This shouldn’t surprise anyone; Qari Asim is completely consistent in his thinking. “Islamophobia” charges are simply attempts to apply Sharia blasphemy laws to non-Muslims in the West, so he supports punishing blasphemy both in Pakistan and in the UK. Asim is thus far more consistent than Western feminists, who support women’s rights for all women except Muslim women, and than the “Queers Against Islamophobia” crowd, etc.
“Revealed: Government adviser on Islamaphobia gave his backing to a Pakistani cleric who called for a Christian mother to be hanged for blasphemy,” by Glen Owen and Abul Taher, The Mail on Sunday, April 7, 2019:
An imam recruited to advise the Government on ‘tackling Islamophobia’ has publicly supported a cleric in Pakistan who has campaigned for a Christian woman to be hanged for blasphemy.
Qari Asim, who is part of an 11-strong panel assembled by the Communities Department, supported preacher Khadim Rizvi, who demanded the death penalty for Asia Bibi, who was falsely accused of insulting the Prophet Muhammad.
She spent nine years on death row until she was acquitted in October.
Mr Asim’s past emerged as part of a Mail on Sunday investigation into the Working Group on Anti-Muslim Hatred, which advises Ministers and senior civil servants on measures to combat anti-Muslim bigotry and hate crimes.
When Pakistan’s Supreme Court acquitted Ms Bibi last year, Rizvi’s group, Tehreek-e-Labbaik, caused nationwide riots, demanding that she be hanged.
Rizvi also endorsed the actions of Tanveer Ahmed, a British extremist who killed a shopkeeper in Glasgow, Asad Shah, because he belonged to a ‘heretical’ Muslim sect known as the Ahmadis. After the murder in 2016, Rizvi praised Ahmed in his preachings, hailing him as a ‘ghazi’, or ‘warrior’.
Ahmed, 34, from Bradford, is now serving 27 years for murder.
Qari Asim did not publicly support Rizvi’s campaign against Ms Bibi, but issued a statement on his Facebook page in November 2017 in solidarity with the cleric, whose organisation at the time was behind protests in Islamabad, which were marred by violence….