There are plenty of public pronouncements from Khan that make it likely that he did mean it. Claiming that an inconvenient statement has been taken “out of context” is a common tactic of Islamic supremacists worldwide, and their Leftist marks fall for it every time.
“PM Imran calling Osama bin Laden a martyr was a ‘slip of the tongue’: Fawad,” Dawn, June 27, 2021:
Prime Minister Imran Khan referring to slain Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden as “martyred” last year was a “slip of the tongue”, Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry has said, stressing that the government’s position regarding the terrorist entity is clear.
Speaking on Geo News programme Jirga, to be aired on Sunday, Chaudhry said Pakistan had voted in favour of Al Qaeda being listed on the terrorist list at the United Nations and that it followed international law.
“It was a slip of the tongue. He had clarified it,” the minister said while referring to the premier’s remarks.
In June last year, while speaking about the country’s relations with the United States in an all-encompassing speech in the parliament, Prime Minister Imran had said Pakistan had to face a lot of “humiliation” despite supporting Washington in the ‘war on terror’ and was then blamed for the US’s failures in Afghanistan.
Recalling an incident that he said caused “embarrassment” to Pakistan, the premier had said: “The Americans came to Abbottabad and killed, martyred Osama bin Laden. What happened after that? The entire world cursed at us and spoke ill of us.”
At the time, the opposition had lambasted Imran for his remarks, with PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari saying the prime minister’s choice of words was consistent with “his history of appeasement to violent extremism”.
However, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister for Political Communication Dr Shahbaz Gill had defended Prime Minister Imran, saying he had twice used the word “killed” for bin Laden (in addition to martyred).
The controversy surfaced again last week when Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi refrained from calling Osama bin Laden a terrorist in an interview with Afghanistan’s Tolo News.
When the interviewer quoted Prime Minister Imran as calling bin Laden a “martyr”, Qureshi said: “Well, again. Out of context. He (the PM) was quoted out of context. And, a particular section of the media pair it up.”…
mortimer says
To say ‘Osama bin Laden was martyred’ is a clear statement devoid of ambiguity. It cannot be taken out of context.
The speaker (Khan) was clearly expressing his approval of JIHADISM … the teaching that warfare against disbelieving KAFIRS is meritorious for all Muslims.
Khan covers up his approval of JIHADISM with TAQIYYA.
Khan believes LYING ABOUT JIHAD Is a PART OF JIHAD … so he is a VERBAL JIHADIST in this case.
Wellington says
Indeed, mortimer. Try saying that Hitler was a martyr for his cause and then maintain it was taken out of context or “a slip of the tongue.” No way one gets away with this.
All of which points out something I have noticed for decades now and that is that the totalitarian ideology which Nazism surely is can be excoriated (as it should be) as much as one wants (except perhaps in the Islamic world, but I digress) but criticize two other totalitarian ideologies, Marxism and Islam, and time and time again they get a pass of one kind or another.
Right now in America neo-Marxism under the guise of critical theory per the Frankfurt School is getting a HUGE pass. Critical theory, which is pernicious rubbish, requires the entire destruction of Western society, including traditional marriage, gender, patriotism, the reputation of the Founding Fathers of America, even pronouns aren’t “safe” et al. BLM and Antifa are the violent arms of critical theory in America right now and they are both getting a pass ad nauseam. All critical race theory is is one example of overall critical theory and it demonizes an entire race rather than the demonization of certain socio-economic classes, i.e., the upper and middle classes, that traditional Marxism went after (still does).
Ditto for Islam respecting exculpation, which is as awful as Marxism and Nazism, but it too is being excused by useful idiots aplenty who are being manipulated by the truly malevolent to advance their religious totalitarian creed. Khan is just one example of how Islam is still getting a pass as is Marxism, though occasionally when the mask slips some temporary “repair work” is in order to continue the thinly veiled obfuscation. Hence the “walking back” of the wretched Khan’s initial assessment.
It’s a battle to the death. Either freedom, democracy, capitalism, property rights, common sense and overall decency (as exampled by the Judeo-Christian ethic) win out or the world descends into a totalitarian Hell compliments of revised Marxism and traditional Islam, backed up by your standard authoritarian rogues as evidenced by the thugs presently running China and Russia.
Dangerous times. Extra so. You betcha’. And made all the worse by what passes for leadership in many Western nations today—ninnies like Biden, Trudeau, Macron, Merkel, Pope Francis and Johnson.
tim gallagher says
Yes, mortimer, how ridiculous to try to say that such a straightforward statement has been taken out of context. Maybe Khan has dementia in the same way that Biden does even though this maggot Khan is a lot younger. Khan might have been hit too many times by cricket balls during his earlier life as a well known womanising cricketer and playboy. Khan is certainly a nasty piece of crap as he shows over and over again. He seems like the perfect fit to be the leader of that disgraceful, hopeless, totally barbaric country, Pakistan. Wellington, I agree with what you say about the way islam keeps getting a free pass from many people. Islam, along with Marxism and Nazism, should all be torn to shreds constantly.
gravenimage says
Tim, I don’t think that Khan has dementia. He is just pandering to Muslims, and periodically the “filthy Infidels” actually notice it and then some flunky has to implausibly walk his comments back.
tim gallagher says
I was making a lame joke, gravenimage. I get sick of hearing so often politicians and other people, here in Australia and elsewhere, saying,”oh, I was quoted out of context” after they cop some criticism over some statement they have made. Khan’s calling Osama bin Laden a “martyr” is so straightforward a statement that a person who said it, and then said that they didn’t mean it, would have to have dementia. Of course, you are right. Khan would have meant it and was saying the right type of very acceptable thing for the Pakistani Muslims, but, as you say, it was noticed by non-Muslim outsiders.
gravenimage says
Sorry for being so literal, Tim. Agreed.
tim gallagher says
No worries, gravenimage. I do see quite a few video clips on the Sky News TV channel out here of Biden fumbling around looking very lost and confused, which is big worry for all of us ( ie for the President of such a huge power as the USA to be in such a poor state of mind), so that may have caused me to have dementia on my mind ( just as long as it’s not in my mind). when I read about Khan’s statement about the “martyr” bin Laden.
gravenimage says
Yes, Tim–very concerning. Of course, Biden was not much on the ball even when he was much younger.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Mortimer.
mortimer says
Further to his lie about OBL, Khan denounced those who criticized Pakistan’s military establishment for building a safe house for OBL to live hidden from American secret agents for a number of years.
The safe house OBL lived in was built to scale for the tall OBL RIGHT NEXT TO PAKISTAN’S ABBOTTABAD MILITARY COLLEGE … Pakistan’s equivalent of WEST POINT MILITARY ACADEMY.
It is obvious that Pak Army military intelligence was behind OBL’s hideout.
gravenimage says
True, Mortimer. The idea that they knew nothing about bin Laden’s massive, fortified structure steps from the Pakistani military academy strains credulity, to put it mildly.
Crusades Were Right says
If the DISGUSTING ruler of Pakistan wants to know what makes someone a GENUINE MARTYR, then I would suggest he familiarize himself with the CHRISTIANS who were mass murdered by Mohammedans in Libya not very long ago.
gravenimage says
I imagine Khan approves of Muslims murdering Christians. It happens often enough in his own country.
Walter Sieruk says
To be clear Osama Bin Laden was not “martyred “in a any way ,therefore he is not a “martyr ‘ in any genuine sense of the word.
Bin Laden was eliminated by the heroic Navy SEAL’s . The reasons for extermination of that vicious and malice ,filled murderous Muslim jihadist chief of al Qaeda are many . one outstanding example was the his had his sinister and insidious wicked Islamic hand in the horrendous mass murders and destruction of those villainous which occurred on September 11, 2001.
In addition , Osama Bin Laden truly , deserved to by kill by those grand Navy SEAL’s for having other carry out is wicked schemes.
Muslims do claim to respect Jesus as a prophet and truth teller. Then they should heed the what Jesus taught.For Jesus declared “For all who take up the sword will perish by the sword.” Matthew 26:52. [N.K.J.V.]
To put in in modern terms “Bin laden took up the firearm then he died by the firearm.”
So what goes around comes around. . The jihadist fiendish leader and was NOT a martyr..
somehistory says
He should look around, inside his own country. Every time a mozlum creepy slime decides he/she wants something a Christian has, he can get the Christian killed or imprisoned for a “crime of blasphemy” against a fake ‘prophet’ who was really a mass-murdering, raper of children, psychopathic sex slave owner and trader, thief, lying sack of slug slime, son of satan the devil.
The Christian pays with his/her life….as a martyr for Christ. Killed/imprisoned for their faith and their faith alone.
obl was killed because he was a terrorist. Most mozlums are not hunted down and killed….because they are adherents of islam. Terrorists are hunted and killed…sometimes…due to the fact that they are murderous criminals; not because they profess a religion.
somehistory says
Of course, mozlums are commanded by their religion…it is not a “faith”…to become murderous terrorists and some do. If none of them were obedient to that, then none would be killed for becoming terrorists.
gravenimage says
Pakistan’s Khan says Osama bin Laden was ‘martyred,’ Foreign Minister says he was ‘quoted out of context’
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Saying that something was taken out of context is fine–but then you have to say what that context *actually was*. Many today–Muslims especially–simply skip that all important second part…
Raja says
Gravenimage,
It is highly likely that the Islamic world addresses OBL as martyr or martyred all the time, Al Jazeera included. I guess the word shaheed is the word for martyr in most of the languages in north India. In Urdu, the base language of koran the word is the same shaheed, though the script is different.
Imran and all the islamic world is lying to the hilt to con the infidel, something Islam calls taqiyya!
gravenimage says
True, Raja.
Infidel says
Wasn’t that when Gen Musharraf was running Pakistan, and putting together an elaborate double game that was enough to con a moron like President Bush? Even Obama got wise enough to it that he authorized the final operation that actually ‘martyred’ him
gravenimage says
I don’t think that Obama got wise, Infidel. I think that the military approached Obama with this intelligence and a plan for going in after bin Laden, and that even Obama realized that trying to thwart it would be deeply impolitic.
sidney penny says
“When the interviewer quoted Prime Minister Imran as calling bin Laden a “martyr”, Qureshi said: “Well, again. Out of context. He (the PM) was quoted out of context. And, a particular section of the media pair it up.”…”
Out of context?
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi did not tell us what the context was?.
BlackSabbath says
Creation of “pakistan” was out of context.