Junaid has asked forgiveness — indeed, begged for forgiveness — but Islamic law doesn’t stipulate forgiveness for blasphemers, only their punishment. And so the Islamic hard line that Jamshed has so assiduously preached is now being turned against him. An update on this story. “Junaid Jamshed has no immediate plans to return,” Pakistan Today, December 6, 2014:
Junaid Jamshed says in tweet: ‘I never thought I would ever receive so much pain from the people of my country.”
Junaid Jamshed, the pop star-turned-televangelist accused of blasphemy by the sectarian Pakistan Sunni Tehreek, is in hiding in London and has no immediate plans to return to Pakistan, according to a member of the Tableeghi Jamaat.
The Karachi police opened an investigation into Jamshed’s allegedly blasphemy after a viral video showed the 50-year-old evangelist citing the youngest wife of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) to make a broader point about women’s alleged inherent flaw of seeking attention.
A visibly distraught Jamshed apologised for his actions in a video posted to his Facebook page.
“This is my mistake and it happened because of my ignorance and lack of knowledge and I seek forgiveness from the Muslim world,” he said. “I request my brothers to forgive me and I am thankful to them for pointing out my mistake, it happened unintentionally and I seek forgiveness from Allah.”
However, Mohammad Mobin Qadri, a Sunni Tehreek leader who accused Jamshed of blasphemy, says this was “irrelevant,” and demanded the former pop star answer for his alleged crimes. The organisation has also organised rallies across Pakistan, demanding Jamshed be arrested.
The blasphemy allegations have already hurt Jamshed’s standing as an Islamic scholar, with the non-profit Muslim Charity organisation cancelling a scheduled appearance in Edinburgh to avoid controversy. The Tableeghi Jamaat, a conservative Sunni evangelical group associated with Jamshed’s born-again Muslim status, has also taken steps to distance itself from the former singer. In a video posted online, Jamaat leader Maulana Tariq Jameel upbraided Jamshed for his controversial remarks.
Jameel told a local media outfit that Jamshed telephoned him in tears after the video was posted and assured him that he had never meant to insult anyone. “Everyone can commit such a mistake,” said Jameel. “These people [Sunni Tehreek] have given it a sectarian colour, made it into an issue of Muslim vs. non-Muslim, which it is not.” He said that he supported Jamshed and had accepted his apology. “Issues like these will lead to my country’s ruin,” he added….
Yeah, probably.
Zebo says
Maybe my english is just to bad but i still don’t know where the blasphemy is?!
Citing the youngest wife is no blasphemy.
But he is a perfect example how islam works:
Radical ,hairsplitting and arrogant when criticising non-muslims
but 100% cowards and sycophantic as soon as it is about islam.
A far better example is the behaviour of his great muslim umma-friends:
They left him like rats are leaving the sinking ship-all of a sudden noone left.
But there’s no problem because he will do what all muslims do when they become victims of their own religion.Run to the non-believers because he knows stupid kufars will give him shelter
(and after 3 or 4 years when he has bribed the pakistany clerics the blasphemy charges are dropped,he will return and start kissing muslims ass and he will be loved again by his fraudulent
friends(as long as he does not develop any critical thoughts)
and he will start criticising those evil western people.
mortimer says
Blasphemy lies in intimating that Islam is not perfect in every particular. This is a threat to the faith of other Muslims, causing them to doubt the veracity or moral superiority of EVERYTHING in Islam. Aisha, the child bride (a scandal to non-Muslims) is called ‘THE MOTHER OF BELIEVERS’ (quite an exaggeration). Mohammed’s first wife should actually have the title. Aisha virtually told Mohammed she doubted his revelations because they allowed him unlimited access to women, whether relatives, married or enslaved.
john spielman says
true, BUT islam itself IS BLASPHEMY against eveything that is TRUE LOVELY AND HOLY! muhammed pbuh* was a demon possesssed mass murderer thief liar misogynist and pedophile.
pbuh*- perpetual banishment unto hell!
zebo says
Finally i understand.
Blasphemie does not only mean insulting god but certain parts of religion.
i didn’t knew that.
As islam is the most imperfect and pathetic thing in the world that even 5 years old can debunk the antihuman ,illogical content without problems islamic reaction to even the slightest (especially justified) criticism has to be aggressivly attacked as even the fundament of islam is very sick and stupid.
cs says
it is a piece of cake to do Blasphemy in Islam, all of us do it 100000 times per month, and zillion times per year.
gravenimage says
Zebo wrote:
Maybe my english is just to bad but i still don’t know where the blasphemy is?!
Citing the youngest wife is no blasphemy.
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“Blasphemy” in Islam includes not just criticizing “Allah”, but also the “Prophet” and any of his “companions”.
If Jamshed had just condemned women trapped in polygamous marriages for wanting attention from their husband, most Muslims would have cheered him on. But since he used Muhammed’s “favorite wife” as an example of this, he is now fleeing for his life.
I may have mentioned how much I hate Islam…
Lee Hicks says
It’s very important to note here that there is no forgiveness of sin through Islam or from Allah. He is a mask for Satan, as as such, is a hard and merciless taskmaster, not dealing in forgiveness, but rather in oppression. Only the God of creation can forgive sin, through the shed blood of His Son, Christ. Anyone trying to access the Father by any other way is simply a thief and robber, and will meet with utter failure in eternity.
RG says
This is hilarious! These people are so neanderthal! I hope somebody does to him what these bastards are doing to our innocent volunteers in the Middle East–BEHEAD HIM!!!
I think I would literally laugh my head off–PUN INTENDED!!
jewdog says
If such absurd perceived “slights” against Mohammad can be considered blasphemous, then Islam is idolatrous in its attitude of divine reverence towards Mohammad, who is after all only a person. That belies Islam’s claim to forbid associating partners with God.
mortimer says
MOHAMMEDOLATRY? YES! Many Muslims have realized the IRONY of Mohammed being CONSTANTLY mentioned in the same breath as ALLAH … as if the two are PARTNERS. Many verses in the Koran portray Mohammed as Allah’s PARTNER without actually saying so. Mohammed is said to be present in the world by his ‘noor’, a kind of spiritual energy able to be anywhere and observe…a bit like Santa Claus who ‘sees when you are sleeping, he knows when you’re awake…he knows if you’ve been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake.’
Mohammed stands next to Allah on the Day of Judgment and separates the Muslims from the damned…much like Jesus Christ! It is apparent that the figure of Mohammed was a scaled down version of the Christian’s Second Person of the Trinity. The Shi’ites go further and make Mohammed a ‘martyr’ through his poisoning by wives Aisha and Hafsa (so that fathers could become caliphs instead of Ali). This turns the death of Mohammed and his grandsons into MELODRAMA…a passion play where the guilty killers are made the objects of hatred. Blaspheming Aisha makes a Sunni Muslim vulnerable to being attacked as a heretical Shi’ite! Sunnis must never make an honest appraisal of Aisha.
Mac-101 says
Forgive me please, but I thought the Jewish cook got blamed for poisonin Mohammad, is dat what the Sunni believe?. So the Shia say it was Aisha. Interstin. Enquirin minds want to know. LOL!
mortimer says
Blaming it on a Jewish woman was the coverup. Who dies of a poisoning FOUR YEARS LATER? Unlikely. Early Islam is a demoralizing morass of betrayal, savagery and lies. Muslims all know this after reading the materials. Then the shut up about it for fear.
The Shi’ites have their own techniques. Google it: aisha + hafsa + poison
Learn it. Use it. Tell it.
Melanyusa@yahoo.com says
You are so right. Muhammad himself set the standard that insulting or critiquing even him was punishable by death. It’s all over the hadith. And it is also in hadith that Aisha said she was jealous of kadijah, the first wife of muhammad. These statements are facts but if you say them your a kafir. It’s so f….. up. And it’s so sickening too when they call her “mother Aisha”. This is because muhammad said that his wives are like mothers to the believers because he didn’t want them to marry after his death. What a sick shit! This is all garbage you don’t learn unless you dig pretty deep. I was muslim for 5 years and thank god I learned and got out with my head still attached to my body!
voegelinian says
Indeed, Aisha is deemed to be the Mother of All Believers: aisha umm al muminin. She grew up to be a true Believer, who would kill you to defend Islam, no matter how much of a victim she was.
TH says
It shows how insecure they are and the fear they have of the cat getting out of the bag regarding their depaved peudo-prophet or the barbarity of Islam.
profitsbeard says
Get in bed with a Death Cult and wake up dead.
Send him back unless he becomes a true apostate.
Who needs a jihadi with a slightly different take of sanctified Terrorism among us?
mortimer says
Islam cannibalizes its own.
Mirren10 says
”Junaid Jamshed, the pop star-turned-televangelist accused of blasphemy by the sectarian Pakistan Sunni Tehreek, is in hiding in London and has no immediate plans to return to Pakistan, according to a member of the Tableeghi Jamaat”
Well, the clichés just keep bubbling to my lips … the engineer hoist with his own petard, the biter bit, what goes around comes around, karma … 🙂
What is infuriating about this is this piece of pig excrement is cowering in *London*. How did he get in ?
Oh, I know, his presence **wasn’t** considered to be dangerous to ‘community cohesion’, so may and camoron rolled out the red carpet. No doubt his first stop will be the benefits office, for his free flat, mobile phone, and weekly jizya.
And of course, it will never, ever occur to this vicious moron that it is his beloved sharia which has dumped him in the doodoo; the sharia which he would have had no qualms whatsoever invoking against someone else.
gravenimage says
I was wondering if Jamshed had fled to the free West, Mirren—and so he has.
And so now the great city of London has one more misogynist Mohammedan preacher in her midst. *Ugh*.
mortimer says
This misogynistic, jihad-loving, Jew-hating cockroach is ok, but the very fine Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller are slandered.
Salah says
His crime? he said “Aisha was seeking attention”? that’s it?
He should have said: “Aisha and Ali shared the same bed…with the benediction of Muhammad.”
Now THAT should be a true blasphemy case, except…it’s true!
Source:
Bihar al-Anwar, by Muhammad Baqir Majlisi, v.40, p.2
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/04/threesome-in-islam.html
Arthur says
I think the only safe place for a non-Muslim is a land with no Muslims.
I think the only safe place for a Muslim is a land with no Muslims.
Know Thy Enemy says
Some people see a blasphemy in this Junaid Jamshed drama, but I see a power play. Junaid is a former pop-star and now has his own line of men’s fashion (fancy Pakistani clothes). Except that in a Islamic society, being a pop-star or fashion designer can get one a high social status, but it cannot make one powerful like mullahs.
Junaid turned to religion for high[er] status and more power, and since is a celebrity, has had a decent chance among people to be recognized as a ‘mullah’…….
Except that trying to be a ‘mullah’ mean that other established mullahs face competition- something they absolutely do not like. They apparently got their chance to get rid of the competition with the first mistake Junaid made!
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And what place in the world can be a safer for a fleeing Muslim than UK!! Not only would he be safe from the mullahs, but can bitch slap the British as he desires!
Champ says
I saw those beards for $ at the Halloween store …
Kepha says
I think I wore one as a prop in a satirical skit way back when I was young. 🙂
Champ says
😉
Michael Copeland says
“Issues like these will lead to my country’s ruin,” said Junaid. Hasn’t he noticed?
Pakistan is a failed state, dependent on international hand-outs.
duh_swami says
Any thing you say, can and will be used against you…it’s the Islamic way. So it’s better to not say too much. Aisha said to the boss, ‘you see things I do not’…
Was that a slanderous remark of doubt, or was it a compliment to his superior abilities? ‘Silence is Golden’… The smart Imam will leave that question alone, since no matter what is said about it, someone can take it the wrong way…
mach37 says
What about all those verses in the Koran that end like 7:167, with “Indeed, your Lord is swift in penalty; but indeed, He is Forgiving and Merciful.” Maybe that is to be interpreted as “forgiving and merciful” AFTER meting out the punishment of death.
Treavour says
Let him taste the Nectar of Death -ISLAM to which he is still affiliated to. Europe beware these people are a threat for your future.
BC says
It reminds me of the movie ‘Ghostbusters’ but instead of “who you gonna call?” It is “where you gonna go”? To one of those terrible un Islamic countries of course, where he can start preaching the wonders of Sharia for everybody
fidalgoman says
It is very likely he will receive the exact same kind of forgiveness and justice he gave others. What goes around, comes around Junaid.
mike ryan says
Sheesh! Even the Office of the Inquisition allowed its victims to admit their guilt and do penance.
Rezali Mehil says
I have been to one of Junaid’s gigs some years back and it was fun.
I must admit to being a little surprised that he had turned to “find Allah SWT” after getting fed up of the kuffar type of activity on his gig.
Never the less I think it is interesting to see that Blasphemy laws are applied equally to Muslim or Christian in Pakistan. At least the Kuffar cannot talk of bias.
I hate to see a Muslim under duress, but none the less there is something satisfying deep to the core to see a sunni putting his hands together to hold to a promise that turns to pleading by the very people who loved him.
Please Mr Pakistani peoples ” I’ll never talk about women moaning and I’ll never mention Aiesha again…ever” ..he must have tweeted this on the plane to London… Home from Home…from a “homme”…I don’t think so.
His sunni “mullaship” has been put on hold, he will need to be careful even in London…I hope he knows that …it not a singalong any longer “mate”. …Pity …his beard is to die for (metaphorically speaking of course) …don’t you agree Champ?
As to Mortimer’s assertion that Muhammad SAW was not poisoned the Jewess and instead the dastardly deed was done by his wives – that’s poppycock rumour spread by ….the Jews.
What we believe is that he SAW WAS poisoned by a Jewess ..indeed his companion who also eat the Lamb died that very night. Muhammad SAW although in pain was saved by Allah SWT who removed his heart (metaphorically speaking) and applied IMAM oil all over it and thus cleansed it of toxin impurities …which then subsequently via blood being pumped around his body did rid him of the toxin(s) and pain.
Indeed so effective was the IMAM oil that Muhammed SAW survived another 4 years , before being called up to rest by Allah SWT….do not blame Aiesha.
More Later….
Rezali
p.s. whose bright idea was it to have grey font on a grey background…you keep telling me that kuffar were supposed to be clever????
cs says
Monty Pyton says: “And now something completely different.”
Your point was?
Pakistan is shit integrally. Yes, it is very Islamic.
Grey and Black is not clever. That was a clever comment also.
What else?
voegelinian says
So Allah was a Jewish heart surgeon, eh?
gravenimage says
The vile Rezali Mehil wrote:
I must admit to being a little surprised that he had turned to “find Allah SWT” after getting fed up of the kuffar type of activity on his gig.
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He was, of course, already a Muslim—but since he wasn’t spending all of his time condemning women in the name of Islam, he was essentially a “Kuffar” in the eyes of pious Muslims.
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Never the less I think it is interesting to see that Blasphemy laws are applied equally to Muslim or Christian in Pakistan. At least the Kuffar cannot talk of bias.
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Grimly hilarious—Rezali Mehil believes we should be impressed that Pakistan is imprisoning and threatening to execute their own coreligionists as well as Christians and Hindus for “blasphemy”. *Ugh*.
Infidels are, of course, particularly targeted by “blasphemy” laws—the mere fact of their being non-Muslim is in itself “blasphemous”. But Islam is vicious enough that it has room to threaten “moderate” Muslims. other-sect Muslims (like Rezali Mehil, incidentally—doesn’t she know her fellow Shia have been threatened in this affair?—and anyone else who might run afoul of the powers that be.
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I hate to see a Muslim under duress, but none the less there is something satisfying deep to the core to see a sunni putting his hands together to hold to a promise that turns to pleading by the very people who loved him.
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More of that Sunni/Shia “interfaith dialogue”…
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Please Mr Pakistani peoples ” I’ll never talk about women moaning and I’ll never mention Aiesha again…ever” ..he must have tweeted this on the plane to London… Home from Home…from a “homme”…I don’t think so.
His sunni “mullaship” has been put on hold, he will need to be careful even in London…I hope he knows that …it not a singalong any longer “mate”. …
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Notice that Rezali Mehil is here gloating over the idea that her homicidal coreligionists will “Honor Kill” him even in civilized London. *Ugh*.
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Pity …his beard is to die for (metaphorically speaking of course) …don’t you agree Champ?
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Rezali Mehil believes that sane and decent Infidel women like Champ find nothing so appealing as misogynist Jihad scum sporting scraggly, unwashed beards. **Gag**.
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As to Mortimer’s assertion that Muhammad SAW was not poisoned the Jewess and instead the dastardly deed was done by his wives – that’s poppycock rumour spread by ….the Jews.
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Weird—most Shia believe that Aisha and Hafsa did away with the “Prophet”. Rezali Mehil better be careful what she says around her fellow Shi’ites, of they may go after *her*. I guess her virulent hatred for Jews go the better of her here…
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What we believe is that he SAW WAS poisoned by a Jewess ..indeed his companion who also eat the Lamb died that very night. Muhammad SAW although in pain was saved by Allah SWT who removed his heart (metaphorically speaking) and applied IMAM oil all over it and thus cleansed it of toxin impurities …which then subsequently via blood being pumped around his body did rid him of the toxin(s) and pain.
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IMAM oil—like camel urine, it’s good for what ails Mohammedans…
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p.s. whose bright idea was it to have grey font on a grey background…you keep telling me that kuffar were supposed to be clever????
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If only the filthy Kuffar were *really* clever, then everything they do would make life easier for Rezali and her pals…
Hussein says
Ah, that is funny ! Threatened by his own fellows for quoting some obscure books about some obscure events that happened (or not) in an obscure era of time – at least 1390 years ago XD. In Wahhabi land, a book kills you 🙂