muslim "rope a dope" trick in which they use females to lure non Muslim males into situations of forced conversions...it didn't work this time.
Mohamed - the 7th century AD Hitler.
R. I. P. Fanish.
You escaped Islam the hard way.
My deepest sympathies to the family and friends of this young man.
It always makes me wonder when I hear of these kind of executions, How many thousands of people would leave Islam if they weren't afraid of being killed for it?
Hesperado,
Sorry but, you suprise me to be gullible enough to throw out fantasy figures?
“, according to one estimate, massacred over 250 million people, and tortured, enslaved,”
That is one of the biggest bull shit numbers that I have ever seen quoted and used to smear…why not just say :
“, according to one estimate, massacred over a bagillion !!! people, and tortured, enslaved,”
Or better yet…
“, according to one estimate, massacred over a deca-dillion-quintouple people!!!!, and tortured, enslaved,”
Or how about a “googleplex of people”?
Sorry, but it just escapes me how people who claim to be rational just regurgitate this 250 M crap they have been spoon fed.
Yeah, right, like there are accurate tallies that add up to that number?
You can’t even tell me how many died in WWII… the numbers quoted vary by the tens of millions:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_people_died_in_World_War_2
“Estimates range from about 50-70 million killed in World War 2.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
“The sources cited on this page document an estimated death toll in World War II of 62 to 78 million,”
http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~jobrien/reference/ob62.html
Oh yeah, and here 96,335,000 (P.S. they admit that this does not include Military deaths for Belgium, Yugoslavia, Greece, Norway, and Denmark.)
So there is a difference in figures quoted of up to 46,000,000 people…wow, talk about missing a decimal place somewhere...
I call bullshit on your 250,000,000 number spread across the centuries…serious bull shit.
Peace
Abdullah
Too bad Abdullah is too ignorant or too stupid to know what an 'estimate' is. The exact number is not the point, the point is that islam seems to have been invented as an excuse to murder people and rape children.
J. Coventry,
You are missing the point.
It is politically motivated bull shit like this 250 M number that leads people like you around by the nose. Its a lie... a total fabrication.
Lets test something...in and around Mecca how many people were killed in the first 23 years of the revelation for whatever reason...valid war, accidental fight breaking out, stupidity...believer or non believer...
Your guess.
Show us you know something...
Truth
Abdullah
From Abdullah...'It is politically motivated bull shit like this 250 M number that leads people like you around by the nose'.
Sort of like the 'fastest growing religion', and that inaccurate 1.2 billion Islamic world population...pure political propaganda...
AM: I call bullshit on your 250,000,000 number spread across the centuries…serious bull shit.
Why? Do you think the number should be higher?
I'm sure if we throw in the suicides of raped women (oh, and men), the genocide against various non-believers that have been expunged from history because the moslems rewrote it you'd have a figure way up there.
Really, who cares? It's what moslems are attempting to do now by guile, with lies and smile-in-your-face duplicity that bothers me more.
Well played, Duh_Swami....great response!
So Abdullah, you are saying the real number is much higher. Were you insulted to hear that only a meager 250 million humans are estimated to have been slain by this mob?
You need to meditate and realize that organized religion is politics. They are the same. They are leading you around not by your nose, but by a noose around your neck. They will tighten it if you don't submit to the political movement. I am one man in one desert alone making my own opinions of what horrors haunt this planet. I belong to no gang of thugs.
duh_swami says,
Gee whiz! From the assortment of "articles" I've read, I should be thoroughly convinced that the lower cased (i)slamic world is nearing 3.7 billion or more.
Isn't it?
Abdullard said "Sorry, but it just escapes me how people who claim to be rational just regurgitate this 250 M crap they have been spoon fed."
It's a bit like regurgitating bits of the Koran that you have been spoon fed while claiming to be rational. There is less evidence for the truth claims of the Koran than 250 million dead.
Any luck with the Alchemy?
Pulsar - I had the same thought as you did.
Some Muslim girls (especially those with brains) do look out longingly through the bars of their cage at those handsome Infidel males; and sometimes they manage to escape, and ditch Islam, and find themselves an Infidel husband (witness Hannah Shah, author of 'The imam's daughter' - having escaped Islam and her Muslim family, and having converted to Christianity, she espied a lovely lad whilst attending Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, and now she is a happily married Christian wife). Or, like Amina and Sarah in Texas USA, their having Infidel boyfriends leads to their being murdered by their dads.
But there seem to be quite a few other Muslimahs who, whether out of their own deliberate Islam-inculcated malice or under compulsion from the Mohammedan Male Mobsters, or perhaps a bit of both, act as the 'honey trap' - sometimes the Infidel male thus lured, converts to Islam in order to get the girl (because he can't get her otherwise); but in quite a few cases (most notoriously, Ilan Halimi in Paris) the intent seems to be, from the outset, not his conversion but his humiliation and death. There was one case reported right here on jihadwatch not so long ago, also from Pakistan, that seemed to have involved a Muslim girl's deliberately luring a Christian lad into a compromising situation which then gave her Muslim Male kin both the opportunity and the sharia-based excuse for killing him.