This is bitterly ironic, in light of Malala’s many efforts to exonerate Islam of all responsibility for the crimes done in its name and in accord with its teachings. In any case, imagine if a cleric of any other faith had called for the murder of anyone: we would never hear the end of it from the international media. But this? You’ll likely only read about this here.
“Pakistani police arrest cleric over threats to kill Malala,” Associated Press, June 10, 2021:
Pakistani police have arrested a cleric after a video of him went viral on social media, in which he threatens Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai over her recent comments about marriage, officials said Thursday.
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The cleric, Mufti Sardar Ali Haqqani, was arrested in Lakki Marwat, a district in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, on Wednesday, said Waseem Sajjad, a local police chief.
In the video, the cleric threatens to target Malala with a suicide attack when she returns to Pakistan, allegedly because of her comments earlier this month to British Vogue magazine about marriage that he claims insulted Islam.
Yousafzai has been living in Britain since 2012, after the Pakistani Taliban shot and seriously wounded her. She was just 15 years old at the time and had enraged the Taliban with her campaign for girls education.
At one point in the Vogue interview, Malala says: “I still don’t understand why people have to get married. If you want to have a person in your life, why do you have to sign marriage papers, why can’t it just be a partnership?”
The remark caused a stir on social media in Pakistan and angered clerics like Haqqani.
Malala’s father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, defended her on Twitter, saying her remarks were taken out of context.
Malala, now 23, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 for working to protect children from slavery, extremism, and child labor. She briefly visited Pakistan in 2018….
Hoi Polloi says
“imagine if a cleric of any other faith had called for the murder of anyone: we would never hear the end of it from the international media”…. Truth. Silence is violence, we have been told. They are tacitly admitting that violence in islam is as pervasive as air itself and they therefore have no interest in reporting it. The media also hereby admit that they are fully aware of their powerlessness in the face of its 14 centuries of teachings and practice of violence, and their absolute lack of conscience on the whole.
gravenimage says
+1
JCA Reid says
Islam insults itself. The most insulting thing though, is Westerners, supposedly intelligent people, fall for the Islamic BS. Folk, whether ex-Muslim or non-Muslim, who speak out against it are marked as “Racist”, or deranged.
Infidel says
Now hopefully in India, someone issues another fatwa on Nusrat Jahan, and puts her party the TMC in a weird situation
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Thank you, Robert, for facing down the darkness that is Islam.It is a heavy , lonely, dangerous, and wearisome burden for which you have committed yourself.
James Lincoln says
Spot on, BVC…
gravenimage says
Hear, hear!
tim gallagher says
Robert is definitely one of my heroes. Trying to wake people up to the nature of Islam is extremely important work. It is just such a shame that there are so many sleepwalkers around who are so hard to wake up.
Hoi Polloi says
Absolutely. Thank you to Robert et al. and to commenters here, from whom I have learned much. Also, thank you to all who have tried to suppress the truth and oppress its tellers, because that is how I found my way here.
tim gallagher says
My reaction to this report is, do these Muslim vermin ever do anything except call for the murder of an endless number of people who have supposedly “insulted” islam? If you are into murdering people, Islam is the religion for you. Islam is an evil, vicious ideology and it deserves to be continually insulted. Islam has nothing but evil to bring to humanity and it never has had and it never will have anything good or positive to bring to humanity..
Keith O says
Tim, Islam insults humanity by it’s very presence.
It is a lie based upon the delusions of a megalomaniac with delusions of adequacy.
And your right Islamists have no capacity for anything except hatred.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the comment, Keith O. I agree with what you say. A lot of these Muslims are ready to murder people at every possible opportunity. The maggot in this report is just one more example. islam creates huge numbers of extremely evil, bloodthirsty monsters, that’s for sure.
Peace says
The only way to get true peace in islam is to murder everyone that doesn’t do as they’re told by stupid old clerics looking to further there own enigma ….
Just kill everyone that doesn’t do as they’re told ….
BlackSabbath says
“paksitani” moslem clerics are so brave!!! Always threatening defenseless little girls…but when it comes to real war, they run with the tail between their legs ….
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Muslim cleric calls for murder of Malala for insulting Islam
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Gee–a Muslim cleric? Doesn’t he know that Islam is a religion of peace? sarc/off
And yes–these thugs always threaten little girls.
And–as noted–all of Malala’s appeasement of Islam is not enough.
OLD GUY says
Murder and killing is always the answer for everything that goes wrong or is deemed an insult to muslims/islamics. These leaders sound just like a mob boss, cartel leader or any CRIMINAL GANG boss.
Matter of fact islam kinda operates using intimidation, extortion, rape and murder to gain and keep control of their criminal activities.
Whats really funny is the idiot media that glosses over these statements from islamic leaders. Now if the POPE or any other Christian or Jewish leader came out and said MURDER that CLERIC for what he said, HOLY hell would breakout in the media. WHY IS THAT?
Andrew Blackadder says
I read her Book and I found it to be nothing but islamic propaganda nonsense, and I do not see how a wee girl that got shot in the face by some cowardly “men” should get a Nobel Prize, no Christian girl in Nigeria was offered one, no Christian Preacher in Nigeria was offered one, but then Obama got one for being half black, half white, but President Trump is laughed at when somebody suggested he get the Prize for brokering deals with four former enemies of Israel, and now they want to hand the Prize to BLM for not burning down EVERY City in America… The Nobel Prize is garbage.
Malala may now have learned a few things about freedom while living in the UK since 2012 but she still embraces islamic teachings, which tells me what a silly wee lassie she really is.
I guess she cant find an nice islamic country to go live in, but chooses to live around the unbelievers.
THAT is a hypocrite..
gravenimage says
Good points, Andrew. Most of the Nobel Prizes can be taken seriously–but the Nobel Prize for Peace has been a sad joke for a liong time. Malala is hardly the worst to be awarded it.