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India: Muslims jailed for cutting off teacher’s hand for “blasphemy”

May 10, 2015 8:04 pm By Robert Spencer

TJ JosephThis is the kind of thing that before too long we will see in the U.S., courtesy the political and media elites that refuse to confront and oppose those who violently enforce Sharia, and instead attack those who do oppose them.

“Radical Islamists jailed after chopping off Indian teacher’s hand for perceived blasphemy,” 9news.com.au, May 11, 2015:

A group of Islamists responsible for chopping off an Indian teacher’s hand after they incorrectly believed he had used the name of the Prophet Mohamed in an exam question have been jailed.

TJ Joseph, a professor in Kerala at the Thodupuzha Newman college, was arrested by local police and received multiple death threats in April 2010 after using a passage from a Malayalam film screenplay, which featured a conversation between God and a character named Muhammed, in an exam for his undergraduate students.

But the passage used by the Bachelor of Commerce professor actually depicted a conversation between God and a fictional character called Muhammed, named after the film director, P.T. Kunju Muhammed – rather than the Islamic Prophet.

Mr Joseph said he named the character after the director and did not realise people might believe the common name was in reference to the Prophet.

Despite his claims, he was attacked by 13 men from the radical organisation the Popular Front of India in July that year.

The attackers hacked his right hand off during the incident.

The men have now been convicted and handed sentences between three and eight years of jail time, The Independent has reported.

A Kerala court later exonerated the teacher of the charge that he had offended religious sentiments, according to The Hindu Times.

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  1. Jay Airahs says

    May 10, 2015 at 8:12 pm

    Interfaith dialog with people who follow the Koran?
    A delusion.

    • Alex says

      May 10, 2015 at 8:16 pm

      Well said.

      • Lia Wissing says

        May 11, 2015 at 5:08 am

        And the Chrislammers think they’ll not be beheaded …

  2. Gary says

    May 10, 2015 at 8:17 pm

    Something you’ll never hear a Muslim proclaim to the world. Yet they claim to be “The Religion of Peace”………

    “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. This is my command: Love each other.”

    John 15:9-17

    Nope…. Muslims can’t love each other, let alone their enemies the “Infidels.” They’re to busy ENFORCING their MANDATORY SUBMITION TO SATAN!

    “The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, “and his angels with him.
    Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:
    “Now have come the salvation and the power
    and the kingdom of our God,
    and the authority of his Messiah.
    For the accuser of our brothers and sisters,
    who accuses them before our God day and night,
    has been hurled down.
    They triumphed over him
    by the blood of the Lamb
    and by the word of their testimony;
    they did not love their lives so much
    as to shrink from death.
    Therefore rejoice, you heavens
    and you who dwell in them!
    But woe to the earth and the sea,
    because the devil has gone down to you!
    He is filled with fury,
    because he knows that his time is short.”

    Revelation 12:9-12

  3. Jaladhi says

    May 10, 2015 at 8:44 pm

    This is the face of true Islam!! Why is the West reluctant to recognize it?? Instead the West keep promoting the lies told by Muslims – pretending to be peaceful and victims of Islamophobia. These are the tactics Muslims adopted from day one – it is unfortunate for the world that the seventh century Meccans were unable wipe them out thus leaving this scourge to live on for the misery of humanity. The West still has time to take a stand fight this scourge on humanity. Once the West goes there goes the whole world. India did survive the onslaught of Muslims from eighth century onwards but this time around Indians( Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Christians) won’t survive either. In other words, West is the last stand if the world has to survive Muslim atrocities. Indians may think that Muslims are living peacefully with them but the incidents like this hand chopping shows this peace is only a mirage.

    Better wake up. There is no point having in this false sense of moral superiority to Muslims and not fight them now but it will not help them when Muslims come on them shouting allahu akbar!!

  4. RG says

    May 10, 2015 at 8:54 pm

    Islam at its very root is a demented philosophy of blood lust! It’s high time for Western democracies everywhere to OUTLAW IT for the deceptive cancerous poison that it is!!!!!

  5. Jaladhi says

    May 10, 2015 at 9:08 pm

    >”The men have now been convicted and handed sentences between three and eight years of jail time, The Independent has reported.”

    This is awfully light sentence considering what these Muslims did to the professor – chopping his right hand off. Perhaps all of these Muslims should have been punished in the same way – chopping right hand of all of these SOBs. Only then they might understand the gravity of their atrocity!!

    • t. says

      May 10, 2015 at 9:57 pm

      Islam is a savage cult, on a massive scale!

    • Peggy says

      May 10, 2015 at 10:06 pm

      They get to walk out of prison after a few years with both their hands intact but this poor man is going to be cripped for the rest of his life. They got off too lightly.
      Muslims feel entitled to do whatever they want. This has to be beaten out of them.

  6. mortimer says

    May 11, 2015 at 1:10 am

    VIOLENT REPRESSED MUSLIMS, just like violent, repressed, wild animals kept as EXOTIC PETS by certain foolish people are ticking time bombs.

    How many TICKING HUMAN TIME BOMBS can we import to the US, CANADA, AUSTRALIA and EUROPE before there is a tipping point?

    When we reach the tipping point, Muslims will riot and demand Sharia law and all human rights and civil liberties will be prepressed en masse within a few short years.

    We have freedom of expression. Let’s use it.

    No to medieval, man-made, malicious, discriminatory Sharia law!

  7. mortimer says

    May 11, 2015 at 1:17 am

    Since 2014, India now has almost complete freedom of expression due to a landmark Supreme Court decision quashing blasphemy laws.

    The Court concluded that with over 1.1 billion Indians, no one can determine which of them knows what ‘blasphemy’ is. The Court could not decide the definition of ‘blasphemy’.

  8. Matthieu Baudin says

    May 11, 2015 at 1:51 am

    India will not lay down and die in the face of violent jihad and sharia outrages. Many communal outbreaks have been ignited by Islamic lunacy and aggression and consequently India is one of a small group of countries that knows the beast well and is prepared to act and stop it in its tracks.

  9. arish says

    May 11, 2015 at 6:04 am

    When world will understand the game plan of arabs who never worked and looted carvans to feed themselves. This conversion to ISLAM your locals to islam is following is long term plan to use them to feed them with their daughters and sisters ( for sex ) and Haj a way to get funds to live good life.
    Luckily now we have found Oil for them so They are using funds to convert more for long term benefits . No Arab girl allowed to marry a foolish convert.

  10. Angemon says

    May 11, 2015 at 9:20 am

    Radical Islamists jailed after chopping off Indian teacher’s hand for perceived blasphemy

    Keyword being “perceived”. I’ve seen muslims defending sharia as somehow being “fair”. Well, a fair law system should have the capability to pay for injustices. Is the poor guy getting his hand back?

  11. USMAN says

    May 11, 2015 at 10:25 am

    This reminds me of an incident in the year 2000 where the Muslim authorities in the Sharia State of Zamfara in Nigeria authorized the amputation of the hand, that was later put in a hot oil, of a Muslim Fulani man who was wrongly accused of stealing his own cow. When the Muslim clerics realized later that they made a mistake and that the cow rightfully belonged to the said Fulani man, they compensated the Fulani man with a bag of maize. You can now see how backward and barbaric Islam is.

    • t. says

      May 11, 2015 at 4:39 pm

      It is even beyond backward and barbaric! Sometimes, it’s really frustrating and discouraging to see how many non Muslims in western countries willfully ignoring facts and reality about Islam’s belief system and Jihad.

  12. Tammy Smith says

    May 11, 2015 at 6:36 pm

    This is why we have trials in America.This is why we have a Justice system.It is better to err on the side of Grace….and this is why God will judge what man cannot see.

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