This is a follow up to the story I wrote about on Aug. 20. An 11-year-old Christian girl was accused blasphemy and threatened with the death penalty after someone claimed she burned pages of the Koran.
The event forced more than 900 Christians out of their neighborhood in Mehrabadi, Pakistan, outside the city of Islamabad. It’s important to note the girl was threatened with the death penalty, but nobody has been put to death by the state. That said, mobs have killed those accused since they figured the trial does not matter. Last month…
That simple accusation – burning a Quran – quickly turned into a demonstration of between 600 and 1,000 people. Even though the police were unwilling to take action, the crowded demanded it and eventually police charged the girl with blasphemy and took her into custody.
Mob rule.
After an investigation, it turns out they actually had witnesses, but the witnesses stated the cleric set the girl up.
… on Sunday police official Munir Hussain Jafri said a cleric had been taken into custody after witnesses reported he had torn pages from a Koran and planted them in Masih’s bag beside burned papers.
The imam, Khalid Jadoon Chishti, appeared briefly in court on Sunday before he was sent to jail for a 14-day judicial remand.
WTF? So a Muslim cleric is accused of desecrating a Koran – I would assume tearing out pages and tossing them in with burned trash meet the definition – and he is not being threatened with death? There are no mobs demanding his head?
The 11-year-old Christian girl is still in jail.
A bail hearing will be held on Monday for [Rimsha] Masih, whose case has re-focused a spotlight on Pakistan’s anti-blasphemy law, under which anyone who speaks ill of Islam and the Prophet Mohammad commits a crime punishable by death.
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This is sad & tragic…. But what really bothers me is the ‘pull’ these zealots have in OUR society…often overshadowing anything ‘Christian’ by Liberal judges who use Sharia law, rather than OUR laws.. Sooner or later, unless true Americans stand up for what America is SUPPOSED to be about….there will be terrible clashes.
If the Paki police & courts refuse to enforce the law there is nothing that can be done.If the threat of withdrawing all aid cannot save these Christians we must do it anyway. The Pakis are good people but their Muslim leaders are horrid.
Monsters. They make Democrats look civilized.
Barely.
I know that I have heard the “we’ll interpret the law one way for our enemies and interpret it another way for our friends.”
I got it! The Obama Caliphate!
Pakistani Muslims are to Paki Christians as U.S. Liberals are to U.S. Conservatives; only the latter can commit “heresy” (racism, bigotry, pederasty, etc., etc.).
The little girl in question is past unfortunate. She is being used as a pawn. No matter how much money the US gives to Pakistan, the Muslims will always hate the US and any Christian. Especially a Christian girl.
You know why but, I’ll’ state it: Christians, and Americans in particular, are infidels. By instruction of the Koran, all infidels are to be killed. No mercy, murdered in place.
The US has GIVEN Pakistan over $20 BILLION. Obama just requested another $3 BILLION! Pakistan gets billions more from a Coalition Fund (whatever that is?). We have basically gotten, ahem, grief for our concern. Corruption is more than a way of life in Islamic Pakistan, it is expected. Funneling money to one’s pocket is “funding the civilian deficit.” How euphemistic.
Corruption and hating. Sounds like American liberals to me.