“Nadeem (James) is uneducated and could not have possibly sent that text message. I am sure that Bashir had downloaded the alleged blasphemous text onto Nadeem’s phone and then forwarded it to his cell number to frame him.”
These kinds of human rights abuses revolving around Pakistan’s blasphemy law happen frequently, but no one is particularly concerned. After all, it isn’t as if something serious such as “Islamophobia” were being committed.
“Pakistani Christian handed death penalty over ‘un-Islamic’ WhatsApp text,” Dhaka Tribune, September 16, 2017:
A Pakistani Christian in Lahore has been sentenced to death for allegedly sending a poem insulting Islam to a Muslim friend via WhatsApp.
The convicted Nadeem James, 28, hails from the town of Sarai Alamgir in Punjab province.
“James was handed a death sentence by the court Thursday on blasphemy charges,” defence lawyer Anjum Wakeel told AFP on Friday, adding that the friend, annoyed by the Christian man’s affair with a Muslim girl, reported him for blasphemy to the police.
The lawyer said James will “appeal the sentence in the High Court as he has been framed by his friend [Yasir Bashir] over the love affair,” reports RT.com.
James, whose story drew widespread publicity in the summer of 2016, was held inside a prison for safety reasons as local Muslim clerics repeatedly threatened his family, the lawyer continued.
Meanwhile, the Rescue Christians charity group termed James as an illiterate working as a tailor who would not have been able to write or understand the poem.
The group also said Pakistani police “intimidated” James’ family and arrested his sister-in-laws, who were later released.
“They were threatened with prosecution if they did not give up their brother,” said the group, to whom James had detailed the incident.
“… One of my friends sent me a WhatsApp message. I forwarded it to my Muslim friends as I was not educated and unaware of the contents written in the message. [Now] they are after me to kill me as they believe that I have committed blasphemy against their Prophet,” James had said.
“Nadeem (James) is uneducated and could not have possibly sent that text message. I am sure that Bashir had downloaded the alleged blasphemous text onto Nadeem’s phone and then forwarded it to his cell number to frame him,” the convict’s brother Shahbaz James told Morning Star News, a news agency focusing on the persecution of Christians….
mortimer says
An illiterate man is unable to compose a text message. Case closed.
Dave says
You think think the Pope will talk about it ?
And the Islamonazi Pope wants christians to bring in more of his islamonazi friends.while the hypocrite hides behind personal security and 40 feet high walls !
And now he even questions christians on their faith http://tinyurl.com/ydy8fkhl
Its like he has sold his soul to Left/Islam agenda and only foolish ignorant christians are foolishly treating him with respect he does not deserve.
Bob says
Nadeem is probably not RC in any case, so it’s no problem for Frankie!
Shane says
The entire RC church is run by Leftists and should be abandoned by all conservatives. When a Pope advocates bringing in millions of Muslims into the West, you know that the RC church is in deep, deep trouble. It is disgraceful that this Pope is helping the ancient enemy of Christianity, ISlam.
gravenimage says
This is reasonable, Mortimer. There is no reason in Islam.
roger woodhouse says
Islam was formed out of ignorance and survives only through it and fear.It dare not face any kind of scrutiny or exposure of intelligent debate.The irony is that it gets a free pass in our so called enlightened West.
Rick Alexander says
I agree 100%. Islam is an evil ideology covered in religious garb.
roger woodhouse says
Are comments being censored here.?A comment I made some hours ago seems to have disapeared.
Santa Voorhees says
Ehi liberals! Can you see now why we don’t want muslims in our countries?
…… of course not, sadly.
Walter Sieruk says
The only real reason that Muslim nations, as Pakistan, have “blasphemy laws” enacted is because Islam, with its many falsehoods, is such a weak and fragile religion that it can stand up to or hold up to criticism, at all. No matter how very mild those criticisms might be.
Japetto Donatelli says
Pakistan should get pressure from the U.S over this, we give them billions in aid. This is an undeniable and egregious violation of human rights that should be publicly condemned and confronted. I’m going to contact the White House about this, not that anyone listens to a paltry citizen like me. But at least my conscience will be clear. That some of these muslims are retarded for their religion is about the nicest thing I can say about them.
gravenimage says
True, Japetto–but they probably won’t.
FightingIgnoranceAndStupidity says
Religion Is Not look for it on Youtube!
Bob says
Yes, Japetto, as does the UK. Why??
tgusa says
These pakistani islamo-nazis are people that the US government considers allies. I guess that’s who they are. I would really like to see someone put together a list of the islamo-nazi ten commandments.
Japetto Donatelli says
I’m going to go over this a couple more times and make sure it’s not too dumb. Then it’s going to the White House.
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From: American citizen
To: The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President,
I am contacting you about a serious violation of human rights that I am sure you’ll be concerned about. It’s in Pakistan, a country we have given billions of dollars in aid. There is a Christian man by the name of Nadeem James, 28, from the town of Sarai Alamgir in Punjab province who has been sentenced to death for a charge of blasphemy for allegedly texting a poem critical of Muhammad. It is widely known this man is illiterate and that he could not have committed the act and has been framed.
I plead with you Mr. President on his behalf. There is simply no way you could be wrong in interceding for this man’s life. Even if he had been truly guilty of the “crime” it is still an egregious violation of human rights that I believe our compassionate nation must address. I would never have sent such a letter to your predecessor, but I know Mr. President you are a man of compassion and concern and are courageous when it comes to doing the right thing. Your great love for America is proof you love people. I write to you with the greatest confidence in your ability and good intentions, and trust that if god does truly exist then she will give you the opportunity to save this man’s life. I can’t think of a more noble gesture for making America Great Again than to show the world how much we care about the rights of all people. No poem is worth more than a man’s life. With this I know you will agree.
Thank you, and bless you for all the good you have done for us, and all the good you will do.
Signed,
A citizen of America, a lover of his country.
Jack Diamond says
Package deal, bring Asia Bibi with him. Incidentally, the defense shouldn’t only be that the accused never committed blasphemy (it’s almost always a lie on the part a Muslim out to get them) but the idea of sentencing someone to death for blasphemy, at all. There was this thing called the Universal Declaration of Human Rights after World War II. And, no, it is not superseded or annulled by the Cairo Declaration.
Jack Diamond says
Yes, I’m aware you addressed the blasphemy law itself. The persecution of the small Christian minority in Pakistan is not going to stop, however. At this point, they need to leave, it is hopeless for them. Mention that to Trump, too.
Mention the Pakistani Christians who’ve fled already who get zero assistance from the UNHRC
(because Christians can’t be “refugees”, only Muslims and the UNHRC won’t give them refugee status). At least 10,000 in Thailand.
Westman says
I hope the Christians get out of Pakistan before the inevitable nuclear war breaks out between India and Pakistan. Pakistan or North Korea will be the first nation since WWII to start a nuclear war; it’s just a matter of time.
gravenimage says
Good posts, Japetto and Jack.
gravenimage says
Good posts, Japetto and Jack.
Karen says
Good and heartfelt letter, Japetto. You might save a life.
Japetto Donatelli says
I try to save at least one life a day. lol. Sorry, it’s not a joking matter, but it was right in front of me and I had to take it. 🙂
Karen says
Well done! ?
Japetto Donatelli says
Mention the Pakistani Christians who’ve fled already who get zero assistance from the UNHRC
It’s too late Jack, that ship has sailed. I’ve already gotten the “We have received your message” from Pennsylvania Avenue. And I’m not sure I could have made that fit anyway, I wouldn’t want to sound like I’m trying to lecture the president on that related political issue. Not that it’s isn’t important, I simply don’t want to dilute the urgent goal of trying to save this man’s life by burying it in a larger political agenda. I also contacted Breitbart and asked them to do a story. If we can get an international outcry going about this case it will shed more light on the never ending abuses of islam. Cases like this should make us all gasp in horror. Instead most of us (me included) tend to make excuses and expect someone else to gasp for them. I’m trying to learn to gasp for myself.
Jack Diamond says
I hope something good comes from it. Asia Bibi is still in prison after years of efforts of people (including me) to get her rescued. But then she has a higher profile than Nadeem. Maybe you will succeed. Keep in mind his wife was a Muslim who converted to Christianity to marry him. That is big trouble in the Islamic Hell Republic of Pakistan, and that is what predicated the blasphemy frame up. He will have few allies.
gravenimage says
If the White House gets enough letters, the message may eventually get through.
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Christian gets death penalty for ‘un-Islamic’ WhatsApp text
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Of course, this would be disgusting enough in any case, but the following makes it more so:
“Nadeem (James) is uneducated and could not have possibly sent that text message. I am sure that Bashir had downloaded the alleged blasphemous text onto Nadeem’s phone and then forwarded it to his cell number to frame him.”
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This is enormously common–Muslims gin up fake “blasphemy” cases against others–especially Christians and other Infidels. Even in cases–unlike this one–where the victim is exonerated, they are often murdered by the Ummah.
More:
“James was handed a death sentence by the court Thursday on blasphemy charges,” defence lawyer Anjum Wakeel told AFP on Friday, adding that the friend, annoyed by the Christian man’s affair with a Muslim girl, reported him for blasphemy to the police.
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In Islam, no Infidel male is allowed to marry a Muslim women. Conversely, though, Muslim men can marry an Infidel woman–or even rape her or keep her as a sex slave.
God, I hate Islam.
Terry Gain says
Islam is an evil ideology worthy of opposition. And yes, hatred.
Infidel says
The BLASPHEMY laws are the equivalent of concocted charges of TREASON AGAINST THE STATE in a country like North Korea… The LEFT and Islam have a lot in common in the way they instill fear in the populace to comply.
FightingIgnoranceAndStupidity says
Pakistan MUST be disarmed of its nuclear capabilities! Pakistan does not stand with any Western country on human rights and protection of its minority. Therefore, Pakistan and the United States have conflicting interests that interfere with any kind of alliance having to do with arms treaties. Aid to Pakistan must be revoked until Pakistan moves to comply with international human and civil rights standards, including protection of religious minority members.
Anne Smith says
The UK also gives millions in aid to this savage barbaric country full of ungrateful and hideous people. We have been culturally enriched by immigrants from Pakistan in Rochdale, Rotherham and many other cities where they gang rape and torture English children.
Time to stop immigration from this backward and uncivilised tribe and for all concerned UK citizens to write to their MPs decrying the foreign aid which we give to them annually, all from our tax payers money.
Baucent says
The circumstances clearly indicate a huge injustice. There is sufficient motive and opportunity for the muslim “friend” to have borrowed Nadeem’s phone for a few minutes found a “blasphemous” text and sent to his own phone, all while the illiterate Nadeem was unaware.
There is no justice for non-muslims in Pakistan.
Islamic mirror says
Jihad Watch contributors and others:
anyone in doubt has to do is READ only chapters 2 to 9 of Muhammad’s Quran and watch the repeated mass slaughter of unarmed innocent European, American, Russian, Indian, Chinese, Iraqi etc. civilians by Muslims proclaiming they are doing the butchery to PLEASE their demonic god Allah
Of course no one says exactly what the accused person said that so insulted Islam. How accused insulted a DEAD MAN so disrespectfully he/she should spent years in prison for it.
You just have to take their word that it was something really really bad. No, the writer can’t repeat it, then writer would be in trouble. Of course, they can’t repeat it in court, then the lawyers would be in trouble. So, for accused gets to go to prison where accused may never come out alive (he’s now a “blasphemer”), going to prison in like the rape victims jailed for admitting to fornication by crying rape.
the poor soul being led away by the thought police for somehow offending the Muslims (or just been accused of it by someone out to get him). Kind of like Pakistan without the mountain views.
Islam doesn’t need any help. It’s insulting enough on it’s own:
Koran 2:191 “slay the unbelievers wherever you find them”
Koran 3:21 “Muslims must not take the infidels as friends”
Koran 5:33 “Maim and crucify the infidels if they criticize Islam”
Koran 8:12 “Terrorize and behead those who believe in scriptures other than the Koran”
Koran 8:60 ” Muslims must muster all weapons to terrorize the infidels”
Koran 8:65 “The unbelievers are stupid, urge all Muslims to fight them”
Koran 9:5 “When the opportunity arises, kill the infidels wherever you find them”
Koran 9:123 “Make war on the infidels living in your neighbourhood”
Koran 22:19 “Punish the unbelievers with garments of fire, hooked iron rods, boiling water, melt their skin and bellies”
Koran 47:4 “Do not hanker for peace with the infidels, behead them when you catch them”.
In the enlightened West, people aren’t arrested or jailed for criticizing Muhammad. They’re just excoriated as racist, bigoted Islamophobes, and shunned by all decent people, and concerted efforts are made to deny them access to all means of communication. Everyone the world over agrees that Muhammad, alone of all human beings, must never be criticized.
The koranic verses above are their own best testimony as to why muslims are waging jihad against us in all its ugly forms. Their “holy” scriptures teach bigotry and hate, and their deeds and actions are the material manifestation of those bad teachings. That’s why islam is an evil influence that needs to be eradicated. It’s a detriment to our peace and freedoms, and a real-world threat to the future prosperity of all mankind.
Sadly, the new “Hate Crime” narrative somehow overlooks the content of Islam.
Instead, Conservatives are labelled as being “Hateful” – “Insulting” – “Islamophobic” ect..ect..ect…
Can you imagine what would happen if we created a religion that used the same kind of verses against leftist politicians and muslims? Holy cripes, we’d be arrested before the weekend! We’d be charged with making terroristic threats and a dozen other trumped up charges. But it’s not the same for muslims, we’re supposed to show unbounded tolerance despite the fact there’s an epidemic of violence by muslims for those religious teachings. We’re not supposed to care about the raping of our women and kids, terrorism, the creepy enclaves, the erosion of our civil rights, hell, we can’t even talk about it without getting blasted as racist bigot islamophobes. It’s becoming a crime and a racial offense to be proud of ones country, to defend human rights, and to criticize islam’s violent, fascist ideas. And this is very maddening to decent folk, because the bigotry and violence of islam manifests in our lives a hundred different ways. Who’s going to get raped by a horny muslim today? who’s going to get murdered for allah? who’s going to get acid in the face for dating a Christian? who’s going to get jailed or fined for telling an inconvenient fact about islam? who’s going to be sexually mutilated like a slave getting prepped for a life time of male servitude? who’s going to be driven from their home for a muslim migrant that openly admits their contempt for our culture and laws?
in the Scrutiny and criticism of any religion has never been deemed a crime West. If Islam is to be treated equally, then it should not be immune from criticism. Given the global crimes against humanity committed by jihadists and Islamic supremacists today, it is fundamental to scrutinize Islam. The Indonesian Muslim scholar Yahya Cholil Staquf, general secretary of the 50-million-member Nahdlatul Ulama, stated:
“Stop pretending that orthodox Islam and violence aren’t linked…The West must stop ascribing any and all discussion of these issues to “Islamophobia.” Or do people want to accuse me — an Islamic scholar — of being an Islamophobe too?”
The inconvenient truth is that Islamic supremacists globally are persecuting Christians on a genocidal scale; killing other Muslims deemed not Muslim enough (over 11 million since 1948); abusing minorities and women; seeking to obliterate the Jewish state of Israel; and infiltrating Western nations (which they consider part of the House of War). Infidels are beheaded, an alarming number of “white girls” in the U.K. are raped and abused by Muslim grooming gangs because of their race and creed; gays are thrown off rooftops; beheadings and stonings are still sanctioned for crimes in Sharia states; women are worth less than men under the Sharia; FGM is practiced routinely worldwide; it is blasphemy to criticize or mock Muhammad; and it is illegal to challenge the Sharia, as it is regarded as divine law.
Questioning and public scrutiny of Islam are not the same as attacking all Muslims, and to criminalize so-called “Islamophobia” is an affront to democratic principles; free speech is a cornerstone of any free society
a lot of love in Christianity, a lot of anger and hate in Islam. Christian pray for others, muslims pray for themselves. “religion of war” full of “venomous misogyny
• Coran has 114 chapters 6666 word. Jesus mentioned 25 times and mohammed 4 times
• Hate appears towards unbeliever 296 times,
• (kill unbeliever 180 times,
• muslims are the best people.
• 51% (548,190 words) of the Trilogy text (koran, hadith,sira), most of it slanders against non-Muslims
• 154 – 164 verses of curses , jihad and war and killings -31% of the Islamic Trilogy (327,547 words) concerned with jihad-warfare
that’s 80% plus of that obnoxious rag being useless
Karen says
Strange. I have no particular adoration for any of the OT prophets, many of whose faults are on full display in those texts. They were mere mortals, chosen by God to be imperfect instruments of his will.
But, the prophet of Islam, who also had no claim to divinity, is to be vigorously protected from all criticism. Why?
Mohammed beheaded 600 Jews in one day, after a battle. The blood and stench of that day must have been unbearable. If that is the standard, then how easy it must be to dispose of one friendless, uneducated non-Muslim man you don’t like in a place like Pakistan.
At every turn, Jesus showed kindness to the poor, and reserved his strongest criticism for the religious leaders. He never demanded respect. He battled no one. He healed both Jew and Gentile. He never acted against his enemies, even in self defense. He was a Lamb to the slaughter, but first he healed the servant of the high priest who had come to arrest him, and shamed the disciple who had injured the man: “Put your sword away. Those who live by the sword will die by the sword.”
And Mohammed?
Japetto Donatelli says
You nailed it, sister.
Karen says
Thank you, Japetto.
Jacqueleen says
Islam is the cult of Satan….Allah is Satan and those who follow him are Satan’s army. Just to show how ridiculous this cult is…they think that spirits can have sex…….that is so laughable and proves that the insane are running the cult. Send every Muslim back to the middle east and invite all Arab Christians to come to the USA. Let those uncivilized Muslims live in caves and tents and banned from entry into a civilized nation. ISOLATION IS KEY…..ISOLATE THE BLOOD THIRSTY ILLITERATES.
Jenny H says
While they still and oil and wealth they will have influence.