He denounces the lynching of a Sri Lankan for blasphemy in Sialkot, but not because he believes in the freedom of expression. He just wants the state to execute the blasphemy, rather than having a mob murder him.
“Islam does not allow insulting any religion: Pakistani PM’s representative,” Ahlul Bayt News Agency, December 28, 2021:
AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Pakistani Prime Minister’s Special Representative on Interfaith Harmony and Middle East Hafiz Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi said Islam is a religion of peace that does not allow insulting any religion or permits others to commit blasphemy.
Addressing the Ulema-o-Mashaikh Convention, Ashrafi said the world knew that insulting any religion was not freedom of expression nor did Islam allow incidents like Sialkot, in which a Sri Lankan man was beaten to death by extremists.
However, it is clear that blasphemy hurts the religious feelings and sentiments of the Muslims, he added.
“Sporadic incidents of violence could not reflect the true picture of religious harmony in Pakistan,” Ashrafi further said. He strongly condemned the lynching of Sri Lankan national in Sialkot, adding that the government had further beefed up the security of minorities and foreign nationals.
The PM’s special representative highlighted that Islam did not allow taking law into one’s own hands or burning property of anyone nor harming a person because this practice was totally against Shariat.
“Islam has given a legal procedure to take any accused person to task if they have committed blasphemy or any other offence,” he said….
CogitoErgoSum says
Too bad Allah did not reveal the proper legal procedure to follow before Muhammad went into the Kaaba and started smashing things, insulting other people’s religion and even killing people because of their religion. But then, Muhammad did not have to follow the same rules as everyone else because he was special, don’t you know. Now, remind me again – who is the man every Muslim should try to emulate? Oh dear, that Muslim logic seems to be tripping me up again and it so gives me a headache.
mortimer says
The first object that Mohammed smashed in the Kaaba was a wooden image of a dove, Christian representation of the Holy Spirit. The first religion he insulted was Christianity.
The Koran insults kafirs, mushrikoon, and wrong-doers who are wrong because they worship in the ‘wrong’ way.
Insults and hatred against kafirs compose about 61% of the Koran, 75% of the Sira and 20% of Bukhari’s hadiths. If these books were offered to a publisher today they COULD NOT BE PRINTED due to their vicious bigotry.
Allah hates the kafirs, and he wants good Muslims to hate them too.
Allah is wise, forgiving, knowing, and so forth to Muslims. But for the kafir, Allah is a hater, a torturer, a plotter, a sadist, and an enemy.
Allah creates us as kafirs. Then he goes ahead in the Koran to tell the Muslims what filthy scum we are, and how they should purge us from the earth, because we disagree with Mohammed.
The word “kafir” is the worst word in any human language. No other pejorative is so cruel, demeaning, bigoted, insulting, and hateful as kafir. The insult ‘kafir’ comes eternally from Allah.
Michael Copeland says
Insulting Jews as “apes and pigs” because of their Judaism – that is, because of their religion – is fine.
gravenimage says
Yep.
tim gallagher says
What lying pieces of crap these Muslim spokesmen are. He says that “the world knew that insulting any religion was not freedom of expression”. What bullshit. Of course, criticising a religion is freedom of expression. People can,and often do, criticise,( which i guess Muslims say is “insulting”), Christianity, islam or any other religion and it is an important aspect of freedom of expression, going back to Voltaire and other Enlightenment figures. These Muslims inhabit some other bizarre planet where they see things in some other,completely closed minded, way. Also, from what I remember of the Koran, the main content of that vile book seemed to me to be endlessly insulting and making threats to kill non-believers, so islam seems to consist, above all, of insulting people who believe in some other religion other than stinking, totally intolerant islam. These Muslims never stop lying about everything under the Sun.
Infidel says
Only twist to that: islam regards itself as the only legitimate religion, so insulting religions like Christianity, Sikhism, Hinduism, et al do not count
gravenimage says
Grimly spot on, Infidel. It is only criticizing Islam that is barred.
Michael Copeland says
“It is unbelief (kufr) to hold that the remnant cults now bearing the names of formerly valid religions such as “Christianity” and “Judaism” are acceptable to Allah….”
Manual of Islamic Law, “Reliance of the Traveller”, w 4.
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Interfaith Harmony top dog says Islam is a religion of peace that doesn’t allow insulting any religion
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Bold-faced Taqiyya. Pakistani officials regularly insult Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Jews, and all other non-Muslims–and, much worse, regularly persecutes them.
But Hafiz Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi has lied and said that religious minorities in Pakistan enjoy full equal rights.
And yes–this from Ashrafi is all about crushing any even perceived criticism of Islam.
And he vocifereously denied charges that he was going to visit Israel, and that there were no plans on ever recognizing Israel. He has dsaid that the issues of forced conversions and forced marriages of non-Muslims will be ‘settled amicably”–he *never* said they would be ended.
He calls all complaints about persecution of non-Muslims “propaganda”, and has hinted that India is responsible. Just grotesque.He has said that all reports of oppression are just intened to “malign” Pakistan.
raja says
Insulting does not mean lying and slandering important/founding figures of other faiths, which islam does 24x7x365 days. Islamists know lot more of the bible than so called Christians but only for tweaking the scriptures and earn converts (and keep the ummah in humor with sadism)
They have a long list of exceptions for “insulting religion”, except for, as Infidel put it, islam. High time it is eradicated for humanity’s sake.
abu taleb says
Once I mentioned about Quran insulting non muslims, a muslim replied that it was the truth (therefore it was not an insult). But he did not accept when I made some conclusion about Islam (i.e. Islam was evil, Muhammad was a pedophile, sex maniac, rapist, rbbber, murderer etc) based on what Islam sources said.
I always say that muslims are idiot zombies, because they can not think by themselves. Those who can think will leave Islam.
gravenimage says
I had the same experience, abu taleb, when speaking to the Da’wa artists at “Why Islam?”. They affirmed that Muslims had the right not just to insult Christians but to to murder them because they “lied about ‘prophet Isa’ (Jesus)”.
OLD GUY says
Didn’t anyone tell you muslims hate top dogs or any dog for that matter. I think the reason is some dogs actually show signs of intelligence.
gravenimage says
OLD GUY, I believe this is why the wry Robert Spencer enjoys using this term so much. 🙂