Pakistan’s blasphemy laws are a recurring impetus for Muslim mob violence, and a pretext by which the lives of numerous Christians and other non-Muslims have been destroyed. Yet no one in the global “human rights community” appears to be in the least bit concerned. They are probably too busy hunting for the next instance of “Islamophobia” to be concerned about small matters like this.
“Lost phone leads to mob calling for the beheading of 17 y/o Pak-Christian boy in Shahdara Lahore,” by Wilson Chowdhry, British Pakistani Christian Association, February 19, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Today a Christian teenager from Dhair a village in Shahdara town, Lahore has been accused of blasphemy by local Muslims after he lost his phone a few days back and an unknown person added blasphemous content to his FB, the 17 year old youth named Patras Masih alleges.
A local Muslim man named Muhammad Awais took matters to the police and demanded a First Information Report (FIR) and local police duly obliged, registering a crime of blasphemy under section 295c of the Pakistan Penal Code. After registering FIR 174/18 police initiated an investigation and began a search for Patras Masih, who could not be found at his property.
In the meanwhile news of the blasphemous images posted on Patras Masih’s FB page stirred up great anger amongst local Muslims and hundreds gathered outside Patras Masih’s home from 5pm (12pm GMT) on 19 February 2018, The demonstrators called for Patras to be lynched and threats were being made that Christian homes would be burnt down if Patras Masih was not given up to the authorities or the mob for retribution against his blasphemy.
Local police lost control of the situation as the numbers gathered in the mob grew beyond 3000. Slogans and chants shouted by the the mob began to increase in volume and pressed for the young man to be beheaded even though at that point no charges had been laid. One man held up a sign saying, “Wicked Christian Patras should be punished for committing blasphemy!”
Road blocks were secured by police as part of a wider cordon to prevent people entering into Shahdara town as police set about trying to calm the situation.
As threats that the Muslim mob were gathering petrol to burn all Christian homes in the area increased, many local Christians chose to flee Shahdara Town. Forced to leave their properties behind, the frightened families sought temporary shelter elsewhere and reports of looting of vacated properties have been received.
Traffic was blocked and our officer had to travel 2km on foot to get close to the site of the incident. We will update this story every hour. Please sign our petition calling for an end to the draconian blasphemy laws of Pakistan (click here)
Wilson Chowdhry, Chairman of the BPCA, said:
“This story illustrates the daily danger faced by Pak-Christians and the speed at which a lynch mob can precipitate even prior to charges being laid. Even the normal event of losing one’s mobile is cause for great fear among vulnerable minorities. It is hard to imagine how anyone could use the opportunity of a lost phone to do this to another human being – but this is Pakistan and crimes like this are all too common.
“We are making our way to the family of Patras Masih and hope to be able to provide them with shelter and legal assistance, but for now our search for the family is being thwarted by a huge police presence.
“The situation may yet get worse especially due to the growing number of incensed Muslims baying for the blood of Christians as they seek revenge for the presumed insult to their faith. At the moment all Christians in the area are under imminent threat of violence and many report they are hiding in their homes.
“Even a growing police presence does not seem to be restoring calm and every Christian across Pakistan is praying for an end to the madness.”
Close to 6pm (GMT) brave Patras Masih surrendered himself to local police in order to restore peace and save the lives of many of his Christian community that were increasingly coming under threat. News of the captivity of Patras Masih was shared by local police with the blood-seeking Muslim mob who had formed initially outside the home of Patras Masih. The news seemed to calm the situation down significantly and peace was restored in the evening, However non of the local Christians who had fled their home have returned yet as hatred still simmers.
BPCA will be offering any help they can to Patras Masih and his family. We have initiated an appeal to help the family please donate here if you would to help us serve this beleaguered family (click here)
[Above] is a video taken earlier today as the mob was forming slogans were calling for him to be lynched and the poster calls for him to be beheaded Taliban-style. The dominant sign in the footage displayed says, “Wicked Christian Patras must be punished for committing blasphemy!”…
elee says
Is the Pope STILL sucking up to these bastards?
concerned canadian says
wow animals
and yet the world is silent
except the “haters” that point out truth
J D S says
More and more proof that Pakistan should be isolated……..well maybe the word isolated is not the proper world to use here.
Maybe the whole of islam should fall into this same category however, again the word “isolated” is not strong enough.
Krishna says
Pakistan Christianity will be wiped out within century if these death cult known as Islam did not get removed from poltics
dumbledoresarmy says
And (I write as a Christian, informed of the situation in Pakistan) the remaining Hindus and Sikhs in Pakistan are *also* being horribly oppressed, abused and tormented by the vicious bullies that Islam breeds in myriads.
Francine Anna Skronski says
If the invading Islamists are not stopped the world could be facing what the Germans did especially in WWII. So many innocent people, men, women and children were tortured, killed, experimented on and more. People need to pay close attention to the Muslim menace as we already have seen the atrocities that have been imposed on innocents just because others don’t believe in their religion/ideology. All countries need to form a united front against Islamization of our countries. No foreign aid to Muslim countries who commit atrocities period. God bless us and help us from the scourge that is Islam.
StellaSaidSo says
1400 years of inbreeding has done enormous damage to the Muslim gene pool, affecting intelligence, sanity, and health. The highest rate of inbreeding in the Muslim world is in Pakistan, where 70% of marriages are between first cousins. Low intelligence is the norm in such populations Add a violent ‘religion’, indoctrinated from infancy, and the behaviour exhibited by this mob is the predictable result.
Voytek Gagalka says
How long it will take to “educate” mob of savages that they are mistaken, that they have wrong world-view (metaphysics), and completely crooked epistemology (methods of gaining knowledge)? Futile task. Too bad that there was not many of such men as Sir Charles J. Napier to “teach” them better respect for human rights, by force if necessary.
StellaSaidSo says
Indeed, force is the only language that savages understand. We are wasting our time trying to reason with them.
Islamic mirror says
Please help the persecuted Christians & other minorities
Majority of Muslims terrifying tiny minority Christians and Hindus every day on streets
Violence and hate against Christians is on the rise in Pakistan, where a disturbing trend of attacks by Islamist fanatics has made life hell for religious minorities. Many attacks remained unreported.
Pakistan is on record as having one of the world’s worst and most widely abused blasphemy laws. making announcements in the mosques should. Be brought to justice and given exemplary punishments.
Blasphemy accusations have resulted not only in the destruction of the lives of the accused, his/her family but have often been at the root of the destruction of entire Christian communities.”
blasphemy law itself is blasphemous idea . death penalty for blasphemy is inhumane and barbaric. People should have freedom to apply their own mind and be allowed to chose the faith of their choice or reject all faiths as they feel. Religious fundamentalism is at its peak in Pakistan and it needs to be dealt with severely. Burning a Quran is terrorism? What of burning a Bible? Attacking a mosque is terrorism. What of attacking, burning, destroying a church?
Now the hard question…..which of the above actions happen with the most regularity?
Taking law in your own hand is favorite norm in Pakistan When Muslims deliberately set fire to Christian institutions, churches and homes .It is not a hate crime. An injury to one of the country poorest and defenseless ethnic communities is “an injury to no one. Rarely, anyone comes to help.
you can kill or destroy property of any one in the name of blasphemy/ISLAM
So no arrests were made and the perpetrators went Set-free. The only people that were arrested from that community who was infact attacked . This is the Justice of the Land of the Extra Pure
No national outrage or expressing solidarity with non-muslims? a Christian did that to a Muslim it would be front page news for days on end.
(Islam is the only faith that gives its followers to murder apostates and blasphemers. No punishment is prescribed in Sharia law for the MURDERER of an apostate or a blasphemer.
Vigilantism is normative Islam, rather than an aberration. Let us never forget that. Let us remind all Muslims that we understand that SHARIA LAW PERMITS VIGILANTE MURDER to advance Islamic SUPREMACISM.
Christians are increasingly being imprisoned and tortured on trumped-up charges. First severely beaten and injured by a mob in a crazed reaction to rumors that a Christian person burned a page from the Quran, police , share the Islamic ideology of Muslim mobs who terrorize Christians over false blasphemy accusations, and then police do their bidding. Media and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have reported killings of religious minorities by police.
Blasphemy laws, which has resulted in abuse of the law through false accusations that prosper under a system of impunity,” Blasphemy accusations have spiked in Pakistan.
“Those who make false accusations and take part in violent attacks are rarely if ever
Charged. What is really sad is that they seem to enjoy hardline mullahs, police and Islamic political patronage,” “It is a kind of painful death of the accused
“The government’s general failure to investigate, arrest, or prosecute those responsible for societal abuses promoted an environment of impunity that fostered intolerance and acts of violence,” failure of the government to protect its innocent citizens and punish the culprits. Continued injustice and suppression of minorities
the International Religious Freedom report said. “In numerous cases during the year, authorities failed to protect victims of religiously motivated mob violence.” the unbearable persecution of Christians by Muslim supremacists exists in the Muslim world because of Islam’s medieval fundamentals. Non-Muslims are considered filthy in the Quran, often compared to pigs and apes, Muslim countries implement religious apartheid akin to the racial segregation.
In defence of and to take side of fellow Muslims, people with authority make false statement like “We do not allow any form of discrimination on the basis of faith, caste or creed.” However, reality is very different and open hatred. Christians are abused, persecuted, and segregated nearly everywhere both in the country and abroad.
muslims are racist to the bone,religious racism of the worst kind.
Government policies in Pakistan, “did not afford equal protection to members of majority and minority religious groups, and due to discriminatory legislation, minorities often were afraid to profess freely their religious beliefs. Leaders, bureaucrats, ALL blamed for the failure to protect minorities.
Muslim clerics and some individuals become authority on matters like this. The most clerics in the country are puritanical fanatics, who have no concept of tolerance and respect for other religions. Pakistani muslims are born in a society based on hatred and then raised in Prejudice of other religions.
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Blasphemy law mandates the death penalty .It has become fashion to use and abuse blasphemy law for, hate crime, personal vendetta these are most often used to settle personal scores, drive Christian families out of villages and acquire their property. No evidence is required, anyone even just accused, of insulting Islam, risks a violent and bloody death at the hands of vigilantes. Those acquitted have often been lynched.
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Christians, who make up around 1.6 per cent of the country’s 207.7 million people, are often discriminated against and marginalized by the Muslim majority.
the situation of muslims in europe is much better than of christians in muslim countries- Ask Pakistani Christians in Pakistan,
ask the copts in egypt or ask the armenian.
Ask the christians in eritrea or nigeria-
Ask Christians in Ache ,Indonesia
whereever muslims appear in significant numbers everything turns bad.
Raja says
The British Pak Christian Asso. needs to be applauded for bringing out this sorry state of affair in Pak without which the world would not know of the Islamic brutality against minorities.
The UK political elite must hang its head in shame for imitating the same Pak (popular for mob hysteria, death call resulting in murder etc) with the same bunch of people in their own turf.
Bill Clinton is equally guilty of creating another Pakistan in Bosnia and God knows where else.Their ignorance of Islamic behavior cannot be excused.
Won’t be surprised if the Christian Asso is asked to pack up its bags and go…
sally says
From what I hear from friends there, the Lahore police see mobs as their helpmates and tools. There is no discord apparently between violent mobs and the police. They play for the same team essentially. I am getting so very weary of the naivetee. It hardly seems worth discussing anymore. No one seems to be aware of the fact that Islam is essentially evil.
gravenimage says
True about the police in Pakistan. Often Muslims attack Christians or other Infidels, and then the victims are arrested.
Walter Sieruk says
All those engaged Muslims ,in Pakistan, with their violent deadly hate for that Christian is a strong reminder that the Christian man, Roger Williams , who was the founder of the State of Rhode Island was someone who had the wisdom and understanding to make a valid and true statement which is “That religion cannot be true which need such instruments of violence to uphold it.”
gravenimage says
True, Walter.
Ewanda says
And Trudeau and Ontario Liberal Premier are still intent on legislating blasphemy laws on us Canadians. It is easy to feel helpless while the steamroller advances relentlessly towards us!!
What to do … what to do …. what to do…?
Berengaria says
It appears that every American City or Town must have a Paki-Quota, a Syrian-Muslim Quota, an Iraqi “Translator” Quota(Muslim, of course, & the Stinkng List goes on. Why can’t America BE AMERICAN? American Citizens take second-place, beneath the interests of the Muslim Savages & their ILLEGAL ALIEN Cousins. PLEASE ALLOW AMERICA TO BE AMERICAN, AGAIN!
Sarah says
Why the hell are we letting these savage’s across our borders, for ANY reason?
I mean, religious mob mentality. That’s circa 1100AD behaviour.
Indiana Tom says
To destroy our society and create a New World Order.
boakai ngombu says
does fb bear any responsibility .. that a “stranger” can impersonate the account owner, then add such material to owner’s page? … bet the perp was a “friend” of Patras …
Good Samaritan says
Unfortunately, this is a textbook reminder of why your phone should always remain LOCKED, especially if you live in a country where you are surrounded by miscreants who will jump on the opportunity to settle some personal vendetta by framing you in a hapless trap. Christians in Pakistan should pay attention to this thought!
gravenimage says
Good points. Of course, the victim is just a 17-year-old kid, and probably not all that savvy.
Indiana Tom says
Ahhh….the disciples of peace and love….
Lydia Church says
Ironically, Christianity is the TRUTH, and islam is the blasphemy!
But attacking Christians for speaking the truth and accusing them this way is part of the islamic blasphemy.
Lydia Church says
Just like muslims are the real ‘infidels’ which means unbelievers, and Christians are the true believers.
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Muslim mob calls for beheading of Christian for “blasphemy,” threatens to burn down Christian homes
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This *poor kid*. I hope he and his neighbors stay safe–but they probably won’t.
And the Pakistani police are in cahoots with the Muslim mobs.
MFritz says
Don’t see the mob, see who pulls the strings! It’s ALWAYS the imams.
StellaSaidSo says
Yep. The word goes out at the mosque, and the faithful obey.
infidel says
And come to think of it: These are the same Paki mongrels that immigrate to the Christian west and DEMAND endlessly for this and that and even get their demands met… For all that is worth: I would not entertain a single Paki in the West….. Next time U find a Paki demanding for this and that in the West, I request Westerners to remind them of their persecution of Christians in Pakistan..
saleem says
ur Judeo-Christian texts don’t contain any truth…no one will ever steal lies n fabricated stories…these books r unnatural n interpolated hence insult to great prophet MOSES A.S Prophet Jesus A.S
LeftisruiningCanada says
So which books was your koran telling people to check to see if mo was telling the truth?
(hint: the same ones we have today)
dumbledoresarmy says
We *have* to press our various governents to CEASE *all* official ‘aid’ to horrible Islamic Pakistan.
The British Pakistani Christian Association is lobbying the UK Government to STOP paying ‘aid’ (jizya!) to Pakistan, to punish Pakistan for its gross violations of the human rights of non-Muslim minorities.
*I* think that all British jihadwatchers can surely join the BPCA in that campaign, and write letter after letter after letter, to the relevant Government ministers and to their own MPs. Make noise make lots of noise and keep on making it.
Similarly, Aussies like me can demand that *our* government start cutting back on the jizya – er, ‘aid’ – that it gives to Islamic Pakistan and to any number of *other* human-rights-abusing mohammedan hellholes. Cut the aid and tell Pakistan: this is because you are winking at Muslim mob violence directed – on the flimsiest of obviously-manufactured false accusations – against innocent non-Muslims.
At the same time: STOP letting any wealthy Pakistani Muslim enter the West as tourists, or to do ‘business’ or to get medical treatment, ior *anything*. Slam the door in their arrogant faces, and lock it. They can live in the mess that Islam produces.
And END all immigration of Pakistani Muslims into any western country. I don’t want Pakistani Muslims. I’d be happy to offer asylum to Pakistani *non-Muslims*: groups like Barnabas Fund and the BPCA can easily identify bona fide candidates for refuge, they know exactly who is who… and who *isn’t*.
Round up all Muslims from Pakistan who are currently within the west but haven’t yet unblinkingly lled their way into citizenship status, and kick them out.
Intern the rest… pending a rejig of the laws to permit them, also, to be deported.
And apply exactly the same procedure to all the *other* OIC hellholes whose inhabitants currently comprise a dangerous, expanding, vociferous, whining, and unpleasant set of colonists within historically non-Islamic countries, constnatly demanding special treatment and whining about their ‘rights’, even as, back in their homelands, their fellow-Muslims treat all defenceless non-Muslims like sh*t.
sidney penny says
Yes, ask the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to investigate this!
Better still try the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP). But there only so much that Asma Jahangir could do.
Baucent says
” an unknown person added blasphemous content to his FB,”
Ah.. the old stolen phone trick. Seems to happen a lot in Pakistan. Steal the phone of a Christian you have a grudge against (maybe he’s friends with a muslim girl) add a few choice blasphemous slurs on Facebook about Islam and watch the storm break, with primitive goat herders of low IQ demanding the lynching of the said Christian. We’ve seen this saga so many times.
The reality is Christians in Pakistan, and other muslim majority countries are an oppressed and brutalized minority, none in their right mind would dare to utter something derogatory about Islam as they know the outcome.
afrostreetwise says
Lets cut to the chase, shall we? The Muslim horde was simply `doing `what they have been doing for over 1400 years. That is, to use the pretext of religion to loot. That was the sole motive from the word go. They find it very convenient stealing and looting under the banner of religion (what an oxymoron) and avoid legal action.
Hogdude says
…and pork sandwiches all round for the mob.
Rolf Wittwer says
There will be a time, when all the “Nonbelievers” on Earth will have to unite to fight this sick inhuman all-oppressive stoneaged and prehistoric “society”.
Billy Chickens says
God I hate Islam.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
mithraist christianity cannot be sold without lies and blackmails against muslims and Islam. Blasphemy law is justified to deter mithraist christians from such rascalities that May lead public unrest.