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Pakistani pop singer begs forgiveness after being accused of blasphemy

Dec 2, 2014 1:52 pm By Robert Spencer

junaid-jamshed-pakistan-blasphemyJunaid Jamshed’s misogyny apparently led him to criticize Aisha. And how and where did he learn to be misogynist? In any case, it remains to be seen now whether his abject groveling will save his life. “Pakistani pop singer begs forgiveness after being accused of blasphemy,” by Ludovica Iaccino, International Business Times, December 2, 2014:

A former Pakistani pop singer has issued a pleading public apology after a video of him apparently criticising the Prophet Mohammed’s wife was shared on social media, leading to an investigation into suspected blasphemy being launched by authorities.

Junaid Jamshed, who was the lead singer of band Vital Signs, was caught on camera while allegedly making derogatory remarks about the prophet Mohammed’s youngest wife Ayesha.

Jamshed allegedly claimed that the girl would always demand more attention from the Prophet.

“Mother Ayesha was an attention seeker. She would often fake illness to gain the attention of the Prophet Muhammad,” he allegedly said. “Even a prophet’s companionship cannot change the nature of a woman.”

A video of Jamshed’s remarks went viral and prompted hundreds of people to protest and call for his arrest for “hurting religious sentiments of Muslims”.

Sarwat Ijaz Qadri, chief of the Pakistan Sunni Tehreek organisation said: “Juniad Jamshed should be immediately arrested and put on trial under the blasphemy laws.

“He doesn’t deserve to be forgiven for his sacrilegious remarks about the Mother of Believers, Hazrat Ayesha.”

The police have opened a blasphemy investigation and it is also believed that Islamic authorities issued a fatwa – a religious ruling which sometimes results in a death sentence.

The 50-year-old artist issued a public apology in another video published on social media, in which he admitted to making a mistake and pleaded for forgiveness.

“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.”

Jamshed frequently makes television appearances. During one appearance he said women should not drive or leave home without a male guardian.

Blasphemy is a serious crime in Pakistan, which can carry the death sentence in some cases.

The country’s criminal code states: “Whoever, with the deliberate intention of wounding the religious feelings of any person, utters any word or makes any sound in the hearing of that person or makes any gesture in the sight of that person or places any object in the sight of that person, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.”

In 1982, a clause prescribed life imprisonment for “willful” desecration of the Qu’ran.

Then in 1986, a separate clause was inserted to punish blasphemy against the Prophet Mohammed and the penalty recommended was “death, or imprisonment for life”….

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  1. Salah says

    Dec 2, 2014 at 2:28 pm

    He’s simply begging for his life, and he knows it.
    For Sunni Muslims, Aisha is the “Mother of Believers.”
    For Shia Muslims, she’s a whore.

    (Video)
    Shia Muslims celebrating the Death of Aisha and her entrance into Hell while chanting:
    “Aisha in Hell, Aisha in Hell, Aisha in Hell.”

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2012/02/aisha-in-hell-aicha-en-enfer.html

    • mortimer says

      Dec 2, 2014 at 3:16 pm

      “After Abu Bakr and Umar and their daughters were foretold that Abu Bakr and Umar will usurp Rasul Allah’s (s.a.w.a.) Caliphate after his death, they decided to bring forward his death by giving poison to him.” – Behaarol Anwaar / Majlesi = vol. 22, page 239.

      A Sunni hadith confirms it:

      Narrated Abdullah Ibn Massoud: “I am willing to take an oath nine times that the Prophet was murdered, but I am not willing to take an oath even once that he was not. This is because Allah made him a Prophet and a martyr as well.” – Source: Masnad Ahmed, Vol I, Page 408

      • mortimer says

        Dec 2, 2014 at 3:23 pm

        Muhammad Ibn Massoud al-Ayashi related:
        Imam al-Sadiq (Peace be upon him) was sitting with a group of his followers, and asked them: “Do you know whether the Prophet died a natural death or was murdered? Allah the Almighty says: “if then he died or is killed”. The truth is that the Prophet was poisoned in his last days before he died . Aisha and Hafsa administered poison in his food. Upon hearing this, Imam Sadiq’s followers said that they (Aisha, Hafsa) and their fathers were among the worst villains ever created by Allah.”
        Source: Tafseer al-Ayashi, Vol 1, Page 200; Bihar-ul-Anwar, by Allama Al-Majlisi, Vol 22, Page 516

        • Scoffer1 says

          Dec 3, 2014 at 11:24 am

          Where can I purchase a roll of toilet paper with the Koran printed on it?

      • abu usman says

        Dec 2, 2014 at 4:56 pm

        Oh ignorant study history before burping out lies!!!!!!!!!!
        the prophet s.a.w had eaten a piece of meet poisoned by a Jewish women at the battle of khaibar the effect of that poison later caused his demise s.a.w….!
        I hop u got it in your head

        • Salah says

          Dec 2, 2014 at 7:08 pm

          You’re right. According to many Islamic sources Muhammad, to his utmost shame, was poisoned by a jewish woman.
          Mortimer is also right since other Islamic sources agree with his version.
          That’s what usually happens when historians start to lie in order to cover up other lies. That’s what happens when a seventh century bedouin lies and millions of idiots end up believing his lies out of ignorance and/or out of fear.

          http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/03/muhammads-death.html

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 2, 2014 at 8:59 pm

          Another semi-literate Mohammedan, who is enraged over anyone quoting orthodox Shia texts—he prefers the Sunni version. The fact is that none of this has to do with history, since neither version is independently confirmed.

          And odd that he refers not just the “Prophet” but also “his demise” as “s.a.w” (may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon it).

          He was probably just being over-enthusiastic, but this is probably blasphemous as well. Perhaps abu usman will fall afoul of his violent coreligionists just as Junaid Jamshed has…

  2. albert says

    Dec 2, 2014 at 2:33 pm

    Why do western leaders even talk to these medieval clowns, all Islamic countries should be shunned from taking part in the civilised world until they stop their apartheid policies and join the 21st century, I would suggest the first step put every copy of the Koran on the rubbish tip.

    • mortimer says

      Dec 2, 2014 at 3:29 pm

      The clowns have oil.

      • mortimer says

        Dec 2, 2014 at 3:32 pm

        Pakistan needs international pressure to remove its discriminatory blasphemy laws.

        • eric says

          Dec 3, 2014 at 6:05 am

          Any country adopting Islam as it’s government decreed religion necessarily is guided in law by the Quran and therefore approves of ridiculous punishment for crimes against the Prophet. Pakistan is far from the only, or the worst offenders of humanity by virtue of their reliance on the Quran to set punishments for saying virtually anything derogatory about the Prophet or Islam or a muslim leader.

  3. profitsbeard says

    Dec 2, 2014 at 4:33 pm

    Mohammad forbade any music but martial stuff going into battle.

    This “pop singer” should be arrested for making music in defiance of Mohammad’s command, too.

    And calling Aiyesha “the Mother of believers” sounds dangerously close to turning a mere human into a graven icon. (a kind of “Mother of God” like the “Virgin Mary” ) which iconoclastic Islam also forbids.

    They should arrest that guy Qadri, too.

  4. Jack HOLAN says

    Dec 2, 2014 at 5:39 pm

    This is exactly like the Mafia. You disrespected the Family so we’re putting a murder contract out I you!
    You committed blasphemy against the wife of of the Prophet. We’re making a fatwa and you may die for this. Exactly like the Mafia

  5. St. Croix says

    Dec 2, 2014 at 6:59 pm

    Well Ayesha was probably ill a lot. Someone who was married off and had to start having sex with a man when she was a child of nine years old might have all kinds of health problems to deal with–physical and psychological.

  6. gravenimage says

    Dec 2, 2014 at 10:45 pm

    Pakistani pop singer begs forgiveness after being accused of blasphemy

    Junaid Jamshed’s misogyny apparently led him to criticize Aisha. And how and where did he learn to be misogynist?
    …………………………………

    Very true. I also thought it possible that he was Shia, because Shi’ites *hate* Aisha because of her tiff with Ali. But no, he is Sunni—in fact, he is now apparently a Sunni cleric.

    But I’m not the first one this occurred to. There are queries all over the ‘net. Here is a typically hysterical one:

    “Is the singer “Junaid Jamshed” from the Shi’a (shiite)????”

    https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080222080032AAjdp4K

    And it’s not just online—despite Jamshed’s not being Shi’ite, there’s been a protest against him held outside the mausoleum of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan who was also Shia.

    Here’s a very nervous Shi’ite response:

    “Blasphemous Remarks of Deobandi Singer-Turned Cleric Evokes Protest”

    http://www.shiitenews.org/index.php/shiitenews/pakistan/blasphemous-remarks-of-deobandi-singer-turned-cleric-evokes-protest

    These Shi’ites—though they say much worse things about Aisha on a regular basis—are quick to throw Jamshed under the bus and denounce him as a “blasphemer” and “Takfiri terrorist”. A Takfiri is one who by words or deeds is deemed to be a virtual apostate, and hence fair game for violence and murder.

    All this might be just an amusingly ludicrous comedy of errors—except for the fact, of course, that it can quickly lead to imprisonment, riots, or murder.

    God, I hate Islam.

  7. Guy Macher says

    Dec 3, 2014 at 8:47 am

    Jam-boy is confused. Mohamed metes out justice; Jesus, mercy.

  8. rahela says

    Dec 3, 2014 at 12:11 pm

    Its a illegal public offence the worse crime that one can do against islam if Allah did not exist the blaspheming would set free of the criminal act they do its a curse for all muslim brotherhood please pay attention and do not encourage them and coperate these uneducated sorts will be punished the law is the verdict first for islam is real be patience .. may peace be upon the prophet may his soul rest in peace

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 3, 2014 at 6:59 pm

      rahela wrote:

      Its a illegal public offence the worse crime that one can do against islam if Allah did not exist the blaspheming would set free of the criminal act they do its a curse for all muslim brotherhood please pay attention and do not encourage them and coperate these uneducated sorts will be punished the law is the verdict first for islam is real be patience .. may peace be upon the prophet may his soul rest in peace
      …………………………………..

      A vile Mohammedan actually defending the appalling Blasphemy laws—and demanding that we “be patience” while these thuggish laws are enforced. *Ugh*.

      As rahela and her ugly coreligionists would have it, *no* criticism or even questioning of the vicious “Prophet” is allowed, meaning that Muslims can freely continue to rape 9-year-old children, wage violent Jihad, beat their wives, and slaughter Infidels without anyone even daring to protest, since this is all done on the model of the baleful Muhammed.

      Not only is this grotesque destruction of freedom of speech wrong in and of itself, but these laws are often commonly used by Muslims to attack Christians and other Infidels through false accusations, and they are even used by Muslims to get revenge on other Muslims. The laws are often used to take property or to leave marriageable daughters unprotected. It is very common for spurned suitors to accuse the girl’s father of “insulting the Prophet” or “burning a Qur’an”.

      Even in the very few cases where the victim is acquitted by the Shari’ah courts, it is not uncommon for them to then be murdered by the Muslim mob. In many cases just an accusation of “Blasphemy” is a death sentence.

      Right now, Christian Asia Bibi is under sentence of death for “insulting the Prophet” because she dared to say that she loved Jesus.

      And pious Muslims want this to be an “illegal public offence” not just in Muslim hell-holes like Pakistan—they want to see this barbaric Shari’ah law applied *everywhere in the world*.

  9. Barri` says

    Dec 3, 2014 at 8:54 pm

    A Jewish woman just got the blame . It was Aisha and another of his wives .

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