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Pakistan: Death sentence of Muslim who beheaded journalist Daniel Pearl is overturned, sentence reduced to 7 years

Apr 3, 2020 4:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

In an atrocious travesty of justice even for Pakistan, the Sindh High Court has overturned the death sentence of the jihadist Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who beheaded journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002. Sheikh has also now been awarded a reduced sentence of seven years in prison, while the other three men who were given life sentences were acquitted and immediately released.

Before being beheaded, Pearl was forced to say: ‘I am a Jew.’ Video footage of his murder was subsequently sent to the American Embassy.

At the time of sentencing of these jihadists, their convictions were understood almost universally to be just, but now enough time has passed for emotions to cool. These jihadis will undoubtedly now continue their jihad missions.

Meanwhile, Asia Bibi and other Christians who are still in Pakistan are treated much for mere accusations of blasphemy against Islam, which indicates yet again the low status of infidels in the country. Yet to call this out is deemed “Islamophobic.”

British Islamist militant jailed for decapitating US journalist Daniel Pearl on camera has his death sentence in Pakistan overturned and reduced to seven years in prison,” by Rory Butler, Daily Mail, April 2, 2020:

A Pakistani court has overturned the death sentence of a British-born Islamist militant convicted of beheading a US journalist in 2002.

Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, of Wanstead, in east London, UK, was found guilty of the abduction and murder of south Asia bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal, Daniel Pearl, in 2002.

Pearl, 38, disappeared in Karachi, the capital of Pakistan, on January 23 of the same year.

Sheikh was expected to be released having served 18 years – though that court ruling had not yet passed – but instead Sheikh’s sentence was reduced to seven years and his death sentence overturned by the Sindh High Court.

The Sindh chief prosecutor said he will lodge an appeal to the Supreme Court. Sheikh is expected to remain in jail pending the appeal.

‘The murder charges were not proven, so he has been given seven years for the kidnapping,’ according to defense lawyer Khawja Naveed.

Sheikh was convicted for Pearl’s murder with three other men, who are from Pakistan.

They are Sheikh Adil, 35, Fahad Naseem, 23, and Salman Saquib, 25 – all given life.

Sheikh, however, received a death sentence after being found the ringleader.

In addition to Sheikh’s overturned death sentence and jail time reduction, the three other men were also acquitted and released, according to BBC News.

Before being beheaded, Pearl was forced to say: ‘I am a Jew.’…

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Filed Under: Islamic antisemitism, Pakistan Tagged With: Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, Daniel Pearl, Fahad Naseem, Khawja Naveed, Salman Saquib., Sheikh Adil, Sindh High Court


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  1. Helena VonDrakenstein says

    Apr 3, 2020 at 4:04 pm

    You have to keep in mind that these people never evolved out of the medieval Stone age mentality

    • Hindu American says

      Apr 3, 2020 at 4:31 pm

      Stone Age? No! Jurassic age.

      • Keith says

        Apr 3, 2020 at 7:58 pm

        That’s an insult to dinosaurs.
        They were probably more intelligent than these vermin.

    • Carolyne says

      Apr 3, 2020 at 10:20 pm

      I always thought Neanderthal but that is probably an insult to Neanderthals.

      • Jayell says

        Apr 4, 2020 at 5:19 am

        Some recent research suggested that Neanderthals were actually quite nice, civilised characters who somehow sadly came to the end of an evolutionary blind alley. Shame that the ‘blind alley’ that certain other (alleged) specimens of humanity find themselves in seems to be dragging on far too long..

        • FYI says

          Apr 4, 2020 at 9:16 am

          Indeed the Neanderthals were probably more advanced than those modern creatures, abdoolicus islamopithecus:identified by that zebibah mark on the forehead,they gather in packs and are not know for having reasoning faculties.

        • Jayell says

          Apr 4, 2020 at 1:55 pm

          “abdoolicus islamopithecus” – aka the abhominable exploding mobile postbox.

    • Jack Holan says

      Apr 4, 2020 at 4:32 pm

      Sad but true

  2. terry sullivan says

    Apr 3, 2020 at 4:05 pm

    sheikh the beheader will be in uk soon?

    • Thereader says

      Apr 4, 2020 at 3:11 pm

      He is not worthy to be called British. His citizenship has surely been taken away?

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 4, 2020 at 11:21 pm

        It certainly should be.

  3. Stanton Lore says

    Apr 3, 2020 at 4:23 pm

    We should not be surprised. Outraged, yes! Surprised, not at all.

  4. gravenimage says

    Apr 3, 2020 at 4:32 pm

    Pakistan: Death sentence of Muslim who beheaded journalist Daniel Pearl is overturned, sentence reduced to 7 years
    ………………..

    I *wish* I could be shocked by this, but I’m not.

    Meanwhile, Pakistan has the death penalty for a Christian taking a sip of water from a “Muslim” well.

    • James Lincoln says

      Apr 3, 2020 at 4:56 pm

      gravenimage says,

      “I *wish* I could be shocked by this, but I’m not.”

      When I first started reading Jihad Watch on a regular basis, I was absolutely shocked by the feature articles and the comments that they would generate.

      I was shocked almost to the point of disbelief, thinking “maybe this website is a little over the top.”

      After several years of dedicated research, I found that the feature articles were, almost without exception, extremely accurate and based upon fact. Any factual errors were small and unintentional.

      I was given two choices:

      Either accept the “facts as facts” and never view the world the same way again. Very unsettling, by the way.

      Or

      Reject the facts as “conspiracy theory”, bury my head in the sand and watch the Red Sox play the Yankees one more time…

      I chose, of course, to accept the facts and deal with being very uncomfortable for at least part of the day.

      To your point, nothing on Jihad Watch shocks me anymore, and that is very sad.

      • Mural says

        Apr 4, 2020 at 2:31 am

        So true. My wife still thinks that this whole site is anti-Islamic propaganda. She has taken the second choice.

        • Dieks says

          Apr 4, 2020 at 12:22 pm

          As wives & kids usually do; it’s the easy way out and they tend to live linger that way too!

        • James Lincoln says

          Apr 4, 2020 at 1:39 pm

          Mural,

          It took my own wife a while, but when broadsided with factual evidence-based logic, she accepted the truth about islam.

          True, some people never learn – others take a while…

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 4, 2020 at 11:25 pm

      So true James.

      And Mural and Dieks, it is not just women who are willfully clueless–I am female, and a lot of my relatives and friends–male and female–are still deep in denial about the threat of Islam.

      As for those in denial living longer, given how many Muslims have targeted these naifs, I doubt it.

  5. DHazard says

    Apr 3, 2020 at 5:00 pm

    No parade?

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 3, 2020 at 5:21 pm

      Yes–remember Malik Qadri was showered with rose petals by the crowd after he murdered Governor Salman Taseer for daring to suggest that there was a problem with Pakistan’s blasphemy laws and that Asia Bibi should be released.

  6. mortimer says

    Apr 3, 2020 at 10:45 pm

    Pakistan is now OFFICIALLY anti-Semitic.

  7. Veron Holness says

    Apr 4, 2020 at 1:41 am

    Pakistan, the same scum country with fellow Islamic scum countries, that are petitioning the UN to make criticism of Islam a terrorist offence!

    Say bad words about an evil cult of death and you are a terrorist, cut someones head off, slap on the wrist!
    They call for justice in western countries, for the fake crime of Islamaphobia, when we all see what justice means in their own religiously corrupt shitholes!

    • Thereader says

      Apr 4, 2020 at 3:14 pm

      Hear! Hear! But there is a backlash and it cannot help but come.

  8. Jayell says

    Apr 4, 2020 at 4:59 am

    “Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, of Wanstead, in east London, UK……..”

    And no doubt this specimen will soon be ‘coming home’ to this nice, ‘respectable’ part of London. Oh dear, oh dear……

    I believe that property prices are quite reasonable in Siberia.

  9. Richard says

    Apr 4, 2020 at 11:34 am

    Stop all foreign aid to any muslim country; islam led countries will always be shitholes, no matter where they are or how much they spout off about their idiotic laws.

  10. OLD GUY says

    Apr 4, 2020 at 12:09 pm

    I agree 100% with Richard says. Stop all foreign aid to muslim countries and any other communist dictatorship period. Islamaphobia is a farce, their call for us to give them justice is way out of line in comparison to the non justice system in muslim countries. Maybe if muslims changed their attitudes towards the rest of the world they would not be subject to the truth about their bad behavior.

    • Dieks says

      Apr 4, 2020 at 12:26 pm

      Tell that to our feminist groping excuse of a 🇨🇦 closet scuzlim pm

  11. Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says

    Apr 4, 2020 at 4:35 pm

    Time to cut off all aid to this nazi cohort government.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 4, 2020 at 11:26 pm

      +1

  12. Billy Rae says

    Apr 4, 2020 at 4:43 pm

    The best solution to stop Islam’s increasingly negative influence on American politics would be for Congress to declare that belief’s tenets are in opposition to Personal Liberty and the U.S. Constitution. This would help correct the assumption that Islam is another Abrahamic religion qualifying for constitutional protection while it is fact a dangerous foe of our Liberty. Islam demands fealty from it’s followers to Koranic laws in Muslim countries, and while commending their adherents to resist secular laws when outside of Islam’s jurisdiction. This makes Islam, and it’s adherents, incompatible with a nation founded on Personal Liberty and Equality under a Constitution protecting those Rights. Steps to end further immigration from Islamic societies must be taken along with efforts to purge the ongoing infiltration of our Nation’s Law Enforcement and Intelligence Agencies. These steps can only be safely reversed after Islam undergoes an authentic Reformation adopting Tolerance and a rejecting Supremacism.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 4, 2020 at 11:27 pm

      Some states–wisely–are passing specific anti-Shari’ah laws.

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