Pakistan: Cleric says assassinated governor "responsible for his own murder" as tens of thousands rally for blasphemy law

Tiny Minority of Extremists Update, and while we're at it, an Impotent Islamabad Update, as the prime minister reiterates Pakistan's commitment to doing nothing. "Thousands rally in Pakistan for blasphemy laws," by Ashraf Khan for the Associated Press, January 9:

Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched in Pakistan's largest city on Sunday to oppose any change to national blasphemy laws and to praise a man charged with murdering a provincial governor who had campaigned against the divisive legislation.
The rally of up to 50,000 people in downtown Karachi was one of the largest demonstrations of support for the laws, which make insulting Islam a capital offense. It was organized before the governor of Punjab province, Salman Taseer, was shot dead on Tuesday in Islamabad by a bodyguard who told a court he considered Taseer a blasphemer.
Muslim groups have praised the bodyguard, Mumtaz Qadri, and have used Taseer's death to warn others not to speak out against the much-derided laws.
The size of the Karachi rally, which was large even by the standards of the city of 16 million, showed how bitter the argument is over the decades-old laws.
Although courts typically overturn blasphemy convictions and no executions have been carried out, rights activists say the laws are used to settle rivalries and persecute religious minorities.
Amid the threats from groups defending the law, the prime minister ruled out any changes to the legislation on Sunday, even as one of his key Cabinet ministers promised reforms were still on the agenda.
"This huge rally today has categorically signaled that nobody could dare to amend the blasphemy law," said Fazlur Rehman, the key speaker at Sunday's demonstration and head of the Taliban-linked conservative religious party Jamiat Ulema Islam.
"If the rulers are out to defend Taseer, so we also have the right to legally defend Mumtaz Qadri," he told the crowd.
He said Taseer "was responsible for his own murder" because he had criticized the law. [...]
Many marchers waved the flags of conservative and radical Islamist parties and chanted: "Courage and bravery, Qadri, Qadri."
Many wore head and arm bands inscribed: "We are ready to sacrifice our lives for the sanctity of the prophet."
Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti said such demonstrations would not deter the government from amending the laws, which he said were being abused by Muslim extremists to victimize minorities. He warned that religious leaders who preach violence could be charged with inciting murder if the debate claims another life.
"We will not be intimidated," Bhatti told The Associated Press. "We cannot remain silent on the victimization and growing extremism."
Bhatti, a member of Pakistan's Christian minority, did not give any timeframe for changing the laws and said details on how they might be amended had yet to be discussed with interest groups.
Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, however, later told reporters in Islamabad that his government would not tamper with the contentious legislation.
"Government doesn't have any such intention," Gilani said in response to a question about whether his government is bringing any amendment to the laws. "I have also said it before categorically." [...]
During a visit to Islamabad on Saturday, German Foreign Minister Guide Westerwelle described Taseer's murder as "a terroristic act."[...]
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi declined to tell AP whether he agreed with his counterpart's assessment.
"It's very sad what happened. The matter is being investigated ... and I would not like to comment on that at this stage," Qureshi told AP.
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"We are ready to sacrifice our lives for the sanctity of the prophet."...the sanctity of his sweat, the sanctity of his sputum, the sanctity of his urine, the sanctity of his feces, the sanctity of all his human...waste!!!
"The Glory of Muhammad" (video)
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/11/glory-of-muhammad.html

I'm surprised that the cleric didn't say that that assassinated governor was responsible for his own murder by being a crypto-Jew, since the Jooooooooooz are always responsible for everything that goes wrong in mahoundianism (according to mahoundians), aren't they?

A thought just struck me: the clerics of other religions don't regularly issue murders. In fact, they don't issue any. But Islam does, and Moslems do. And somehow the practice has come to be regarded as normal. To paraphrase Forest Gump, Islam is as Islam does.

*** Ishaq:489 ***

Do the bastards think that we are not their equal in fighting? We are men who think that there is no shame in killing.
-- Tim Russert's Holy Prophet Mohammed

But the media never makes that comparison. Doing so, doing their journalistic duty, doesn't fit well with the "tiny minority of extremists who misunderstand Islam" narrative.

In effect, the media are the leading protectors of Moslems. The operative in concert with other major societal elements, not the least of which are our gubmint and military, which not only protect Moslems with misinformation and agitprop, but shower these worthless offal with money, big money, and direct orders for its Infidel constituents to comply.

the pak was given the name for pure islam, and is dying a violent death, killing goes on, good people are scared to stand up, even those muslims not wanting to become the pious muslim must be killed by their own. look at these failed islmaic state that is the proof to show you how islam is like a cancer!

From the article (I clicked on the link and read the rest):

"The Karachi rally **represented all major Muslim groups and sects in Pakistan's most populous city and was one of the few to bring together moderate and conservative Muslims.** {Okay, so we are entitled to view it as a representative sample, so to speak, of Pakistani Muslim public opinion, no? - dda}

Police officer Irshad Sehar estimated 40,000 to 50,000 people attended."

Note well that this rally, howling for the blood of anyone who is even rumoured to have criticised or questioned or insulted Mohammed or anything else about Islam whatsoever, and praising as an act of courage and bravery' **a treacherous assassin's back-shooting of an unarmed man** {I SPIT upon, I DESPISE, I REVILE the Islamic world's perverted and obscene ideas of what constitutes 'bravery' and 'courage' - dda}, brought together 'moderate and conservative Muslims'.

This suggests that the distinction between 'moderate' and 'conservative' Muslims is a distinction without a difference.

After this appalling spectacle of a mob of fifty thousand devout allah-intosicated sharia-maddened Muslims demanding that a helpless Christian woman must be ritually human-sacrificed **on the basis of what any decent and sane human being can see was a deliberate lie-with-intent-to-murder on the part of the malevolent Muslim females who accused her **, why in hell should Pakistan receive the time of day - let alone one cent of 'aid' money - from any free and decent nation anywhere in the world?

Why should not their diplomats be expelled from Canberra, Washington, London, Paris, Rome..?

And why should not ALL immigration of Pakistani Muslims into the free western world be stopped, forthwith? I think we have had a sufficient demonstration of the likely character of any such Pakistani Muslims.

Because among those Muslims who have entered, or are proposing to enter, we can safely assume, based upon this demonstration in Karachi, that there is a very high probability of there being some - most likely many - who think that assassinating an unarmed man because he dared to question Islam's iniquitous blasphemy 'law', and howling for the murder of a helpless Christian woman, is just fine and dandy.

I. don't. want. people in my country who think like that. I don't want those who admire assassins and persecute and murder Christians - or acquiesce in such persecution and murder - to be admitted onto our soil.

Ban. Pakistani Muslim. immigration.

And cancel the student visas, too.

Typo.

For 'allah-intosicated' read 'allah-intoxicated'.

To any MoSlum who is reading this - "Many wore head and arm bands inscribed: "We are ready to sacrifice our lives for the sanctity of the prophet.""

This sounds seriously crazy. I mean there is something very wrong with people who are saying and believing this kind of stuff. On the one hand MoSlums claim Islam is a RoP and then they have these kind of blood processions each weekend. If your prophet was so cool in your eyes why would millions of MoSlums ready to kill and be killed in his name that I don't understand? All this is so out of touch with reality that it is stunningly absurd. I don't post so much, partially there are so many other Americans who are a great deal more qualified for the posting than I am, secondly it hasn't changed much since I got interested - since 911.

You people are so far removed from 21st century that there is no chance before the hell freeze you will get on the track. Its going to all end up in tears - MoSlum crying. If I was a MoSlum, I will immediately consider a better religion than Islam. Islam is very very dangerous practice that it doesn't allow any criticism. You can criticize God (the stuff I believe in!) till the cows come home, that will not make an ounce of difference to the God and the way the world goes around. It will not take the black from the crows.

The Allah guy appears to be incredibly weak. Aint there many things to be ashamed of for associating yourself with Islam?

THE UTTER HYPOCRASY OF ISLAM! Mohammed the pedophile murderer thief and adulterer is deified by Islam while the one true God (who is Father son and Holy Spirit) is denied!

ahh dumbles...a lady after my own heart!

i have been saying all along, WHY be on the defensive and WHY be in a reactive mode instead of assuming a **proactive** attitude and deport, deport deport!
(in another thread you have suggested that this might lead to false apostates...)
while it might be so, like you, i do not want to have any of these howling muslime mobs anywhere on a western soil.
how much longer do we have to continue with this hypocritical charade **pretending** that islam is the religion of peace.....(gosh, the simpleton from texas sure screwed up there, didn't he?)
any immigrant should be THANKFUL for being allowed to live in the west, and should do everything possible to earn that trust...
muslimes, on the other hand... they are not even landed, and their families have made all the arrangements for them to start receiving their welfare allowances immidiately!
this is of course substantiated by countless fellow citizens and ex-muslims such as hirsi ali, wafa sultan and others..

we should be EXTREMELY suspicious of ANYONE infected with this disease called islam . a higher education is NOT an indicative that we can lower our guard because the person has some academic degrees...

NO!


muhamad atta studied engineering!
nidal hassan was an md
another whole bunch of physicians jihadi in the uk (reported here on july 4 2007)
etc, etc ad nauseum!
for that to happen, the elected officials must have their feet held very close to the coals...
i am grateful to have stephen harper as prime minister of canada, where i live.
the imposter south of the border will be replaced. (hopefully by allen west)
you will hear the muslimes of the entire ummah sing a TOTALLY different tune then....

Typical muslim inversion, commit a horrendous act and then claim victim status & blame the victim. These cretins surely haven't evolved into the 21 st century and don't deserve the freedoms that come with democracy. Stop importing trouble and wall off their hellholes so they can practice their violence on their own kind and are forced to leave true innocents alone.

Salman Taseer is the son of a well-known poet MD Taseer, who is considered one of the intellectuals who founded Pakistan. In 1929, there was another blasphemy case, where one RoP(tm)-er, Ilam-ud-din, stabbed a Hindu publisher Raj Pal for allegedly publishing another author's book that contained blaspemies against their prophet. Ilam-ud-din was found guilty, and then M. A. Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan defended him to try and get the death penalty overturned. He failed, and Ilam-ud-din was hanged, but considered a great shaheed and his funeral drew tens of thousands in lahore, where he was buried as a great Islamic hero. The guy who picked up the burial costs was none other than MD Taseer, father of Salman Taseer who just went to get his 72 for the same crime.

Karma sure is a female of the canine species.

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