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Pakistan elections: Hundreds of candidates backed by jihad terror groups and supporters of blasphemy law

Jul 8, 2018 1:45 pm By Robert Spencer

Islamic theology tends to reinforce fanaticism, because of the one-on-one correlation in Islam between obedience to Allah and success. If you obey Allah, you will prosper in this world as well as in the next. If you don’t prosper, it must be because you’re still not Muslim enough, so you must redouble your efforts to please Allah.

“War on ‘Blasphemy’ a Top Theme in Islamist-Dominated Pakistani Elections,” by Edwin Mora, Breitbart, July 6, 2018:

The looming July 25 general elections in Pakistan have seen hundreds of candidates enter the political mainstream with backing from Islamic terrorist organizations and ardent supporters of the country’s blasphemy law, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) revealed this week.

Those convicted of violating the blasphemy laws that protect Islam against criticism can face life in prison or death. The law is often used to target Christians and other religious minorities, often with very little evidence against them.

Overall, hardline Islamist groups — led by the Tehreek Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) organization that rose to prominence last November by opposing changes to the blasphemy law — have fielded a whopping 395 candidates for the parliamentary elections across Pakistan, Breitbart News determined using ECP data published by the Pakistani newspaper Dawn.

That means hundreds of politicians affiliated with Islamic terrorist organizations and anti-Christian Muslim hardliners may soon be running nuclear-armed Pakistan.

Citing the incomplete “final list” of contenders announced by ECP on Wednesday, Dawn reports that the ardently anti-blasphemy Islamist group TLP achieved major political party status by fielding 152 candidates.

The Times of India (TOI) reports:

The TLP – whose raison d étre is the protection of the blasphemy law – was formed as recently as in 2015 and yet it has fielded a whopping 152 candidates. By comparison, parties that have been in Pakistani politics for decades have fielded just between 40-75 candidates more than the TLP.

Then there’s the religio-political parties’ alliance – Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA)- which comprises the ultra-conservative, Islamist, religious, and far-right parties of Pakistan that was formed way back in 2002. This lot, headed by Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, has put up candidates in 173 constituencies.

Rounding off the Islamist trifecta is an outfit called the Allah-o-Akbar Tehreek (AAT). This is the platform for none other than terrorist Hafiz Saeed’s Milli Muslim League, which has been denied registration by Pakistan’s election commission, due to its links with the banned Saeed-held Jamaat-ud-Dawa. AAT has fielded 43 candidates in Punjab and seven in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, for a total of 50.

TOI left out the anti-blasphemy Islamic extremist party led by Ashraf Asif Jalali, Tehreek-i-Labbaik Islami (TLI), which has put up 18 candidates in Punjab, Dawn notes.

Reuters reported last week that Pakistan’s election commission is also considering allowing Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) — linked to a U.S.-designated terrorist organization — to enter the political fray and field candidates this year.

ASWJ is led Muhammad Ahmed Ludhianvi, recently removed from Islamabad’s terrorist watchlist ahead of the elections.

Together, Islamist hardliner groups — MMA (175), TLP (152), AAT (50), and TLI (18)— have fielded 395 candidates, more than the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-N’s (PML-N) 195.

Of those Islamist extremist candidates, 170 (TLP, TLI) are in favor of the country’s blasphemy law often used against Christians, and 50 (AAT) have the support of the Hafiz Saeed-led Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) organization, a known affiliate of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) jihadist group that carried out the deadly 2008 Mumbai attack….

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  1. JawsV says

    Jul 8, 2018 at 2:16 pm

    What’s that creature in the photo? From what planet is it from?

    • Eur says

      Jul 8, 2018 at 2:36 pm

      In my neighborhood there are already two ghosts like that. It’s shocking and it’s scary to think about what the neighborhood is going to turn into in the coming years.

      • JawsV says

        Jul 8, 2018 at 3:22 pm

        I’m sorry for you. It’s horrible. You’re in Europe?

        • Eur says

          Jul 8, 2018 at 3:56 pm

          Of course. In recent years there have been many Moroccans and Algerians and after them their women. Now it is all full of women with veils pregnant or pushing baby cart … and these women are little more than teenagers, all of them of age to continue studying. It is shocking how the neighborhood, town and city have changed. There are also many South Americans but they are happy people and mixed couples are seen. Now the most common name among newborns is Mohammed. And all this has happened very fast.

        • JawsV says

          Jul 8, 2018 at 10:04 pm

          Europe ruining itself. A tragedy.

    • Opinionated says

      Jul 9, 2018 at 6:33 am

      Your words reflect gross bigotry and it’s appaling and pathetic in 2018.

      There are women in parts of the word who are nudist, they ride bicycles completely nude and on the other extreme there are women who are completely covered wherein you can’t see any flesh on their body.

      This is the world we live in sir – get used to it and cease from bigoted words.

      • JawsV says

        Jul 9, 2018 at 7:12 am

        Oh shut-up you moron. Furthermore, you’re a gross bigot! You’re bigoted, pathetic and appalling! Take your camel poop and shovel it, Muslim. Bigot! Bigot! Bigot! Racist, too! And in 2018!

      • Carolyne says

        Jul 9, 2018 at 12:28 pm

        You certainly are opinionated, Opinionated. Perhaps you have no attachment to your own homeland and you don’t care if your culture and way of life, including your religion, if any, are wiped out by Muslims and replaced by seventh century barbarism, but most of us do and we will speak against it and do whatever we can to prevent a complete Muslim takeover.

        On the other hand, you might be one of them destroying the country in which you live. You are not welcome. Ride your camel back to the sands.

        • Opinionated says

          Jul 10, 2018 at 12:38 pm

          Miss there is no “Muslim takeover” except in that little head of yours.

          I think you give way too much credibility to Muslims.

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 10, 2018 at 11:51 pm

        I see the vile Muslim apologist “Opinionated” is once again demanding that we ignore the oppression and savagery of Islam, and pretend it is just more colorful ‘diversity’. *Ugh*.

        • Opinionated says

          Jul 11, 2018 at 12:28 pm

          There is savagery in secularism, communism, democracy and almost every where in the world bc you are dealing with human beings – the propaganda is futile.

    • granddaddy says

      Jul 9, 2018 at 7:02 pm

      Yikes!

  2. Rosie Barnes says

    Jul 8, 2018 at 2:20 pm

    Pity poor India: it has the neighbour from Hell. Pakistan. Corrupt, backward, violent, dangerous, centuries behind India because it has allowed Islam to drag it back centuries and keep it firmly rooted in the Dark Ages.

    While Indian women dress in beautiful colourful saris, look at this “woman” in Pakistan, in drab brown from head to foot and her face covered by a grill. Is that civilised behaviour in the 21st century?

    • Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

      Jul 8, 2018 at 3:18 pm

      Don’t let the Mohammadans take India as well.

  3. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Jul 8, 2018 at 3:17 pm

    “Nigeria’s Fulani Jihadis Grow Deadlier than Boko Haram, Killing Hundreds of Christians in Days [Extreme Content Warning]”
    https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/07/08/nigerias-fulani-jihadis-grow-deadlier-than-boko-haram-killing-hundreds-of-christians-in-days-extreme-content-warning/

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 8, 2018 at 9:00 pm

      Horrible.

  4. David Grisez says

    Jul 8, 2018 at 4:41 pm

    The burka is a hideous ugly looking garment. Leave it to this evil system like this to cover up their women like this.

    • JawsV says

      Jul 9, 2018 at 7:14 am

      Islam is pathological, a mass sickness and psychosis.

  5. elee says

    Jul 8, 2018 at 4:42 pm

    Pakistan is the Muslim Utopia they want to force on the rest of us. Pay attention West.

  6. David Grisez says

    Jul 8, 2018 at 4:47 pm

    These blasphemy laws in Pakistan are primarily an excuse by the evil system of Islam to murder Christians and other non muslim people in the country of Pakistan.

  7. b.a. freeman says

    Jul 8, 2018 at 4:51 pm

    they *have* to swing both ways, Jay, because there isn’t a 4-to-1 ratio of women to men so that *every* man can have 4 wives; it’s either go after little boys, or go bugger goats. of course, since only islam and allah can be studied in islam (studying anything else is blasphemous), almost nobody who is a pious muslim understands math and what consequences are portended by that ratio.

    it s**ks to be a poor muslim male.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 8, 2018 at 9:03 pm

      Being a Muslim women is probably even worse.

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 8, 2018 at 9:16 pm

        woman

  8. granddaddy says

    Jul 8, 2018 at 8:04 pm

    “If you obey Allah, you will prosper in this world as well as in the next.” So why then are nearly all Muslim countries third world?

    “If you don’t prosper, it must be because you’re still not Muslim enough.” If obeying Allah does not make them prosper, then why would they think obeying him more would make them more prosperous?

    Can anyone, even a Muslim, name a Muslim-majority country they would like to live in? Is Iran being pressured to let in hoards of Judaeo-Christian immigrants fleeing Germany? Does anybody want to live in Pakistan? Even Pakistanis?

    It just goes to show how illogical their thinking is. What is the saying? — “Repeating the same thing, and expecting different results, is the definition of insanity.”

    • JawsV says

      Jul 9, 2018 at 7:16 am

      It’s a definition of insanity. There are many. But, yes.

  9. gravenimage says

    Jul 8, 2018 at 9:20 pm

    Pakistan elections: Hundreds of candidates backed by jihad terror groups and supporters of blasphemy law
    …………………

    This should surprise no one.

  10. Paul Middleton says

    Jul 9, 2018 at 5:23 pm

    I hope Donald Trump sees this story. He’ll cook Pakistan’s goose. He’s the only leader who can or will.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 10, 2018 at 11:56 pm

      He’s already pulling aid for Pakistan. Glad to see it.

  11. gravenimage says

    Jul 10, 2018 at 11:51 pm

    +1

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