The BBC has since backtracked and apologized, but if there had been no uproar, the question would have stood unchallenged. It shows how Sharia principles are slowly being mainstreamed in Britain. One critic wrote: “If today @BBC talking about punishments for #blasphemy in Britain with 6% of population #Muslim what’s our future in 30 years?” Indeed.
“Muslim presenter sparks uproar as she asks BBC Asian Network Twitter followers ‘what is the right punishment for blasphemy?,'” by Charlie Moore, Mailonline, March 18, 2017:
The BBC‘s Asian Network has provoked uproar by asking its Twitter followers ‘what is the right punishment for blasphemy?’
A video posted on its account shows Muslim activist Shazia Awan asking followers to get in touch and offer their opinions on how blasphemy should be dealt with.
Her assumption that blasphemy – which is still punishable by death in some Muslim countries – should also be punished in Britain shocked many viewers.
Paul Joseph fumed: ‘There should be no punishment for ‘blasphemy’. It’s the 21st century for f***s sake. BBC is CANCER.’
Incredulous Ali A. Rivaz asked: ‘Is this a serious question?’
Another wrote: ‘If today @BBC talking about punishments for #blasphemy in Britain with 6% of population #Muslim what’s our future in 30 years?’
And Safiya Alfaris wrote: ‘There should be no punishment of blasphemy… instead punish those who scare children into believing they’ll burn in hell.’
Asia Network’s video came after Pakistan asked Facebook to help it crack down on ‘blasphemous content’ as Pakistanis ‘badmouthed’ Islam online….
The BBC today apologised, writing on Twitter: ‘Apologies for poorly worded question from Asia Network yday. Q was in context of Pak asking FB to help we shd have made that clear.’
‘We never intend to imply Blasphemy should be punished. Provocative question that got it wrong.’…
mortimer says
Sharia permits the murder (yes, murder) of anyone who verbally opposes Islam, since they are at war with Islam:
“There is no indemnity obligatory for killing a non-Muslim (harbi) at war with Muslims.” -Reliance of the Traveller, o4.17, p.593
Here are the classical legal rulings:
First, the Muslim deserves death for doing any of the following (Reliance of the Traveler pp. 597-98, o8.7):
1. Reviling Allah or his Messenger;
2. being sarcastic about ‘Allah’s name, His command, His interdiction, His promise, or His threat’;
3. denying any verse of the Quran or ‘anything which by scholarly consensus belongs to it, or to add a verse that does not belong to it’;
4. holding that ‘any of Allah’s messengers or prophets are liars, or to deny their being sent’;
5. reviling the religion of Islam;
6. being sarcastic about any ruling of the Sacred Law;
7. denying that Allah intended ‘the Prophet’s message…to be the religion followed by the entire world.
From Islamic Commentaries:
-“Insulting the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) is one of the worst of forbidden actions… whether done seriously or in jest. The one who does that is to be EXECUTED even if he repents and whether he is a Muslim or a kaafir.” – Ruling on one who insults the Prophet, Shaykh al Munajid, Islam Q&A, Fatwa No. 22809
– “The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) sometimes chose to forgive those who had insulted him, and sometimes he ordered that they should be executed, if that served a greater purpose. But NOW HIS FORGIVENESS IS IMPOSSIBLE because he is dead, so the EXECUTION of the one who INSULTS him remains the right of Allaah, His Messenger and the believers, and the one who deserves to be executed cannot be let off, so the punishment MUST be carried out.” – Al-Saarim al-Maslool, 2/438
Dale Netherton says
This dictatorial nonsense needs to be rejected as the imaginary blather it is.
carol says
ISLAM: The “cure” that is worse than the “disease”.
somehistory says
Wonder how they felt about having to apologize?
I say, let God Himself punish people for sinning. He knows what each one deserves…whether reward or punishment. He has already said that He will when He decides to.
People should not go about punishing others for things they believe to be sins, even things like adultery, which God says is wrong.
Laws based on His Standards…against murder, rape, etc. can be addressed in courts of law. But who decides, in a world where not all worship in the same way, nor do all worship the One God, but some worship satan, some don’t consider that they worship a god at all, ..in such a world, who decides what is blasphemy?
And moslims should not be allowed to set the *standard* for right/wrong for the rest of mankind.
carolpeter says
Especially since rape, murder and other such “punishments” are passé in their world.
Angemon says
BINGO!
dsinc says
Dhimmitude is the future and sharia will be the law. There is one other option.
Norger says
Bingo indeed. But the very thought is just so very “Islamophobic” of course.
Custos Custodum says
This was clearly a TRIAL BALLOON launched with a wink and a nod from top management at the BBC where Left totalitarianism is Established Church dogma.
Custos Custodum says
Prince Charlie is said to have gone over to Mo’s cult. He himself has been blathering about wanting to be a defender of “faith” rather than “the Faith.”
Charlie may not have troubled to inform himself about Islamic teachings and practices regarding those who engage in the sexual practices of biblical Lot.
Richard says
What’s the right punishment for a supremacist Muslim trying to ram Shari’a law down our throats? How about instant deportation, her and the entire family.
jayell says
I’ll second that. And her entire extended family. And perhaps her friends, whom I presume will be all muslim since their beautiful religion forbids friendship with anyone who does not follow the ‘Perfect Prophet'(sic), and in any case no self-respecting genuine Brit would want to be associated with specimens.like this who are clearly so obsessed with their alien antediluvian bigotry. And while we’re at it, she can take the whole BBC as well and set it up again in Islamabad, which is where it seems to belong there days. The UK will then be a cleaner and less expensive place to be.
Jeanette says
The deportation of those folks would probably clear out several hundred Muslims – a very worthy goal!
I have been very worried about Great Britain’s invasion by Muslims for a long, long time. I wish them (and all of us non-monsters) the best in the effort to clear out the vipers.
Richard Bruce says
Punishment for blasphemy should be the same as for flatearthery -hysterical laughter- & a pork sausage
john spielman says
wait a minute, islam itself is BLASPHEMY against all that is HOLY and good and beautiful according to the Bible- so muslims could be expelled from any Christian country with existing laws!
Canada has a “blasphemous libel law from 1890s and anyone professing islamic theology is automatically guilty of it! (In the 1980s a UK citizen was deported to from Canada to Britain because of a theatre play that was felt to be blasphemous against Christianity)
gravenimage says
A civilized society should not have any blasphemy laws. Christians are not demanding this.
God Almighty says
I think we should be though.
gravenimage says
Why? Civilized Christians are not so touchy that they need to brutalize anyone who mocks or even questions their faith. Why would you want this?
john spielman says
i AGREE totally with you, but only used it as an example that he sword cuts both ways!
For what is blasphemy for you may be doctrinal truth for me,
we must fight against islam by speaking the truth about it NOW,( before it is too late and they outnumber us and force sharia law upon us!) about how evil and depraved (By both human and God’s standards) muhammmed was!
carolpeter says
So true, John. Mo started with maybe a dozen followers, but because one of the commands of islam is to invade and multiply. Such is the justification for having so many wives. There is no respectable moral base in islam. It is a ideology of conquest. The muslim population in the world today is about a billion people. they will not stop until they destroy our way of life. I truly believe this.
Jeanette says
Considering blasphemy laws that could be used to expel Muslims, and the Muslims’ plan to make all of us targets of rape, mutilation and murder, I pick blasphemy laws.
If we don’t do something QUICKLY, we won’t be having any more conversations about blasphemy laws or anything else that makes any gonads-on-the-hoof, primitive, savage Muslim unhappy.
gravenimage says
Blasphemy laws are not used to expel Muslims–they are used by Muslims to shut down criticism of Islam.
davej says
What is the right punishment for those who accuse others of “blasphemy”?
DEPORTATION!
What is the right punishment for those who accuse others of “Islamophobia”?
DEPORTATION!
What is the right punishment for those who murder apostates or critics of Islam?
The DEATH PENALTY!
john spielman says
YUP!
Carolyne says
What is the right punishment for those who even think blasphemy exists? Maybe a little common sense?
Jeanette says
We’d have to replace most of the politicians and law enforcement folks in the entire country to begin enforcing that across America.
I wonder if it isn’t going to come to old-fashioned vigilante justice before that’s going to happen.
Shan Lim says
Yes, Shazia Awan should tell us what’s the right punishment for quran’s blasphemy of Jesus Christ’s divinity & making him or God a liar in denying his death on the cross as described by the Word of God? Or is it just one way street for islam/muslim to have all the exclusive right topejorative on other religions?
no_one says
Exactly. They should address blasphemy against Christianity too.
gravenimage says
In the civilized world, no one is punished for “blasphemy”.
Carolyne says
The problem, Shan Lim, is that all “Holy books” blaspheme against another religion, and each religious believer thinks they have the “Real” truth.. None of this nonsense should even be a topic for laws to be established, except to prevent it and to have a law stating that Blasphemy does not exist since “God” does not exist. One cannot “Blaspheme” against a mythology being.
no_one says
They didn’t define blasphemy. I think this is when someone says that Jesus is not son of God. This is my definition of blasphemy. I will let God deal with these.
Carolyne says
Of course the solution is as you state, no_one. Let the “God” each believes in, if any, deal with it.
Guest says
‘Poorly worded?’ I think she knew what she said.
Shmooviyet says
Agreed!
And she knew there was only one acceptable answer. Sounds as if she was conducting a poll.
God Almighty says
They always do. Taqiyya without a doubt.
Custos Custodum says
As stated above, this was a trial balloon cleared with a wink and a nod by senior management at the BBC as part of its long-term mission to sell out the British peoples to Islam.
Terry Gain says
A just punishment for anyone who advocates blasphemy laws is deportation to a Muslim country. Blasphemy laws have no place in a free and democratic country.
Norma Ayuso says
It won’t be free or democratic if Muslims take over the country demografically . It’s a question of time and birth rates.
carolpeter says
Which is exactly what they are commanded to do. They know no other way of life. A good book to read is (not withstanding Spencer’s Incorrect guide…) is Paul Fregosi’s “Jihad”.
Westman says
Is there a chance that she is actually trying to wake Britons up in a way that won’t arouse Muslim suspicion? Just a thought.
gravenimage says
Paul Joseph fumed: ‘There should be no punishment for ‘blasphemy’. It’s the 21st century for f***s sake. BBC is CANCER.’
……………………
Spot on. That the BBC is asking this is shocking.
Here is Shazia Awan’s Tweet:
“Pakistan asks Facebook to help fight blasphemy”
https://twitter.com/ShaziaAwan/status/842656305097719808
She is now backpedaling–but it is notable that she refers to blasphemy throughout–she never says “so called blasphemy” or “what hardliners call blasphemy”, or anything like that.
Custos Custodum says
THEY openly threaten on BBC to murder “blasphemers.”
WE discuss in good faith whether “blasphemy” laws should be amended to “protect” Islam from challenge by non-Muslims.
PRCS says
“Her assumption that blasphemy – which is still punishable by death in some Muslim countries – should also be punished in Britain shocked many viewers.”
1. That’s not her “assumption”. As a Muslim, her “complete way of life” commands it.
2. I understood it, she was asking about blasphemy laws in Pakistan. On that, I could be wrong.
A better question: where on the planet are blasphemy laws acceptable to you?
gravenimage says
The same thing has happened to bloggers in Bangladesh.
God, I hate Islam.
Ted says
Our Prime Minister, Herr Trudeau is attempting to put into law that any criticism of Islam is now a Phobia. We believe it is not. My wife has a fear of elevators, this is a phobia as proof shows that the chances of dying from riding in an elevator is very, very slim. Islam has demonstrated all over the world, in the U.S.A. and Canada that it has a view of others who don’t follow or who wont follow their Ideology, will be eliminated according to their Koran. This means death to us. This is not a Phobia, it is a fearful threat that we must not let our government protect. LIVE FREE OR DIE.
Isabella says
A phobia is an irrational fear. There is nothing irrational about fearing the invasion of Islam. It is happening. Gee Trudeau is such an idiot.
mortimer says
M-103 is JIHAD.
JDow says
The perpetrator of a blasphemy should be sentenced to consume a fine craft beer or a premium wine at least once a day for a week.
{^_-}
John says
Or quaff a flagon of pig’s blood.
Better.
Leon says
I wonder, if she wants to be raped?
Classroomwatch says
“If today @BBC talking about punishments for #blasphemy in Britain with 6% of population #Muslim what’s our future in 30 years?”
The answer to that can be found by looking at the dishonestly sanitised version of Islam which the BBC presents to children in their educational content:
https://classroomwatch.wordpress.com/2016/11/24/bias-at-the-bbc/
libertyORdeath says
Regardless of this questions context it is insulting to ask this of any free people. I’m a little curious why Pakistan wants or deserves a platform such as Facebook in the first place? If they don’t like the content, stay off the site, simple as that.
The fact that this was posed as a legitimate question to BBC viewers is also extremely disturbing, again regardless of the context. We should absolutely never encourage such sick practices as blasphemy laws and punishment, FGM, martyrdom through terrorism, etc.
It’s also shocking that this was able to make the BBC when sensible coverage or discussion of Islamic supremacism is almost always ignored by such mainstream media.
John says
Britain is lost.
Ditto Germany, France, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands…
In a generation – perhaps even less – shariah will be the law of the land across the EU.
Cathedrals, churches, synagogues and other places of non-Muslim worship will be converted to mosques.
Anne Smith says
Even the British Government now lives in a Sharia compliant building!!! Well not the Parliament, but the offices of the MPs have been moved into a building which is owned by a Sharia compliant investment company, which was set up under rules introduced by the thick, stupid and dhimmi PM David Cameron.
It seems the MPs themselves are not even aware of this.
Carolyne says
And no alcohol is allowed in the building. I’ll bet the MPs don’t know that, either.
gravenimage says
Why are you preaching surrender here, of all places?
John says
It’s time to start that “holy war” the Muslims keep talking about.
Start it now while there’s still time and we enjoy the numerical advantage.
In a decade or so, it will be too late.
Bring it.
Grace Thomas says
Agreed
Irene Brekelmans says
Humanity has sunken already so low and now BBC with this lady who is asking, What should be the punishment for blasphemy?Lady, you better ask, what are the punishments for rape, destroying childrens private parts, dictating free people what they are aloud to do or not, how to dress how and where to pray,what to pray sending young children to camps to handle guns and bombs, how to conquer countries,how to kill the infidels, the jews, how to stone people, how to behead people, how to whip them, how to murder Christians, how to slid their throats, how to indoctrinate your children.
What should be the punishment for all those pure crimes? Provocation after provocation, you are really playing with fire and so do the left and the globalists, the 3 apes, hear nothing, see nothing and stay put.
Carolyne says
Very good, Irene.
sidney penny says
Muslims in Britain should be saying there should be no punishment for blasphemy in Pakistan
But they will not.
Anyone have any idea why?
Carolyne says
Pf course, Sidney, they believe there should be a punishment for blasphemy in Pakistan and the whole world and that punishment should be death.
Anne Smith says
British Government happy to be sharia compliant – taken from the Daily Mail.
WHY ARE WHITEHALL BUILDINGS GOVERNED BY SHARIA LAW?
In June 2014 George Osborne announced that Britain was launching the first Islamic bond scheme in the non-Muslim world.
Three Government buildings in Whitehall were transferred to Islamic bonds, switching the ownership from British taxpayers to wealthy Middle Eastern businessmen and banks.
The issue of bonds raised £200million and was the first carried out by a Western country and Osborne said it would turn the UK into ‘the western hub of Islamic finance’ and the ‘undisputed centre of the global financial system.’
But critics say the scheme would waste money and could undermine Britain’s financial and legal systems by imposing Sharia law onto government premises.
The bonds – known as Sukuk – are only available for purchase by Islamic investors.
The money raised will be repayable from 2019.
But instead of interest, bond-buyers will earn rental income from the three Government offices as interest payments are banned in Sharia law.
The Treasury agreed to make the sukuk fully compliant with Sharia law to ensure investors were not put off investing in the scheme, meaning each of the buildings used to finance the products must meet the terms of Sharia law, including the ban on alcohol.
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Gen Jones says
This is a slippery slope foolishly entered into for sheer greed. Islamic finance is just a shell game. The interest is built into transactions and called by another name. The hoops people will jump through to justify 7th century ideas from an illiterate criminal is mind boggling.
Alien Republican says
The inquisition needs to look into BBC and put some of them on the stakes for promoting the blasphemy of islam.
Carolyne says
Where is Torquemada when you need him?
Nigel GFF says
This putative Sharia Law compliance must be all pervasive at the BBC. I have no doubt that compliance is in the very air they breathe. Compliance wafts down the corridors and drips from the ink of departmental e-mails, ‘to whom it may concern’.
I do not have a dream, I have a dread.
Fortunately, Mr Spencer and contributors to JW regularly wash my rose-tinted glasses. Thanks to all.
Jeanette says
So, have all the female apologists for Islam at the BBC done all they can to support Islam? If they haven’t allowed themselves to be genitally mutilated, they haven’t.
Perhaps that should be suggested. After the first mutilation, I predict a sudden change of attitude.
Florida Jim says
Muslims have learned it takes decades to gain enough people to step by step take over a town, a county, a state and , finally, a country to speed up the process they have multiple wives, multiple children an out-reproduce the country they inhabit it is a sly game to conquer everyone.
gravenimage says
Yes–Islam is a very long game.
Stealth Jihad is perhaps more dangerous than violent Jihad–but both techniques have the same goal–having us submit to that vile creed.
bobm says
real question she poses..”what should be done to those who resist islam..”?.. this is the islam stratagem . pure and simple… it is a battlefield (like chess).. system of maneuver….ISLAM must be faced squarely for what it is..islam maneuvers to enslave and or slaughter every people who even begin to say NO.
steve says
The Muslim run and Saudi’ financed B.B.C. is the vehicle by which Islam is being be spread and fixed into the fabric of British society.. WE ARE ALREADY AN ISLAMIC SUBMISSIVE STATE.. The only good in this disaster is that other braver countries might note and secure themselves by any means against Islam.
gravenimage says
The mere fact that so many Britons objected means that not everyone has surrendered.
Why would you insist that they have?
Jeanette says
There is a 90% chance that this woman has been mutilated, since about 90% of Muslim females have been forcibly mutilated.
(bing.com/videos/search?q=ann+barnhardt+video+islam+sexual&view=detail&mid=78659C23DF2A43376AC778659C23DF2A43376AC7&FORM=VIRE)
Check out about 29:00 to 35:00.
She’s just angry that western women aren’t mutilated, and wants to be sure that we are butchered like she was.
And if you don’t want her to succeed in this effort to mutilate you, you’d best get on the “Remove the Muslims from Western Civilization” train!
Jeanette says
bing.com/videos/search?q=ann+barnhardt+video+islam+sexual&view=detail&mid=78659C23DF2A43376AC778659C23DF2A43376AC7&FORM=VIRE (29:00-35:00)
Watch those six minutes of the video, and then look at this woman, knowing that 90% of all Muslim females have been forcibly genitally mutilated (and that figure is probably higher for women her age).
When you see her face with the image of what an FGM procedure leaves, you’ll have a whole new perspective on her and on all subhumans called “female Muslims.”
Crusades Were Right! says
A Limerick
“What punishment’s right?” asks a hack
(And now Auntie Beeb’s getting flak!)
Protect Muslims’ god?
Apply lash or rod?
I’ve got it – JUST SEND ‘EM ALL BACK!
Em says
It’s encouraging that at least a couple of unfavorable rejoinders to the question were made by people with Muslim names.
John A. Marre says
They would love to make the UK enforce sharia law. Wait, it already does!
RationalVoice says
I have just being listening to a BBC program on the situation in the Netherlands and I am amazed how much of an apologist for Muslims they have become. They don’t seem to have any concern at all for the justifiable worries of the Dutch people. The lefty/liberal agenda rules and I for one object to having to pay the TV licence to facilitate this propaganda station
Manny says
The BBC is a disgrace. That wasn’t an apology. They got caught.
david says
Britain is transforming…….I’m so sad that I will never get a chance to see the “original”……RIP
Vítor Rodrigues says
What is the right punishment for pedophilia, and rape, and murder (Muhammad)? What is the right punishment for insulting humanity (islam)? What is the right punishment for bringing up the religion of satan (allah)?
Rog Stresman says
Head not covered? Wearing make-up? Form-fitting clothes showing the curves of her body? Forget blasphemy. Someone would definitely be in for a punishment if her more extreme male fellow Muslims like IS or the Taliban got hold of her.