Pakistan’s blasphemy laws are a human rights offense and the cause of untold suffering. The international “human rights” community, however, is unconcerned. Perhaps to speak out against these laws too strongly would be “Islamophobic.” It will be interesting to see if Sawan Masih can get justice in Pakistan — and if he does, will a frenzied Muslim mob do the job the court wouldn’t do?
“Dirty business: ‘Blasphemy chant was a land-grab ruse,’” by Rana Yasif for the Express Tribune, February 22:
Sawan Masih told a court hearing a blasphemy case against him on Friday that some businessmen at a steel market near Joseph Colony had hatched a plan to drive out Christian families residing there by alleging blasphemy.
An additional district and sessions judge fixed March 6 for hearing defence evidence and final arguments after recording Masih’s statement.
Masih said Joseph Colony was located next to a steel market. He said some businessmen at the market had been pressing the Christian families residing there to sell their property to them.
He said after the residents declined offers the businessmen hatched a plan to drive them out by alleging blasphemy.
“The warehouse owners were having market committee elections then… two groups, Aman Group and Ittehad Group, were contesting.” He said both groups put up banners accusing him of blaspheming against the Holy Prophet (pbuh).
Masih said announcements were made in the area mosques that “a Christian man had committed blasphemy.”
“They played on religious sentiments of the neighbours… registered a case against me and set the colony on fire.” Masih alleged that the police were also involved in the “conspiracy.”
“Police caused alarm among the Christians who were advised to leave the colony to save their lives.” He said, “The Christian families were leaving Joseph Colony till late into the night on March 8 and on the morning of March 9… They then set the 200 houses on fire. Police had arrested me on the night of March 8.”
Masih said the plot had been hatched to takeover the colony land. The complainant, some of the prosecution witnesses and 83 other people were later charged in cases – FIR 114/13 under Sections 148, 149, 436, 427, ATA 337/F1, L2, 295/A, 353, 377, 324, 186 [rioting, unlawful assembly, mischief by fire or explosive substance, mischief causing damage, assault, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, and blasphemy] of the PPC. They are under trial in an anti-terrorism court.
Masih denied that he had made derogatory remarks about the Holy Prophet (pbuh). He said he had “deep respect for Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). He said his own beliefs did not allow him to commit blasphemy against any prophet.
Shahid Imran, the complainant, had said that he had been talking to a neighbour Muhammad Shafique, when the accused, Sawan Masih, approached them and used derogatory language against the holy prophet (pbuh).
Imran said he warned Masih to stop but he continued his diatribe. He had filed a complaint at the Badami Bagh police station.
Champ says
What evil savages!
duh_swami says
I bet it’s common in Pakistan for Christians to walk up to two neighbors who are pious Mahoundians and spontaneously blurt out, ‘Mohammad was a perverted sleaze bag’…
jewdog says
There’s always an excuse to screw over infidels. If it isn’t “they stole our land”, it’s blasphemy, in which case it’s okay to steal their land.
Head they win, tails you lose.
No wonder Islam is such an appealing creed for losers.
MaryJo Gill says
You are absolutely correct! Its for ineffective in their psychological make up ppl! Think about it. Islam is NOT a religion. ..its an excuse for being angry and hostile and murderous. Its like when addict gives up one addiction for another. Many ppl turn to religion as their ” acceptable” drug of choice.
Defcon 4 says
Yeah, all religion is just the “opiate of the masses” isn’t it? Wow, how deep.
Jay Boo says
Islam is the purist example of shameless blasphemy.
Such irony stretches the limits of credulity.
Behead this foul ideology that insults all of humanity.
Champ says
“Behead this foul ideology that insults all of humanity.”
Yes, with the instrument of Truth, Jay Boo! 🙂
Defcon 4 says
Passive resistance doesn’t work w/totalitarian, supremacist ideologies in the long run. Try reasoning w/muslimes in any islamic state. Try debating the nature of islam publicly in any islamic state. Gandhi failed, miserably, to protect the interests of non-muslimes in the entire Indian sub-continent.
Charli Main says
Human rights offenses can only be committed against Muslims because only Muslims have human rights.
All Kaffirs are the slaves of Muslims and by definition slaves have no human rights
boakai ngombu says
the right of supremacist domain
in line with EPA ideas, perhaps: eliminate contamination of the land
Jay Boo says
Some local dumpster divers have just returned from a dumpster diving excursion.
They discovered a used toilet seat and
a brand new hermetically sealed Quran.
Well at least the toilet seat can be sanitized and reused.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
And when We wish to destroy a town, We send Our commandment to the people of it who lead easy lives, but they transgress therein; thus the word proves true against it, so We destroy it with utter destruction.
– Allah in Holy Ko-Ran 17:16
Now, despite all his faults, we must admit that Allah is one intense guy. Here, he’s upset about moral transgression going on and the solution forced upon his people is to destroy and rob. Ye take amongst yourselves and ye shall get destroyed and robbed by concerned citizens.
As belief systems go, Islam is the friendliest to kleptocracy, even closer than communism.
dumbledoresarmy says
“War is deceit”.
Islam: the Cult that sacralises Lies, Robbery and Murder. Oh, and Rape, as well. The Cult that tells people that the unholy ‘rush’ that they get when they deliberately break every one of the second table of the Ten Words (adultery isn’t adultery, under Islam, if the Muslim is seizing a non-Muslim’s wife; because, y’see, her marriage vows magically cease to exist when the mohammedan grabs her) is… a glow of righteousness.
Just this week, reading through comments at a “Guardian” article, of all places, I came across something quite nteresting. The commenter, who identified herself as an Englishwoman, a schoolteacher who had had Muslims as pupils, argued that Muslim jihad terrorism – she didn’t call it that, but that is what was under discussion – is an example of Hubris. And she quoted Aristotle’s definition. To me, it absolutely nails it. The weird thing is, at the very same time as giving a definition that perfectly describes what might even be *the* central driver of the Mohammedan cult, the thing the system aims for, she refused to take the next step and say: Islam is a cult of Hubris, Islam is *all about* Hubris.
Here’s the comment and where I found it.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2014/feb/09/fanatical-jihadis-theological-argument-islam-fundamentalists
YORKSGIRL,
9 FEBRUARY 2014 2.58 PM
“The reason being that the problem is one of ‘hubris’ (correct! – dda) and nothing to do with religion or theology (WRONG! – It has *everything* to do with this particular “religion” and its “theology” , to call it that – dda)
“Hubris is sometimes described as excessive pride but it is radically different from the normal pride we have in ourselves. It is a recurring theme in ancient Greek tragedies and in the work of Aristotle – and well known to Islamic mediaeval scholars. (If so, they didn’t learn much from him – dda).
“Aristotle defined hubris as follows:
“to cause shame to the victim, not in order that anything may happen to you, nor because anything has happened to you, but merely for your own gratification.
“Hubris is not the requital of past injuries; this is revenge.
“**As for the pleasure in hubris, its cause is this: men think that by ill-treating others they make their own superiority the greater** (my emphasis – dda)”.
Let’s hear those two sentences again. Aristotle, nailing Islam and the poisonous and vile mental attitude that it inculcates, about a millennium before its arising:
“to cause shame to the victim…merely for your own gratification.
“As for the pleasure in hubris, its cause is this: men think that by ill-treating others they make their own superiority the greater.”
*That’s* why Mohammedthugs howl “allahu akbar” while robbing, raping, murdering, torturing.
The Cult For Bullies and Sadists.
Wellington says
From the photo above: “Behead Those Who Insult Islam.” You gotta’ love the way Muslims encourage dialogue about religion, no?
On a related note, I’d like to second dda’s seconding of the Englishwoman, a schoolteacher, who invoked Aristotle in coming to the conclusion that hubris is a major feature of Islam and its profoundly deluded followers. Is it ever. And perpetual shame upon Islam for this. It is one of Islam’s many pathologies.
PJG says
Look at those blokes in the picture. Do they think it’s a good joke holding up that obscene banner? Are these words just a cliche to them, or are they really prepared to personally saw off the heads of others? Or are they demanding that properly trained executioners do the work? If so, do they want to watch?
Hasan al-Turabi fainted when he saw the law he wanted – amputation for theft – actually being carried out.
What is in the heads of these ghastly people?
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
… or are they really prepared to personally saw off the heads of others?
Down through the past 1,400 yrs many have. We even get to see them do it on video now, as with Karwadawi (sp?) in Iraq. So why not?
PJG says
I’m not saying SOME or evn MANY won’t, but I question whether many of these people are just going along for the ride, enjoying the circus, loving these slogans but not being aware of the implications.
A bit like the euthenasia push. Most people want someone else to do the “putting down” of incurably sick people. Most would baulk at the thought of doing it themselves.
(I said a BIT like…)
JanandJim Hartzell says
Castrate muslims
Wellington says
You feed those stupidly and falsely crying “Islamophobe” with a comment like that. Far better to use rhetoric, reason and facts rather than any primitive call for a knife.
Defcon 4 says
It doesn’t matter. When criticism of islam is outlawed, it’s all outlawed, no matter how succinct, reasoned or polite.
eib says
Straight from the Kristallnacht book.
Jerry says
“Bismil Allah Rahmani Rahim”
In the name of God the Merciful and Forgiving
The Death Worshippers make War pn the Living!
Isalm is so full of hate and contradictions
It is a Blasphemy upon itself!
citycat says
Blasphemy is good. Blasphemy is a healthy outlet for, and defense against, stress and illness caused by tyranny and oppressive bullies.
The more blasphemers the merrier.
Blasphemy is beautiful.
Defcon 4 says
I had a Christian friend from Eritrea who related to me the story of his Christian uncle, who owned a successful business in Eritrea. A muslime offered to buy his uncle’s business at far below it’s actual worth. His uncle refused and was murdered in the streets, in broad daylight, in front of witnesses. His aunt was made a similar ridiculously low offer for her late husband’s business by the same muslime. She accepted his offer. As for justice for his uncle, there was none. Despite the fact there were witnesses to the murder who identified the assailants, the all muslime police force didn’t seem interested in pursuing the matter.
eib says
A nation or community is civilized when the individual is safe in his PERSON and in his PROPERTY.
Winston Churchill noted that the first deficit of the Ummah is the refusal to respect personhood and property.
The second deficit was the enslavement of women.
The most retrograde force in the world, truly, truly.
Tommy Peters says
The current ‘state’ of Pakistan is Gandhi’s legacy but when Godse took him out, that ‘honor’ was transferred to Jinnah.