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Pakistan: Professor sentenced to death and fine of $3800 on blasphemy charge

Dec 23, 2019 12:00 pm By Robert Spencer

A glimpse into the future of the West. This is where the Left’s “hate speech” rhetoric is tending.

“Multan lecturer sentenced to death on blasphemy charge,” by Shakeel Ahmed, Dawn, December 22, 2019:

MULTAN: A district and sessions court on Saturday sentenced a former university lecturer to death on blasphemy charges.

Junaid Hafeez — a visiting lecturer at the Department of English Literature of the Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU), Multan — was booked on a blasphemy charge on March 13, 2013. He was arrested the same day.

The trial began in 2014 and the court reser­ved its verdict on Dec 18.

Additional District and Sessions Judge Kashif Qayyum announced the decision on Saturday in the presence of the accused at the New Central Jail.

The court found Hafeez guilty of all charges and handed down 10-year imprisonment under Section 295-A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs); life term under Section 295-B (defiling, etc, of Holy Quran) and death sentence under Section 295-C (use of derogatory remarks, etc, in respect of the Holy Prophet) of the Pakistan Penal Code.

It also imposed a collective fine of Rs600,000 and in case of default he would have to undergo an additional one-year imprisonment.

“All the sentences shall run consecutively and the accused would not be entitled to the benefit of Section 382-B CrPC because in case of blasphemer, this court has got no circumstance for taking lenient view and it is also not permitted in Islam,” ruled the court….

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Filed Under: blasphemy, Featured, Islamic supremacism, Pakistan Tagged With: Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU), Junaid Hafeez, Multan


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  1. gerard says

    Dec 23, 2019 at 12:53 pm

    Capital punishment in Pakistan
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Pakistan. Although there have been numerous amendments to the Constitution, there is yet to be a provision prohibiting the death penalty as a punitive remedy.[1][2]

    A moratorium on executions was imposed in 2008. No executions occurred from 2009 to 2011, with 1 in 2012 and 0 in 2013.[3] The moratorium was lifted fully after the massacre of 132 students and 9 members of staff of the Army Public School and Degree College Peshawar, and routine executions resumed. Pakistan carried out 7 executions in 2014, 326 in 2015, 87 in 2016, 65 in 2017, and 14 in 2018.[4] Hanging is the only legal method of execution.[5]

  2. rooare says

    Dec 23, 2019 at 12:54 pm

    Islam’s sharia and the left’s hate crimes are two sides of the same totalitarian coin.

  3. Agostino Armo Pellegrini says

    Dec 23, 2019 at 1:01 pm

    Leftists are always trying to push “hate speech” laws on us, destroy free speech, and neuter our efforts against islam. Here’s a recent article from Breitbart concerning Germany’s latest efforts against “hate speech,” and it’s scary. Spencer and Geller have been warning of this for years, and now it’s coming true. There may come a time JW is forced into the Dark Web, and eventually leftists will hunt us down there too.

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/12/21/germany-to-force-internet-providers-to-hand-over-data-of-those-accused-of-hate-speech/

    • James Lincoln says

      Dec 23, 2019 at 1:07 pm

      Agostino Armo Pellegrini,

      Much thanks for the Breitbart link. I would encourage all Jihad Watch readers to access this.

      Very scary stuff…

      • mortimer says

        Dec 23, 2019 at 11:33 pm

        It is a travesty of justice. Once accused of blasphemy in Pakistan, a person is virtually condemned to suffer for life without any relief. The only hope is that a foreign government will intervene and ask Pakistan to release the accused to live outside Pakistan.

  4. Sun says

    Dec 23, 2019 at 1:10 pm

    I found this information about his death sentence on VOA/Islamabad:

    “Junaid Hafeez was charged with insulting the religious beliefs of Muslims of Pakistan, claiming the Quran was derived from Mesopotamian folk tales, and keeping material in his computer that included derogatory remarks about the prophet of Islam.

    The initial police report also accused him of running two Facebook groups that posted blasphemous content.”

    Islam is pure evil. To preserve freedom in the Western world we have to ban the Quran.

    https://www.voanews.com/south-central-asia/pakistani-scholar-sentenced-death-blasphemy

    • James Lincoln says

      Dec 23, 2019 at 5:51 pm

      Sun says,

      “To preserve freedom in the Western world we have to ban the Quran.”

      Yes, that is one tactic. With the Internet, however, anyone can simply download a copy.

      Better to continuously – and forcefully – expose all of the evil the Koran contains…

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 23, 2019 at 8:55 pm

        Agreed, James. Infidels should read the Qur’an to see what Muslims have in store for us.

        • mortimer says

          Dec 23, 2019 at 11:45 pm

          Junaid Hafeez went right to the point: to convince Muslims that the Koran is of human origin. It clearly is. That isn’t ‘blasphemy’ but fact-based argumentation.

          The literary sources of the Koran have been mostly discovered in documents that existed in the 7th and 6th centuries in the Middle East. Junaid Hafeez has been reading about them. The claim that the Koran is cribbed and plagiarized is no longer in doubt. It is considered established fact.

          Muslims are lying to themselves about the many plagiarisms that are found in the Koran.

      • Allan Monks says

        Dec 23, 2019 at 10:04 pm

        Can you burn me a copy . Like to read about the virgins. No virgins in Paradise because Hugh Hefner is there already. The only virgins are male martyrs who blew themselves up for some crazy cleric who didn’t have the balls to do it themselves

  5. Infidel says

    Dec 23, 2019 at 1:38 pm

    If he’s been sentenced to death, why would he bother paying the PKR 600k? He should tell them to just execute him ASAP and get it out of the way.

    Unlike Asia Bibi, this guy is a Muslim, so he can get a fair trial in terms of proving that he didn’t say anything that would be considered blasphemous. It’ll be interesting to see how Paki opinion is split on this

    • Rarely says

      Dec 23, 2019 at 4:08 pm

      It’s nearly impossible to prove a negative.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 23, 2019 at 9:01 pm

      Infidel, I would imagine that if he doesn’t pay this fine that they will go after his family. I’ve seen this sort of thing before.

      And *anyone* accused of “blasphemy” in Dar-al-Islam is in trouble. This professor is clean-shaven and looks pretty civilized–I’m sure he is considered to be insufficiently Islamic. There are very few fair trials in the Muslim world.

    • mortimer says

      Dec 23, 2019 at 11:48 pm

      Infidel, his only hope is to prove that he is ‘insane’ … that would get him released.

  6. Walter Sieruk says

    Dec 23, 2019 at 2:44 pm

    This most recent news report is yet further proof that 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.

    • Agostino Armo Pellegrini says

      Dec 24, 2019 at 8:16 am

      Islam is actually such a weak and fragile religion that is can’t hold up or stand up to criticism of any kind…

      You’re absolutely right, Walter. Islam’s only defense is to tell others to shut up.

      There’ no way for a person to be intelligent under islam, you must stay stupid just to say alive and out of prison. At least we in the West give people the option of wanting to be stupid for religion, under islam it’s mandatory!

  7. Stanton Lore says

    Dec 23, 2019 at 2:54 pm

    Thus, any attempts to permit Sharia courts in the West must be defeated emphatically.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 23, 2019 at 9:03 pm

      +1

    • The Discoverer says

      Dec 24, 2019 at 12:40 am

      I’m sorry, Stanton, it is already too late. It is worming its way across the West. Until the West wakes up and decides that Islam is totally antithetical to every freedom the West has developed, fought for, died for, there is no hope of preventing the steady encroachment of Islam in the West. Mosques are opening all over the West. They should not be allowed until churches, synagogues, etc., are fully free and allowed in all Muslim countries. (which will be never, hence they should not be allowed here).

      https://eclj.org/religious-freedom/pace/le-conseil-de-leurope-sinquite-grandement-de-lapplication-de-la-charia-en-europe

      https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/free-speech-sharia-european-court-of-human-rights-ruling/

      https://www.billionbibles.org/sharia/sharia-europe.html

  8. TimC says

    Dec 23, 2019 at 6:44 pm

    Q: So, Muslim Geniuses, what happens to him if he doesn’t pay the $3800?

    A: …

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 23, 2019 at 9:05 pm

      Then they target his survivors, and arrest them if the fine wasn’t paid, Tim. Pakistan is not like the West.

  9. tgusa says

    Dec 23, 2019 at 8:12 pm

    Really terrible. We are going to kill you but hold on there mister, before we do we want you to fork over 3800 bucks. Insanity on display. Reminds me of the Charlton Heston quote from the movie, Planet of the Apes, it’s a madhouse!

  10. gravenimage says

    Dec 23, 2019 at 9:10 pm

    Pakistan: Professor sentenced to death and fine of $3800 on blasphemy charge
    ……………..

    This *poor man*. God, I hate Islam.

  11. sidney penny says

    Dec 23, 2019 at 9:43 pm

    Judges in Pakistan are also experts in Islam?

    “taking lenient view and it is also not permitted in Islam,” ruled the court….”

    Islam does not permit a lenient view .( so a Judge cannot take a lenient view)

  12. Lory says

    Dec 24, 2019 at 1:01 am

    Will such an extreme sentence be carried out? And how long those years have been. Prison for so many years is debilitating and chips away at hope. I wish thousands would publicly deride the lousy so-called -prophet Mohammed – all in a twelve hour period on social media. But, back to the original subject “death sentence for “insulting” the prophet Mo.

  13. Westman says

    Dec 24, 2019 at 3:08 am

    Look at the equality that Islam offers in Pakistan – stupid people are allowed to run the government and the religion! That might explain why the brightest – leave.

  14. Agostino Armo Pellegrini says

    Dec 24, 2019 at 8:37 am

    Pakistan: Professor sentenced to death and fine of $3800 on blasphemy charge

    We’re more than half way to blasphemy laws already here in the West, it’s only a matter of time before leftists destroy every vestige of freedom we have for islam. We’re all getting forced to respect an aggressive superstition that inspires murder and hate for bigoted reasons. Reasoned thinking and humanitarian ideals must take a back seat to “kill the unbelievers” and kufar hate. You never hear the left condemning the hateful rhetoric and doctrines of islam, do we? You know the hate I’m talking about, all that “kill them” and “stab them in the neck” aggression we get in allah’s teachings and many of their mosques. Muslims worship those teachings as godly truth, the left is willing to respect it because they want us all to fit into one mold for their globalist agenda. It’s an evil alliance that wants the rest of us to live intimidated and scared for a religion that is more akin to political fascism than spiritual in word and deed. Even if I was truly being hateful when I call islam “retarded” or “evil” or “superstitious,” the worst that happens is some feelings get hurt. But the hate of the left threatens our freedoms, our security, our nation, and facilitates murder. Trust me, I’m not the hater in all this for speaking against islam, no matter what words I use. Our criticisms–even crudely stated ones–didn’t cause islamic jihad, that’s 1400 years old. The left hates free speech because it threatens their tyrannical desire for control, and it’s the left that’s always doing the violence too, on school campuses, in restaurants, and on the streets. It’s only “hate” to the left because it exposes their deadly hate for us. They are the haters, not us.

    • Battle says

      Dec 24, 2019 at 10:41 pm

      +100

  15. David Darman says

    Dec 24, 2019 at 9:24 am

    What is this thing with conflating “leftism” with support of Islam? All the leftists I know abhor the Islamic ideology just as much as this leftist does. It is a ideologicval and tactical error for Mr Spencer and those of his fanatic, but uncritical, supporters to conflate leftism with support of Islam. And please keep religion the hell out of it.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 25, 2019 at 12:20 am

      David, it is, sadly, all too common for many on the Left to whitewash Islam.

      I am very Liberal in many ways, but am often characterized as “far right” for opposing Jihad and Shari’ah. I wish this were not so. I know others in the same plight.

      • David Darman says

        Dec 25, 2019 at 1:41 am

        Graven,
        I disagree. Yes, it is true that too many people who are uninformed – across the entire political spectrum- give a pass to Islam. The uneducuated/uninformed on the left do not do so any more freqeuently or vocifierously than the uninformed ignoramuses on the right.Accordingly, it makes no sense to vilify those on the left of the spectrum.

        When someone challenges you for criticizing Islam, engage them. Ask if they want to live in a misogynist, supremacist theocracy in which all women and all non-muslims have fewer rights than muslim men. Ask them if they think it a good thing there should be no freedom of conscience or speech and that blasphemy and apostasy should be capital offenses.

        Spencer has enlightened us. We have the moral obligation to confront any and all who want to impose sharia law on our society or any other society …and it has nothing to do with god.Have the courage of your convictions.

  16. Larry says

    Dec 24, 2019 at 11:11 am

    Islam is Satan’s army on Earth.

  17. FYI says

    Dec 24, 2019 at 11:56 am

    The difference between growing up in the West and in the islamic world.

    In the West..

    “I am so sick of religion and creepy ‘holy’ men.You know what?I am going to be an atheist and think for myself”

    family:Ok,well you do have that right..which is guranteed by our hard-won secular freedoms which recognize separation between church and state from Enlightenment times and the Constitution etc.

    In the islamic world..

    “I am so sick of religion and creepy ‘holy’ men.You know what?I am going to be an
    atheist and think for myself”

    family:Oh no you are NOT!KILL him!He wants to be an infidel “apostate”…I mean the cheek of it!
    After all islam did for him:no music,no art,no literature..he’ll be talking to infidels next and becoming one if them{k5:51} you’ll see!
    Let’s use this as a convenient excuse to go mentally insane,be mean and nasty using the koran as a reference…

  18. Naram-Sin says

    Dec 24, 2019 at 12:53 pm

    If the sentences all “run consecutively” where does the death penalty fit in?

    Junaid Hafeez’s attorneys were routinely threatened. Some quit. One was threatened with death by the prosecuting attorneys in open court (the court did nothing) and was in fact later murdered.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junaid_Hafeez

  19. Trick_or_Treat says

    Dec 25, 2019 at 11:12 am

    Do they try and get you to pay the $3800 before they neck you or after?! (lol) Logically, if you said ‘get stuffed, I’m not gonna pay you a red cent’ would they then sentence me to death TWICE [mind boggles] and how would they go about carrying that out? 🤔

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