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Pakistan enraged over US keeping it on a list of violators of religious freedom

Dec 28, 2019 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

“Pakistan is a multi-religious and pluralistic country where people of all faiths enjoy religious freedom under constitutional protections,” said Pakistan’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Aisha Farooqui.

And here is the truth about Pakistan. Scroll and see.

“Pakistan Fumes After US Keeps It on Religious Freedom Blacklist,” by Patrick Goodenough, CNS News, December 26, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

(CNSNews.com) – The Trump administration’s decision to keep Pakistan on a blacklist of religious freedom violators is irking the world’s second most-populous Islamic nation, which slammed the move as “unilateral and arbitrary” and complained that its archrival India had not been similarly targeted.

“The designation is reflective of selective targeting of countries, and thus unlikely to be helpful to the professed cause of advancing religious freedom,” Pakistan’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Aisha Farooqui said in a Christmas Day statement.

“Pakistan is a multi-religious and pluralistic country where people of all faiths enjoy religious freedom under constitutional protections,” she said.

In fact, Pakistan oversees the world’s most notorious blasphemy laws, with Christians, Ahmadis and other minorities disproportionally affected by provisions that carry the death penalty for disparaging Mohammed; life imprisonment for defiling the Qur’an; and shorter jail terms for insulting Mohammed’s wives, relatives or “companions.”

Aside from the legal perils, Pakistanis professing various faiths have been targeted by murderous vigilante mobs or individuals determined to punish purported “blasphemers” in cases where the authorities have not yet acted.

As recently as last weekend, a U.S.-educated Pakistani university lecturer in the city of Multan, Junaid Hafeez, was sentenced to death for blasphemy after being accused of insulting Mohammed on Facebook.

Hafeez had been imprisoned, mostly in solitary confinement, for six years while awaiting finalization of his trial. His first lawyer was shot dead in 2014 for defending a client accused of blasphemy.

After the sentence was delivered, the BBC reported, prosecution lawyers handed out candy to their colleagues “who chanted ‘Allahu akbar’ and ‘death to blasphemers.’”

Waivers

According to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent statutory body, at least 80 individuals are currently imprisoned or in death row in Pakistan after being convicted of blasphemy.

Citing the blasphemy laws and other concerns, the USCIRF from 2002 to 2018 called on the State Department each year to designate Pakistan a “country of particular concern” (CPC) under the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA), but to no avail.

It was only in late 2018 that the Trump State Department broke with the Obama and Bush administrations, blacklisting Pakistan as a CPC despite its purported status as an important counter-terror ally.

Last Friday Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the renewal of CPC designations for Pakistan and eight other “egregious” violators of religious freedom.” (The others are Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan.)

It was that decision that the Pakistani foreign ministry was condemning on Wednesday.

“This pronouncement is not only detached from ground realities of Pakistan but also raises questions about the credibility and transparency of the entire exercise,” Farooqui said.

Despite the designation, Pakistan does not face any immediate consequences for its poor record….

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  1. Keys says

    Dec 28, 2019 at 3:48 pm

    Aisha Farooqui, Pakistani Pinocchio lengthening her nose with ease.

    • revereridesagain says

      Dec 28, 2019 at 8:09 pm

      LIAR OF THE YEAR Award Winner, squeaking in just under the wire!

  2. Charlie says

    Dec 28, 2019 at 4:37 pm

    They will have to get over it!!!l If NOT, oh, well:-)

  3. TKF says

    Dec 28, 2019 at 4:43 pm

    Who are ya gonna believe, this douche Pakistani minister, Aisha Farooqui….or your lyin eyes? Pakistan is a perfect example of a primitive, theocratic, inbred Islamic turd-pile, with nuclear weapons. They’ll use one of em against India one day, and it’ll be the end of Pakistan, when India nukes them off the planet.

    • elee says

      Dec 28, 2019 at 5:56 pm

      The second sentence of your post is great literature in addition to being true. Congratulations and thanks.

    • Jeff Gonez says

      Dec 29, 2019 at 5:09 am

      Well said TKF! The faster Pakistan is incinerated, the faster world peace will be achieved!

  4. mortimer says

    Dec 28, 2019 at 5:34 pm

    Religious Freedom Deteriorated In Pakistan Under Imran Khan Govt: UN Commission – Pakistan News

    “There has been increasing weaponisation and politicisation of the blasphemy laws which deteriorates religious freedom in Pakistan, said a United Nations report.’

    Written By Kunal Gaurav | Mumbai | Updated On: December 16, 2019 13:24 IST

    https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/pakistan-news/religious-freedom-deteriorated-in-pakistan-under-imran-khan-govt.html

    “There has been increasing weaponisation and politicisation of the blasphemy laws which deteriorates religious freedom in Pakistan, said a United Nations report. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), a UN body, said that the Government of Pakistan under the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan came up with discriminatory legislation encouraging extremist mindsets to carry out attacks on religious minorities.

    Anti-Ahmadiyya legislation

    CSW, in a 47-page detailed report, raised concerns over formulating anti-Ahmadiyya legislation which became a tool for Islamist groups to persecute minorities and gain political ground. It also highlighted the plight of Christian and Hindu communities calling them “particularly vulnerable”.

    “Each year hundreds are abducted and forced to convert and marry Muslim men. Victims have little or no hope of being returned to their families due to the serious threats and intimidation from abductors against the girls and their families,” read the report.

    “This is compounded by the lack of police will to take action, weaknesses in the judicial process and discrimination from both police and judiciary towards religious minority victims,” it added.

    The report lambasted the government’s legislation on blasphemy saying the prolonged misuse of such laws damage social harmony and “heighten religious fervour”. Citing examples of blasphemy cases, the commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council said that it has created an environment of mob violence which leads to fatal consequences. It also pointed to the threats and intimidation faced by human rights defenders by state and non-state actors.

    “HRDs are subject to harassment, targeted attacks and enforced disappearance, with little protection provided by the government,” it read.

  5. mortimer says

    Dec 28, 2019 at 5:37 pm

    ATTENTION! HOT STEAMING TAQIYYA ALERT !!!

    “Pakistan is a multi-religious and pluralistic country where people of all faiths enjoy religious freedom under constitutional protections,” said Pakistan’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Aisha Farooqui.

    THE PUBLIC IS ALERTED TO THE PRESENCE OF TAQIYYA BY ITS SHARP PUNGENT ODOR WHICH IS IMMEDIATELY DISCERNABLE.

    • elee says

      Dec 28, 2019 at 5:57 pm

      Thanks mortimer Y Im glad you said it , I was going to I nominate that statement for taqiyya du jour.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 28, 2019 at 11:41 pm

      Spot on, Mortimer.

    • Jeff Gonez says

      Dec 29, 2019 at 5:16 am

      Ya nailed it!

    • Del says

      Dec 29, 2019 at 10:24 pm

      J. Trudeau, the current PM of Canada, gave $2,000,000,000 (billion) of taxpayer money to Pakistan in 2018 which they likely used for their nuclear weapons. Trudeau and his Liberals are very dangerous. Many Liberal Government members and Ministers are Muslim and virtually all are involved with various radical organizations. Not only was he racist with his repeated blackface insults to India and blacks, but he is two faced and spews taqiyya as naturally as he breathes.

  6. Jayell says

    Dec 28, 2019 at 5:40 pm

    “Pakistan is a multi-religious and pluralistic country where people of all faiths enjoy religious freedom under constitutional protections”……’constitutional protections’ biased towards islamic principles for the benefit of muslims, that is, failing which you don’t get much ‘protection’. Which is why Pakistan was created in the first place. And by the way…“This pronouncement is not only detached from ground realities of Pakistan but also raises questions about the credibility and transparency of the entire exercise”; well, ‘this pronouncement’ is demonstrably based on reports of the ‘ground realities’ of life in Pakistan, of which Aisha Farooqui seems strangely ignorant ; and the second part of that sentence doesn’t make much sense anyway.

  7. Infidel says

    Dec 28, 2019 at 6:15 pm

    (The others are Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan.)

    Of the above countries, China and North Korea are the only non-Muslim countries that belong in that list.

    Burma doesn’t belong in that list. In Burma, there is no persecution of Hindus, tribal religions or Mahayana Buddhists (Theravada Buddhism is the predominant faith there). Hindus and Christians used to be persecuted under the Ne Win regime, but that’s not happened under Aung San Syu Ki. Also, any hostility to Christians is like in India: an opposition to missionaries. While that may sound innocuous, imagine how most Christians would react if some Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh or anyone else – let alone Muslims – came to them and told them that they worship a false god. But other than that, nobody stops Burmese Christians from practicing their faith, and you don’t have Christians or Hindu girls disappearing in Burma to surface later as married to a Buddhist, the way it happens in Pakistan

    According to Wiki, the Eritrean government is against what it deems as “reformed” or “radical” versions of its established religions. Therefore, alleged radical forms of Islam and Christianity, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Bahá’í Faith (though the Bahá’í Faith is neither Islamic nor Christian), the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and numerous other non-Protestant Evangelical denominations are not registered and cannot worship freely. While one can argue about the Christian sects listed above, there is nothing wrong w/ being opposed to ‘radical’ version of Islam (suspending for a moment the belief that there is a difference b/w islam and ‘radical islam’.)

    Despite being a Muslim country, Tajikistan is not Islamic in that their curbs on ‘religious freedom’ are crackdowns on unregistered mosques due to suspicions about their imams being ‘radical’. But there’s nothing stopping, say, Orthodox Christians from worshiping. On top of that, in 2009, Tajikistan voted down a measure to make Sunni Islam the official religion. Turkmenistan too has been listed here for cracking down on ‘radicals’ in Islam.

    On the flip side, I’m surprised to see Qatar missing from the list: same w/ the Palestinian authority, Yemen and Turkey

  8. Infidel says

    Dec 28, 2019 at 6:23 pm

    The Trump administration’s decision to keep Pakistan on a blacklist of religious freedom violators is irking the world’s second most-populous Islamic nation, which slammed the move as “unilateral and arbitrary” and complained that its archrival India had not been similarly targeted.

    One can debate how Christian missionaries are treated in India, even though that comes from individual groups, not the government. But there is no case of Christian women, let alone minor schoolgirls, disappearing and surfacing days later married to Hindu men. Something that is too frequent in Pakistan w/ not just Christian, but also Hindu and Sikh girls.

    Nor does India have any blasphemy laws: if anything, right now, Muslims are rioting b’cos India doesn’t include Pakistani, Afghan and Bangladeshi Muslims in the list of people who can apply for refuge as religiously persecuted minorities

    Another great thing Trump has done: be the first president to recognize Pakistan as an evil country. Just like in the UK, where Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and Jains have switched from Labour to the Tories, similarly in the US, those groups are more likely to switch to (R) after being loyal (D) voters for decades

    • Tross says

      Dec 29, 2019 at 7:31 am

      Are you sure Christian missionaries are not involved in political rioting in India. Hindus have been openly persecuted in Christian majority states Mizoram, Nagaland and even in Arunachal Pradseh in India.
      We know about rampant conversions in Andhra and Tamil lands.
      Tamil bishop Ezra warned Tamil people from identifying as Hindu and he is close to head of crypto Christian Tamil government. I hate Vatican’s interference in India and nexus of churches-Islamists-Marxits in India.
      Even many India media houses are owned by mission related people.
      Don’t even let me start on atrocity literature produces by Indian churches.

      Any religion which try to triumph over other people by claiming falsehood of their Gods is cause of serious concern. I hope Hindu scholars would soon wake-up and roast these miscreants in actual debates (like it used to happen in past). It’s true Indic tradition.

      • Infidel says

        Dec 29, 2019 at 8:27 pm

        Evidence of anything you listed above would be welcome

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 1, 2020 at 1:30 am

          +1

  9. tgusa says

    Dec 28, 2019 at 7:27 pm

    “Pakistan enraged”

    Of course it is, what would anyone expect, its Pakistan.

  10. gravenimage says

    Dec 28, 2019 at 10:50 pm

    Pakistan enraged over US keeping it on a list of violators of religious freedom
    …………………..

    If Pakistan really wanted to get off this list, they could just stop violating religious freedom.

  11. Giacomo Latta says

    Dec 29, 2019 at 10:23 am

    ”constitutional protections”
    I bet that non-muslims in Pakistan would trade them all in for some police protections, armed forces protections and protection from ordinary, drooling, illiterate muslims.

  12. Walter Sieruk says

    Dec 29, 2019 at 3:19 pm

    The wisdom of the President now in office is seen by the fact , as this jihad watch article, in part, reads “The Trump administration’s decision to keep Pakistan on a blacklist of religious freedom violators is irking the world’s second most-populous Islamic nation…”

    Furthermore the only reason the Muslims nations, as Pakistan have such an absurd thing as “blasphemy laws” enacted, in the first place, is because Islam is actually such a weak and fragile religion that is can’t hold up or stand up to criticism of any kind, no matter how mild that criticism might be.

    In the light of criticism based on either the Bible or reason Islam will collapse, this there is a need for “blasphemy laws” in Islamic countries.

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