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Pakistan’s blasphemy law used to “kill innocent Christians without giving them a chance to prove their innocence”

Mar 21, 2014 4:07 pm By Robert Spencer

AbolishblasphemylawSavan Masih was accused of blasphemy after a Muslim barber, who no doubt considered him an unclean Infidel (in accord with Qur’an 9:28), refused him a haircut, and they started to argue about religion. Following that, a 3,000-strong Muslim mob rampaged through a Christian area of Lahore. And no Savan Masih, if convicted, will be executed.

“NEWS ALERT: Verdict Expected In Pakistan Blashemy [sic] Case,” from BosNewsLife, March 21:

LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)– A verdict was expected in Pakistan Saturday, March 22, in a controversial case involving a young Christian man charged with blasphemy against Islam, which sparked one of the country’s worst anti-Christian riots.

Savan Masih, 27, was detained in March 2013 after allegedly making derogatory remarks about Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.

Residents said the problems began when Masih was refused a hair cut by the local barber shop’s Muslim owner, Imran Shahid. The incident triggered a heated exchange
about religion between the two men, residents said at the time.

Masih has denied wrongdoing.

As news spread of the incident, as many as 3,000 Muslims rampaged through the city of Lahore’s Joseph Colony, a heavily Christian area, to search for Masih.

CHRISTIAN HOMES

Some 180 Christian-owned homes, shops and two churches were destroyed in the violence, according to witnesses. Christians have accused police of silently watching while Muslim protesters stole valuable possessions and destroyed Christians’ homes.

Christian lawyer Sardar Mushtaq Gill, who leads the Pakistan-based Legal Evangelical Association Development (LEAD) told BosNewsLife his advocacy group had petitioned the Lahore High Court to cancel the release on bail of 36 Muslims accused of involvement in the riots.

Amid the tensions, Masih was transferred to ‘camp jail’ in Lahore, said the Center for Legal Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS), which supports his family.

CLAAS’s lawyers were to be present in the prison Saturday, March 22, following another recent procedure in the detention facility.

A CLAAS director, Nasir Saeed, told BosNewsLife that he had urged supporters to “please pray that everything goes well and that the case is decided in Savan’s favour so that he can be reunited with his wife and children.”

URGING PRAYERS

Saeed also urged prayers for the judge, the “persecuted church” and other believers who he says are suffering at a time “when hostility towards the Christian faith worldwide is intensifying.”

He said, “Unfortunately, the blasphemy law has become a powerful tool in the hands of the extremist and is continually being used to attack churches and burn down Christian towns and villages.”

The legislation is also used to even “kill innocent Christians without giving them a chance to prove their innocence,” Saeed told BosNewsLife. “Sadly, the government has still failed to bring the perpetrators to justice.”

CLAAS is among several groups campaigning to repeal the controversial law or to introduce changes to stop its misuse. “The international community has also called for changes to these laws…and also to stop its misuse against religious minorities, but it is falling on the governments deaf ears,” argued Saeed.

Saeed also expressed concerns about other Christians held on blasphemy charges in the Islamic nation, including Asia Bibi, a 45-year-old Christian mother of five. Her appeal against a death sentence was postponed this week after one of the two judges failed to appear, trial observers said.

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  1. Peter Buckley says

    Mar 21, 2014 at 4:15 pm

    Here is the Islamic justification for the blasphemy laws, using Quran and Hadith:

    http://islamqa.info/en/22809

    Post it to any “moderate” muslims you know, who claim to be against such laws,and ask them how islamqa are just a bunch of “extremists” who are “perverting” Islam…….

    • kikorikid says

      Mar 22, 2014 at 6:44 pm

      Pakistan Law= Shariah Law
      Of course, Pakistan is a Shariah State
      No confusion here.

  2. Islamisdeath says

    Mar 21, 2014 at 4:56 pm

    Not a peep from the west the MSM is silent after all it’s the hated Christians being slaughtered

  3. Joseph says

    Mar 21, 2014 at 5:16 pm

    Any word yet on whether Pope Francis has taken time out of his busy work schedule at the local soup kitchen to reply to Mrs. Bibi’s [truly humble] personal letter to him?

  4. James says

    Mar 21, 2014 at 8:25 pm

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/03/iraq-muslim-cleric-who-stood-against-terrorism-is-gunned-down/comment-page-1#comment-1026112

    If you want to know why theres a whole mob coming after Christians who are accused blasphemy.

    Basically comes down to Allah saying if an individual sins, his whole family and that entire society gets cursed by Allah. So thats how they re able to get family members to kill their own. How they get an entire mob from a society to do horrible things.

  5. Jay Boo says

    Mar 21, 2014 at 9:52 pm

    Muhammad claimed to have revelations that others were blasphemers

    A thousand years and about ten score
    Muhammad declared all unveiled women
    and Allah his own personal WH – – –

  6. Salah says

    Mar 22, 2014 at 12:44 am

    “when hostility towards the Christian faith worldwide is intensifying.”

    “In the world you shall have distress: but have confidence, I have overcome the world.” John 16:33

    So shall we.
    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2012/04/he-is-risen-il-est-ressuscite.html

  7. enwhitenment says

    Mar 22, 2014 at 2:56 am

    Blasphemy against Islam ?
    That would be like kicking a dog when there is no dog to kick.
    My intention may have been to hurt the dog but as no dog exists it can hardly be seen as a crime as there is no victim.
    “I think your book is full of shit” & i will have more luck in life chasing my imaginary dog around.
    No doubt someone will blaspheme me and claim my dog is not real.
    I have been screaming abuse at my bookshelf all day & none of my books seem any worse for ware or even upset.
    Blasphemy ! just another word for violent jihadist justification

  8. ben Haggai says

    Mar 22, 2014 at 5:00 am

    Who nowadays would so crazy as to do tourism in a Muslim country? I was in Libya three times, back in the old days of Gadhafi, but would never go there again for any money in the world. Muslim lands are pure poison.

    • Huck Folder says

      Mar 26, 2014 at 3:14 am

      That’s really comical. Egypt is advertising like crazy in Canada:
      “Where it all began.” Can anyone say “jahiliyya”?

      Indeed, with the efforts of the Murdering Bastards – aka the MB –
      Egypt will have a tough sell for years, unless they ERADICATE the MB.

      Just think. Take away islam, and all the money wasted on
      “The Book of Hate™”, barracks/mosques and imams and you could
      fund schools and hospitals and tourism.

  9. gravenimage says

    Mar 25, 2014 at 3:39 pm

    Christians have accused police of silently watching while Muslim protesters stole valuable possessions and destroyed Christians’ homes.
    …………………………….

    These are not Muslim “protesters”—they are a violent mob of thieves and destroyers.

    But in Dar-al-Islam the Infidel victims are further persecuted by the Muslim state.

    God, I hate Islam.

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