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“This is the house of a blasphemer,” reads a sign on his house.
"Pakistan: Doctor Jailed On ‘Blasphemy’ Charges," from Compass Direct News, May 16 (thanks to Cindy):
ISTANBUL, May 16 (Compass Direct News) – Pakistani police have jailed a Christian doctor after “blasphemy” charges incited a mob attack on his home last week in Punjab province.Officials said Dr. Robin Sardar is being held in Punjab’s Gujranwala Central Jail. His wife and six children have left their home in the town of Chak Chatta, 200 miles southeast of Islamabad.
“This is the house of a blasphemer,” reads a sign on the gates of Sardar’s now empty home where a crowd of angry villagers gathered on May 5, Union of Catholic Asia News (UCAN) reported. The group bore sticks and kerosene and chanted death threats against the doctor, family members told Sharing Life Ministries Pakistan (SLMP), a Christian prison ministry.
“A huge number of Muslims wearing green turbans surrounded our house, most of them armed with weapons and wooden sticks,” Sardar’s wife told SLMP. “They were shouting ‘The punishment of the blasphemer is death.’”
She said that police arrived at the house after several hours and used a ladder to climb the property wall and transport Sardar to safety.
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Local Christians said that the incident began when a Muslim vendor filed a blasphemy complaint with police on May 4 against the Christian doctor. Sardar and the vendor had reportedly clashed over whether the merchant could set up shop in front of the doctor’s clinic.
But a May 4 First Information Report (FIR) filed by the vendor, Muhammad Rafique, claimed that Sardar had insulted Islam’s prophet Muhammad during a friendly visit between the two men two days prior.
“[Sardar] began preaching about Christianity, saying bad words against the prophet Muhammad,” Rafique said in the written testimony given to police. “He also compared the prophet Muhammad’s beard with the beard of a Sikh.”
At this, Rafique and several friends came to blows with Sardar and attempted to force him to apologize, the FIR stated.
But Sardar denied having said anything against Muhammad....
Pakistani's blasphemy law is so often used for score-settling. But once again, the indifference of the human rights establishment will allow this sort of thing to go on, and on, and on.
Posted by Robert at May 18, 2008 7:07 AM
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Local Christians said that the incident began when a Muslim vendor filed a blasphemy complaint with police on May 4 against the Christian doctor. Sardar and the vendor had reportedly clashed over whether the merchant could set up shop in front of the doctor’s clinic.
You can hardly blame the good doctor......perhaps the vendor planned to sell the world-famous camel urine cure.
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at May 18, 2008 7:20 AM
"You can hardly blame the good doctor......perhaps the vendor planned to sell the world-famous camel urine cure.
Posted by: ImNoDhimmi "
or AK-47s
Posted by: pulsar182 at May 18, 2008 8:13 AM
“He also compared the prophet Muhammad’s beard with the beard of a Sikh.”
An insult to prophet M's beard! To arms!
Posted by: Rahman bin Rahman at May 18, 2008 9:05 AM
Pakistani's blasphemy law is so often used for score-settling
and anyone with brains can see that is what is happening here opps muslims with brains blush my bad i forgot they seem to think with the tiny tiny little head below the waist the one with no brain
at May 18, 2008 10:52 AM
This is the weapon of revenge against Christians. If the offended Muslim desires property of the Christians, all he has to do is accuse them of Blasphemy or Koran desecration. If he wants a Christians wife for his own, and she rejects his advances, throw some acid in her face. This is Shariah law. This is why we don't want it in the west.
Posted by: Jewel Atkins at May 18, 2008 1:14 PM
The transparently trumped-up charges by a vendor who wished to set up his stall outside the doctor's clinic is akin to the blood-libel charges made by Christian villagers, including those no doubt covering up their own crimes, against Jews, which led to the kind of thing listed, day by day, in Wiesenthal's unforgettable catalogue of horrors, "Every Day Remembrance Day."
Posted by: Hugh at May 18, 2008 1:24 PM
is akin to the blood-libel charges made by Christian villagers
Score a tu quoque for Hugh. Was there a point to be made?
Posted by: Concerned Citizen at May 18, 2008 6:01 PM
Sharia Law - fair for all (muslims) and no fair to anybody (unbelievers).
Posted by: tanstaafl at May 18, 2008 7:34 PM
If the offended Muslim desires property of the Christians, all he has to do is accuse them of Blasphemy or Koran desecration.
Posted by: Jewel Atkins
Yep, just another kind of witch hunt.
Posted by: Abscedere at May 18, 2008 8:12 PM
Too bad the Hindus didn't brush Gandhi aside and smothered Pakistan at birth.
Posted by: Dumbo at May 18, 2008 11:04 PM
I fear the real reasons behind this scurious charge are quite evident: #1: the doctor is a Christian and #2: a petty argument with the accuser.
Since the corrupt Paki government is quickly sinking beneath the bloody flood of islam; Christians, Bhuddists, animists, etc are second class citizens and easy prey to islamist's lies.
Why would our dhimmi government EVER let barbarians, like these, gain a foothold in our country??? (I just read a report about covert surveilance of US mosques. 75% of them teach jihad and the religious obligation for all muslims to be involved with jihad and the furtherance of Sharia.) Isn't their well publicized "religious obligations" a definition of sedition, in our country?
at May 19, 2008 4:51 AM
It is more evident every day that Pakistan has a brilliant future behind it.
Posted by: MP at May 19, 2008 11:39 AM
Local Christians said that the incident began when a Muslim vendor filed a blasphemy complaint with police on May 4 against the Christian doctor. Sardar and the vendor had reportedly clashed over whether the merchant could set up shop in front of the doctor’s clinic.
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Ultimately, this is no more sophisticated than the street-corner thug who prefaces his bullying with a pro forma accusation that the victim was "saying something about his momma".
As ludicrous as it is, though, it is deadly effective in a Muslim state. Note also that it took the police *several hours* to respond to the poor family's siege by the mob.
I just hope the family--and the imprisoned doctor--are able to get out. This poor doctor will never be able to return to his practice. The familiy's life in Chak Chatta is over.
Between incidents like this in Pakistan and the implementation of full Shari'ah law in the Northwest Tribal areas under Taliban control, Naseem must be so proud!
at May 19, 2008 5:31 PM
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