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Pakistan: Mentally disabled Christian sentenced to life in prison for blasphemy against Islam

Oct 26, 2018 6:59 am By Robert Spencer

This is what the European Court of Human Rights chose yesterday for the future of Europe.

“Mentally Disabled Pakistani Christian Sentenced to Life in Prison,” International Christian Concern, October 24, 2018:

10/24/2018 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – On September 28, Yaqoob Bashir, a 25-year-old mentally disabled Pakistani Christian, was sentenced to life in prison by the Session and District Court of Mirpurkhas for allegedly committing blasphemy against Islam. This life sentence was issued more than three years after the initial blasphemy accusation was leveled against Bashir in 2015.

Bashir was first accused of burning a booklet that carried Quranic verses in Mirpurkhas in June 2015. The case was registered (FIR # 41/15) against Bashir, under Section 295-B and C of Pakistan’s Penal Code on June 5, 2015. Bashir was reportedly receiving treatment at a mental health facility in Hyderabad prior to the blasphemy accusation.

Last month, the court sentenced Bashir under Section 295-C of Pakistan’s Penal Code, which punishes individuals for using derogatory language against the prophet Muhammad. However, he was found innocent under Section 295-B, which punishes individuals for desecrating the Quran.

Collectively, Sections 295 A, B, and C comprise Pakistan’s notorious blasphemy laws. Many human rights advocates who monitor Pakistan have reported on the widespread abuse of these blasphemy laws. Often, false accusations are made to settle personal scores or incite religious hatred against minority communities. Mob violence and lynchings often follow blasphemy accusations against Christians, even if those accusations are clearly false.

During Bashir’s three years and three months of imprisonment prior to his conviction, approximately 96 hearings were conducted as a part of his trial. During this period, Bashir was attacked by fellow inmates on several occasions. In June 2018, he was brutally beaten by fellow inmates for praying in their shared jail cell and sustained multiple injuries.

The young Christian also found little sympathy from the courts as his appeals for bail were twice rejected, once by the Session Court and then again by the High Court of Hyderabad. While awaiting trial, Bashir suffered from multiple serious illnesses due to the poor conditions in jail and the lack of adequate medical care from jail authorities.

Since the day Bashir was accused of blasphemy, his family has been continuously monitored by extremist groups. These groups have repeatedly threatened and harassed them during court hearings.

“It’s unbearable and unjust,” Kasur Bibi, Bashir’s mother, told International Christian Concern (ICC). “My son is innocent. He did not insult or do blasphemy. He does not care much of these issues as his mind works differently than that of a normal person’s.”…

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  1. EVILSPEAK says

    Oct 26, 2018 at 7:08 am

    So we have the mentally ill judging the mentally ill? It’s like a Monty Python sketch, “Nobody expects the Islamic Inquisition”.

    • Westman says

      Oct 26, 2018 at 10:52 am

      It makes one wonder if there are many mental institutions for the ill, or, instead, jails and prisons serve that purpose in Pakistan. The mentally ill would be most likely to “offend” Islam.

      According to our media reports, Islam gives the mentally ill Muslim another path besides jail – JIHAD.

  2. LB says

    Oct 26, 2018 at 7:20 am

    Meanwhile in the West, “mentally ill” muslims get a slap on the wrist for murders, rapes, violence, etc. But don’t worry, don’t you know that all cultures are equal, you greasy islamophobe!

    • christianblood says

      Oct 26, 2018 at 8:07 am

      Because of the teachings of the hateful supremacist islamic beliefs, muslims are crazily self-righteous and spiritually and morally blind. Islam has totally decimated the muslim’s self-awareness and because of it, most muslims have no or very little self-awareness. There is no golden rule in islam, no love for humanity in islam and no righteousness or decency or mercy in islam. Islam teaches, promotes, commands and authorizes hate, beheading, stoning, religious genocide, sexual slavery, child marriage, terrorism, discrimination, religious supremacism, violent jihadist activities and hateful warmongering. Islam is an evil, satanic cult full of hatred, ignorance, spiritual darkness, violence, crucifixions, burning-people-alive, amputations, stoning, beheading, flogging pple to death, suicide-bombing, wickedness, mass murder, honor-killing, throwing homosexuals off high buildings, barbarism, cruelty, extreme brutality, wickedness, supremacism, bloodshed, jihad, assassinations, wife-beating, instant divorces, false beliefs, demonic practices, female genital mutilation, jealousy and death. islam and those who practice its evil, satanic teachings are the purest forms of evil on planet Earth!

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 26, 2018 at 5:48 pm

        Fine post from christianblood.

        • christianblood says

          Oct 26, 2018 at 7:44 pm

          gravenimage

          +1

          As always, Graven!

      • christianblood says

        Oct 26, 2018 at 7:46 pm

        gravenimage

        +1

  3. Patsy Koenig says

    Oct 26, 2018 at 7:27 am

    United States should STOP giving financial aid to Pakistan. Pakistan does not help United States strategically and Pakistan is cruel and grossly unjust towards Christians.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 26, 2018 at 6:37 pm

      We’re on our way, Patsy:

      “US cancels $300 million in aid to Pakistan for failure to take decisive action against jihadis”

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/09/us-cancels-300-million-in-aid-to-pakistan-for-failure-to-take-decisive-action-against-jihadis

  4. Kilauea says

    Oct 26, 2018 at 9:54 am

    The U.S. should stop all foreign aid to Pakistan. They have not helped us in the war on terror, Pakistani Intelligence hid Bin Laden for years, and their legal system carries on active prosecution of non-Muslims. Pakistan is a state-sponsor of terrorism and is allowed to get away with it because of deep state operatives in the State Department.

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Oct 26, 2018 at 11:50 am

    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.

  6. Clive Stephen Delmonte says

    Oct 26, 2018 at 1:28 pm

    I’m not sure who the mentally disabled are. I suppose it depends on what diagnostic tests you use.

  7. gravenimage says

    Oct 26, 2018 at 5:44 pm

    Pakistan: Mentally disabled Christian sentenced to life in prison for blasphemy against Islam
    ………………..

    Sickening abuse. I doubt this poor man will survive long in a Pakistani prison.

  8. nicholas tesdorf says

    Oct 26, 2018 at 5:53 pm

    Yaqoob Bashir was the only sane person involved in this affair. Islamic countries are like asylums for the criminally insane.

  9. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Oct 28, 2018 at 1:44 am

    All “psychology” and “psychiatry” is victimology. He was probably only found “mentally ill” FOR criticizing Moe and for being Christian in the first place!

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