Shagufta Kausar and her husband Shafqat Emmanuel Masih are illiterate, and so they couldn’t have sent the text messages that got them imprisoned for seven years and sentenced to death for blasphemy. But the mob is baying for their blood anyway. In Pakistan, even an accusation of blasphemy is enough to destroy one’s life utterly. […]
Pakistan: Illiterate Christian paraplegic and his wife in jail awaiting execution for sending ‘blasphemous’ texts
Shafqat Emmanuel’s wife Shagufta Kausar is also in jail and on death row. Their cruel sentence resulted from a Muslim cleric accusing the illiterate Christian couple of sending blasphemous texts. It has become commonplace for Muslims in Pakistan to abuse, attack, imprison, and even murder Christians. The mere worth of Christians is diminished globally, as […]
Pakistan enraged over EU parliamentary resolution calling for its repeal of blasphemy laws
The European Union appears to be irrational. On one hand, EU Parliament rebukes Pakistan for its human rights-abusing blasphemy laws, and calls for religious freedom. But on the other hand, EU authorities are infamous for passively accepting assaults by Islamic supremacists to the freedom of speech, the cornerstone of any free society. This constitutes a […]
Pakistan: Muslim cleric accused illiterate Christian couple of sending ‘blasphemous’ texts, they remain on death row
The ordeal for this couple started in 2013. Shafqat Emmanuel is reported to be disabled, and both he and his wife, Shagufta, who works as a waitress, are illiterate. Since the couple is illiterate, these charges are clearly yet another lie by yet another Islamic cleric threatening the lives of innocent Christians. The accusations of […]
Pakistan: Christians appeal death sentence for blasphemous texts sent to Muslim cleric
They didn’t send the texts. They didn’t even own the phone. Pakistan’s blasphemy laws are a human rights outrage. Countless numbers of Christians and others have been victimized. But the “human rights community” does nothing; it isn’t, after all, a case of “Islamophobia.” “Case of Blasphemous Text Messages; Christian Man Sentenced to Death Appeals to […]