The Centre for Legal Aid, Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS) is a Christian charity dedicated to helping persecuted Christians in Pakistan. Nasir Saeed, the director of CLAAS-UK, said: “Pakistani politicians, courts and law enforcement agencies all are aware that blasphemy law is frequently misused to settle personal grudges and petty disputes but still has failed to stop ongoing misuse of this law.”
This is in keeping with what we have seen in so very many nations: persecution of Christians is not wholly or solely a result of mob violence. All too often it is initiated by governments, and/or aided and abetted by law enforcement officials who are more sympathetic to the persecutors than to their victims. This needs to become an issue of international concern, but despite the fact that Christian persecution is still escalating, it is not receiving adequate attention from global human rights agencies.
“Pakistani police charges [sic] mentally ill Christian with blasphemy,” Pakistan Christian Post, March 18, 2019:
London: March 18, 2019. (PCP) A mentally ill Pakistani Christian man has been charged with blasphemy. Stephen Masih was charged following a complaint from local cleric Hafiz Muhammad Mudassar.
According to the FIR, two Muslims named Muhammad Rafique and Muhammad Imran, told Muhammad Mudassar Stephen had made derogatory remarks against the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
Stephen, 38, is unmarried and lived with his sister Alia and their mother in Imran Pura Badiana Village District Sialkot.
According to Alia, when Stephen was in 5th grade, he became sick with typhoid fever and became mentally unwell.
Stephen dropped his studies due to illness, and with the passage of time his family noticed behavioral change.
Around 12 years ago, they had medical checkup from Civil Hospital and his doctor declared him mentally disabled, but they do not have medical report.
Due to poor financial circumstances his family did not provide him medical treatment.
Alia also says that because of his mental state, Stephen often used abusive language against his mother and sister and often fights with them.
On March 10th Stephen pushed his mother and started abusing her and Alia.
One of the Muslim neighbors asked why he was mistreating them, upon which Stephen started arguing with her as he was out of his senses.
The next morning Stephen has an argument with Hafiz Muhammad Mudassar’s wife (complainant of the FIR) who threatened call the police.
Alia said that on the same day a Muslim female named Zeenat, known to the complainant’s wife, came to their home and told Stephen she would be making a complaint against him to the police.
Meanwhile a few Muslim men gathered outside their house and pulled Stephen out of his house and started beating him brutally, gradually joined by others.
Someone called the local police who arrived and took Stephen with them before logging a false case under section 295- C PPC (Pakistan Penal Code) against Stephen.
Alia reportedly went to the police station. She says her brother only shouted and used abusive language against the local ladies but did not utter any derogatory remarks against the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), but the police didn’t believe her….
Nasir Saeed, director, CLAAS-UK has said that it is very sad that misuse of the blasphemy law continues against Christians and other religious minorities in Pakistan….
Mr Saeed said: “Pakistani politicians, courts and law enforcement agencies all are aware that blasphemy law is frequently misused to settle personal grudges and petty disputes but still has failed to stop ongoing misuse of this law.”…
Halal Bacon says
following shitslam is a mental disease, so I’m not quite sure what this is about? pot calling kettle black?
FYI says
That’s a bit rich given that islam’s perfect man,the cross-dressing,self-confessed fraud{Sahih Bukhari 2442,Al Tabari 6:111}seems not to have been the full Dinar{or shilling to infidels}
muhammed was a man, we remember..
.. who ORDERED his followers to drink camel wee as a health tonic{Sahih Bukhari 8:82:794},believed yawning is from satan{Sahih Bukhari 4:59:3289}and satan pees in your ear{Sahih Bukhari 4:59:3270},women are “deficient in mind”{Sahih Bukhari 2658},
that “angels do not enter a house which has either a dog or a picture”{sahih Bukhari 4:59:3322}…so obviously you can’t have Scooby Doo on the TV in a muslim household….and given Aisha’s comment “His eye wept for no one”which would indicate a sociopathic mind along with his suicide attempts,it appears islam’s Perfect Man was not of sound mind himself.
Of course all these islamic-sourced details which show the Truth about muhammed would be lost on the Pakistanis
mortimer says
Discriminatory Sharia law is not compatible with modernity and this Pak blasphemy law is so easily abused, it’s a joke. It’s similar to crying ‘fire’ in a crowded theater.
somehistory says
If this man was moslim and committed crimes of violence against his neighbors, nothing would be done and his mental illness would be used to keep him free.
There is no justice in pakistan. People who are innocent are sent to prison, people who are innocent are condemned to death and even those who have been freed by the Courts, are hounded and threatened endlessly. On top of that, moslims are allowed to “give testimony” when they have not witnessed anything, but have “heard” from friends and neighbors of friends and their word is taken over those who have direct knowledge…because the ones giving false witness are moslims.
CRUSADER says
OpenDoors….
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8quqKeIvqok
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Police charge mentally ill Christian with blasphemy
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This poor man and his family.
God, I hate Islam.
na says
sehr geehrter Damen und Herren. endlisch wahrheit aufgedeckt haben.
gravenimage says
Everyone should learn about these horrors.
na says
Erdogan almost failed in Election. His plan “New Zealand shooting” to attract Muslims failed. Jihadi was appointed to kill Christians . He changed his mind AND he shot all Jihadi terrorists (Few of them are illegal migrants , few of them are ISIS) .
Middle eastern channel reported this news 1 hour before shooting
“Jihadi attacked and killed 50 kuffar” . But when the real news came they shocked.
gravenimage says
na, this is just silly. Tarrant was not sent by Erdogan. I’ve read his sick “manifesto”. Most terror attacks are indeed Jihad, but this one was not.