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Pakistan: After death threats from Muslims, government minister requests non-Muslim security detail

Nov 13, 2017 8:19 am By Robert Spencer

“Minister Sanaullah hit the headlines a few weeks back when during a TV interview he claimed there were minor differences between Muslims and Ahmadis…In response, the radical Islamist group Tehreek Labaik Ya Rasool Allah has organized countrywide protests and over three thousand of their protestors are currently blocking the capital Islamabad, demanding the resignation of Punjab’s Law Minister Rana Sanaullah and Federal Law Minister Zahid Hamid.”

Sanaullah has good reason to be suspicious of a Muslim security detail: “In 2011, Punjab’s Governor Salman Taseer was killed by his own police guard over his opposition to blasphemy laws.”

But Sanaullah better hope they don’t get wind of this at Stanford University: he is liable to be labeled a racist, bigoted Islamophobe.

“Pakistani Minister requests non-Muslim Police escort after threat from Islamists,” Rabwah Times, November 12, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

A Pakistani Minister has been forced to conduct a shake-up of his security detail after threats by Islamists. Pakistan’s provincial law Minister, Rana Sanaullah has ordered that only non-Muslim officers be deployed for his security.

Pakistan’s intelligence agencies have started conducting background checks on all his security detail and also asked the Minister to restrict his movements. However, sources close to the Minister say that he is not satisfied with the background checks and has already hired a private security firm to take care of the security arrangements.

The Minister has also requested the Police chief to get him a list of all Christian, Hindu and Ahmadi officers in the province of Punjab. Reportedly his present Police escort will be replaced by non-Muslim officers who will be selected from the compiled list. Till then the Minister will use the private security firm which employees Christian security guards.

Minister Sanaullah hit the headlines a few weeks back when during a TV interview he claimed there were minor differences between Muslims and Ahmadis, a minority Islamic sect considered heretic by the majority of Muslims. The statement sparked outrage among the country’s conservative Muslims with many calling for his resignation. The statement came at a time when the Islamist political parties alleged that the government was trying to appease the minority Ahmadis by changing electoral laws in their favor.

In response, the radical Islamist group Tehreek Labaik Ya Rasool Allah has organized countrywide protests and over three thousand of their protestors are currently blocking the capital Islamabad, demanding the resignation of Punjab’s Law Minister Rana Sanaullah and Federal Law Minister Zahid Hamid.

In 2011, Punjab’s Governor Salman Taseer was killed by his own police guard over his opposition to blasphemy laws.

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  1. Guest says

    Nov 13, 2017 at 8:42 am

    Wait! Isn’t he being an “Islamophobe” by so doing??

    • mortimer says

      Nov 13, 2017 at 10:38 am

      Agree. Rana Sanaullah is accusing Muslims of using TAQIYYA. He wants Christian bodyguards as did Saddam Hussein who also did not trust Muslim bodyguards because they practice TAQIYYA.

      PAKISTAN BACKGROUNDER:

      Why would a Pakistani politician want a Christian bodyguard?

      On 4 January 2011, Pakistani Governor Salmaan Taseer was assassinated at the Kohsar Market in Islamabad by his bodyguard, who disagreed with Taseer’s opposition to Pakistan’s blasphemy law.

      On 4 January 2011, one of Taseer’s bodyguards, Malik Mumtaz Qadri, shot him 27 times with an AK-47 assault rifle at Kohsar Market, near his home.

      The assassin Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri was from Punjab, and was part of the security detail provided to Taseer by the Elite Police. After the shooting, Qadri threw his weapon down and put his hands up when one of his colleagues aimed at him. He reportedly pleaded to be arrested. After the murder, more than 500 clerics voiced support for the crime and urged a general boycott of Taseer’s funeral.[45] Supporters of Mumtaz Qadri blocked police attempting to bring him to the Anti-Terrorism Court in Rawalpindi, and some supporters showered him with rose petals. On 1 October 2011, Qadri was sentenced to death by a Pakistani Anti Terrorist court at Islamabad for murdering Taseer.

      On March 27, 2016, twenty-five thousand had gathered at Liaquat National Bagh in Rawalpindi. Ten thousand of them marched from Rawalpindi into the Red Zone in Islamabad to commemorate the Chehlum of death of Qadri, which is the end of the forty-day mourning period.

      Qadri’s execution has become a rallying point for Pakistan’s Barelvis and some Sufis. Hundreds of people per day visit his grave, which is being transformed into a pilgrimage site.

      In 2014 a Barelvi mosque was built in Islamabad named after Mumtaz Qadri and as of 2014, the mosque was so popular that it started raising funds to double its capacity.

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 13, 2017 at 2:56 pm

        All true, Mortimer.

      • JanwoG says

        Nov 13, 2017 at 10:17 pm

        There are good people among Sufis, but they are outside the frame of Conservative Orthodox Islam (like Muslim Brothers and CAIR). That’s why devot Muslim hate them. Sufism is prohibited in Saudi Arabia.

        • gravenimage says

          Nov 13, 2017 at 10:40 pm

          JanwoG, Sufism does *not* reject violent Jihad.

          Here’s an important article on the subject:

          http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2005/05/sufi_jihad.html

          Just because orthodox Muslims persecute a sect of Islam does not mean it is peaceful.

      • TheBuffster says

        Nov 14, 2017 at 9:12 am

        I only knew part of that story, Mortimer. I keep thinking I know too much to be appalled anymore, but I keep being wrong.

        Truly, there is no place in a free country for people who believe there should be blasphemy laws and that those who oppose such laws should die. I’m sure as can be that there are those who want to escape those countries and the kind of people who support such barbarity, but when we bring in hundreds of thousands or millions of people from those places we import the barbarians as well as the dissenters.

  2. David says

    Nov 13, 2017 at 8:48 am

    He is himself a Muslim. I hope that British politicians prove him wrong by having only Muslim bodyguards.

    • Robert Crawford says

      Nov 13, 2017 at 11:44 am

      I believe most British politicians are Marxists, not Christians.

  3. ElderlyZionist says

    Nov 13, 2017 at 9:36 am

    “The Minister has also requested the Police chief to get him a list of all Christian, Hindu and Ahmadi officers in the province of Punjab.”

    I’m surprised the police in Punjab commission kaffir officers. I’ll bet it’s a short list.

  4. fbijihadidefender says

    Nov 13, 2017 at 9:54 am

    How wonder it is. The follower of the religion of peace request protection from infidels because he afraid of being killed by his brothers.

    • Terry Gain says

      Nov 13, 2017 at 10:14 am

      So long as he lives in Pakistan he can’t say he is no longer a Muslim as to do so would be to sign his death warrant. The first victims of Islam are Muslims and that figure of 1.5 billion is wildly exaggerated.

    • Peter Buckley says

      Nov 13, 2017 at 10:18 am

      Nicely put. One of the reasons muslims are leaving Islam is because it is slowly dawning on them that their worst enemies are not non-muslims, but “other muslims. Will it dawn on some of Pakistan’s muslims?

      Undoubtedly:

      http://www.thecommentator.com/article/782/the_rise_of_atheism_in_pakistan

      • RonaldB says

        Nov 13, 2017 at 1:22 pm

        To Peter,
        I think the name of the “atheist” feminist giving the talk is Abdullah Begg
        .

        There are many ways to fight Islam, but depending on Muslims leaving Islam wholesale is NOT one of the ways to fight. First of all, it won’t happen. Muslims are being added far faster than Muslims are leaving Islam.

        Second, it is the fanatic Muslims who determine the agenda. They are not influenced by apostates or feminists like Abdullah Begg. The Muslims have the death penalty of apostasy not because they are in danger of Muslim de-population, but because Islam is a religion of control. The real danger to Islam is not that too many people will leave, but that they will get the idea that they can think independently. The death penalty for apostasy solves that problem effectively.

        The third reason is that “atheists” such as Abdullah Begg are simply unreliable. Listen to the video. She puts radical feminism as superior to everything else, including Islam. She talks about the ideal “matriarchy” of the pre–Islamic Mecca, where the woman uses and discards husbands like worn-out kleenex, but never even alludes to the archaeological evidence that Mecca was just a desert backwater until the second century of “Islam”. It doesn’t fit her narrative.

        If you want to rest your hopes on this harpy, you’re standing on a thin reed.

        You can’t fight Islam by assuming the apostates will do your work for you. I’m not making a judgement on you, of course, but when you look to the future, it’s fundamental Islam you have to deal with, in an undiluted form.

        Incidentally, I heard a talk by a former Muslima who had converted to fundamentalist Christianity. You couldn’t ask for a nicer person, she was fully aware of the deception and danger of Islam, and in fact she actively sought to convert Muslims to Christianity. And yet, when I suggested stopping the immigration of Muslims, she became very cool. She saw more Muslims as grist for her conversion mill. It’s true that the more Muslims you get, the more potential converts you get. But, you also get more Muslims, which is the killer.

        • gravenimage says

          Nov 13, 2017 at 3:02 pm

          Some Muslim apostates realize the threat of Islam, and bravely warn against it–and some, insanely, are still shilling for their former coreligionists, even though Muslims would gladly murder them for apostasy.

  5. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Nov 13, 2017 at 10:31 am

    Minister Sanaullah is naive about his “religion.” He can get all the Infidels he wants to decrease his chance of being murdered, but the boys up at ISI will take him out whenever they want. They took care of Osama bin Laden cuz he was a good Moslem, a great one. But if they decide that Sanaullah is weak on his Islam, then boom he takes a long bullet through the side of his head. Praise Allah.

  6. Guest says

    Nov 13, 2017 at 1:20 pm

    It’s Pakistan, the best a non-Jew can get is sewer work. There are none in security detail.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 13, 2017 at 3:15 pm

      Guest, there are a handful of non-Muslims in the police and army in Pakistan. Their positions are always precarious, though:

      https://www.christiansinpakistan.com/tag/christian-police-officers-in-pakistan/

      A Christian in the military in Egypt was exposed as a non-Muslim and beaten to death by Muslim recruits.

  7. Voytek Gagalka says

    Nov 13, 2017 at 1:30 pm

    The Qur’an is so confusing that if somebody wants to accuse somebody else about “blasphemy” or “disbelief” he can easily do so by recalling appropriate chapter and verse within. Now if this guy would dare to rely on non-Muslim security detain, I fear that this could be taken as “proof” of his “disbelief.” And you know what that means…

  8. TheOldOligarch says

    Nov 13, 2017 at 2:43 pm

    Didn’t Turkish rulers use Janissaries ”recruited” from among Christians as personal bodyguards for centuries for basically the same reason? Of course Muslims know best how little other Muslims are to be trusted

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 13, 2017 at 3:16 pm

      Yep.

  9. gravenimage says

    Nov 13, 2017 at 2:55 pm

    Pakistan: After death threats from Muslims, government minister requests non-Muslim security detail
    ………………………

    *Very telling*.

    Imagine the outcry if a politician in the West did the same thing? They would be condemned as an “Islamophobe”.

  10. Sarah says

    Nov 13, 2017 at 7:28 pm

    I find it hilarious that he is reaching out to anyone but recognized Muslims to protect him.

    From the people of his own faith, no less.

    Idiot.

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