Were they charged for arguing the imam or for calling for kindness to a Christian? That is not entirely clear. They are accused of “cursing the mosque’s imam, they disrespected the mosque and they insulted Islam,” but that’s as specific as the reports get at this point.
“Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. And those with him are ruthless against the unbelievers and merciful among themselves.” (Qur’an 48:29)
“Pakistani police arrest four for ‘blasphemy’ over mosque argument,” Al Jazeera, November 25, 2021:
Pakistani police have arrested four men charged with blasphemy after they argued with an ‘imam’ (religious cleric) over whether a funeral announcement for a Christian neighbour could be made from a mosque, officials say.
The case occurred in the village of Khodi Khushal Singh, near the eastern city of Lahore, on November 18, a local police official Faryad, who goes by one name, told Al Jazeera on Thursday.
“The men have been detained and we have presented them before the court,” he said.
The men, who were Muslim, argued with a local cleric after he refused to make a funeral announcement for a Christian man from his mosque, the initial police report says.
“As soon as they arrived [at the mosque], they started cursing the mosque’s imam, they disrespected the mosque and they insulted Islam,” reads the report….
Pakistani human rights activists have decried the case against the four men as being unfounded.
“If there was a Muslim who in good faith wants to have an announcement such as this made in the community, it’s not an attack on someone’s faith, it’s a good cause,” said human rights activist and lawyer Nadeem Anthony.
“So if someone announces [a funeral] on a loudspeaker, how is it a religious violation?”
Dhimmi says
Also in uk ?? you could be charged for insulting islam or the Muslims
mortimer says
If UK has a blasphemy law at all, it is to protect the Church of England, but the law is not enforced.
The Public Order Act gives too much discretionary power to a policeman, because no one can guess whether a word spoken will ignite a riot. The police are expected now to be mind readers.
A law based on ‘hurt feelings’ is indeed mind reading.
somehistory says
What a strange world in which we live today. Every day some new infraction is announced by mozlums…even against their own, who are usually of a mind to do something the really, really crazed with their sordid beliefs find is *insulting* to islam.
Which way will it go? Do the believe the *imam* or the four who wanted the announcement? Probably with the *imam*…because that is more islamic.
Fitna says
I really could write a book on the steaming pile of dung that is Islam. Actually there’s a funny episode on the tv show LEXX where the protagonists arrive on a planet ruled by butch women who have all millions of idiotic laws and punishments and they endlessly argue and debate which laws take precedence.
I’m sure the writers were thinking about Islam when they wrote that. If Islam was a man, he’d be a psychotic loon who’s a danger to us and himself and the proper solution would be isolation or termination. Retarded religion, retarded rules, retarded followers.
somehistory says
This nation in which we live, with its many jurisdictions, has some crazy …and some very funny…laws on the books, some no longer enforced.
Usually, there was a real reason behind the law. There is a law in Florida that a chimp is not allowed to drive a car. That law was written because a man allowed his chimp, which he had taught, to drive his car across the Sunshine Causeway, the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, ..between Tampa and St. Pete.
When he was stopped, arrested, ticketed…there was no law saying he couldn’t have his chimp drive; the State lost the case, so they wrote a new law.
But, no matter how crazy some regular laws may seem, none are as insane as what mozlums deduce from their book of demon filth.
Fitna says
Lol, clearly as crazy as some laws are they are needed, like the one banning monkeys from driving.
Ya the trouble with “Divine laws” is the claims that the perfect creator of the universe invented them and gave them to mankind to follow. They cannot be questioned or changed not matter how wrong, crazy they are nor how many lives they destroy.
This is the true danger of religions like Islam. Plus if any of us question it, their followers are obliged to kill us.
In the West our laws are based on reality. We try to minimize pain, suffering, while maximizing freedom, equality and justice. This is why western nations are superior and more successful than others.
There’s no easy way out of this. Muslims are not going to become civilized all of sudden, the moment they step on our land. They bring their ready-made culture and they think they’re better than us.
They will continue to work to destroy all our hard-fought gains and drag humanity back to the barbarism of the 7th century if given the chance.
The intelligent Muslims will adapt to our way of life and will likely leave Islam. The fundamentalists will continue to be a thorn in our side until they are dealt with. But the worst is that Leftists are aiding an ideology that will eventually destroy them and they’re standing in our way also.
People should have no illusions or fantasies that Muslims are going to integrate, it’s impossible, they plan to force Islam on us, so we need to throw them out.
James Lincoln says
Fitna says,
“People should have no illusions or fantasies that Muslims are going to integrate, it’s impossible”
True, because if they do they actually become an apostate.
mortimer says
So … now any disagreement with a Muslim is automatically ramped up to ‘blasphemy’. This makes every Muslim ‘divine’ if disagreeing with him is ‘blasphemy’.
What is going on here is in effect the DHIMMI CONTRACT.
Any word that a mullah dislikes automatically becomes ‘blasphemy’ if he chooses.
This is the absurd law that Pakistan now has … trial and condemnation and sentencing by mullah.
CogitoErgoSum says
Calling for an act of kindness to be shown towards an Infidel is an insult to Islam … and Islam is an insult to the dignity of all mankind.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
A bridge too far. No hands across the water or the offering of an olive branch
for this is Islam in all its glory.
Alfredo says
Blasphemy in Pakistan.
This unfortunate country is in the grip of a hysterical collective psychosis.
All it takes is for a single psycho to feel “insulted” to equate the event as an “insult to Islam” and therefore a mandatory death penalty sentence is demanded by the bloodthirsty mob.
That is the perfect excuse legitimized by “divine revelation” received by a so-called prophet from the 7th century, claiming that the archangel Gabriel appeared to him, but nobody else ever saw him, arabized the name to Jibril! And voilà brand new Theology!
Pakistan is now enforcing legislation enacted by politicians in the grip of a bout of collective madness. With the mandatory sacrifice of a Christian escape goat in a vain attempt to appease the blood lust of the mob.
And that ladies and gentlemen is the shameful spectacle Pakistan has become by the constant pouring of gasoline to take out the fire instigated by the Oxford alumnae Imran Khan.
This is more evidence as if more evidence was needed, that fanatics can pass through Oxford, but it never did pass through their closed minds…