For a case this cruel and absurd, words almost fail, except to point out that this is supposedly our modern, moderate "Friend and Ally." The recent cases cited below demonstrate that this is no isolated incident, either. "Punjab: Christian couple touches Qur'an with dirty hands, gets 25 years in prison," by Fareed Khan for AsiaNews, March 3:
Islamabad (AsiaNews) - A court in Kasur district, Punjab, convicted a Christian couple, Munir Masih and Ruqqiya Bibi, to 25 years in prison. According to the Centre for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS), judge Ajmal Hussein convicted the couple for touching the Qur'an without washing their hands.
Munir Masih and Ruqqiya Bibi were released on bail last January, but were re-arrested after the judge ruled against them. The husband was locked up in Kasur's district prison; the wife was sent to the women's prison in Multan. Both have started serving 25 years behind bars.
CLAAS, an association that fights for the rights of the poor and marginalised, said that the couple was accused of "contaminating" the Qur'an when they touched it "without washing their hands".
The incident, which dates back to December 2008, unleashed the fury of Muslim extremists who put pressure on police. Unconfirmed reports suggest that extremists paid off police agents to discover "new evidence" to justify the sentence.
At the end of the police investigation, husband and wife were charged with blasphemy.
The blasphemy law is the harshest tool for religious repression available in Pakistan. It was adopted in 1986 by then dictator Zia ul-Haq to protect Islam and its prophet, Muhammad, from attacks and insults.
Priorities.
In fact, it is actually comprised of sections 295-B and 295-C of the Pakistan Penal Code, which respectively punish with life in prison anyone who defiles, damages or desecrates a copy of the Holy Qur'an, and imposes the death penalty on anyone who defiles the name of the Prophet Muhammad.
In the last two months, there were two more convictions against Christians in Pakistan.
On 11 January, a court in Faisalabad sentenced Imran Masih, a 26-year-old Christian man, to life imprisonment for insulting and desecrating the Koran. He was accused of deliberately burning Qur'anic verses and an Arabic book in order "foment interfaith hatred and hurt the feelings of Muslims."
On 25 February, a court in Karachi sentenced Qamar David, also a Christian, to life imprisonment for hurting the religious feelings of Muslims when he sent blasphemous SMS.
CLAAS announced that it was filing an appeal with the High Court in Lahore to have the 25-year sentence against Munir Masih and Ruqqiya Bibi overturned.
Islam has its sacred "pillars". The West has its pillars as well, secular, rarely discussed, few citizens barely aware of them, often breached but absolute bedrock nevertheless. Now they are under huge threat. They must be overt, discussed, taken pride in and defended to the death if need be. To state them proudly should not be a cause of shame nor require any apology to anyone.
They include equal rights for every individual, freedom of expression and belief, and, relevant here, an objective rule of law.
Thus when we read...
"The incident, which dates back to December 2008, unleashed the fury of Muslim extremists who put pressure on police. Unconfirmed reports suggest that extremists paid off police agents to discover "new evidence" to justify the sentence."
- we see it is sharia in action, typical of an Islamic state, and business as usual.
Fortunately, I have a "translation" of the Qur'an (the Qur'an is only the Qur'an if it is written in Arabic) to touch with my dirty infidel hands. Nice try, Pakistan.
CLAAS, an association that fights for the rights of the poor and marginalised, said that the couple was accused of "contaminating" the Qur'an when they touched it "without washing their hands".
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Somehow I imagine this has less to do with Munir Masih and his wife's insufficient application of Life Buoy, and more to do with their intrinsically *filthy Kuffur hands*. These hands, no matter how well-scrubbed, are considered the same as feces, urine, dead bodies and semen—in other words, Najis, or unclean.
No coincidence that so many of these 'hardened convicts' in Pakistan share the surname of "Masih"—"messiah"—which indicates the person's Christian faith.
That we in the West—the United States in particular—are heavily funding a nation with *blasphemy laws* in insanity.
Only following the word of Allha in the Quran 9:28
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/quran/009.qmt.html#009.028
"009.028
YUSUFALI: O ye who believe! Truly the Pagans (unbelievers) are unclean; ..."
They'd kill my ass in a heartbeat if they could. I acquired a box of korans at an estate auction some years ago. I used them for bullet stops to determine what kind of penetration I was getting from the ammo I was reloading. When I finished, they hit the burn pile along with the rest of my burnable trash.
No islam...Know Peace.
Know islam...throw up.
I don't think we will see Munir Masih and Ruqqiya Bibi alive again.
They are very likely to be murdered within prison and no one will know about it. And as for the perpetrators, they have the consolation they will go to the Islamic paradise.
While left wing "human rights organizations" such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International (which even went the trendy route of appointing a Muslim Secretary General) have dived in to the business of protecting the rights of Muslims in the West with both feet, very little attention is paid to the rights of Hindus, Jews, Christians, Buddhists and others living in Muslim countrie
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2010/03/muslim-rights-and-wrongs.html
Please write a letter of protest to Amnesty International, regardless of what you think of it.
You can also use a copy of the Qur'an to start fires in your woodstove or fireplace.
A new twist, in Dar al-Islam, on the "clean hands" doctrine.
DP111 wrote:
While left wing "human rights organizations" such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International (which even went the trendy route of appointing a Muslim Secretary General) have dived in to the business of protecting the rights of Muslims in the West with both feet, very little attention is paid to the rights of Hindus, Jews, Christians, Buddhists and others living in Muslim countries
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You are so right. I just got an email from Amnesty International, with the screaming subject line, "Stop the insanity, Senator!"
When I opened it, the head was "Fair Trials Under Attack!". No, they weren't talking about something along the lines of the hideous kangaroo court experienced by this poor couple in Pakistan, but were decrying the call to *try the 9/11 Jihadists outside New York*.
"Dear [Gravenimage],
Our sources tell us that any day now Senator Lindsey Graham's appalling legislation (S. 2977) could be hitting the Senate floor. Graham's proposal takes a back-door approach at stopping federal trials for those suspected of being involved in the September 11th terrorist attacks - instead of flat-out opposing action to move these detainees to facilities in the U.S., *this legislation drains funding from the last hope we'll have at fair September 11th trials.*
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If Senator Graham's legislation continues to gain momentum, it will force Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama into an impossible spot. *They will have no choice but to accept military commissions as the only alternative to fair, federal trials.*
And you and I both know the truth about military commissions...
* They are a poor substitute for federal trials; devised by Senator Graham and other politicians, not the military!
* The only things these kangaroo courts can accomplish are biased convictions and the prolonged cover-up of U.S.-sanctioned torture.
* They don't meet anyone's standards for fairness - by U.S., international or U.S. military standards. In fact, they wholly undermine the international human rights framework!
*It only takes a moment to fight back against the insanity!*
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*With their support, we can stop Graham's legislation! Email these Senators now and urge them to stand for fair trials!*
[all emphasis—in bold type—original]
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The comments about American military commissions is inflammatory and entirely false.
I was a member of Amnesty International some years ago. One thing I recall was that the language they used was always very measured—they let the cases—many of them just horrifying—speak for themselves.
But now, their tone seems to be screaming hysteria—at least when it comes to standing up for Muslim terrorists' "rights" while further endangering American civilians.
Please do not flush korans or pages therefrom down the toilet. They cause havoc at sewage treatment plants: http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2010/01/koran-in-toilet.html
This is exactly what the Organization of the Islamic Congress (OIC) seeks to impose upon us all, through a resolution passed in January of this year at the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Robert Spencer has written about that odious resolution here and elsewhere.
My recommended response is that we very vigorously and deliberately offend Islam at every available opportunity -- prudently covering one-another's backs at all times, of course.
Screw Islam and all its vile slaves!
Does this mean I'm gonna get in trouble for using a page of the Holy Koran as if it were a panel of tissue on a Charmin roll when finishing off in the library?
*** 33:21 ***
The Koran is the vilest book in world history. The Koran is the most viciously protected book in world history.
Connection?
Unbelievable. It's just truly unbelievable.
The "Mein Korampf" is best used for toilet paper. Now, come and get me you Islamic Neanderthal Islamic Barbarians.
"You can also use a copy of the Qur'an to start fires in your woodstove or fireplace."
Yes, that's good. Also for your pet's litter box, but then - you don't want to insult your pet. As your pooch, kitty, or bunny is a GAZILLION times better than one word in the filthy lie that is the "Mein Korampf."
These folks had better check into printing plants which are printing their "holy book". What if evil non believers were printing their koran, and a what if these printers operating the press had dirty hands. Or if they were wearing gloves, what if the gloves were dirty. Surely there must be a verse to cover that.
The wonder is not these folks being stupid. The wonder is just how stupid these folks really are.
It is hard for the rational person to understand the insanity of thought, in these situations. Is there not one rational person in the wonderful world of islam?
I made them "holey"...
Can't be true, otherwise the radical right wing Zionist-controlled mainstream media would surely have had a field day letting us infidels know that such things do occur, and as routine.
What a horrible story! Any half-wit can understand that the couple can't have done the alleged crime with intent to insult Muslims, they would be highly suicidal to do that. Did they touch the Quran with unwashed hand unintentionally? Or more likely, were they framed?
Any way, I am glad we live in a world where this kind of news is now coming out and can be told to let the world know Islam how it can be.
We in Holland now hear much anti-Wilders'rhetoric. Wilders is blamed for advocating a head-rag-tax and for wanting to shoot young rioters in the knee (as if he did not mean, only to do that when policemen were in big danger). He is accused of discrimination-policy-plans based on religion.
Politician Femke Halsema of GreenLeft says that: Humans oppress women, religions do not oppress women. Meaning that the oppressing of women has nothing to do with Islam, but with other human factors and that all sorts of men do it, presumably in the same numbers as all other sorts.
Oh, the Wilders-critics should look at the evidence of Islam's influence in the whole world, not just in their own country!
In a story like this one in Pakistan about the soiling of the Quran it is very hard to defend Islam as not being relevant to the unjust actions people do to others, as Dutch politicians endlessly do, thereby saying that Wilders is only "Hating, Discriminating, Dividing the nation etc.
Oh, I so hope many people will revenge this insane white-washing of Islam and blackening of its rightful exposers with their votes for parliament in 9th june. I know I will.
AlaskanInfidel : I made them "holey"...
Hey AI, try using some Hydra Shok hollowpoints for really great penetration.
I hope everyone else is getting ready for the inevitable?
Darcy wrote:
The "Mein Korampf" is best used for toilet paper. Now, come and get me you Islamic Neanderthal Islamic Barbarians.
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Darcy, I agree.
Unfortunately, here is a fellow's experience from four years ago over in Eurabia:
"German Indicted Over Koran Toilet Paper"
http://www.expatica.com/de/news/local_news/german-man-sent-koran-toilet-paper-to-mosque-27835.html
I still have a nice collection of Black Talon ammo. The stuff the one Senator called, "Spinning razor blades of death."
I like that. However, you'll find that Hydra shok will not penetrate as far as ball ammo, due to the expansion of the hollow point. Great for transferring energy in to the target, but penetration is reduced significantly.
I have also filled hollow points with Mercury and then sealed them with solder. When the round strikes, the Mercury "leaks" out around the plug of solder in a cone of murderous liquid metal, cutting all flesh in its path. And...if that doan kill em', the Mercury poisoning most certainly will.
It's easy to get a Class III weapons permit here in Alaska. I hear machine gun fire all around me on the weekends. A very comforting sound if you ask me!
yeah...if some jihadis try a Mumbai style attack here, the biggest danger to the public will be getting hit by friendly fire, as there is no permit required to carry concealed here in Alaska, and everyone's packin' heat.
And my dogs...you don't wanna mess with my dogs. The thousand pound Grizzly that lives in my neighborhood stays well clear of my place on account of em'.
islam is a lie and
Truth is killing it.
Wonder how Pakistan, the perpetual victim, is going to blame THIS on the US, under its ongoing "Look what you have done to us, American!" multi-billion dollar grab campaign.
Nice idea Darcy, but I wouldn't want to sully my infidel arse with the book of filth. The best use for Mein Korampf is as an object of mockery. Mind you, target practice and firelighting are good too.
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I haven't seen Yom al Delusional around here of late. Anyone know if he/she/it has been banned following that creepy post aimed at Champ?
Barguest wrote:
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I haven't seen Yom al Delusional around here of late. Anyone know if he/she/it has been banned following that creepy post aimed at Champ?
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Ugh—don't remind me. I might have to go take another long shower...
Good work Marisol! It is information exactly like this that will finally convince people that Islam is a crazy cult and that the Koran clearly advocates cold blooded and unjust and heartless murder - good for you oxoxoxoxooxoxxxooxoxoxo