This is an ongoing travesty of human rights, but no one is particularly concerned. It isn’t as if something important such as “Islamophobia” was being committed.
“Pakistan: Nearly 200 cases of Christians on blasphemy charges,” by Tobias Lehner and John Pontifex, Independent Catholic News, January 23, 2019:
There are nearly 200 cases of Christians in Pakistan charged with blasphemy – the controversial law made famous by Asia Bibi.
Father James Channon, director of the Peace Center in Lahore, which promotes inter-faith relations, said research by the Catholic Church had revealed 187 live cases of Christians charged with blasphemy which in Pakistan can carry sentences of life imprisonment or death.
Added to this figure is the case of Asia Bibi, whose death penalty conviction for blasphemy was overturned last October by Pakistan’s Supreme Court, a decision which created headlines around the world.
Speaking in an interview with Aid to the Church in Need, Father Channon said: “Even now, after her acquittal, she is anything but safe.
“Radical Islamists are trying to find her so they can kill her. That is why she is currently under state protection.”
He highlighted the suffering experienced by so many people accused of blasphemy, irrespective of the outcome of their cases.
The priest said: “The blasphemy law destroys the lives of those who have been accused, even if they avoid being executed.”
He added: “Any time Christians are accused of supposed blasphemy, all Christians in the region are indicted with them.
“This often leads to acts of violence against Christians.”
Among the 187 current cases, he highlighted that of married couple Shafqat Masih and Shagufta Bibi, on death row on charges of sending blasphemous text messages.
He said: “Their prospects are very weak. Even should they be acquitted, they and their children will no longer be able to live in Pakistan. Fanatic Muslims will try to kill them.”…
mortimer says
ISLAMIC BLASPHEMY LAW is a LICENSE TO KILL granted to every private Muslim in Sharia law as a self-appointed vigilante. (“There is no indemnity obligatory for killing a non-Muslim at war (‘kafir harbi’) with Muslims.” -Reliance of the Traveller, o4.17, p.593)
Islamic belief is a kind of hysteria that is self-induced by self-hypnosis. No proof for Islamic belief is required, because it is based on circular arguments, none of which has historical proof to substantiate them.
Pakistan (literally the country of purity) is the greatest user of pornography per capita in the world. Islam is filled with such moral and intellectual inconsistencies, making it totally counter-intellectual and counter-ethical or amoral. Islam’s only ethical principle is the question: ‘IS SUCH-AND-SUCH helpful to ISLAMIC SUPREMACISM?’ This basic question that Muslims ask themselves is amoral and opportunistic, and thus not ‘moral’ at all.
Walter Sieruk says
First, if those Christians really are in violation of the Islamic “blasphemy laws” of Pakistan those are only “guilty”. They are then only “guilty” of speaking Bible based truth if they had declared that “Jesus is the only Begotten Son of God the Father.
Second , in the Light of the Bible Islam has been exposed to be a false religion. Second, that those Christian who had been viciously attacked by Muslims for saying that “Jesus is the Son of God” show that Muslim can’t refute that claim they resort to using violence. Furthermore, the claim that “ Jesus is the Son of God” is upheld in the Bible. To be more clear and specific about the nature of Jesus, the Bible instructs the Jesus is the Son of God, Who is God the Father.
The way for a person to discover the truth concerning the nature of Jesus is found in the Bible verse Isaiah 8:20. This instructs “To the law of the testimony. If they do not speak according to the word, it is because there is no light in them.” [N.K.J.V.] In other words, if a religious teacher has teaching that are in contradiction to the Word, the Bible, then that teachers is a false teacher who teaches false doctrines. The Muslim clerics, as the imam and mullahs, teach and speak doctrines about God from the Quran .
As the Quran in 112 teaches “He is God alone: God is the eternal begetteth not…” Likewise, this religious book which is the entire foundation of and for Islam further teaches in 19:35. “It is not befitting to God that He should beget a son.” In great contrast the Bible teaches in John 1:14. “The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory , the glory of the only begotten of the Father ,full of grace and truth.” Likewise John 3:16 teaches “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son… Then just a little further in verse 18 it is written about Jesus Who is “the only begotten Son of God. “ Other places in the Bible further teach that Jesus is the Son of God as in Matthew 16:15:16. Luke 1:35. John 3:36. First John 4:14. 15. 5:14,15.
Moreover to be even more clear the Bible teaches that Jesus is the Son of God, Who is God the Father. As found in Matthew 3:16,17. First John 2:22,23. 4:14,15. Of course , it ,very much, needs to made even more specific . The Bible teaches that Jesus is also God the Son. As seen in Hebrew 1:8 and First John 5:20. The imams and mullahs as well as the other apologists for Islam will try to “explain” this all away. As in they will try brush off all those Bible verse off by making the claim that the Bible had been corrupted, through time, by Christians and that’s why the Bible reads as it does. That claim they make actually underestimate the Power of God to protect and keep His Word safe and intact ,through time, and away from the corruption of men.
In conclusion ,with the above instruction of the way to find doctrinal truth in Isaiah 8:20 and in the light of the Bible verse provided it may be clearly seen, by all those who are willing to see, that Islam is in terrible doctrinal error and it is therefore a false religion, Proverbs 14:12. John 14:6.
In addition there is a Christian internet site which replies to the many claims made by the imams and mullahs as well as the other apologists for Islam. It’s http://www.answering-islam.org
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Nearly 200 Christians are being held on blasphemy charges
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Yes–Asia Bibi is not the only victim.
One Umman says
We will implement the Sharia law everywhere in the world and kill everyone who disrespects our Prophet Muhammad (Peace and Blessings Upon Him). We love Prophet Jesus (Peace Be Upon Him) and every Prophet of Allah.
Just wait and see and we are also waiting with you when Sharia Law will be implemented everywhere. Everywhere …
gravenimage says
Of course, “Prophet Jesus” has nothing in common with the loving Jesus of the Gospels. Instead, the main role of the Muslim “Jesus” is killing Christians.
Bu then, this should not surprise given the vicious, threatening tone of the post above…