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Pakistan: Jihadists open fire at home of lawyer defending accused blasphemer

Dec 4, 2014 11:12 pm By Robert Spencer

Rashid Rahman demoPakistan’s blasphemy laws are a massive occasion for human rights abuses, but the world human rights community takes little notice. Perhaps the guardians of human rights believe that to pressure Pakistan over its blasphemy laws would be “Islamophobic.”

“Gunmen attack residence of lawyer defending blasphemy accused in Multan,” AFP, December 4, 2014 (thanks to Lookmann):

LAHORE: Gunmen opened fire at the residence of a lawyer defending a university lecturer accused of blasphemy and dropped a letter warning him to withdraw from the case, police said on Thursday.

Shahbaz Gormani escaped unhurt after gunmen riding motorbikes attacked his residence in Multan late Wednesday.

Gormani had been appointed defence lawyer in the case after gunmen shot dead Rashid Rehman, a defence counsel for Junaid Hafeez in May.

Hafeez, a lecturer at Bahauddin Zakariya University, was accused of making derogatory remarks against the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) in March last year.

Hafeez was known at the university for his liberal views and the blasphemy case was registered after pressure from right-wing student groups.

“Gunmen riding motorbikes fired indiscriminately outside the residence of Gormani and threw a pamphlet… warning him of serious consequences if he continues to pursue the case,” senior police official Muhammad Salim told AFP….

Gormani told AFP he survived the incident but demanded that Parliament enact laws to protect lawyers representing people accused of blasphemy.

Good luck with that.

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  1. Salah says

    Dec 5, 2014 at 2:15 am

    “Pakistan’s blasphemy laws are a massive occasion for human rights abuses, but the world human rights community takes little notice.”

    The world human rights community is no different than our PC leaders, elites, academics, MSM, etc.
    It’s the same old tactic: The Carrot (petro-dollars) and the Stick (fear.)
    They are traitors and/or cowards.

    • mortimer says

      Dec 5, 2014 at 9:46 am

      Because Islam permits vigilante killing by private, self-directed Muslims, there is no predicting where a jihad attack will come from…perhaps one’s former friends or family or co-workers.

      The murder of ‘moderate Muslims’ who do not approve ‘extreme’ applications of Sharia ensures there can be no reform of the application or substance of Sharia law.

  2. Neil Jennison says

    Dec 5, 2014 at 3:29 am

    Well I agree that Pakistan’s blasphemy laws are human rights laws are a disgrace, but in the UK criticism of Islam is tantamount to “inciting religious hatred” and is thus borderline illegal.

    A bit like making criticism of communism illegal because the Chinese are communists and therefore it is racist.

  3. Coolio says

    Dec 5, 2014 at 5:39 am

    It would be a fascinating exercise for a state to say to the OIC, OK, let’s explore how an international ban on blasphemy would work. Obviously it would have to apply to all faiths, not just Islam. Hmm, that would have to include at least Judaism, Christianity, Bahai, Buddhism, all 1,000,001 versions of Hinduism, Paganism and Satanism. What to do where scriptures of different faiths disrespect other faiths? What does the Koran say about jews and Christians again!?!?!? How can we define blasphemy? Should it apply only to theistic faiths? Why? Buddhism is non-theistic! If not, then how can it not apply to non-religious belief systems and ideologies??? The proposed blasphemy law would have to apply to ideologies like communism too, and its prophets Marx and Stalin.

    Kill it with logic. It’s not very good on that battlefield.

    • mortimer says

      Dec 5, 2014 at 9:51 am

      Any politician who tries to reform or any judge who tries to declare blasphemy laws violations will be murdered by vigilante jihadists.

  4. Charli Main says

    Dec 5, 2014 at 6:57 am

    Nope. don’t believe any of this. It has all the hallmarks of nasty Islamophobic propaganda being spread by vile racists who are trying to slander the most perfect man that has ever lived and his message of love, peace and tolerance. SARC folks!!!!!!!!!!

    • Darren says

      Dec 5, 2014 at 1:02 pm

      It’s da JOOOOs /sarcasm

  5. Daniel Triplett says

    Dec 5, 2014 at 9:56 am

    WMD do not belong in the hands of Muslims.

    Destroy the Pakistani nuke arsenal now. Just a matter of time before a disciplined Muslim hoping to please Allah uses them.

    • Coolio says

      Dec 6, 2014 at 8:45 am

      Yeah, WTF are we supposed to retailiate against when the A- or dirty- bomb goes off in a Western capital? North Korea? Iran? Pakistan? Islamic State? Time for pre-emptive strikes while we still can.

  6. Dave J says

    Dec 5, 2014 at 4:35 pm

    Well a lawyer defending an accused blasphemer is obviously a Double Blasphemer, and anyone defending that lawyer would be a Triple Blasphemer, and so on.

    Then if they were non-Muslims that would raise the blasphemy by the power of 2, because not being a Muslim is already a blasphemy.

    You can’t say that Islam doesn’t have its own kind of demented logic.

    I guess they think “just shoot them all and let Allah sort them out”. (May he suffer an aneurysm in the process).

    • Coolio says

      Dec 6, 2014 at 10:40 am

      J, you are a quadruple infidel blasphemer squared. Haha, you can tell I’m not really a motard from my advanced grasp of mathematics!

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