Relevant here is a statement attributed to Muhammad: “I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah’s Apostle, and offer the prayers perfectly and give the obligatory charity, so if they perform that, then they save their lives and property from me except for Islamic laws and then their reckoning (accounts) will be done by Allah.” (Bukhari 1.2.24)
Syed Anees Shah is saying essentially the same thing: their lives will be safe is they accept Islam.
“Youhanabad lynching: Christian suspects asked to convert in return for release,” by Rana Tanveer, Express Tribune, March 30, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A prosecutor has reportedly asked members of a minority community facing trial in an anti-terrorism court over lynching of two men that he ‘can guarantee their acquittal’ if they renounce their faith and embrace Islam, rights activists claim.
Some 42 Christians have been charged with lynching the two men after twin suicide blasts targeting a Sunday Mass in two churches in the Christian neighbourhood of Youhanabad in Lahore on March 15, 2015.
Violent protests erupted after the blasts, with a mob lynching the two men, suspecting them of involvement in the blasts.
“Taking advantage of their presence at ATC-1 Lahore, Deputy District Public Prosecutor Syed Anees Shah gathers the accused outside the courtroom and asks them to embrace Islam,” said Joseph Franci [sic], a rights activist who was involved in providing legal assistance to the accused in the case. “He asks them if they embrace Islam, he can guarantee them their acquittal in this case,” Joseph said.
The activist said they [the accused] remained silent and were dumbfounded and added that one, Irfan Masih, had spoken out and said that he was ready to be hanged if he embraced Islam….
Syed Anees Shah, when contacted, at first said that he did not ask them to embrace Islam, but conceded that he offered them a choice when he was told that the accused have video recording of what he said. Later, he disconnected the call in an attempt to avoid discussing the issue.
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Prosecutor tells jailed Christians he’ll acquit them if they embrace Islam
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There is a Hadith that reads:
Abu Hurayah said, “you are the best of people for people you bring them in chains and fetters until they embrace Islam”
–Bukhari, no. 4557
Islam, the creed of threats and violence.
Jeanette says
I’m sure you know, but others may not know – This is how Islam has spread across so much of the world. Village leaders are asked to convert; if they don’t they are beheaded in front of the rest of the village.
Usually, the village converts. In a couple of generations the young people have never known anything but Islam.
Bingo – another conquest for Islam.
mortimer says
Discriminatory Sharia always leans towards promoting Islamic supremacism like the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Voytek Gagalka says
But – “there is no compulsion of religion in Islam.” Yea, right! If they force you to bow before their deity that is NOT compulsion according to them.
Michael Blair says
in islam you are “free” to choose death.
Keys says
Reminds me of the JW article today where the young Iranian man was promised if he confessed his crime of insulting Islam, he would be pardoned. After he confessed he was sentenced to death instead.
But lying for Allah and Islam is not evil for these distorted souls.
Benedict says
Islam reserves for itself the right to insult.
no_one says
This helps me understand Christianity better. Christianity has no compulsion in religion. Our Lord is not like satan. He wants us to embrace Christianity using our free will. If we do that and get to heaven there will be no compulsion there and no police to reinforce the rules.
Michael Blair says
Our God is the TRUE God and He knows that if given free will we will choose Him. islam is the religion of satan and leads to darkness and eternal fire.
Michael says
The ‘religion’ that exists only by force and violence and hatred.
As for this ‘leader’? He’s only doing precisely what Mohammed said x number of years ago.
I love the complete absence evolution of thought through the years of this ideology.
Jeanette says
I’ve wondered what new category the Nobel prize people are going to invent so that they can start giving Nobel prizes to Muslims.
The Nobel Rape Prize? The Nobel Murder Prize? The Nobel Mutilation Prize?
Michael says
They gave the Nobel Peace Prize to Obama, before he had done a thing. It was astounding. We shouldn’t be surprised when an imam who preaches murder, violence, subjugation … is one day given the prize. Obama is an adherent to Islam.
M. How says
Thank you, Michael for stating the obvious. I absolutely agree with you and have noticed this fact for many years now. If a child is brought up in a religion, by age 6 he or she is fully inculcated. He was brought up in Indonesia and attended a Madras for his early years as his mother and father were both Muslims. Obama also gave many hints of his adherence to Islam, namely, (1) kissing the ring of the Saudi Prince while refusing to bow to the Queen; (2) intentionally absent for Christmas and Easter celebration, making Michele responsible for carrying on the public celebration; (3) stating that the most beautiful thing in the world (at the White House Prayer Breakfast) was the call to prayer from the minaret; (3) creating and allowing a vacuum to exist in the middle east; (4) allowing Assad (Syrian president/dictator) to kill his own people after “drawing a line in the sand”, etc., etc. And, if he converted to Christianity WHY has he not been killed? Sharia law demands the death penalty for those who convert from being a Muslim? Seems to me that he is a “closet” Muslim and has been aiding and abetting the Muslim Califate all along. Not to mention all the Muslim Syrians brought into this country — at night on UPS planes — without being properly vetted. And the final straw: Making a backroom deal with Australia to take in the Syrians the Aussies would not allow into their country that we are now obliged to take. This guy is a wolf in sheep’s clothing and he is laughing up his sleeve at what harm he has created toward the United States. Mark my words, fifty years from now we will find out that he is NOT an American citizen and the proof will be when the public can see his application to Columbia University as a foreign student. (He had these records sealed for 50 years — WHY?).
Benedict says
“and offer the prayers perfectly” –
Islam feeds on the fear, hatred, resentment and frustrations of mentally imprisoned people and their readiness to avenge their situation by laughable, self-invented and often appalling means. To set captives free is not the aim of Islam; Mohammad has come to pull people’s legs, expose their butts through collective mooning-procedures and to enslave them in ridiculous, repetitive, standardized, puppetlike behaviors (that btw is why Muslims are hypersensitive to caricatures) in harmony with the fleshy nature of man. Islam is man being fucked up in his mind – a religious pendant to the addiction to pornography – to put it bluntly.
Here are some illustrations of Islamic decadence: Muslims relieving themselves in public offering “the prayers perfectly” and thereby exposing the pornographic nature of their religion. And if you feel like going to the bathroom yourself – to take a shower – I don’t blame you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5vyZjWYOfY – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1Btc9qMALg – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCKxkVF9zhU – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6-D15kv9MY
PS: Protests against this indecent exposure – even in public schools – are gaining momentum in Canada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sjknEqGxsc
James Hoagland says
There is only one God to my understanding. In my view the essence of all religion is the same. There is a coherence when I read scripture from Hinduism, Christianity and Buddhism. What is not coherent when teachings are compared are the teachings of Islam. Other faiths have sources outside of their particular faith that support their belief system. With Islam it is all dictated by Mohamed with no outside correspondence. So much so is this that Islam qualifies as an ideology but not as a religion.
Benedict says
“and offer the prayers perfectly” –
Islam feeds on the fear, hatred, resentment and frustrations of mentally imprisoned people and their readiness to avenge their situation by laughable, self-invented and often appalling means. To set captives free is not the aim of Islam; Mohammad has come to pull people’s legs, expose their butts through collective mooning-procedures and to enslave them in ridiculous, repetitive, standardized, puppetlike behaviors (that btw is why Muslims are hypersensitive to caricatures) in harmony with the fleshy nature of man. Islam is man being fucked up in his mind – a religious pendant to the addiction to pornography – to put it bluntly.
Here are some illustrations of Islamic decadence: Muslims relieving themselves in public offering “the prayers perfectly” and thereby exposing the pornographic nature of their religion. And if you feel like going to the bathroom yourself – to take a shower – I don’t blame you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5vyZjWYOfY – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1Btc9qMALg – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCKxkVF9zhU – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6-D15kv9MY
PS: Protests against this indecent exposure- even in public schools – are gaining momentum in Canada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sjknEqGxsc
somehistory says
Better to die faithful to Christ and His Holy Father, than to live a minute worshipping satan the devil and his unholy wild beast named islam.
Keith Jordan says
Does devotion to Islam mean anything if it is forced, under penalty of death?
Florida Jim says
A clever recruiting tool by muslims. Sadly you must live among them forever afraid of the next beheading or reading of the koran which always has new or strange interpretations to kill infidels.
denis says
Mohammed did this. He told conquered people convert to Islam or die. Thousands converted.
When Mohammed died thousands went back to their own religion. Mohammed’s successor created the apostasy law that stated those who leave Islam can be killed. He started the Apostasy War where thousands were killed. This lawyer is acting like Mohammed by stating “if you convert you will live, If you don’t convert you will die.”
This is the ONLY WAY Islam gained so many followers in its early stages. Convert to Islam or DIE by the sword. Oh there is a few crazies who converted to Islam today but they are lost souls.
Islam is the religion of Obedience and Hate, all other religions especially Christianity teach LOVE, of self and fellow man.
Michael Casmer says
Where is Amnisty International in all of this?
Angemon says
This is the sort of islamic history 101 that isn’t taught on islamic history 101.