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Christian professor arrested for blasphemy in Pakistan

Nov 19, 2014 8:56 am By Robert Spencer

AbolishblasphemylawBishop Kevin would say something about this, but the “Muslim-Christian dialogue” meeting is tonight, and Imam Muhammad is such a nice guy — did you hear the one he tells about the priest, the rabbi and the imam who walk into a bar? — and the hummus is so good over at Masjid Ibn Taymiyya…And anyway, Imam Muhammad has assured the bishop that he condemns the persecution of Christians. What’s that? Did Bishop Kevin ask him what programs Masjid Ibn Taymiyya had to teach Muslims to reject the understanding of Islam that led to the persecution? Oh, come now. You wouldn’t have expected him to be rude when everyone was being so nice, now, would you? A man doesn’t get to be a Cardinal by asking that kind of question. And that hummus — it’s out of this world!

“Christian Professor Arrested for Blasphemy in Pakistan, Charged With Same Offense as Mother-of-Five Asia Bibi,” by Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post, November 18, 2014:

A 40-year-old Christian man was arrested for blasphemy in Lahore, Pakistan, and has been charged with insulting the Prophet Mohammad, the same offense that Christian mother-of-five Asia Bibi is facing the death penalty for.

Qaiser Ayub, a computer science professor, had been a fugitive for close to three years, Fides News Agency reported. He was charged in 2011 of having written blasphemous comments on his blog, and has been avoiding police ever since.

BosNewsLife added that Ayub is currently being held at a police station in the town of Talagang in Punjab’s Chakwal District.

Sardar Mushtaq Gill, national director of advocacy group Legal Evangelical Association Development, revealed that despite the threat of arrest, the professor had been teaching recently at a school in Lahore, which triggered the police warrant.

“We also request prayer for him,” Gill said, noting that his group will be providing legal assistance.

Ayub’s alleged violation of Pakistan’s Penal Code mirrors that of Bibi, who has been in prison for five years and is facing execution, unless the country’s Supreme Court reverses the decision. Bibi was sentenced to death in 2010 for an incident where she was accused of blaspheming against Islam by a group of Muslim women.

A global campaign has rallied around the Christian mother, with the American Center for Law and Justice starting a petition asking the U.S. government to stop sending foreign aid to Pakistan.

“We must stop sending billions of our taxpayer dollars to nations that persecute Christians. It’s that simple. Not one more dime for persecution. Cut off American foreign aid to any country that persecutes Christians,” states the petition, addressing Congress and President Barack Obama.

“As a wave of persecution sweeps across the Middle East — and Christians flee for their lives — it’s time for the money to stop,” it adds. “Already there is growing support for basic human rights and basic common sense on Capitol Hill.”….

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Nov 19, 2014 at 10:21 am

    Where are all the hypocritical bleeding heart liberals hiding?

    We must notify the news media that a Muslim mother-of-five is has been arrested in Texas and that she is now facing a possible death sentence for merely for practicing praying to Allah and possession of a Qur’an.
    Might they then take some notice?

    • Jaladhi says

      Nov 19, 2014 at 10:36 am

      The Western libtards, news media and our leaders are blind and deaf when non-Muslims are brutalized, raped and murdered by Muslims all over the world. These hypocrites will never say a word asking Muslims to behave like human beings.

      Time is coming when Muslims in non-Muslim countries will get the same treatment as Muslims give to all non-Muslims in Muslim countries!! Unless Muslims receive tit for tat treatment, they will never ever stop butchering non-Muslims!!

  2. john spielman says

    Nov 19, 2014 at 10:32 am

    this is why we call it- CRAPISTAN!

  3. Jerry says

    Nov 20, 2014 at 10:49 am

    La Allah illa YAHWE, ue Muhammed bin Sharmutta, bint Jinn Rassoul Shaitan

  4. Bettina says

    Nov 20, 2014 at 1:19 pm

    Christy, as if your verbosity weren’t enough, you’ve actually re-pasted it here! Please try hard to spare us from such long posts. Keep it short, and we’ll read you with much more pleasure.
    Also, your ‘reasonable’ counter-balancing act to justify islam doesn’t work on JW, and only serves to irritate us — not ‘educate’ us.
    We are the ones from whom you need to learn.

  5. Anum says

    Nov 26, 2014 at 3:50 pm

    They claim to be followers of a peaceful religion known as Islam and yet act in a violent manner.
    The Holy Prophet (peace be upon him), the founder of Islam, a role model for Muslims, practiced forgiveness, patience, kindness and humanity and rather than following his footsteps the Pakistani Muslims’ have shifted their practices to characteristics including cruelty, hatred and inhumanity by introducing the blasphemy law in the 1980s. The irony of this law is that the Muslims claim to be protecting the honour of Islam and the Holy Prophet (pbuh) however their actions are not representing the actions of the Prophet of Islam or the teaching of Islam which involved spreading the message of love and condemning hatred. 

    Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) came at a time when the world was passing through a decline both morally and religiously. A time where Arabs participated in extreme moral vices such as drinking, gambling, brutality, killing of baby girls and slavery. He came and reformed the whole Arab nation through his love, kindness, and rationality not through violence and killing. If the man of God, the founder of Islam, spread his message through peace then on what accounts can the blasphemy law be introduced in a Muslim country. The Holy Quran teaches tolerance towards others and respect for their beliefs, it does not in any way state that those who do not follow similar mindsets must be brutally killed. Similarly there are no such Ahadith (saying of the Holy Prophet) or Sunnah (actions of the Holy Prophet) that justifies the killing of human beings who either do not believe in the same teachings as Islam or, oppose the teachings completely. Patience and tolerance are considered to be the only routes to which one should handle such scenarios.

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