“To date, no information regarding Masih’s connection with the desecrated Quran has been shared by police.”
The persecution of Christians and other religious minorities in Pakistan by means of the blasphemy law is a human rights abuse of monstrous proportions, but no one cares, because the perpetrators are members of a group that the international political and media elites have designated as victims. Hence stories such as this one don’t fit the narrative and must be ignored.
“Pakistani Christian Arrested for Blasphemy After Pages of Quran Discovered in Drain,” International Christian Concern, September 1, 2020:
09/01/2020 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that a Christian man in Pakistan’s Khybar Pakhtunkhwa province has been arrested and charged under the country’s blasphemy laws. The arrest reportedly took place on August 30, 2020, in the Risalpure neighborhood of Nowshera.
A First Information Report (FIR) regarding the incident (FIR #460/2020) claims that residents of Risalpure discovered pages of the Quran in a drain. A video of the discovery was posted to social media on August 27 and reportedly went viral.
Days later, on August 30, police arrested David Masih, a Christian from the Kachi Line area of Risalpure. Masih was charged with committing blasphemy under Section 295-B of Pakistan’s Penal Code. With Masih in custody, police say they have started their investigation into the case. To date, no information regarding Masih’s connection with the desecrated Quran has been shared by police.
If found guilty, Masih could face life in prison.
In Pakistan, false accusations of blasphemy are widespread and often motivated by personal vendettas or religious hatred. Accusations are highly inflammatory and have the potential to spark mob lynchings, vigilante murders, and mass protests.
Since Pakistan added Section 295-B and 295-C to the country’s blasphemy laws in 1987, the number of blasphemy accusations has skyrocketed. Between 1987 and 2017, 1,534 individuals in Pakistan have been accused of blasphemy. Of those 1,534, 829 accusations (54%), were made against religious minorities. With Christians only making up 1.6% of Pakistan’s total population, the 238 accusations (15.5%) made against Christians are highly disproportionate.
Currently, 25 Christian are imprisoned on blasphemy charges in Pakistan, including David Masih. These 25 Christians are defendants in 22 blasphemy cases represented at various levels of the judicial process in Pakistan….
Martin says
OFF TOPIC
Spain’s Catalonia to Teach Islam in Schools
The Spanish region of Catalonia has decided to start teaching the Islamic religion in public schools to encourage integration and interfaith unity.
The plan, which the Education Department published on Wednesday in the form of a resolution in the Official Journal of the Generalitat de Catalunya (DOGC), states that primary schools will start teaching the Islamic faith from the year 2020/2021, Spanish El Pais newspaper reported.
The new plan will promote unity and diversity. It will also revisit the history of Muslims in Spain.
The pilot plan will kick off in Barcelona, Baix Llobregat, Girona, and Tarragona.
It is a result of the cooperation agreement between the Spanish State and the Islamic Commission of Spain, following increasing demands of the growing Muslim population.
The plan guarantees that Muslim students will receive Islamic religious education in public schools at the levels of child education, primary, compulsory secondary, and high school.
Teachers appointed by the Islamic Commission of Spain will teach this curriculum.
In Catalonia alone, there are more than 1.5 million Muslims out of two million Muslims in Spain. It is followed by Andalusia, with a population of more than 300,000 Muslims, and Madrid, with 280,000 Muslims.
According to the Union of Islamic communities (UCIDE), Muslims make up 3.8 percent of the Spanish population, 40 percent are Spanish and the remaining 60 percent are immigrants.
Muslims in Spain are mostly from Morocco although there is a significant presence of Pakistanis and Senegalese Muslims in cities like Barcelona, Valencia, and Logrono.
https://aboutislam.net/muslim-issues/europe/spains-catalonia-to-teach-islam-in-schools/
gravenimage says
Thanks for that appalling information, Martin. Also sounds like it is going to whitewash the horrors of Islamic Spain.
CogitoErgoSum says
I thought sewage worker jobs were reserved for Christians in Pakistan. Were these pages of the Koran found by Christians? If so, it’s possible Muslims themselves are finding a better use for the Koran as toilet paper and are blaming the desecration on Christians. This has probably been going on for some time now. I found a video on YouTube about it dating back to 2011:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0T3ExM7dvQ
DavidR says
Pakistani’s abuse of Christians using blasphemy laws parallels the abuse of charges of witchcraft in Salem.
I am sure some if not most accusations are brought over personal grievances and rivalries. That’s why it came to an end in Massachusetts.
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Christian arrested for blasphemy after pages of Qur’an found in drain
“To date, no information regarding Masih’s connection with the desecrated Quran has been shared by police.”
………………
Probably there is no connection, except for this being a set-up.
This *poor man*. Such false charges are brought because Muslim neighbors have a dispute with a Christian, because he has property or a business they want to steal, because he has a daughter they want to “marry”, or just because they hate him remaining non-Muslim.
Really, all Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, and other non-Muslims in Pakistan who are able to should flee to India, which has offered them citizenship.
Boycott Turkey says
I think all Christians Hindus should leave Pakistan it’s hell on Earth for them I feel for the poor man even if he is found innocent he would still be lynched by a mob it’s one of the most evil vile countries in the world
gravenimage says
This is also true, BT. Asia Bibi had to flee the country in order to survive–and even this involved her having to go into hiding and work out the deal in secret. Just vicious insanity.
Boycott Turkey says
Since Pakistan is a sewer country itself then aren’t all the Muslims who have a Koran in Pakistan guilty to of blaspheme ?
Mahendra Singh says
The Koran found by itself the right place where to end up. No Kafir was involved.