If Islam were really a religion of peace, the vast majority of Muslims would be appalled at this murder and harshly criticizing the perpetrator. Instead, he is being hailed as a hero. Mainstream counterterror analysts will make no effort to grasp the implications of that.
https://twitter.com/johnaustin47/status/1288404386972962816
“Pakistani Man Accused Of Blasphemy Shot Dead In Court,” RFE/RL, July 29, 2020:
A Pakistani Muslim who was on trial for blasphemy has been shot dead in a courtroom in the northwestern city of Peshawar.
It was not immediately clear how the young assailant, identified as Khalid Khan, managed to get into the court on July 29 amid tight security. The attacker was subsequently arrested.
The suspect told police the prophet Muhammad had ordered him to kill the man standing trial, Tahir Nasim, because he had belonged to the Ahmadi faith.
Ahmadis, a 4-million-strong minority group in Pakistan, have faced death, threats, intimidation and a sustained hate campaign for decades.
Ahmadis insist they follow Islam. However, Pakistan declared the group non-Muslim in 1974 for regarding their sect’s founder, Ghulam Ahmad, as a prophet. Orthodox Islam holds there can be no prophets after Muhammad.
Nasim was arrested two years ago on blasphemy charges after claiming he was Islam’s prophet.
Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy law carries an automatic death penalty for anyone convicted of insulting God, Islam, or other religious figures.
Crowds and individuals in Pakistan often take the law into their own hands.
While authorities have yet to carry out a death sentence for blasphemy, even the mere accusation can cause riots. Domestic and international human rights groups say blasphemy allegations have often been used to intimidate religious minorities and settle personal scores….
Seth says
Pakistan is a wellspring of evil.
European pagan says
Ghulam Ahmad believed that he was the reborn Jesus and Jesus was in India and he died there ???
CogitoErgoSum says
Did he abolish the Jizya, break all the crosses and kill all the Christians who refused to become Muslims?
CogitoErgoSum says
If Muslims believe there can be no more prophets after Muhammad, what about Jesus (Isa) when he returns? If Jesus was a prophet before Muhammad will Jesus not still be a prophet when he returns? Or … did Jesus lose the title of prophet when Allah had to rescue him from being crucified? But if Jesus will not be a prophet when he returns by what authority will he be able to abrogate the words of Allah and abolish the Jizya? Either Jesus will be prophet who comes after Muhammad or he will not. This is just further evidence that Muhammad was not really a prophet himself. The Jesus (or Isa) that Muhammad dreamed up was no more real than this deluded man’s dream about Muhammad speaking to him. I think Muhammad was a liar.
CogitoErgoSum says
Keith, the Islamic version of Jesus cannot be the real Jesus if a person thinks about it logically. Muhammad could not have been the “Seal of the Prophets” if Jesus is to return as a prophet some day. That would make Muhammad the second to last prophet and Jesus would be the “Seal of the Prophets” …. but if Jesus returns and is not a prophet, he cannot abolish the Jizya. Either way, Muhammad’s “prophecy” about Jesus reveals that Muhammad was a liar.
Christians believe that Jesus is the final Judge of all human beings and his return can come at any time. It could be a few minutes from now or it could be many thousands of years from now. His return will mark the end of the current age in which we are now living and a new age will begin after the Final Judgment. However, no one knows when it will happen. That is why Jesus told his followers always to be prepared. Anyone who really believes in Jesus should know this.
Muhammad was a false prophet and nothing he ever said can be trusted as being the truth. Any dialogue with Muslims must include the truth about Jesus or it is all just a waste of time.
European pagan says
I don’t know too much about his life, but there are ahmadis in Germany and I heard that they always want donations from their people ???????
gravenimage says
Unfortunately, Ahmadis in the West regularly whitewash the horrors of Islam–despite Muslims murdering them in Dar-al-Islam.
curious says
+1 gravenimage, even when Ahmadis are allowed to escape Islamic persecution in Pakistan, they persist in their quasi-Islamic beliefs, and providing cover for the spread of Islam.
In SF, Shahid Buttar is campaigning for Congress to replace Nancy Pelosi. He is an Ahmadi of Pakistani descent, and an advocate for Muslim causes:
https://missionlocal.org/2019/04/meet-shahid-buttar-the-man-who-would-unseat-nancy-pelosi/
https://shahidforchange.us/more-about-shahid-buttar-pelosis-leading-2020-challenger/
Independent journalists report on the accusations against him including sexual harassment:
“The campaign of Shahid Buttar, a democratic socialist challenger to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is stumbling amid allegations of sexism and mistreatment of staff in the workplace.”
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/23/shahid-buttar-campaign-allegations/
While the early supportive coverage highlighted his Muslim background, the current reports of allegations against him do not mention it at all. Without the memory of the Internet, there would be no way to present both in the same place.
BTW, Shahid is an Islamic name meaning “martyr” (to Islam). So, even his parents, after fleeing Islamic persecution in Pakistan, persisted in their quasi-Islamic beliefs.
gravenimage says
I’m all too familiar with Shahid Buttar, curious–thanks for those links. He is from my neck of the woods in California. He makes the awful Nancy Pelosi seem quite decent in comparison.
I doubt that he has a chance against Pelosi–but I worry that when she retires he will try to step up.
gravenimage says
He should not have been murdered for this. I’ve seen a few guys on the subway who think they are Jesus–no one murders them in the civilized world.
FYI says
The ‘prophet’ muhammed.
muhammed is hardly an ideal role model:
A self-confessed FALSE prophet [al Tabari 6:111]
A self-confessed TERRORIST[Sahih Bukhari 4:52:220]
A FALSE prophet according to the Bible[Deuteronomy 18:20]
A FALSE prophet according to the koran{koran 69:43-46….his ‘aorta’ statement}
A FALSE prophet according to his own admission
“I have fabricated things against God and imputed to him things he has not said”
Al tabari 6:111
muhmamed the prophet:”Can neither read nor write” koran 7:157
muhammed could neither read nor write;he couldn’t sing,he couldn’t dance.
Why,he probably couldn’t tie his own sandals;he would have needed his 9 year old ‘wife’ to do that.
The ‘prophet’ muhammed ordered me to say that.so it must be true,like islam is the ‘true’ religion and the ‘perfect’ koran has no errors in it.
Michael Coelandp says
“even the mere accusation [of blasphemy] can cause riots.”
TRANSLATION
“Even the mere accusation of blasphemy can be exploited by imams in the mosques to instruct riots.”
Michael Copeland says
“… even the mere accusation can cause riots.”
TRANSLATION
Even the mere accusation of blasphemy can be exploited by imams in the mosques to INSTRUCT riots.
“The ummah possesses no power except to acknowledge and obey” – Dr Salah al Sawy
AntiIslamicman says
So a mass killer and pedophile came into his dream and ordered him to kill another human being. I believe him as Muhammad is the son of the devil. Satan’s servant came into his mind.
Now people remember this, Islam is supposed to be from God. Makes sense right, Islam is from the devil. These people are guided by pure evil.
James Lincoln says
This story actually made Fox News:
https://www.foxnews.com/world/pakistani-man-on-trial-for-blasphemy-shot-dead-in-court
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Muslim murders man, says Muhammad ordered him to do it because victim was Ahmadi
………………..
Just horrifying. And of course this thug’s fellow Mohammedans consider him to be a hero for murdering this non-violent man. *Ugh*.
Don’t count on any justice being done in a place that prosecutes “blasphemers” to begin with.
curious says
+1 gravenimage, I have never heard of a jury convicting a defendant of murdering a blasphemer, and there have been countless Islamic murders of alleged blasphemers.
In one case, the Pakistani murderer of Governor Salman Taseer waived his right to a jury trial to become a martyr (shahid). He was convicted by a judge and then hanged:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35684452
Huge crowds of Muslims supported the murderer, who said it was his religious duty to murder Governor Taseer for critcizing the law against blasphemy. After the murderer was hanged, Pakistani Muslims launched a bombing campaign against Pakistani courts, killing hundreds of Pakistanis.
In Bangladesh, vigilante Sharia Patrols murdered a series of atheist bloggers and publshers, including one who worked at the American embassy. There have been arrests, but no convictions as far as I can tell:
https://abcnews.go.com/News/us-embassy-worker-killed-bangladesh/story?id=38655449
When Bangladesh appointed a special security chief to respond, his wife was murdered in front of their child.
Most countries that have allowed themselves to become 20% Muslim are already more than 90% Muslim, because Muslims follow the example of their dead charlatan Mohamad in Yathrib/Medina and kill, exile, or enslave everyone who does not submit to his hateful fraud of Islam. Good luck getting a Muslim jury to convict a Muslim for doing what Islam commands!
gravenimage says
Yes–I remember these horrifying cases, curious. I think the only reason that Qadri was convicted for the murder of Salman Taseer was that Pakistan worried that Jihadists might go on a spree murdering Pakistani politicians.
MykeJohn says
The killer was no fool. he knew that in Islamic Pakistan, anything ( no matter how sordid) you do and able to connect it to their prophet in whatever situation you would be in cloud 9 for sure. Not only would he go scot-free with garlands and kidnaped Christian girls (at his beck and call sexually) as a bonus to a job well executed but also enjoy the experience of the foretaste of islamic heaven on earth in all purity.
OLD GUY says
Hey idiot Muhammads been dead awhile and didn’t say anything to you directly. You obviously failed to think this through, Muhammad is not GOD he was only a man who claimed to be a prophet and we don’t know if that’s really true. Logic says that if GOD created man it is unlikely GOD would approve of us murdering or harming his creations.