No one would dare try to explain to this poor boy why cutting off his hand was a ridiculous thing to do that has destroyed his life. To try to do so would be ethnocentric, racist and “Islamophobic.” One wonders, however, when reading this heartbreaking account, if the glories of multiculturalism and cultural relativism are really all they’re cracked up to be.
The BBC’s warning, “Some readers may find the details that follow disturbing,” is also a manifestation of the fix we’re in. The BBC wants to make the UK into a nation of children that can’t deal with unpleasant realities, and is completely dependent upon the state to take care of them. That no one in the West has the courage to deal in the realm of ideas with the beliefs and assumptions that led to this poor self-made manco is a demonstration of our general childishness, weakness and pusillanimity.
“The boy accused of blasphemy who cut off his hand,” BBC, January 19, 2016 (thanks to Vikram):
After a Pakistani boy cut off his own hand following a public accusation of blasphemy, BBC Urdu’s Iram Abbasi travelled to his village in Punjab province to find out what happened. She is the first international broadcaster to speak to him. Some readers may find the details that follow disturbing.
“Why should I feel any pain or trouble in cutting off the hand that was raised against the Holy Prophet?”
Those are the words of 15-year-old Qaiser (not his real name) who chopped off his right hand just a few days ago believing he had committed blasphemy.
Many believe fellow villagers started shaming the boy after the local cleric had made the accusation of blasphemy – and that is why Qaiser felt the need to prove his love for the Prophet Muhammad.
On 11 January, Qaiser was attending a celebration of the Prophet’s birth at a mosque in his village in north-eastern Punjab.
The cleric hosting it worked the crowd into a fervour and, a few hours into the celebration, called out: “Who among you is a follower of Muhammad?” Everyone raised their hands.
He followed it with another question: “Who among you doesn’t believe in the teachings of the Holy Prophet? Raise your hands!”
Qaiser, mishearing, inadvertently raised his hand.
Witnessed by about 100 worshippers, the cleric immediately accused him of blasphemy and the boy returned home to prove his love for the Prophet – by cutting off his own hand.
For a 15-year-old, Qaiser looked exceptionally frail when I met him. But his fight with pain and fear was outweighed by a sense of religious righteousness.
“When I raised my right hand unwittingly, I realised I had committed blasphemy and needed to atone for this,” he told the BBC.
It appears it didn’t matter to him whether it was a mistake or not – he couldn’t live with the shame of the accusation without punishing himself, so had to undo it.
“I came back home and went to the grass-cutting machine, but found the place dark so I took my uncle’s phone to point some light at my hand. I placed it under the machine and chopped it off in a single swirl.”
Qaiser picked his severed hand up from under the machine and, bleeding profusely, placed it on a tray and took it back to the mosque, less than 100m from his home.
Asked about everyone’s reaction, he said: “They didn’t say anything. A few people came forward to take me to the hospital, before I passed out.”
Religious fervour did not only override empathy among the villagers – even Qaiser does not seem disposed to self-pity.
“I didn’t feel any pain when I chopped it off so why would I feel any now? The hand that commits blasphemy should be chopped off,” he said, with a restrained smile.
His entire village is celebrating the act of expiation. The extreme nature of this “devotional” act has made Qaiser into a revered figure.
He is being heralded among the villagers, and to a certain degree by himself, as a righteous hero. Most of his fellow villagers are illiterate and belong to an extremely conservative Islamic sect – their profoundly religious life is reflected in the mosques you find every few paces in this part of Pakistan.
But Qaiser’s act has even drawn admiration from surrounding villages.
Farooq, a man in his mid-thirties, was one of those who came to pay his respects. Appearing at Qaiser’s home, he took the boy’s left hand, kissed it and pressed it against his forehead. Following local custom, he also placed some cash in the pocket of the teenager he hails as a hero.
“I heard that a boy sacrificed his own hand for the love of our Prophet. I came here to meet him.”
“The boy’s gesture to show his love for the Prophet is unmatchable. I’m here to encourage him and to pay homage,” he continued, his eyes brimming with tears of affection.
Qaiser is the youngest of five children and the first to continue his school studies into his mid-teens. He had always been known for his strong religious convictions.
While Qaiser was having his wounds dressed in a poorly-equipped clinic, his father told us: “I hardly make ends meet.”
Breaking down, he added: “I don’t even have money to pay the nurse. I also want a new hand for my son. My only solace is that he did it for the Prophet.”
The cleric has been arrested under anti-terrorism laws, and denies charges of inciting hatred and violence. But the family does not want the cleric to be punished.
That Qaiser punished himself so severely after being accused of blasphemy is unprecedented in Pakistan. But some say he may have been spared a worse fate in an increasingly conservative country, where people accused of blasphemy, or those who defend them, can end up victims of mob violence and lynching….

Don McKellar says
“His entire village is celebrating the act of expiation. The extreme nature of this “devotional” act has made Qaiser into a revered figure.”
This is the bit that makes me shake my head reading this story. Moslems are a people so brainwashed by their death cult that this is their reaction to this lunatic action.
And the BBC is so brainwashed that even though this points like a giant flashing arrow that there is something seriously wrong with Islam, simply won’t register.
But then the 27,670 deadly Islamic terror attacks since 9/11 — most of them reported on in some way by the BBC — hasn’t made a dent in their brainwashing, so why should this?
Marty says
Perfect comment.
Islam is not “just another religion” (or “faith” as the PC wretches describe religion).
It is a destructive death cult which has given the world nothing but death & oppression.
The problem is that evolution has no destination & no progress.
Just the survival & triumph of the fittest, ie most ruthless & numerous sections of humanity.
Right now the mohammedans are winning with the active assistance of Western politicians.
If non muslims used their superior intelligence, we could send these wretches back to their
own cesspits & see islam go the way of its more liberal offspring, Nazism.
John Harvey says
This story is very sad, but the impression that Islam has given the world nothing but ill is an illusion. Islam used to be largely beneficent ( e.g., circa AD 1000) and currently the Red Crescent does good work.
maghan says
Like what? Note that plagiarisms poachings don’t count.
gravenimage says
John Harvey wrote:
Islam used to be largely beneficent ( e.g., circa AD 1000)
…………………………………..
You mean when they were robbing and murdering Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land, conquering India and Afghanistan and slaughtering the Hindus and Buddhists there, threatening Byzantium, and oppressing the Christians and Jews of Spain?
I’m sure Islam’s victims considered this “largely beneficent”…sarc/off
More:
and currently the Red Crescent does good work.
…………………………………..
You mean like this?
“Red Crescent worker shows #Pallywood child star photo of IDF incident: ‘Good job,’ he told the child. ‘We got them.'”
https://twitter.com/shurathadin/status/638729905182605312
Or how about *this*:
“Palestinian Red Crescent workers part of Hamas terror squad”
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=3789
Phil says
John Harvey, Sir, I must seriously question your claim Islam was once “largely beneficent”? Exactly when was it so, please? – I’d be delighted to be educated on this matter. (But please let’s not spout utter rubbish about Al-Andalus or the Mughals. Moorish Iberia was a hellhole of al-Maliki jurisprudence, replete with delightful episodes like the slaughter of the Jewish population of Granada in 1066 – which incidentally pre-dated the Massacre of the Rhineland Jews, was celebrated by Muslim poets, whereas the Church and Western intelligencia denounced the Rhineland massacre at the time and ever since, and the Granada slaughter resulted in the very nasty death of many more people. As for the Mughals – one name : Aurangzeb. The Hindu-killer).
Incidentally, the Red Crescent is NOT Islamic – it is a Muslim rebranding of the Red Cross. The concept is Judaeo-Christian, the organization and format European and its founder was the Swiss Jean-Henri Dunant – nothing but the name and symbol are Muslim, simply to make the concept more palatable to them.
Whereas the Red Cross for the most part is a wholly responsible and accountable humanitarian organization, fully worthy of the accolades normally heaped on it, the Red Crescent is dysfunctional and frequently corrupt.
You might like to read this article from 2008:
Iraqi Red Crescent Paralyzed by Allegations
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/24/AR2008092403938.html
John Harvey says
To gravenimage:
You make some good points, but I must insist that I was not saying that Islam had never done evil, but that it is false to say that Islam has never done good. With regard to the period c. 1000, I was thinking of achievements within Islamic civilization in the fields of the arts, the sciences and philosophy .
John says
to gravenimage
I did not defend FGM, which is evil; I pointed out that the indicated hadith does not mandate it.
I also oppose rape etc.
gravenimage says
John Harvey wrote:
it is false to say that Islam has never done good. With regard to the period c. 1000, I was thinking of achievements within Islamic civilization in the fields of the arts, the sciences and philosophy .
…………………….
Ah, the “Golden Age” of Islam, which was really just the death throes of Roman, Hindu, Persian, Byzantine, and other cultures.
Here’s an excellent article debunking this whitewash:
“The Myth of Islamic Science”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/07/the-myth-of-islamic-science
And aren’t you aware that Islam’s greatest philosopher–Al Ghazali, who lived around this time–is heralded by Muslims as the destroyer of philosophy?
“Al-Ghazali: Muslim Destroyer of Philosophy”
http://newenglishreview.org/Paul_Austin_Murphy/Al-Ghazali%3A_Muslim_Destroyer_of_Philosophy
Why do apologists here always assume Jihad Watch readers are ignorant of history?
Tom says
Bull Shit! I am tired of the apologists attempting to make this evil religion sound like it is/was a normal entity. It is NOT. They are screwballs with an inadequate sense of humanity. Stop attempting to rationalize their behavior and call it what it is in actuality. It is an evil religion hellbent on ruling the world. Whay can’t you see that? Wake up!!
mortimer says
All cultures are not created equal. Even Leftards and cultural Marxists agree. They do not wish Aztec religion to be practiced in their societies, however, Stalin certainly practiced a massive form of human sacrifice.
Islamic human sacrifice is haphazard and inconsistent and depends on the spontaneity of the individual vigilante.
This young Pakistani is a ‘self-vigilante’ in punishing himself…however, he applied the wrong Sharia punishment for blasphemy. It should have been death. There is no repentance allowed for blaspheming the prophet. The only way out of death is to prove one is mentally ill.
Muslims have no excuse for their stupidity. All the information about their vile, stupid, amoral, incoherent Death Cult is on line and freely available to them.
Muslims, get out of it.
mortimer says
DK wrote: “the BBC is so brainwashed that even though this points like a giant flashing arrow that there is something seriously wrong with Islam, simply won’t register.”
Disagree. Facts are stubborn things. Even journalists at the Beeb are starting to realize cultural relativism is false.
Journalists have no excuse for not discovering basic doctrines of Islam: taqiyya, apartheid, misogyny, vigilantism, obscurantism. They are all there on the internet.
The story of the little boy is a perfect example of obscurantism.
prebangian says
Was it Mohammed who said “My yoke is not easy, my burden is not light”?
John Stefan Obeda says
Prebangian: are you serious? St Matthew in chapter 11 verse 30 records Jesus Who came from heaven to have said: “For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” This is because Jesus blesses His followers with His rest, the forgiveness of the sins of the world which gives His followers peace and joy, and He is with His followers always and helping them to bear their burdens and He has promised that no heavier burdens will come on His followers than they can carry. But as far as Muhammad is concerned,: his yoke is impossible to bear for no one can save himself by his own sinful works and efforts and Muhammad’s burden, therefore, is eternal death in hell.
gravenimage says
John, reread prebangian’s post. He was specifically saying that what Muhammed demands of his followers was *not* the same as Jesus.
Adrian says
O, glorious youthful madrasa scholar!
.. had you not been born into Islam, and if you had children of your own, you would have felt your heart break in two if your son dismembered himself like you did…
just one of your tears would have been worth a thousand promises of Muhammed’s Allah and all your misplaced devotion… you would have seen in one second the love of the real God who only wants happiness for you…
maybe one day you will realize the difference, and see the light and realize there is a God of love, not fear.
Mo says
Notice how the vile writers of this story keep saying “religion/religious” and using the word “conservative”? But nowhere do they say the obvious – that this is ISLAM and it is EVIL.
I was wondering how this kid could have possibly done to this himself. If he did it with a machine, it makes it more believable. What a horrible story, all the way around. How brainwashed people are by this evil death cult. Truly sad.
I know! Let’s let people who follow this same ideology into our countries, unscreened, by the THOUSANDS!
BC says
It is about religion so how can you write a story about religion without using the words. You are ridiculous
Mo says
@ BC
“t is about religion so how can you write a story about religion without using the words. You are ridiculous”
You are ridiculous.
It’s a story about the specific religion of ISLAM. If Christianity or Judaism had such teachings they’d be repeating those names over and over and over.
gravenimage says
Very true, Mo.
Laura says
And why do we keep referring to the ‘Prophet Muhammad’ in reverential terms…he was as much a prophet as Yogi Bear. And, at least Yogi made us laugh, maybe we should start laughing at muslims and their ridiculous beliefs and practices, rather than giving their crimes a free pass?
Sam says
Because we are cowards.
Tom says
Not all of us but I get your concept. We must act soon and voting for Trump is beginning. He is the only one to speak out against the social cancer known as Islam.
Register all not so registered; convince all to vote Trump!
This guy is our ONLY HOPE!!!
Kepha says
I could not agree more, Laura. I have people near and dear to me who mock the Bible at the drop of a hat and profess to be disciples of Voltaire and Marx, yet they use the term “the prophet” in reverential tones for the despicable Muhammad of Mecca.
Islam: Making Islamophobes since 622 A.D.
billybob says
I refer to him as “the Prophet Muhammad (May He be eternally sodomized by goats)” to show proper reverence and give him the respect he deserves.
John Stefan Obeda says
Billybob: If Muhammad were drowning in the lake, we followers of Jesus would throw him an inner tube, We certainly would not hurt him, i.e. kick him, etc, but respect him for his Islamic views and actions which are of the devil? God told satan: get thee behind me. I would tell Muhammad, get behind me satan. And, of course, he would or some fellow satan of his would behead me.
Wellington says
My appellation of choice, Laura, is the Profiteer Mohammed.
Bob says
Not only is it ‘evil’, it’s downright satanic!
Saleem Smith says
Mohammed is the ‘ultimate sacred cow’ and those who dare to criticize him or his religion are to be killed or have “their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides…” Not that this has anything to do with the Quran or Islam.
Quran 005.033:
Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment.
We ex-Muslims know that Mohammedanism is a lie.
خَليفة says
… The holy prophet ?..
This poor kid didn’t fully read his Qur’an. Qur’an says NO man is holy, thus Muhammed is not holy. It sounds like he was afraid for his life and wanted to prove to his “friends” that he was a true believer, and what better way than to chop off a hand. Poor kid made a fool of himself for nothing.
Jesus, is declared holy by the Quran, only God is holy, hmmmm 1+1= ???
Christopher H says
Excellent Point! 😎
Westman says
The Imam – stupid is as stupid says..
The Village – stupid is as stupid supports what stupid says..
The boy – stupid is as stupid does..
Islam – plan designed for stupids…
BBC – too stupid too recognize stupid..
Vlad says
One cannot get anymore idiotic than a Muslim.
This act is proof.
Now, if just all of them start doing the same, but instead of cutting off their hand, cut off their dicks.
That really would show devotion to Allah 🙂
and would save a lot of problems for the rest of us.
Go Mo go, cut off your dick.
Jkissy says
That really would have solve the problem for ever, if only all their dicks got chopped off.
Singh the Sikh says
Pakistan is the arse or the world and produces shit like this young fellow, his parents, and fellow villages.
180 million of them. Pity India for having such a neighbour. The offspring of copulating cousions are both mad and dangerous. To think that countries like Britain are turning a blind eye to all this and importing Pakistans by the thousands.
Marty says
Well said.
Sikhs, are the opposite of muslims, & are generally good citizens of
Western lands.
grace says
This ideology is simply insane. If anyone was doing the things done a cording to sharia law and went to a psychiatrist, they would say were were deluded. But call it a religion and add the race card, and voila….you have “the most ancient religion of highest scholarship” (Malcome Turnbull Aus PM).
Vlad says
You mean Malcolm Turncoat, surely
Come back Tony, we need you. Please come back.
grace says
I would like Tony to join ALA. It would put them on the map with people who hate islam but have no idea of alternative parties. I will be voting ALA and One Nation. ,
Corey Bernardi did a good job answering Annabel Crabb’s questions on his view on islam on ABC today, given she was clearly biased with the stupid left wing thinking.
Confectioner says
Was it Clockmed ? Doesn’t look like he is faking it this time!!!
Got to hand it to him. Such devotion.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
This is a job for the creative young inventor Clockmed, horologist turned prostheticist.
Tom says
You learn something new every day.
Horology: the study of time measurement and more specifically, the making of clocks. Who knew that was the etiology of the word hour?
Thanks, that may come in handy during Jeopardy!
John Stefan Obeda says
Tom: is the word “etymology” that you want?
Tom says
Etiology: the investigation or attribution of the cause or reason for something, often expressed in terms of historical or mythical explanation.
I do understand your point about word origins, and it is well taken.
Tom
Stephen Lee says
There’s No Holy in their prophet bcos of his lies, kills, rapes, false teachings, indoctrination, politics in their belief.
Chris says
He was accused of blasphemy in front of a crowd of people ( men I should think ) who all looked at him with hatred. I bet he couldn’t get out of there quick enough and cutting off his hand, in his mind, wasn’t optional. No one dares speak out against Islam for fear of their lives, this is the reason it is so successful.
gravenimage says
So true.
Biff H says
Islam is cult that celebrates self-mutilation as a form of worship. Two examples that come to mind are female genital mutilation and the flailing mutilations of the devout during Shia’s ashura festival. This incident is a “logical extension” of that mindset.
Judi says
Don’t be surprised if the UK offers to bring him over, fit him with a prosthetic hand and give him and his family asylum.
BC says
I am amazed he did not get tetanus using a lawn mower to do the job
balam says
t is so sad that even in the 21st century,the Muslims are so brain washed,brain damaged,brain dead or simply brainless.One Muslim scholars of Al Azhar University ,Cairo wrote a book revealing that when MOHAMMED MOVED FROM MECCA TO MEDINA,HIS FOLLOWERS THERE USED TO EAT HIS FAECES AND DRINK HIS HOLY URINE OUT OF DEVOTION FOR HIM. THE BOOK WAS LATER WITHDRAWN UNDER MUSLIM PROTESTS FOR REVEALING THE TRUTH. ISLAM IS A STRONG DETERGENT FOR INTELLECT.
grace says
More like brain acid.
Charli Main says
Another Muslim lunatic modelling himself on Islam´s biggest lunatic—-mad Mohammed of Mecca.
Tom says
When I was growing up, I could never understand the need for the Christian churches to send people around the world to convert the non-believers to Christianity. I thought it was rather pompous and self serving, thinking they were looking for more herd for their flocks and coffers.
Now I know why!!! These Muslim fools have been sold a bill of goods and received a bag full of hot air for their time. I have postulated their mental & social retardation was due to the water quality but I need to amend that theory to include inbreeding, parasitism, and poor diet.
Obviously, we need to include pork into their diet, as the lack of bacon is making them insane. Bacon deprivation is now the leading cause of Muslim insanity.
Kepha says
Tom, I’m another eater of “any part of piggy”, as the late noel Coward put it–and I adhere to a religion that says it’s what comes out of the heart rather than what goes into the mouth that defiles a man (Mark 7) while at the same time tells me to eat all kinds of critters in order to share my faith with people who had no dietary restrictions. But I disagree that it’s bacon deprivation leading Muslim insanity. After all, I’ve known a lot of orthodox Jews who observed the laws of kashrut, yet were anything but insane.
John says
It is the lack of alcohol that drives them insane.
duh_swami says
Islam creates psychotic episodes in the pious…Some times involving self abuse….What is the sound of one hand clapping? Ask this dope, he knows…
Aussie Infidel says
This hapless young man obviously had been indoctrinated from birth with this intolerant, irrational creed, and the barbaric punishments under its Sharia law. As bad as the situation was, he might have been spared an even worse fate – of being killed by his more militant peers. Even today, execution or stoning to death is often the fate of apostates – and blasphemers – in many Islamic countries. There are plenty of verses in Islamic scripture to justify these abominable acts.
From the Quran:
“Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment,” (Quran 5:33).
“[As for] the thief, the male and the female, amputate their hands in recompense for what they committed as a deterrent [punishment] from Allah . And Allah is Exalted in Might and Wise.” (Quran 5:38).
Islamic law in The Reliance of the Traveller:
“There is no expiation for killing someone who has left Islam” … even when someone besides the caliph kills him.” (ROT o5.4).
“There is no indemnity for killing an apostate (or any expiation, since it is killing someone who deserves to die). (ROT o8.4).
And from the Hadith: “Muhammad said: ‘Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him’.” (Bukhari 9:84:57).
Laura says
So, now the fool will have to wipe his arse and eat with the SAME hand!
Hamalot says
No way. Just needs to visit a second hand shop.
PRCS says
I got it!
Tom says
You made me laugh so hard. I needed that after reading about all the Islamic atrocities.
Very, very funny.
Aardvark says
LOL!
isabella van der westhuizen says
Hey man I don’t insult the Holy Prophet han hall
Sam says
Islam is a disgusting cult but lets face it is extremely effective.
st4rt5r says
Poor guy, he did not realize that his brain caused his hand to be raised.
notaluvvie says
Perhaps if that were pointed out to him Young Stumpy there could do the same with his head. Certainly a Darwin Awards candidate.
Mark says
Pease view share and give a thumbs up to the following documentary. https://youtu.be/t_Qpy0mXg8Y. It really exposes the trechery of Islam. The west needs to have more children. In the west raising children has become an expensive and time consuming hobby. Children used to add to the familys income.
vlparker says
Has Obama invited him to the White House yet?
Hope says
This is not anything we need or want in the United States. Multiculturalism is a curse when taken to the extent of condoning violence and ignorance. Anyone with a working brain can see that this backward mentality is inconsistent with everything we value. Keep it in the Middle East where it belongs.
(Dr.) Sandy Kramer says
How disquieting, but not unexpected. In spite of countless stories relating the insatiable fervor of Islamists, Western countries continue to adhere to the elusive illusion that assimilation is achievable. My mind reels backwards decades to the prophetic lyrics, “When will they ever learn?” The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.
PRCS says
I question the veracity of this story.
He went home, cut off one hand with a lawn mower in a dark room, using a (cell?) phone for illumination, and then, bleeding profusely (no reference to a tourniquet) and–despite claiming the event was not physically painful–found a plate, placed the severed hand on it, and took it–on foot?–roughly the length of a footfall field to the mosque?
C’mon.
There’s something missing in this story.
How does one say bullshit in Urdu?
Westman says
After seeing the MSM stories about ‘Clockboy” I’m surprised that they didn’t say this self-amputator invented the lawnmower.
PRCS says
True, true.
abad says
Yes that lawn mower part is very suspect.
What the hell do you need a lawnmower for when you live in the sandbox?
Muslims are freaks of nature.
Tom says
I interpreted the lawn mower as a translation error. What we think of as a lawn mower is probably not what they consider a lawn mower. My guess was a device similar to a wood chipper, in which material is thrown in and the material is broken down for hatch or fodder for the animals.
Regardless, we are facing a serious social problem that very few are willing to acknowledge let alone discuss openly. Most everyone seems to have forgotten about 9/11. WTF?
Its not if but when these mad dogs strike again, that we can rally around a movement to suppress Islam in our country. Not only do advocate banning Muslims from coming into our country, I demand the illegal ones be deported immediately. Let start a nationwide citizenry check; those here illegally will be sent back to their country of origin with a flight charged to their host nation.
gravenimage says
abad, your assumption that Pakistan is all desert is mistaken. As for the “lawn mower”, this is probably some kind of agricultural equipment–possibly a combine harvester:
http://g04.s.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1_qUmJVXXXXc8XpXXq6xXFXXXS/Pakistan-hot-sale-Wheat-Combine-harvester-with.jpg
These machines have *very* sharp blades.
Matthieu Baudin says
“…One wonders, however, when reading this heartbreaking account, if the glories of multiculturalism and cultural relativism are really all they’re cracked up to be…”
Well said, the pathos is entirely in place.
It’s essential to judge, to make distinctions and to discriminate between things; any things, including the array of cultural beliefs shaping behavior in the world. Radical multiculturalism and impervious Cultural Relativism are dead ends for any society that cares for the most basic welfare of real human beings.
UNCLE VLADDI says
By sharia tenets, 15 (after puberty) is old enough to be tried for blasphemy.
But, re: “Qaiser, mishearing, inadvertently raised his hand.”
He should have cut off his ears for mis-hearing it.
Then he wouldn’t have to listen to any more BS.
😉
PS: Naturally, this is idolatry (which liberals love to embrace) – blaming the object, not the human intent. Sort of like their love for blaming “guns” not crooks for violence.
gravenimage says
The BBC’s warning, “Some readers may find the details that follow disturbing,” is also a manifestation of the fix we’re in.
…………………………………….
It is indeed. If BBC viewers are not able to handle an interview with this boy in the aftermath of his self-mutilation, how the hell are they going to handle Jihad terror attacks in the streets?
Will they fight back–or at least run away–or just put their hands over their ears and chant “la la la not happening”?
More:
“Why should I feel any pain or trouble in cutting off the hand that was raised against the Holy Prophet?”
Those are the words of 15-year-old Qaiser (not his real name) who chopped off his right hand just a few days ago believing he had committed blasphemy.
…………………………………….
Islam is a such a literalist creed. Clearly poor deluded Qaiser loves the psychopathic “Prophet”–but raising his hand after simply mishearing a question is still considered “Blasphemy”.
More:
Many believe fellow villagers started shaming the boy after the local cleric had made the accusation of blasphemy – and that is why Qaiser felt the need to prove his love for the Prophet Muhammad.
Witnessed by about 100 worshippers, the cleric immediately accused him of blasphemy and the boy returned home to prove his love for the Prophet – by cutting off his own hand.
…………………………………….
Actually, they didn’t just “shame” the boy–they also violently threatened him.
I believe the boy’s main motivation for cutting off his hand was indeed hysteria over his having inadvertently “blasphemed”–but fear of the mob doing even worse may have been a contributing factor, as well.
And how insane is this, in any case? This is a small village–Qaiser’s Imam and neighbors must have known he was a devout boy–yet that clearly made no difference in their reaction here.
More:
For a 15-year-old, Qaiser looked exceptionally frail when I met him…
“I came back home and went to the grass-cutting machine, but found the place dark so I took my uncle’s phone to point some light at my hand. I placed it under the machine and chopped it off in a single swirl.”
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Quite a few posters here–for whatever reason–doubted or even scoffed at the idea that this boy had cut off his own hand. Do they believe it now?
And this boy took a grass-cutting machine and a cell phone–both useful devices–and used them to needlessly maim himself in the name of the “Prophet”.
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His entire village is celebrating the act of expiation. The extreme nature of this “devotional” act has made Qaiser into a revered figure.
He is being heralded among the villagers, and to a certain degree by himself, as a righteous hero. Most of his fellow villagers are illiterate and belong to an extremely conservative Islamic sect – their profoundly religious life is reflected in the mosques you find every few paces in this part of Pakistan.
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There is nothing “profoundly religious” about this perversity.
What kind of life will Qaiser have now–especially as an illiterate who would likely have to rely on physical labor to earn a living?
Of course, given the reaction of so many in and near his village, Qaiser may have a bright future ahead as a religious beggar…
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That Qaiser punished himself so severely after being accused of blasphemy is unprecedented in Pakistan. But some say he may have been spared a worse fate in an increasingly conservative country, where people accused of blasphemy, or those who defend them, can end up victims of mob violence and lynching….
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This is just what I was saying.
Cutting his own hand off is pretty extreme–but is likely nothing compared to what he would have suffered at the hands of the mob.
God, I hate Islam.
Tom says
So do I and I never hated anything in my life. I disliked the nuns in Catholic school, sisters of St Joseph, real mean mothers, but now understand their commitment to discipline. Sisters, sorry for anything bad I ever said about you.
Muslims: how long do you think we will tolerate these atrocities?
Frank Day says
“Many believe fellow villagers started shaming the boy after the local cleric had made the accusation of blasphemy – and that is why Qaiser felt the need to prove his love for the Prophet Muhammad”
Perhaps he instinctively knew that by sacrificing his hand he was saving his neck.
wallace says
Pleased to see the young man had the forethought not to remove his shit removal hand, that would indeed be tragic.
tonyloaf says
I give the boy credit for cutting off his hand instead of becoming a jihadist in order to prove his loyalty.
Tom says
Muslim/Islam is a sick, depraved, ignorant, and disgusting religion that believes in pedophilia and practices misogyny. It needs to be annihilated; sooner as opposed to later. Better hurry before they get us first!