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Pakistan: Islamic jihadists murder lawyer defending man accused of blasphemy

May 7, 2014 6:50 pm By Robert Spencer

Angry PakistanisThe numbers of deaths and ruined lives caused by Pakistan’s blasphemy law continues to rise. But the global “human rights community” remains indifferent. The Pakistani blasphemy law is, after all, derived from Islamic law. To oppose or denounce it would be “Islamophobic.”

“Pakistan ‘blasphemy lawyer’ shot dead in Multan office,” BBC, May 7, 2014:

Gunmen in the Pakistani city of Multan have shot dead a lawyer defending a university lecturer accused of blasphemy, police and officials say.

Police said that Rashid Rehman was sitting in his office when he was shot. Two of his assistants were injured.

Allegations of blasphemy against Islam are taken very seriously in Pakistan.

Critics argue that blasphemy laws are frequently misused to settle personal scores and that members of minority groups are often unfairly targeted.

Senior police official Zulfiqar Ali told AFP news agency that Mr Rehman died amid “indiscriminate firing” in his office on Wednesday evening.

He said he and his two injured colleagues were rushed to hospital where doctors pronounced him dead upon arrival.

Mr Rehman was defending Junaid Hafeez, a lecturer at Bahauddin Zakariya University accused by hardline student groups of making derogatory remarks against the Prophet Muhammad in March last year.

An official at the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) told AFP that for a year no lawyer was prepared to take up the case because of fear of reprisals from extremist religious groups.

Mr Rehman, a rights activist and co-ordinator of the HRCP, decided to defend Mr Hafeez despite reportedly receiving death threats.

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  1. jihadnews.us says

    May 7, 2014 at 7:43 pm

    Sometime you can really see that Islam is what you get when the “gang” beats the “police” like Muhammad did .

  2. mortimer says

    May 7, 2014 at 8:42 pm

    The Heckler’s Veto
    In response to any message they disapprove of, Muslims simply riot until they get their way.

    Sharia law allows anyone to murder an apostate. Lawyers cannot do their job of defending the accused in Pakistan. No discussion of Islam is possible in Pakistan, therefore no can have a fair trial in Pakistan if religion is quoted in the trial.

    Pakistan is now in a state of civil war.

    • Jay Boo says

      May 8, 2014 at 8:33 am

      If we look at it from their point of view, it soon becomes clear why they go into such a frenzy at the thought of anyone criticizing or even questioning Muhammad.

      Muhammad is indefensible.
      Islam is a frail ideology that falls apart a the slightest touch.
      Muslims are not in charge of protecting the honor of the all ‘powerful’ Allah.
      Islam is blasphemy on steroids.

      • mortimer says

        May 8, 2014 at 9:26 am

        Nothing to do with rational thought, JB. It’s ‘honor’…as in ‘honor killing’. Mohammed is the tribal totem. When he is disrespected, the tribe loses honor. The death restores honor to the slighted party. This is emotional, rather than reasonable. They have no concern about the veracity or historicity of Mohammed. His ‘honor’ is the only concern. They are dissociated from concerns about factuality. They make up their own facts.

        • Jay Boo says

          May 8, 2014 at 11:14 am

          Allah must be their stage-prop decoration for their totem pole Muhammad then.

    • bill says

      May 8, 2014 at 9:31 am

      This is why you will rarely hear from the ‘decent moderate’ Muslims, if at all. They know they will be targeted by the radicals as un Islamic. Thus it is impossible for Islam to develop, reform and become more moderate as the radicals with their immediate resort to violence will always have their way. The natural tendency for Islam is to go backwards to its primitive roots.

    • john spielman says

      May 8, 2014 at 10:18 am

      The entire House of Islam is at, and will always remain at, a STATE OF WAR.
      Because the House of Islam is a house divided, and as Jesus said it can not and will not stand!

      • Truth Seeker says

        May 8, 2014 at 12:24 pm

        Islam claim, they are descendants if Ismail. Read, Bible, Genesis 16:11-12, one will get the fact.

  3. jewdog says

    May 7, 2014 at 10:11 pm

    Excellent. Now Pakistan can join the rest of the dysfunctional Islamic family in becoming disabled by the absurd intolerance that shatters their civil society, rendering it too sick to wage war. I call it Muslim Autoimmune Disorder, or MAD.

    • mortimer says

      May 8, 2014 at 9:31 am

      It’s Islamic Stockholm Syndrome. They identify with the perspective of those who terrorize them. It is a way of dissociating from reality to escape from the despair of being a threatened, meaningless slave.

      • bill says

        May 8, 2014 at 9:44 am

        No it is not the ‘stockholm syndrome’ which refers to hostages identifying
        with their captors. Muslims are brainwashed from the time they able to talk. Learning the quran by heart. The father rules the family and they all have to obey him as it is the will of Allah. They cannot see any other way to go and in fact for many of them it is their choice to obey and ‘submit’ which is what Islam means. The poor deluded fools think they are going to go to paradise!
        It is very much like Nazi Germany you either went along or kept quiet. Those who tried to resist, and to their everlasting credit and honour there were a few, ended up losing their lives just as anybody who questions radical Islam does today

        • Bettina says

          May 9, 2014 at 12:19 pm

          Hi, Mortimer and Bill 🙂

          I agree with you both — a confluence of psycho-social factors is at the crux of muslim mania. Brainwashing of kids, obviously. Suffering of Stockholm “to escape from the despair of being a threatened, meaningless slave,” equally true. To which I would add that they likely live on the edge of terror. They must become savages to survive savagery.

          I’ve finally learned that there doesn’t have to be a single root cause for a given phenomenon to occur. And people with differing opinions of “the truth” can all be correct.

    • b says

      May 8, 2014 at 9:47 am

      Not joining but leading the field. Pakistan is foremost in Muslims insanity at the present time. Anybody who can is getting out.

  4. Kreutzberger says

    May 7, 2014 at 10:42 pm

    “Allegations of blasphemy against Islam are taken very seriously in Pakistan”

    Gee, it’s good to see the people of Pakistan pay such an honor to the Arabs and Central Asians that butchered 80 million of their ancestors.

    • Charli Main says

      May 8, 2014 at 5:59 am

      Nice point. Lets not forget the millions of women that were raped and degraded by the Muslim invaders of what is now called Pakistan.
      Just about every Mosque in Pakistan is now standing on the defiled and desecrated site of a Hindu or Buddhist temple.

    • Bettina says

      May 9, 2014 at 1:56 pm

      Would you please elaborate? I’ve never heard about any butchering of Paks in the past… I almost said, aren’t they all muslim? I quickly came to my senses though, reminded of today’s atrocities by muzzies on muzzies…
      Still, what happened there?

  5. Holybacon says

    May 7, 2014 at 10:56 pm

    Pakistan is more dangerous to the world than Iran. It is a much more real nuclear threat or at least as much. They have the bombs which they can use or allow to be used by terrorists. They just need to slide further into backwardness and it will happen. Iran still has technological hurdles.

    • Rezali Mehil says

      May 8, 2014 at 4:56 am

      With not unsubstantial help from America I’ll have you know.

      India is America’s real enemy …the administration has proved it since Partition.

      Pakistan welcomes Americans and the dollar. You are our effendies.

      More Later…

      Rezali

      • Jax Tolmen says

        May 8, 2014 at 5:04 am

        Please, no more – I can’t take any more.

        But seriously; what drugs are you taking? Pakistan was harboring Osama Bin Laden; whether they intended to or not. Pakistan is the de facto enemy of the American people because the country is diametrically opposed to the freedoms, liberties and rights that the Western World stands for. At the end of the day, Pakistan is little better than Iran – Iran is just too foolish to engage in Taqiyya to garner support from gullible members of the civilized world.

        Pakistan will never be half as successful as India as a country – and will never gain the same level of global acceptance. The world is growing increasingly tired of you and your Muslim cohorts; and Sharia compliant countries will be isolated and condemned for the cesspools that they are. The morally bankrupt religion that you adhere to is going to die, once the rest of the world catches onto the horrible atrocities and violations of human rights that people like you condone and perpetrate. There is only so long deceptive idiots such as CAIR can hold back the tide of popular opinion.

        • Rezali Mehil says

          May 8, 2014 at 7:01 am

          Hello Jax,

          Please bear with me here…let us go through the points you raise

          Pakistan is the de facto enemy of the American people

          But…but your admin gives us weapons, trains us, gives us aid, looks the other way at our failings…only a friend would do that right…so you are our friends…(so here is a virtual hug…HUUUGG).

          Are you saying you don’t believe that your admin does this?…or are you say saying you WISH it was not so?…There is a huge difference ….don’t be spending time in la-la land Jax…it is unhealthy for you.

          Pakistan will never be half as successful as India as a country …
          Doesn’t matter..fact is they are hindus…and hindus always acquiesce. This is their modus operandi…they always walk with their head bowed…it is like a bone missing in their necks – it is in their DNA implanted over 1000 year of our rule.

          So One day all of India will be Islamic too – it is just time. The same happened to Turkey and Egypt – they were Christian countries. I am not boasting here or being a supremacist …I am looking at history and DNA profile – of course YOUR administration will help in this – the reason is it keeps the Taliban away for a few more years – again look to YOUR failing in this regard – I am just putting the scenario out there for you to examine – I am an impartial muslima….don’t blame me.

          The world is tired of Islam…

          Oh really …and yet your majestic companies, Pizza Hut, Subway , KFC are selling only Halal. LOOK and SEE Jax…there is soon to be a mosque at GROUND ZERO – I mean you can believe your wishful crap if you want to – Mr Spencer knows – he will convert soon himself when HE becomes tired …how about you sir?

          More Later …

          Rezali

        • Steffen Larsen says

          May 8, 2014 at 7:58 am

          No, Rezali can’t be the real thing.

          The heavy triumphalism cannot possibly be anything but a false flag operation, to make Muslims appear medieval, bigoted and hateful.

        • voegelinian says

          May 8, 2014 at 12:30 pm

          Steffen Larsen,

          What would be Rezali’s end game then?

      • pongidae rex says

        May 8, 2014 at 8:24 am

        India single handedly saved Tibetian culture from extinction by welcoming countless thousands of Tibetian refugees from Chinese genocide, granting them land to build monastarys to Tibetian Buddhism (India is mainly Hindu) and providing aid to resettle them (India is a poor country).

        Had these refugees made their way to Pakistan, what sort of murderous reception do you think they would have received? What horror?

        India is a great country. Great as in great of heart. Great as in a cradle of civilization’s highest aspirations. Pakistan is a human cesspool.

        And no, I’m not Indian. I’ve never even visited India. But I know a country that has earned the respect of the world when I see it.

        Pakistan? No.

  6. Salah says

    May 7, 2014 at 11:33 pm

    “..accused by hardline student groups of making derogatory remarks against the Prophet Muhammad”

    They should have accused the famous Ibn Abbas for making the following remark:

    “Narrated Ibn Abbas: I saw the Prophet (pbuh) putting Hussein’s thighs apart and kissing his (little) penis.”
    Talkhis al-Habir, Ibn Hajar تلخيص الحبير لابن حجر # 61

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2012/03/grandpa-muhammad.html

  7. Blais says

    May 8, 2014 at 1:15 am

    Mr. Rehman is a real Martyr.

  8. citycat says

    May 8, 2014 at 1:45 am

    Beauty is in the eye.
    Blasphemy is in the mind of the beholder, the brainwashed follower.
    Blasphemey is the reins of fear to keep the devoted in check.
    Blasphemy is against only the unreal.
    The unreality of religion. Sick

  9. prathu958 says

    May 8, 2014 at 1:51 am

    Pakistan is a failed state and largest exporter of terrorism. Daily they kill, abduct, rape , torture non Muslims. There are madrasas of extremists organizations where they brainwash innocent people. Pakistani government which is controlled by its rogue intelligence agency ISI and Pakistani army. ISI supports and funds these terrorists with American aid .I will not tell u the solution to eliminate them, u will urself think for it .I know that u will find out solution for eliminating these terrorists

    • Bettina says

      May 9, 2014 at 2:08 pm

      Dear Prathu — You said “I know that u will find [a] solution for eliminating these terrorists,” to which I reply, from your lips to the ear of God — by whatsoever name he goes.

  10. dsinc says

    May 8, 2014 at 2:43 am

    And the BBC also believes in the Prophet Muhammad?

  11. Steffen Larsen says

    May 8, 2014 at 3:48 am

    Translation:

    “Gunmen in the Pakistani city of Multanmhave shot dead …” = “Muslim killers in the Pakistani city of Multan murdered …”
    ” a lawyer defending a university lecturer accused of blasphemy …” = “an innocent lawyer defending a university lecturer, a new victim of the infamous blasphemy laws”.

    “Mr Rehman died amid “indiscriminate firing” in his office on Wednesday evening.” = “The killers gunned down everyone in sight while screaming Allahu Akbar.”

    “Mr Rehman was defending Junaid Hafeez, a lecturer at Bahauddin Zakariya University accused by hardline student groups of making derogatory remarks against the Prophet Muhammad in March last year.” = “accused by Muslim student groups of making derogatory remarks against the Muslim prophet Muhammad as if anyone would dare.”

    “no lawyer was prepared to take up the case because of fear of reprisals from extremist religious groups.” ” lawyers in fear of their life from Muslim groups …”

    ” despite reportedly receiving death threats.” = “despite receiving the usual death threats.”

    • thomas_h says

      May 8, 2014 at 8:03 am

      Very precise and much needed translation, Steffen.
      How about translating the confusing and misleading “BBC” to something expressing more truthfully its essence?

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      May 8, 2014 at 8:13 pm

      Congratulations, mate.

      You have now officially graduated from Mr Spencer’s “Hedge School for the Counter-Jihad Resistance”.

      All graduates receive a magic decoder ring which enables them to translate a/ Islamspeak and b/ the obfuscations and indirections routinely used by our non-Muslim media outlets when describing mohammedan mayhem. And you have just made excellent use of yours.

  12. duh_swami says

    May 8, 2014 at 5:56 am

    Pakistan the land of the pure, is so pure, you can’t see the purity. When you can’t see the purity, everything looks dirty. Pakistan only appears to be dirty, under that appearance is not dirt, it is filth…You can grow food and flowers with dirt. Nothing grows from filth except more filth.

  13. Jay Boo says

    May 8, 2014 at 8:10 am

    We need to hold a Friday public Qur’an burning in protest every time they pull this crap until Islamo-fascists learn to act like decent human beings.

    • Jay Boo says

      May 8, 2014 at 8:34 am

      P.S. in front of BBC

      • Charli Main says

        May 8, 2014 at 11:25 am

        To all intents and purposes, the BBC is a front for the Islamo-Fascists

    • Bettina says

      May 8, 2014 at 4:40 pm

      Sure, JB — Surely, what you mean is, burn the koran in perpetuity because these bastards will NEVER change, right? Your idea of decency, for them, is slammed thru a prism at warp speed, and immediately distorted into its opposite. So what do you have now? The vain hope that they will change to resemble actual human beings? Dream on, my friend

  14. Bettina says

    May 8, 2014 at 12:09 pm

    To Jay Boo — “Allah must be their stage-prop decoration for their totem pole Muhammad, then.” You don’t know the pinpoint accuracy of your metaphor, JB. Here’s a live case in point proving how true this is:
    A former Moroccan acquaintance once told me that blasphemous comments about their psycho-freak are 1000 worse than insulting their allah, and can cause a muslim to be stabbed in the street. So there you are, JB.

  15. Bettina says

    May 8, 2014 at 12:47 pm

    You have GOT TO view this 4-min. clip from MEMRI showing the raging histrionics of this arab commentator! What a show! It’s in arabic, with fake Hebrew subtitles an Israeli jokester wrote to enhance the experience — leaving Israelis laughing and arabs confused as hell. The short intro text had me laughing already!
    Go to: http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/angry-arab-support-for-david-hanachlawi-video/2014/05/08/
    View this arab and enjoy!

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