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Pakistan: Police accused of negligence in Muslim mob lynching of Christian couple

Sep 9, 2015 7:09 pm By Robert Spencer

All too often in cases like this one, the police are sympathetic to the lynch mob. They share the same world view. Does Pakistan need a #ChristianLivesMatter movement?

Shama Bibi Sajjad Maseeh

“ASIA/PAKISTAN – Christian couple lynched for blasphemy: the police accused of negligence,” Agenzia Fides, August 31, 2015:

Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – The Supreme Court of Pakistan criticized the inaction of the police in front of the lynching of the Christian couple Shahzad and Shama Masih, accused of blasphemy and killed in Kot Radha Kishan, Punjab, on 4 November 2014. On 24 August, the Court, in a case involving two accused of the lynching, strongly criticized the police for not having intervened to prevent violence and did nothing to protect the two Christian citizens. Five police officers were present at the scene of the crime, while the crowd of extremists who carried out the lynching was made up of about 500 fanatics. The officers are accused of negligence, while the prosecutor argued that the police tried to stop the angry crowd, but failed. An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has charged with murder 106 people deemed responsible for the lynching of the Christian couple, but justice, say Christian lawyers, moves at a slow pace. (PA) (Agenzia Fides 31/08/2015)

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Filed Under: blasphemy, Muslim persecution of Christians, Pakistan Tagged With: Shahzad Masih, Shama Masih


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  1. Fr. Basil says

    Sep 9, 2015 at 7:19 pm

    New Martyrs of Pakistan, pray for us.

    • Jay Boo says

      Sep 9, 2015 at 7:57 pm

      Islam is a hate crime

      • EYESOPEN says

        Sep 9, 2015 at 9:34 pm

        Yes Jay Boo – and a cancer.

        • duh_swami says

          Sep 10, 2015 at 7:07 am

          Hmmm…Cancer does not think, has no philosophy or religion and does not discriminate…It is a medical problem…
          People afflicted would object to being called Mahoundians…
          It’s true that cancer and Islam have similar symptoms up to a point, but when applied to Islam, it is a misdiagnosis…
          I had 4 close relatives die of cancer and none of them were Mahoundians…

  2. RonaldB says

    Sep 9, 2015 at 7:46 pm

    At least the Supreme Court of Pakistan openly criticized the police, and there seems to be a chance over 100 people will be charged with the murder. I doubt if the 5 police would have had any chance against the crowd: it’s not like they have a sense of shame to appeal to. Under Islam, there is no such thing as an individual conscience: only obedience, submission, and fanaticism. If the crowd had been pumped up by religious leaders, highly likely, only a significant armed force would stop them.

    • Jack Diamond says

      Sep 10, 2015 at 2:06 pm

      Calling it a “lynching” is a cover up in itself. The couple was burned alive in a kiln. At the instigation of local mosque leaders.

      “They beat them with wooden clubs on their heads, and hatchets, before they were both tied to a tractor and pulled out onto a road which was under construction, covered with crushed stones.”
      “I think they were unconscious, but still breathing, but the mob was still not willing to leave them alone,” said Yasmeen (Shama’s sister).

      “They took some petrol from a tractor and doused their bodies and threw them in the kiln. Then I lost hope and fled with my children from there.”

      “Another eyewitness reports that when the young couple, beaten to near death, were put into the fire, a large heavy iron sheet was put on top of them to hold them down; as if the crowd wanted to make sure that they would burn.”
      –Brown Pundits, Burnt Offering: the Martyrdom of Shama and Shahzad Masih

      The dead woman’s sister Yasmeen says that during the entire violent attack, a police van was present, but because they were so few, the police did not take charge. “Some men asked them to fire into the air to quell the protestors, because the mob had no weapons to fire back…Shama and her husband might have survived if the police had taken timely action.”
      https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/2014/11/Article_3462820.html/

      This couple worked a modern-day slaves at the brick kiln. The background is:

      “(Shama’s) father-in-law had died recently and a few days later Shama cleaned out his room and disposed of his old papers by burning them. He had been an “amil” (a folk healer) who used various religious texts in his amulets and suchlike, and the burnt papers apparently included some with arabic writing on them. Shama, who was illiterate and so could not read them in any case, burnt the lot and threw the remains on a nearby garbage heap.

      “Three religious leaders of local mosques are accused of inciting a mob of about 400 Muslims…after having found some burned pages of the Koran {i.e.’something’ with arabic writing} in the vicinity of their home…. the crowd asked Masih and his wife to convert to Islam. The two refused. They were seized, locked up for a night and were then killed by the crowd.

      “The 106 people charged yesterday were conducted before the court of Lahore. It is believed that 32 other suspects are still at large. The court confirmed the indictment for the murder. Not all pleaded guilty. According to police, in addition to the three imam Mohammad Hussain, Arshad Baloch and Noorul Hassan, also Yousaf Gujjar, the owner of the brick kiln, incited the crowd.”
      —Agenzia Fides 22/05/2015)

  3. Jay Boo says

    Sep 9, 2015 at 7:55 pm

    When Obama spoke in Charleston SC he was very clear in denouncing the Confederate Battle Flag. He claimed that there was a direct connection between a piece of fabric and violence.

    Yet he calls the Islamic call to prayer the sweetest sound he knows.
    Obama is Satan’s helper.

    • EYESOPEN says

      Sep 9, 2015 at 9:35 pm

      Right again Jay Boo. You’re in rare form tonight!

  4. Jaladhi says

    Sep 9, 2015 at 7:59 pm

    This is not negligence – it is deliberate on part of police!! There are hundreds of cases like this every year and the police just does not take any action against Muslim perpetrators or they themselves might be killed by the mobs. Oh, these are the those millions of peaceful Muslims that teh West and Muslim apologists brag about. Is there anything good in Islam and its followers?? NONE!!

  5. sidney penny says

    Sep 9, 2015 at 8:02 pm

    re: Confederate Battle Flag ( and Obama’s view on it)

    Have a look at he Pakistani flag.

    Is there a direct connection between that piece of fabric and violence?.

  6. Angemon says

    Sep 9, 2015 at 8:27 pm

    The Supreme Court of Pakistan criticized the inaction of the police in front of the lynching of the Christian couple Shahzad and Shama Masih

    Those judges better start watching their backs…

  7. Western Canadian says

    Sep 9, 2015 at 9:24 pm

    Well, if the British police ever have trouble finding recruits in England…. they know where to look.

  8. Charli Mian says

    Sep 10, 2015 at 3:33 am

    When islamo-rabies sweeps through a mob no one is safe.

    God help Europe in the years to come. With tens of millions of carriers of the islamo-rabies virus are being welcomed into European lands, Europe´s suicide by Islam is guaranteed.

    • Marty says

      Sep 10, 2015 at 5:01 am

      So right.
      Our short termist politicians seem to know nothing of history.
      The islamocancer has been in remission sometimes for a
      hundred years, but it always comes back.
      Churchill said we were safe as long as they rejected science.
      They still do, but treasonous Western organisations sell them
      not just cars & TVs , but also weapons of mass destruction.
      From the Battle of Tours through to the invasions & terrorism
      of today, islam is quite simply satanic & our Oldest Enemy.
      Nazism & Communism were hideous, but only lasted for
      relatively short periods – Nazism for little more than a decade.

  9. Matthieu Baudin says

    Sep 10, 2015 at 5:01 am

    “…An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has charged with murder 106 people deemed responsible for the lynching of the Christian couple…”

    I expect they’ll all need to face the same punishment if they’re ever convicted.

  10. Truth Seeker says

    Sep 10, 2015 at 6:31 am

    The Strong Belief is, People who Killed Christian Couple and its Abettors, Facilitators, and Promoters will get Visa to Janaah (Islam’s Paradise). No Muslim will like to lose the Chance to get that Visa. Why to blame Police? After all they are also the Followers of the Teachings.

  11. duh_swami says

    Sep 10, 2015 at 7:31 am

    Pakistan is the ‘Land of the Pure’…It is the duty of the advocates of purity to eliminate the impure, which is everyone but them…All murders of kuffar are purification rituals dedicated to Allah and Mahound. ‘Purity’ does not always mean ‘good’…

  12. Mark Rosenthal says

    Sep 10, 2015 at 4:17 pm

    sharia law
    Muslim Invasion
    WH has said it is letting 10,000 refugees into the
    U.S. Just what we need another 10,000 man army of muslems raping killing
    in the name of islam ..

  13. gravenimage says

    Sep 10, 2015 at 11:06 pm

    Pakistan: Police accused of negligence in Muslim mob lynching of Christian couple
    ……………………..

    As Robert Spencer notes, this is not “negligence”, but *complicity*.

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