Tiny Minority of Extremists rally in the thousands to uphold Pakistan's blasphemy laws
Tiny Minority of Extremists
Somehow these legions of Misunderstanders of Islam didn't get the memo that Islam is a Religion of Peace and Tolerance. How odd. An update on this story. "Thousands Rally to Uphold Pakistani Blasphemy Laws," from VOA News, December 24:
Pakistani Islamists are demanding the government leave the country's laws against blasphemy alone.
Thousands rallied in Karachi and other cities Friday to warn government officials any effort to repeal the laws would have serious consequences.
Several Pakistani lawmakers proposed changing the law after last month's conviction of a Christian mother of five for blasphemy against Islam.
Asia Bibi is the first woman condemned to die under Pakistan's blasphemy law. She denies claims by local women that she made derogatory remarks about the Prophet Muhammad.
Pakistan's Minister for Minority Affairs Shabaz Bhatti has recommended Bibi be pardoned or released if her pending court appeal is not quickly addressed.
One Pakistani cleric has said if the government fails to go ahead with the hanging, his mosque will offer $6,000 to anyone who kills her.
Convictions under the law are common, but no executions have ever been carried out.
Protest leaders are calling for a nationwide strike if the government tries to heed calls from the West to change the blasphemy law....
If the mainstream narrative about Islam that we are compelled to accept in the West were true, these leaders would be calling for a nationwide strike if Asia Bibi is put to death, not if the blasphemy law is changed.
Posted by Robert on December 24, 2010 12:31 PM
And this, related, also from Jihad Watch:
Pakistan: Misunderstanders of Islam planning nationwide rallies today against changes in blasphemy laws
Those laws are routinely used to victimize Pakistani Christians, and that is just fine with these religious parties. One would have thought that the members of these religious parties would have known from their studies of the Qur'an and Sunnah that Islam respects the People of the Book and teaches peace and tolerance, and that there is no death penalty for blasphemy -- after all, isn't that what Islamic spokesmen in the West always tell us? Yet somehow these people, despite their dedication to following Islam, have yet again misunderstood it.
"Pakistan parties protest possible blasphemy law changes," by Nasir Habib for CNN, December 23:
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan's religious parties are planning protests this week against any attempts to change the nation's blasphemy laws, a party spokesman said Thursday.
Moulana Amjad Khan, spokesman for the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazal ur Rehman (JUI-F) party, said the JUI-F and other religious parties are going to hold the rallies on December 24.
JUI-F recently left the collation government led by President Asif Ali Zardari's Pakistan People's Party....
In November, a Pakistani court found the 45-year-old Bibi guilty of defiling the name of the Prophet Mohammed during a 2009 argument with Muslim fellow field workers. The offense is punishable by death or life imprisonment, according to Pakistan's penal code.
"The Prophet Mohammed." CNN, like other mainstream media news outlets, has decided we are all Muslims now.
But an investigation by a Pakistani government ministry found the charges stemmed from "religious and personal enmity" and recommended Bibi's release. Zardari has said he would pardon Bibi, but a court has ruled that the president can't act until the sentence is confirmed by a higher court -- a process her lawyer says could take two to three years.
A Pakistani cleric is offering a nearly $6,000 bounty for anyone killing Bibi.
Moulana Yousaf Qureshi made his announcement in early December, condemning any effort by Zardari to pardon or release her....
Posted by Robert on December 24, 2010 7:04 AM
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