Former Pakistani information minister Sherry Rehman is now living under a death fatwa only for seeking to revise the law where the death penalty was concerned. Even that would not help these two, who found themselves accused amid local rivalries between Barelvi and Deobandi Muslim sects. Anything short of a repeal guarantees the laws will cause future harm.
"Court convicts imam and son for blasphemy," from Agence France-Presse, January 11 (thanks to Altaqiyya):
MULTAN: A Pakistan court has jailed a Muslim prayer leader and his 20-year-old son for life on controversial blasphemy charges in the rural centre of the country, court officials said Tuesday.
The case follows the killing of Punjab provincial governor Salman Taseer by his bodyguard last Tuesday, after the outspoken politician called for reform of the law that was recently used to sentence a Christian woman to death.
Mohammad Shafi, 45, and his son Mohammad Aslam, 20, were arrested in April last year for removing a poster outside their grocery shop advertising an Islamic event in a nearby village which allegedly contained Quranic verses.
Judge Mohammad Ayub, heading an anti-terrorism court in the central Pakistani town of Muzaffargarh, handed down a life sentence to the pair on Monday, his assistant Faisal Karim told AFP by telephone.
The prosecution alleged organisers of the event, which commemorated the anniversary of the Prophet Mohammad's birth, said the pair had "pulled the poster down, tore it and trampled it under their feet," Karim said.
"The judge sentenced them to life imprisonment on charges of blasphemy and ordered them to pay a fine of 200,000 rupees ($2,350) each," he said.
Liberal politicians and human rights activists in Pakistan say the blasphemy law, which carries the death penalty for the worst offences, is sometimes used to settle personal scores and encourages extremism.
Defence counsel Arif Gurmani vowed to challenge the verdict in the high court because "it has been given in haste" and was the result of inter-faith rivalries, he said.
"Both are Muslims. The case is the result of differences between Deobandi and Barelvi sects of Sunni Muslims," he said....
Isn't it terrible when supremacist muslims run afoul of their own supremacist laws?
Islam is in fast demise and Muslims know it. Muslim scholars and Imams are trying to survive by pretending that Islam is in good shape. Well, it isn't. Here is the testimony of a Muslim sheikh on a Muslim TV station. The statistics in this video are his. The original arabic transcript of the interviews are also available for download.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/05/dying-islam-lislam-mourant.html
I do think that the Porkies are going insane with this blasphemy thing. Pretty soon they will be arresting anyone deleting emails of koran verses.
This imaam is just attempting to fire up his base with those suspect statitics. watch out for more anti christian violence in the future.
They'll be arresting people deleting emails sent from guys called Muhammad since deleteing the prophet's name must be blasphemy, even if it appears on junk mail.
I'll bet there will soon be a case where someone is jailed for life because they are accused *thinking* about 'blaspheming' the so-called prophet of Islam. Just wondering whether to, or not.
Islam is the ultimate insanity.
Desidude (Sir/Ma'am) - AWESOME idea.
Let's start including crazy koranic verses into our e-mails so everyone can see how insane islam is. Through in some Hadiths about drinking Mo's urine and we got ourselves some powerful tools.
Hi Mom,
Sorry missed your call last night, I was taking a shower. As Muslims say, we non-Muslims are pigs and apes (Koran 2:62-65, 5:59-60, 7:166). How's the dog doing? As Muslims say, we non-Muslims are like filthy, dirty dogs (Koran 7:176). Hope your headache is gone, you're lucky to have a head. As Muslims say, behead us Infidels (Koran 8:12, 47:4).
Love You Mum,
Jew Lover - Lover and Protector of Dogs
Dogs - Man's Best Friend, yet despised and killed by Muslims as Mohammed required
Or Try This One Mom - Now You Know Why Those Airport Lines are So Annoying
Profile Muslims or Die
Anyone here anxious to visit Crapistan?...or any of the many Crapistans for that matter?
I'm willing to bet that somewhere there is a death list for those that can be id'd here. If they kill for blasphemy, I'm a dead man...there at least.
Big loss...if I wanted to visit the past without a time machine then a trip to one of the islamic lands is where I'd go. Places where people shoulder AK-47s whilst they milk their goats in order to make cheese for the family. Backwards, barbarous lands teeming with uneducated, lunatic fringe cultists who worship Death, seek it, romanticize and sexualize it.
And these same barbarians are just inches from Nuclear Weapons...
Remember the Chinese curse?
May you live in interesting times... We got em'...
And what's the stuff about different Sunnis? So not only do the Sunnis kill the Shia, they kill/fight each other for small differences in how they worship mo?
I'll assume then that the Shia have varying ways of kissing mo's ass as well and that they fight about that...
How many different ways are there to worship the pedophile in chief?
They are doomed.
As I've said before, were all the world muslim they would still kill and kill until there was no one left to kill.
islam is a lie and
Truth is killing it.
These Muslims are mentally sick!!! They have no idea what they do to human beings and Muslims themselves in the name of this cruel cult called Islam. Maybe they need a planet of their own far far away from our planet earth.
Spread the truth about Islam and free Muslims and human beings held hostage by its delusional followers!!!
It's probably not a good idea to damage a poster with Islamic script on it...Any poster, piece of paper, or sign with Islamic scripture or Allah's name, even if put there by a man, is 'holy'...It is in itself a Quran, and to do damage to it is blasphemy...But blasphemy is not an act of destruction, it is an attitude...A simple matter of not having your 'mind right'...This can be fixed over time by incarceration in one of Pakistan's modern, clean, and therapeutic prisons...It might take a while, but father and son will eventually 'get their minds right', they won't be released, but at least the floggings will stop...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Islam_tree.jpg
From here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_schools_and_branches
This is a good thing (as Martha Stewart would say!) Isalm is descending into a death spiral where everyone denounces every one else with accusations of "blasphemy" for personal gain or revenge. Kind of like Russia during Stalin's reign or the French revolution. It shows that evil is not united and will the wickedness will increase as Jesus prophesysied.
sorry that should read "and that wickedness will increase"
Cool - an imam sentenced under blashphemy laws? Praise be to 'Allah'!!!
Deobandi vs Barelvi? Can't say I've heard of the latter, but who cares? Since there ain't too many Shia in Pakistan, these sort of differences would be adequate. Or else, differences b/w Sufis & Deobandis, or whatever sizable Muslim group vs whatever sizable other Muslim group.
Just go for it. Infidels, collect your popcorn!
As I've said before, were all the world muslim they would still kill and kill until there was no one left to kill.
Not necessarily, the last man standing will need at least one live dhimmi to do all the work and take the trash out...
Especialy if it's an ad for viagra! Double blasp
Let us not aid Islam's destruction of our culture. Shall we agree to adopt English orthography and write Koran instead of Quran, or worse, Qur'an? It's not as if it's Arabic spelling either.
AlaskanInfidel's post should be sent to our Beloved Leaders. That line "these same barbarians are just inches from Nuclear Weapons" is chilling.
Isn't it terrible when supremacist muslims run afoul of their own supremacist laws?
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Not necessarily...as long as they kill each other to extinction, without bothering infidels, it is indeed a blessing from heaven...
You know, if I was one of our resident Muslim apologists, I would be a little worried. We'll try our best to conceal them, but sometime a jihadi will read their posting and not realize that it is taquiyya. At that point - Heaven's to Betsy! The fatwas will fly!
Does goebbels teeth and doi want us to lie and claim that they are not practicing shirk with all the fibbing that they do? They could end up in a Paki prison under those blasphemy laws! Oh, shame!
Or is this just a bunch of grade school tattletales?
I had a message on my Facebook profile telling me "U LOOK LIKE DEVIL" from one by the name of "Mo" ...now I dare not delete it, for fear of being a blasphemer :(
So SOIA and other orgs fighting the RoP must put Islamic/Quranic verses on their posters. This way the posters cannot be taken down without comitting blasphemy!
" Mohammad Shafi, 45, and his son Mohammad Aslam, 20, were arrested in April last year for removing a poster outside their grocery shop advertising an Islamic event in a nearby village which allegedly contained Quranic verses."
The Muslim poster containing Quranic verses was probably stapled over the store owners advertising good deals on food...Pious Muslims think your property is theirs...
This story brings new meaning to the phrase, "eating each other alive"...