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Afghanistan: Enraged protesters demand “blasphemers” be executed for criticizing Islamic State and Islam’s intolerance

Oct 25, 2014 11:28 am By Robert Spencer

Protest against an allegedly blasphemy article“They need to be executed so humans know that you cannot insult the religion of Allah.” AJ Ahwar “criticised Islam for not accepting other religions and minorities such as homosexuals and Hazaras, a Shia minority in Afghanistan.” And so he must die, if they catch him. I hope he is in hiding and will be able to escape from Afghanistan and come to the U.S., where no one will try to murder him or even call for his death if he criticizes Islam for “not accepting other religions and minorities such as homosexuals and Hazaras, a Shia minority in Afghanistan.” Instead, they will just call him a bigot, a racist, and an Islamophobe, and seek to get him demonized and marginalized out of the public discourse.

“Afghan newspaper’s ‘blasphemy’ causes protests after rebuking Isis and Islam,” by Sune Engel Rasmussen, The Guardian, October 24, 2014 (thanks to Twostellas):

A newspaper columnist condemning Islamic State (Isis) and the Taliban triggered demonstrations in several Afghan cities on Friday, with protesters denouncing the article as blasphemous and calling on the government to punish the publication.

In Kabul, a crowd of approximately 500 people, including clerics and several members of parliament, gathered in front of the Eid Gah Mosque, the city’s second largest house of worship.

“The government must stop the people who insulted the prophet, the Qur’an and Islam, and prevent them from leaving the country,” said Fazl Hadi Wazin, an Islamic scholar at Salam University who spoke from the outdoor podium.

In an opinion piece published last week in the English-language daily the Afghanistan Express, a journalist named AJ Ahwar admonished Muslims for remaining silent in the face of Isis and the Taliban.

He also criticised Islam for not accepting other religions and minorities such as homosexuals and Hazaras, a Shia minority in Afghanistan.

The article ended by concluding that human beings are more important than God, which seemed to particularly incense protesters.

“The newspaper said God can’t control people and that God is unwise,” said Mangal Bader, 38, one of the protesters. He joined others in calling for the newspaper staff to suffer the same fate as five men who were recently convicted of rape and hanged, after great public furore.

“They need to be executed so humans know that you cannot insult the religion of Allah,” said Ahmad, 22, another protester.

In pauses between speakers, protesters chanted “death to America”. According to one demonstrator, the US instils ideas of freedom of expression in the minds of Afghan journalists, then grants them asylum once they anger their compatriots.

“The international community pretend to be heroes of freedom of expression,” said Wazin after his speech. “They have to come out and say they are not behind this. If they don’t, these protests will grow.”

In a public apology issued days after the controversial article, the Afghanistan Express explained that the op-ed was published due to a “technical mistake”. The apology, however, has done little to quell the anger….

What a surprise.

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  1. Jaladhi says

    Oct 25, 2014 at 11:34 am

    Aha, all those “moderate” Muslims coming and demanding execution of people telling the truth about Islam. Quick,quick call CAIR and Kerry-Obama & Co., – all these misunderstanders of Islam are not Muslims!!LOL…

  2. gp says

    Oct 25, 2014 at 11:51 am

    Islam is on the march, the IS is doing just what the prophet did and what is commanded in their satanic verses. Murderous jihad, raping, pillaging, engaging in genocide. This makes the Religion of Peace a scourge to civilization.

    “Unlike nearly all of the Old Testament verses of violence, the verses of violence in the Quran are mostly open-ended, meaning that they are not restrained by the historical context of the surrounding text. They are part of the eternal, unchanging word of Allah, and just as relevant or subjective as anything else in the Quran.”… “Unfortunately, there are very few verses of tolerance and peace to abrogate or even balance out the many that call for nonbelievers to be fought and subdued until they either accept humiliation, convert to Islam, or are killed. Muhammad’s own martial legacy – and that of his companions – along with the remarkable stress on violence found in the Quran have produced a trail of blood and tears across world history.”
    http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/quran/023-violence.htm

    • EYESOPEN says

      Oct 27, 2014 at 8:44 pm

      ALL of the verses of “tolerance” and “peace” (as far as “infidels” are concerned) were abrogated by the subsequent bloodthirsty verses from Mad Mo’s “Medina” stage.

  3. jewdog says

    Oct 25, 2014 at 12:07 pm

    Some foreign power, some day, will march into Kabul and simply throw the bums out. The new ruler will then take charge and Afghanistan will become somebody’s private estate. Where’s Dr. No when you need him?

    • Forthfaran says

      Oct 29, 2014 at 7:10 pm

      It’s not that easy.The British have been into Afghanistan 3 times ,Twice in the 19th century and just recently. Every time has been a relative disaster,relative that is to the loss of life and expense. The British never stayed because it would have involved massive amounts of troops continually fighting these people. As rich as we British were in the Victorian era,we didn’t want to incur that sort of expense and troop commitment for ,well,for ever. Britain decided ,after getting her fingers burnt,quite badly on one excursion with the loss of a whole garrison of several thousand troops and civilians, to keep them at bay ,and any power trying to access India from Afghanistan, from outside. What I find most troubling is that British lives were lost for these people ,all for nothing. What a tragic and disgraceful waste.

  4. duh_swami says

    Oct 25, 2014 at 12:10 pm

    “They need to be executed so humans know that you cannot insult the religion of Allah…

    ‘The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam’…We all agree with that……..don’t we??

  5. pongidae rex says

    Oct 25, 2014 at 2:47 pm

    This, after twelve years of war and over a Trillion dollars spent. No nation, not even the USA, can survive leadership this stupid.

    • Inka Hutz says

      Oct 26, 2014 at 1:15 pm

      Agreed

    • EYESOPEN says

      Oct 27, 2014 at 8:45 pm

      Concur.

  6. Dave J says

    Oct 25, 2014 at 9:52 pm

    Islam is the religion of peace and if you disagree we will kill you.

    Islam is the religion of peace and if you try to leave it we will kill you.

    Islam is not a religion at all, it is a dictatorship, one that is trying to rule the world.

  7. profitsbeard says

    Oct 25, 2014 at 10:41 pm

    Islam is a death cult that piths the brains of those it engulfs.

  8. Truth says

    Oct 26, 2014 at 11:30 am

    The Muslim prophet Mohammad was an evil child molester ( he married a 6 year old little girl) and an evil supporter of slavery. Muslims call black people ” Abeed”, lesser people.

  9. Mark says

    Oct 26, 2014 at 7:23 pm

    We didnt expect muslims to stop being muslims, even though our stupid and treasonous leaders seemed too.

    The thing is of course they continue to take advice of muslims in the uk and in parliment.

    It’s very sickening watching the parliment channel on freeview tv (in uk), to see muslim mp’s taking every opportunity to LIE to the other mp’s to disguise islam and its actual teachings.

    Some of those lies so obvious to anyone with even a base reading of islams books (quran, hadith and sira), that they are swallowed by the non muslim mp’s just goes to prove their total disconnect from reality, their total ignorance of islams MAINSTREAM teachings.

    Treason by ignorance (or cowardice), is still TREASON!

    It truely cannot be that much longer before the muslims think they have enough followers to try a coup.

  10. Thomas Wells says

    Oct 26, 2014 at 7:45 pm

    Turn Afghanistan into a latter day Carthage with carpet bombing.

  11. Uncle Vladdi says

    Oct 26, 2014 at 9:10 pm

    Well then, thank allah so many Canadian infidel soldiers sacrificed their lives so Afghanistan could embrace their “new” sharia constitution at our direct expense.

    I bet the ghosts of the Taliban are cheering their “victory,” too!

  12. EYESOPEN says

    Oct 27, 2014 at 8:42 pm

    “He joined others in calling for the newspaper staff to suffer the same fate as five men who were recently convicted of rape and hanged, after great public furor.”

    You mean to tell me that there were actually 4 “male witnesses” who testified that it was rape? Will miracles never cease?

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