Pakistan’s blasphemy laws are routinely used for the worst human rights abuses. The world yawns, as stories such as this one don’t fit the narrative.
“Christian cleaner of Koran publisher jailed for blasphemy,” by Shafique Khokhar, AsiaNews, June 14, 2022 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Karachi (AsiaNews) – In Pakistan, an adult Christian, Rehmat Masih, has been in prison for five months in a new fabricated blasphemy case. He is accused of profaning and desecrating the pages of the Koran, but in reality he allegedly simply refused an offer to change religion. The police also threatened the family, warning them not to prosecute the case. As a result, he had to move to a safer location.
Rehmat (44), the father of two teenage children, had worked for 20 years as a cleaner at the Zam Zam publishing house, which was responsible for printing and binding the Muslim holy text. The owners and employees had offered him to convert to Islam, but he had repeatedly refused to change religion.
On 28 December, Rehmat went to Zam Zam Publishers for his usual work. Here, he was asked about the defacement of some pages of the Koran found in the sewage drain. Rehmat replied that he was unaware of the missing holy pages from the publishing house.
On 3 January 2022, the police arrested Rehmat Masih accusing him of committing blasphemy and tortured him severely to make him admit to desecrating and desecrating the Koran, an offence under Section 295-B of the Pakistan Penal Code, punishable by life imprisonment.
On 19 January 2022, a bail application was filed for the defendant, but the judge rejected it. In a hearing held on 31 May 2022, Rehmat Masih had his statement placed on record before the honorary judge, in which he stated that he ‘does not plead guilty to the charge of blasphemy brought against him’….
tim gallagher says
The thing that annoys me is how tolerant we non-Muslims are towards Islam and Muslims when there is never tolerance shown by Muslims towards non-Muslims. Admittedly Pakistan is a shit of a country, a backward place with huge numbers of fanatical Muslims, but Muslims always have, and always will, treat non-Muslims as second class citizens Islam, which is so intolerant, does not deserve to be treated with tolerance and respect. It deserves to be treated the way Nazism is treated, with no respect at all.
somehistory says
what is really ridiculous is the pretense of a legal arrest, and investigation and trial when all along, they all know what is to be the final outcome.
mozlum boss….mozlum co-workers…mozlum doing the deed of tearing…can’t desecrate it or make it dirty, as it is already feculent filth…and flushing….mozlum police and mozlum *judgte.* No Christain has a fair chance under those evil circumstances.
But, they pretend.
tim gallagher says
That’s right, somehistory. It is totally stacked against any non-Muslim by the scum there. As I said, I am annoyed by all the one way tolerance we give to Islam. It deserves zero tolerance. Our societies are too nice, which is good way to be, but it can’t work with islam.
Keith O says
Personally Tim, I treat everyone the way they treat me and I give back far more than I receive, both good and not so good.
Something a couple of local mudslimes and others have learned the hard way.
As you say, tolerance and respect should be a two way street.
Some just need to be aware of oncoming traffic.
tim gallagher says
I’m the same, Keith O. Actually, I do meet some pleasant Muslims as I get around, of course I don’t know them at all well, but Islam, overall, and too many Muslims have a hate filled and very nasty attitude to non-Muslims. I think the tolerance our societies show them is a mistake. It nearly always seems to be a one way street.
Keith O says
And of course if we treated them the way they treat us infidels we would be racist islamophobes.
somehistory says
As for me, i could never do that job….there is no way to “clean” the pages of the filth that is the book of demon evil mozlums worship. And to have a job in such a place….such is the horror of living the lives of Christians in paki land.
Infidel says
Thank you, Gandhi, Nehru and the Brits of that era, for enabling this country! Too bad you can’t be brought back to face trials for what you’ve done to millions
raja says
Infidel,
Fully agreed.
If they were alive they would face the music but once out of power they are given immunity from the sins of commission and omission, except for may be genocide or crime against humanity. Sadly, the elites and humanity is yet to wake up to the genocidal designs and strategies of islam and Left. So right now, whichever way you look at it humanity is the loser.
For a starter the powers that be should consider religiously-motivated murders as crime against humanity. This of course would send the Islamists dizzying.
mortimer says
To Tim: PLEASE DO NOT OVERGENERALIZE. You sound like a bigot and you misrepresent the counterjihad by making unfair generalizations.
Muslims are of different minds on tolerance, from the modern-living Muslims to the radical jihadists on the other side of the spectrum.
Many Muslims are as tolerant as others, but in their tolerance of the kafir, they are not following standard Islamic practice. Today, most Muslims are having cognitive dissonance about jihad and do not want to be part of it.
Such confused Muslims live a modern life that ignores most of Islam’s teachings, especially those that require intolerance. So they try to be tolerant of the ‘other’ and they try to fit in.
Your overgeneralizations lead to errors in your sweeping conclusions. 35% or more of Muslims are quietly questioning Islam and have stop practicing it.
somehistory says
Question for “mortimer”: Who put you in charge of telling posters what can be written and said about mozlums and islam so that you can shout others down when you don’t approve?
Another interrogatory: where is the proof, the evidence, that would support the claim you keep making about what mozlums “think” and “feel” and the % that are “quietly questioning islam and have stop (sic) practicing it”?
Inquiring minds want to know.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, I have asked you before to back up your claim that over a third of Muslims are not Muslim.
And even if this were the case, there is not a single Muslim state that treats Infidels as equals–Tim is *not* wrong about this. So these non-Muslim Muslims, even if they exist in the numbers you baselessly claim, have no influence and either don’t want to have or are too scared to try.
James Lincoln says
mortimer,
Tim is not wrong.
ALL people who actually/currently identify as muslims – regardless of their degree of devoutness – support islam to at least some degree:
Islam: A totalitarian religious/political ideology whose goal is to impose sharia law throughout the world.
somehistory says
And even 35% are not fully on persecuting and killing infidels, that leaves a whole heck of a lot of mozlums who are persecuting and killing and raping and lying and promoting others to kill and rape and persecute.
People are not wrong for calling this what it is: a murderous cult of haters.
raja says
Somehistory,
Yes, No Christian or for that matter no infidel would get a fair trail. Never under Islamic hegemony. Islamic society is perhaps the most racists and heartless one in the whole world. There is no respect for humans as islam mandates its own apartheid of segregating people from the ummah and the rest. Infidels are sub-human by Islamic jurisprudence.
somehistory says
I agree, raja. No Christian is allowed to *be* in the lands where mozlums rule with their hands bloody and filthy from the practices set out by satan. this is also true where any infidel is challenged by mozlums to join and bow, or die.
raja says
Thank you Somehistory for the reply. God bless.
somehistory says
You are welcome, raja. We all need His blessings.
Rafael says
Jihad against unbelievers will likely never end in islamic lands mostly because of the western silence and thus complicity. Even some of those anti-jihadits claim you are bigoted for defending yourself against jihad. With people like this we are doomed to darkness.
Rafael says
Jihad against unbelievers will likely never end in islamic lands mostly because of the western silence and thus complicity. Even some of those anti-jihadits claim you are bigoted for defending yourself against jihad. With people like this we are doomed to darkness I’m afraid.
gravenimage says
The idea that Jihad exists in Pakistan–a state created entirely to impose Islamic law–is because of the West makes no sense at all.
Of course I’d like to see more understanding of the threat of Islam in the West, but the claim that it is the West that creates blasphemy laws in Dar-al-Islam simply is not the case.
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Christian declines to convert to Islam, is falsely accused of blasphemy and imprisoned
……………………
Just sickening–but this is at base what *all* blasphemy charges against non-Muslims are about: Infidels not submitting to Islam.
Vijay says
Mortimer, 20% radical Muslims are the problem. And a problem bigger than their percentage.
Please remember the Nazi numberts were very low. they took power on the basis of stoking fear amongst the majority who were otherwise quiet peaceful citizens. There is a similar dynamic working here. As you said a large part of the Muslim population is peaceful, but the relegion is such that it has a political side to it unlike other relegions.
The requirement that every Muslim attend the Friday prayers (Namaz) is actully a clever insertion to get the men together and fill their ears with anything the Mulla at the pulpit wishes to say. These large crowds are the ideal way to create a mob/heard menttality in which clear thought is surrendered by 99% people and they even feel free to indulge in acrs of violence and arson which they would not ever contemplate doing.otherwise.
The other problem with this “religion” is the hate against non Muslims instructed in the Quran which poisons the minds of kids at an early age.
The verses instructing treatment of women as chattel is another major poison in their books.
raja says
Vijay,
A good post from your end. You are well informed about islam though you seem to be new to JW. Hope my reply gives some more info about islam.
The “non-problematic” 80 percent are also a big problem because they don’t or can’t go against their brethren who are “best of the peoples” according to koran. islam doesn’t give any command or incentive to stand up to the nonsense of 20 %. They are all in broad agreement about the methods of islam and its objectives. On the contrary under Judeo-Christian values there are lots of exhortations enumerated in the the scriptures to stand up to injustices (and do good) for all of mankind whether among the faithful or otherwise. In fact, koran is having very poor morals going by how they treat women and other sub-humans in infidels and how infidels are targeted for mass-murder from time to time. Most mosques regard terrorists as heroes and are treated as role models as such. Clammer for Sharia (the utopian crime-free state with Islamic faithful) across the globe is another reason why terrorists can never be hated or shunned by the Muslims. Oil wealth too has contributed to the supremacist psyche of the Islamists, catalyzed by Islamic proselyte states like Qatar, Saudi et al.