“A Christian lawyer who has been defending people charged with blasphemy and helping victims of forced conversion and marriage has received a threatening letter wherein she has been warned that she will be killed if she did not stop her work.”
No worries. The Vast Majority of Peaceful Muslims will swiftly rise up, rebuke those who issued the threats, and provide free round-the-clock protection to Jacqueline Sultan. Won’t they?
“Lawyer receives death threat for helping minorities in court,” Express Tribune, May 12, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
KARACHI: A Christian lawyer who has been defending people charged with blasphemy and helping victims of forced conversion and marriage has received a threatening letter wherein she has been warned that she will be killed if she did not stop her work.
Jacqueline Sultan, a high court advocate and a member of the Karachi Bar Council has informed Karachi Bar Association President Naeem Qureshi, the Risala Police Station, the South SSP, and the Rangers DG about the letter she found in her chamber.
The Karachi Bar Association in its general body meeting on Friday took serious notice of the issue and demanded that the authorities should provide the lawyer with adequate security.
The lawyers’ body asked the authorities to order an investigation into the matter so that the people who sent the threatening letter to Sultan could be arrested….
John Hawk says
The full title of Islam’s holy book is “The Qur’an: A Terrorist’s User Manual.” So why would anyone expect anything other than words or actions such as these?
Jack Diamond says
“The Karachi Bar Association in its general body meeting on Friday took serious notice of the issue and demanded that the authorities should provide the lawyer with adequate security.”
Except it’s your bodyguards who will kill you (Salmaan Taseer). Time to emigrate.
Charli Main says
To have any chance of emigrating to a safe country she would have to convert to Islam first.
Fake Muslim ” refugees” welcome. Genuine Christian refugees stay where you are.
Rob says
“Except it’s your bodyguards who will kill you (Salmaan Taseer).” Unfortunately, history has proven that this statement is often the case. I applaud this woman’s efforts to help oppressed minorities, but world events paint Pakistan as the armpit of the world, where corruption and ignorance are so ingrained in Pakistani culture and government that this brave lady is probably doomed.
Terry Gain says
Good comment but I would substitute ANUS for ARMPIT.
Karen says
Kudos to The Karachi Bar Association, for taking up Ms. Sultan’s cause. Just maybe now the police will do something useful about the threats, although I won’t hold my breath.
gravenimage says
I’m not at all sure the Karachi Bar Association will do anything for this brave attorney.
Lawyers in Pakistan have disturbingly taken similar stances to the Muslims threatening her in the past.
And those who have taken such cases have been threatened and worse:
“Pakistan: Islamic jihadists murder lawyer defending man accused of blasphemy”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/05/pakistan-islamic-jihadists-murder-lawyer-defending-man-accused-of-blasphemy
“Pakistan lawyer who defends Christians goes into hiding after death threats”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/07/pakistan-lawyer-who-defends-christians-goes-into-hiding-after-death-threats
Given that the Pakistani Prime Minister has himself called “blasphemy” an “unpardonable sin”, this should not surprise.
Karen says
Yes, at some point they may fear for their own lives and futures. Ms. Sultan may have to stand alone – she is brave beyond words.
david says
Don’t hold your breath……
Wellington says
Paging Qasim Rahid. Paging Qasim Rashid.
Yes, this man possessed of the highest integrity, knowledge and wisdom should be summoned to explain why Muslims threatening this Christian lawyer are not the real culprits. No, not indeed. The real culprits are the British Empire and Christianity. Only an Islamophobe would assert otherwise.
Karen says
Yes, it’s extremely obvious that blasphemy bullying all began in Christian Europe, and was exported to Muslim majority nations via British imperialism. It’s so obvious, I won’t cite any credible sources, LOL.
Karen says
Sarcasm obvious, I hope!
gravenimage says
I got what you meant, Karen. 🙂
Wellington says
Me too, Karen.
Bill W. says
The Devil made me do it defense in the Islamic mind the Devil is the Western World. When all this raping pillaging stealing killing in the name of Islam started 1400 years ago England ,France, were not even fully formed. They did not have any land holdings outside of Europe. America was not founded yet , yet in the minds of some people the Western world showed them the way treat blasphemy. The way to treat blasphemy is in there books the Korea, Sira and the Hadith. They have following this racist laws for 1400 years, the Devil in detail is in there books,Sharia law to a tee.
dumbledoresarmy says
Yep. When Mohammed’s henchmen went out and assassinated Kab bin Ashraf, Asma bint Marwan, and Abu Afak, there was no such *thing* as ‘England”. It was centuries beforet he birth of King Alfred of the West Saxons. Charles Martel hadn’t yet been born; what we now call France was still known as “Gaul”.
Jeanette says
Too bad the Vikings, Celts and Picts didn’t have a chance at the Muslims; we probably wouldn’t be having to deal with the monsters now.
Philo sophy says
We should demand for pure secular state, where followers of religion will face crime charge. As to practice religion in secular state will be held as crime. It is criminal stupidity to believe in non-entity as God and ruler of universe.
Secular state will not allow any form of stupidity, like labor state-welfare state or any other form of state. We need pure secular ie. civilized State.
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Muslims threaten to kill Christian lawyer for defending people against blasphemy charges
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Grimly, this should surprise no one. Jacqueline Sultan is an amazingly brave woman, and I doubt she will receive much protection from the court.
ricketyteacher says
well, if she needs a place to run to i would taker her in i have room enough for someone. they wouldn’t dare set foot around these parts. not to mention all the way around the world they probably wouldn’t bother.
it’s about time to stop whining on the internet and start doing things (for those that aren’t already).
jewdog says
Any computer programmers out there can appreciate the infinite blasphemy loop: Someone accused of blasphemy is either punished or killed, then someone else defends the victim and are then themselves accused of blasphemy and punished or killed, triggering another defense by someone who is then punished or killed, and so on ad infinitum. The only way to break the loop is silence, or omerta. Just pay your protection money and keep your mouth shut, kafir.
Aussie Infidel says
Why has this religiously bigoted nation not been expelled from the British Commonwealth? Unfortunately, politically correct Western politicians treat religion like a sacred cow – not to be opposed in any way. After all, it is the ‘word of God’!Even a religion such as Islam – which commands its followers to “kill Jews and Christians wherever you find them” (Quran 9:5) – is given a free pass. Our politicians see no jihad, hear no jihad and speak no jihad. Under the Sharia, criticism of Islam is forbidden.
In any sane administration, this Christian lawyer should have every right to defend her clients. However, in an Islamic republic like Pakistan, the penalty for blasphemy or apostasy is death
(Reliance of the Traveller O8.0-8.5).
Unless our politicians de-legitimize Islam, this war of ideology will continue for evermore.
dumbledoresarmy says
Yes. Pakistan needs to be kicked out of the Commonwealth; and all ‘aid’ to and ‘trade’ with hideous Islamic Pakistan should cease, accompanied by a public statement that the cessation of aid and trade, and the denial of entry, into any Infidel-majority commonwealth nation, to ANY mohammedan person from Pakistan, is a direct response to the appalling, ongoing, worsening abuses of the human rights of the indigenous non-Islamic minorities in Pakistan, abuses perpetrated by the Muslims of Pakistan.
A *cricket* boycott should be imposed immediately. Australia, India, the West Indies, New Zealand, should absolutely REFUSE to play cricket with Pakistan.
Cut them off. One by one, the ugly, ugly, ugly regimes of the OIC – in all of which, the life of indigenous infidels is precarious at best and hell-on-earth at worst, and the life of any publicly-declared apostate from Islam is not worth spit – should be cut off from access to the goodies provided by the civilised Infidel world.
Ideally, the lot of them would be treated like North Korea. They should get nothing from us , and no identifiable mohammedan should be permitted to enter the dar al harb, the lands of the Infidels.
Ideally, the USA should call a behind-the-scenes emergency meeting with China and Russia and India to discuss ways and means of annihilating Pakistan’s nuke arsenal, which – I have no doubt – is used by Pakistan, behind the scenes, as an implied *threat*.
mortimer says
HERE IS THE PROBLEM with blasphemy laws. Even if you are innocent of the specific charge of blasphemy, even if there is no evidence, even if there is practically no case but an accusation, NO LAWYER WILL HAVE THE COURAGE TO DEFEND one accused of blasphemy. The lawyers don’t want to be murdered by vigilantes.
Vigilantism is permitted in discriminatory Sharia law. Anyone who murders a blasphemer receives NO PUNISHMENT under discriminatory Sharia law.
Dr. Joseph Adam Pearson says
Muslims do not understand sarcasm. The second sentence of this article uses sarcasm. Muslims are so ignorant of sarcasm that they will end up agreeing with the second sentence and think that they have won your endorsement.
Husne Ikhlaq says
The only solution for her safety is she should pack her bags and leave the country. recrimination is of consequence. Christians should establish a safe haven somewhere in remote and set a new community.
Bob says
“…peaceful Muslims” is surely, in itself, blasphemy against the ‘holy’ koran?!
SK says
http://www.christiansinpakistan.com/brick-kiln-owner-kidnaps-christian-labourer-demands-heavy-ransom-for-release/
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Cretius says
In supremacist Islam, non-believers have NO rights and that includes a defence if charged. Say no to Sharia Law wherever it raises its ugly head.
Frank Anderson says
In the US far more frequent than religious blasphemy is corporate blasphemy committed by “whistleblowers” in both government and corporate settings. To be a whistleblower or to represent one is a professional suicide. Lawyers are employed to do what the boss wants, not what the Code of Professional Responsibility or the Rules of Professional Conduct require. Bar associations are dominated by large law firms that cannot allow individual lawyers to infuriate clients by performing REQUIRED duties in the presence of crime or fraud. Any lawyer who represents a “blasphemer” is a brave, honorable person who will work in nearly pure isolation among all the power and corruption that can be collected and organized to destroy everything, including the lawyer’s life and professional standing. Obviously I have been there and done that.
Frank Anderson says
I would like to add a case cite that illustrates my point in the previous post: Wieder v. Skala, 80 N.Y.2d 628, 593 N.Y.S.2d 281 (Ct.App.N.Y. 1992). In that case an associate of a large law firm was hammered for reporting, as is his duty under both the Code of Professional Responsibility and more recent Rules of Professional Conduct. The blasphemy plan is alive and well in the United States as completely and harshly as anything in Pakistan. Any who dare support blasphemers in either environment join them as outcasts.