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Pakistan: Muslim clerics say “it isn’t possible to close mosques under any circumstances in an Islamic country”

Apr 3, 2020 1:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Pious Muslims in Pakistan have been crowding into mosques, saying “we don’t believe in coronavirus, we believe in Allah.”

This has earned Pakistan a reputation of being the “super-spreader” of coronavirus to the entire Muslim world. Some Muslim clerics have been fueling the fanaticism of the people. So in response:

Pakistani President Arif Alvi and provincial governors held a meeting with Sunni and Shiite clerics to convince them to close mosques for congregational prayers across the country amid rapidly increasing COVID-19 cases in the country. The clerics, however, rejected the request.

This was what the clerics said. Their statement indicated their view of the supremacy of Islam over science and reason, at the expense of public health:

“We can in no way close mosques … It is not possible in any circumstances in an Islamic country,” said Muneeb-bur-Rehman, a cleric who attended the meeting.

“Coronavirus and Islam: Pakistani clerics refuse to shut down mosques,” Deutsche Welle, April 1, 2020:

Last week, Pakistani President Arif Alvi and provincial governors held a meeting with Sunni and Shiite clerics to convince them to close mosques for congregational prayers across the country amid rapidly increasing COVID-19 cases in the country. The clerics, however, rejected the request.

“We can in no way close mosques … It is not possible in any circumstances in an Islamic country,” said Muneeb-bur-Rehman, a cleric who attended the meeting.

The clerics’ blatant refusal to shun collective prayers has raised doubts about Pakistan’s resolve to fight the pandemic, which has killed at least 25 people in the country and infected nearly 2,000.

Earlier in March, when coronavirus cases in Pakistan were relatively lower, the federal government allowed Shiite pilgrims from Iran to return to the country through Baluchistan province.

The pilgrims were not properly quarantined, which resulted in a spike of infections. Also, the government allowed thousands of Sunni worshippers to go ahead with the “Tablighi Jamaat” congregation in Pubjab province. Many of the new COVID-19 cases have emerged from that mass gathering.

Health experts say the government’s measures are inadequate, fearing that the number of coronavirus cases in the South Asian country could increase exponentially in the coming weeks……

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  1. CogitoErgoSum says

    Apr 3, 2020 at 1:23 pm

    Islam and disease …. like carrots and peas. But the offerings are spoiled and the aftertaste will be bitter.

    • FYI says

      Apr 3, 2020 at 6:28 pm

      Nothing beats the adherents of islam when it comes to their false piety:The OCD like scrubbing and cleaning of wudhu,the beard-preening,the artificially respirated “prayers” to their One shinned,Two right handed Arab god al lah,the long faces at ramadan,the 5 times a day Butt in the Air show,the black stone kissing{because that will wash all the islamic sins away won’t it?}

      allah himself even says his fraudulently pious muslims are terrible hypocrites,especially when they “pray” in public “to be seen by men”
      {koran 4:142}but of course muslims don’t know that as they never read the koran.But remember that when you see them clogging up the streets “to be seen by men”:according to allah, they are hypocrites.

      “Lo!The HYPOCRITES{=his muslims} seek to beguile allah but it is he who beguileth them.when they stand up to worship they perform it languidly and to be SEEN BY MEN and are mindful of allah but little”
      koran 4:142

      • Thereader says

        Apr 4, 2020 at 3:19 pm

        Shall be interested to see if their approach works and if they end up decimated.

        • David says

          Apr 4, 2020 at 4:31 pm

          Well, that will surely be the will of Allah. Any muslims who die will become martyrs, and go to Paradise. So that is all right, then. Everyone is happy.

      • David says

        Apr 4, 2020 at 4:59 pm

        Good quote FYI. You are ‘well versed’ in the Koran. It is a surprise to see that Allah himself recognised reluctant muslims. Oh, well you can’t win them all!

  2. Ray Jarman says

    Apr 3, 2020 at 1:33 pm

    Someone should point out to Pakistani President Arif Alvi that the King of Saudi Arabia, Salman has literally closed down both Mecca and Medina to all visitors. He has stopped hajjes until further notice. Maybe all Muslims should follow his lead but I realize they will not.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 3, 2020 at 3:14 pm

      Too true.

  3. glendl says

    Apr 3, 2020 at 2:03 pm

    Ray Jarmen, thank you, I was going to post that, but I had momentarily forgotten the word Hajjes.

  4. glendl says

    Apr 3, 2020 at 2:05 pm

    Moslems get sick or undergo other misfortunes when their faith is weak. Which is why ambulances are not seen at battles except to ferry men and supplies to the fighters and even then they do not bring back the wounded.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 3, 2020 at 3:11 pm

      Here’s their illogic: Allah punishes the kafirs with sickness, but when a Muslim dies of sickness Allah is ‘testing’ him and he becomes a ‘martyr’ who receives 72 virgins.

      • James Lincoln says

        Apr 3, 2020 at 3:53 pm

        mortimer,

        muslims always twist the truth to fit their own agenda.

      • David says

        Apr 4, 2020 at 4:33 pm

        Those perpetual virgins are going to have a busy time.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 3, 2020 at 4:47 pm

      Grimly true, glendl and Mortimer.

  5. Anjuli Pandavar says

    Apr 3, 2020 at 2:46 pm

    “The clerics’ blatant refusal to shun collective prayers has raised doubts about Pakistan’s resolve to fight the pandemic.”
    —
    I think the Pakistani government is as desperate as any other to take action against the pandemic, but the blasphemy laws that they’ve encouraged and wielded both as a form of social manipulation and as an instrument of jihad, has come back to bite them in the backside. They dare not come out with it straight lest they fall foul of their own laws. The clerics will go ballistic *and* they have their own weapon, the ever-excitable mobs, already eyeing the government askance. I would love to see a transcript of that meeting. We had a foretaste of that a few days ago when the closest the President (?) could come to telling people not to go to Friday congregational prayers was by informing them that he’d performed his Friday payers at home, and quoting the Qur’an to justify his absence from mosque. Anything less circumspect than that would be seen as blasphemy. Hoisted by their own petard!

    • mortimer says

      Apr 3, 2020 at 3:00 pm

      I wonder what Pakistani doctors and scientists think of this refusal to comply.

      Do Muslim doctors know that Mohammed claimed there is no ‘INFECTIOUS’ disease?
      (Sahih Muslim 2223c; Book89, Hadith 154)

      Muslim doctors and scientists can’t have it both ways … Islam’s primary texts are not compatible with science.

      • James Lincoln says

        Apr 3, 2020 at 3:54 pm

        mortimer says,

        “islam’s primary texts are not compatible with science.”

        Amen…

      • M J says

        Apr 4, 2020 at 6:59 am

        Thing is, in their strange world, they can and do have it both ways!!

      • Lynette says

        Apr 7, 2020 at 1:16 am

        They twist words to suit the occasion, they are all deceitful when it suits. That is why you can NEVER ever trust any muslim! I feel perhaps, this COVID19 is our GOD’S revenge while we treat patients and the majority live (He will accept those souls who die). And as the muslims are told to ignore all the safety measures that we all do, this means the VIRUS will infect thousands of them and send many to “Paradise”. So the less muslims with hatred for hearts is better for the world. (I hope that is the case!)

  6. mortimer says

    Apr 3, 2020 at 3:06 pm

    One of the biggest problems Islam has is FATALISM. Allah is the source of disease, so it will do no good to quarantine people … or so the mullahs think.

    To contradict the mullahs would be blasphemous. This is the cognitive dissonance PM Imran Khan is facing.

    Will Khan still be a believing Muslim when the virus is over or will he be disgusted with the mullahs?

    The mullahs are not wrong about Islam, they wrong about science.

  7. Chistopher Watson says

    Apr 3, 2020 at 3:11 pm

    Every time I see the word ‘Pakistan’ in a story I expect to read about some new form of insanity and I’m rarely mistaken. It may be a Pakistani committing suicide with an axe or a knife; or a man killing a child with a blunt instrument. Trying to imagine what animal behaviour they will commit in future is very difficult. The insane behaviour is difficult to forsee but they will devise ways to kill each other and non-believers in even more feral ways.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 3, 2020 at 4:49 pm

      All too true.

  8. Martin says

    Apr 3, 2020 at 3:46 pm

    PAKISTAN – Coronavirus Lockdown: Muslims clash with police outside mosque in Karachi –

    • James Lincoln says

      Apr 3, 2020 at 3:56 pm

      Martin, I’m surprised that the leftist BBC actually posted this…

      • Boromir's Horn says

        Apr 4, 2020 at 7:49 am

        May be more appropriate for National Geographic

    • Martin says

      Apr 3, 2020 at 4:07 pm

      KARACHI – APRIL 03 2020

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 3, 2020 at 5:12 pm

      Thanks for that disgusting link, Martin.

      I imagine the only reason the BBC posted this is because it is Coronavirus news.

  9. gravenimage says

    Apr 3, 2020 at 4:42 pm

    Pakistan: Muslim clerics say “it isn’t possible to close mosques under any circumstances in an Islamic country”
    ……………..

    How many people will suffer and die because of this stupidity?

  10. Political Oracle says

    Apr 3, 2020 at 5:05 pm

    Perfect example of Pakistan being run by a theocracy, not democracy. Pakistan is sectarian, not secular.

  11. tim gallagher says

    Apr 3, 2020 at 7:23 pm

    Excellent news. Keep them all open and keep infecting one another. Couldn’t happen to a better mob of people. Just don’t let them out of their country to infect any civilised non-Muslims.

    • DhanushDhari Misra says

      Apr 4, 2020 at 7:34 am

      The best comment on this news! I fully agree with you.

      • tim gallagher says

        Apr 4, 2020 at 11:38 pm

        Thanks for your comment, DhanushDhari. I most definitely do think it is wonderful seeing these idiots crowding together and spreading that virus around, just as long as they keep it to themselves.

  12. Rooster says

    Apr 4, 2020 at 8:44 am

    Hey Islam/Muslim, reap what you sow!

  13. Glynnda White says

    Apr 4, 2020 at 9:08 am

    This is an interesting story….point one, COVID is spreading rapidly through the Muslim community, it will wipe a good portion of them out, are they willing to bear such a loss? …point two, and the more important one in my view….they won’t allow the shut down of mosques, because in my opinion, they know, that if people miss mosque for a few weeks or months, they will begin walking away from Islam. This is a huge worldwide cult and it won’t take long for people to become enlightened and leave once the constant pressure and control tactics are off….the implications from both of these points is very interesting….yesterday in the group of articles put out by Mr Spencer, Clerics all over the Middle East were denying COVID was an issue for Muslims, or encouraging them to spread it to Jews, etc. Today they are threatening retaliation if ventilators are not sent to them….they know they have a problem….

  14. Sun says

    Apr 4, 2020 at 9:25 am

    Corona lockdown in the capital of Germany yesterday. Watch from min. 0:45:

    • Dieks says

      Apr 4, 2020 at 2:41 pm

      Poor Germans: what have you done, Angela Merkel & Hollande?
      I sure hope you both realize you’ve personally destroyed your countries & with that, the rest of Western Europe? What the dead-cult couldn’t achieve over these past 1400 yrs by waging war against christianity, they’re now in the final process of achieving peacefully by way of the Merkel UN-Trojan Horse & Takhiya!
      Once again: the historical patriotic christian bastions of Poland, Hungary & the Czech Republic will show the way in this dark period of Christianity, the last historical bastions of Christian strongholds & first to launch the Christian counter attacks against ☪️!

  15. OLD GUY says

    Apr 4, 2020 at 12:35 pm

    Well good for them, islam may be the answer unto its self. Somethings just naturally self-destruct.

  16. Valkyrie Ziege says

    Apr 4, 2020 at 7:20 pm

    ; Good! You won’t be missed.

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