A glimpse into the future of the West. This is where the Left’s “hate speech” rhetoric is tending. We are very close to this now, far closer than most people realize. Supporters of the President are defamed and smeared now, but for years, critics of jihad terror and Sharia oppression of women and others have been routinely excoriated, vilified, demonized, deplatformed, and shunned by all decent people. What is the next step? This. Remember: Biden has pledged to combat “hate speech,” which is any speech that those in power dislike, and a member of his transition team wants to outlaw desecration of the Qur’an. So we are far closer to this than most people think.
“3 Pakistani Christians charged with blasphemy, accused of burning Quran pages,” by Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post, January 9, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Three young Christians in northeastern Pakistan have been charged with blasphemy after area Muslims alleged that pages of the Quran had been burned near some Christian homes to hurt the religious sentiments of Muslims, according to a report.
Police charged the three Christians, identified as Azeem Mehmood, Abbas Gulshan, and Irfan Saleem, from a village named Kotli Muhammad Sadique in Punjab Province’s Narowal district, on Dec. 30, the U.K.-based group Centre for Legal Aid, Assistance and Settlement, known as CLAAS, learned recently.
A court sent Mehmood, who is a member of the Pakistani Army, to judicial custody while it granted bail to the other two Christians, CLAAS said in a statement, adding that while Mehmood was arrested on Dec. 25, Gulshan and Saleem were arrested on Dec. 29.
After the Christmas service, when the congregation of United Presbyterian Church was holding a procession around the church, a large number of policemen arrived. An officer said they had received a complaint that some people had burned pages of the Quran and they were there to investigate the matter.
Some local Muslims who were standing near the church took the police to an ash pile near the homes of Christians. There are about 40 Christian houses near the church.
Shahzad Masih, an uncle of Gulshan and Saleem, was quoted as saying that some local Muslims found the burned pieces of a blue letterbox, which had purportedly been installed on the wall to collect pages containing Quranic verses, near the Christians’ homes.
A local Christian, identified as Ilyas Masih, allegedly told police that he had seen some young men around the fire but he wasn’t able to see their faces due to thick fog. After Friday prayers at a mosque the same day, a large angry mob of Muslims from surrounding villages gathered in the village, demanding the immediate arrest of all Christians.
Local Christians believe that police tortured Ilyas Masih to force him to admit to seeing the faces of all three Christians so that the arrests could be made to placate area Muslims.
Mehmood’s wife, Marriam, was quoted as saying that her husband never left the house on Dec. 24 or Dec. 25.
Mehmood’s brother, Griffin, said that Mehmood had a dispute with Ilyas Masih before he was accused of blasphemy….
mortimer says
The church members broke the Dhimmi contract by processing outdoors thus creating a display of Christianity offensive to Muslims. They deserved to be punished according to Sharia, because they tried to teach another faith to Muslims.
A pretext was created in order to destroy them.
gravenimage says
+1
Walter Sieruk says
If ,and that is “if” those Christians really did burn pages from the Quran. then two important things should brought up.
First . since those Muslims had been offended that three Christians might have burn pages of the Quran , those same Muslim would understandably not like it but becoming so very outranged of that is an emotional overreaction.” Nevertheless that not so surprising since faith in Islam is based not on reason but on strong emotions .
Second if three Christians did really burn some of the pages of the Quran ,those Christians are ,in reality ,only guilty of taking on the topic of “Is the Quran truly of God or a hoax of a man ?” in not the most intelligent and proper way .
The intelligent and proper way to handle this subject is to use reason and logic to answer that question.
So the very important question: “Is the Quran the Word of God or is it a fabrication of a man. In other words , Is the Quran the truth or a fiction and a hoax ?” This question answered is clearly given on pages 145 through 157 in THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey in which he wrote a section on the Quran with its self-contradictions. Just two of the many he cited are the following “The Quran differs on whether a day is a thousand years or fifty thousand years in God’s sight’ and “Who was first to believe? Abraham or Moses [Sura 6:14 versus 7:143]?
The above is inconsistent and illogical. Further, Morey wrote about “The fact that Judaism and Christianity broke up into different sects was used in the Quran to prove that they are not of God [Suras 30:20-32. 42:13, 14]. Yet Islam has broken up into many warring sects and therefore cannot be true if the Quran is right.” Moreover, Morey in his book shows many more contradictions and absurdities in the Quran, there are and how Muhammad incorporated extra Biblical and Jewish folklore along with pre-Islamic Arabian myth and parts of Zoroastrian and Hindu stories into the Quran.
Furthermore, the Muslims claim that “the Quran is the direct, literal word of God unmodified in any way by the Prophet who uttered them at the bidding of God.” Nevertheless, in the book UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet Caner and Eethi Caner has shown that the Quran was modified in the following account on pages 45. “Muhammad felt the need to improve on the words of Allah, since he changed Allah’s wisdom for his own on several occasions. A hadith tells of the nonchalant emendations of Muhammad:’ On a number of occasions he [a scribe] had, with the Prophet’s consent changed the closing words of verses.
For example, when the prophet had said ‘God is mighty and wise ‘ Adbollah b. Abi Sarh suggested writing down ‘Knowing and wise’ and the Prophet answered that there was no objection. Having observed a succession of changes of this type, Adbollah renounced Islam on the grounds that revelations, if from God could not be changed at the prompting of a scribe such as himself. After his apostasy he went to Mecca and joined the Qorayshites.’ Other writers reveal that later Muhammad and his people did go war with the Qorayshites and he personally killed Abdollah. Obviously Abdollah knew too much and Muhammad wanted Abdollah’s knowledge to die with him.” In conclusion, the Quran is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax.
Even though the above essay was posted before, it should now be added that the last statement of the above that “the Quran is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax.” To put this in a Biblical way. As in from the Bible, it may be truly explained that the Quran is a deceptive work of “the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming.” Ephesians 14:12.. [N.I.V.]
DavidR says
There is nothing to prevent a completely innocent from being charged and convicted of blasphemy if the right conditions are present. All it takes is a totalitarian religion, a vague law prohibiting blasphemy, and the desire of the witness to harm or kill somebody he envies, despises, misunderstands or can’t control. During Salem’s witch trials false blasphemy charges were used to acquire coveted land or settle personal disputes and contributed to their unraveling. But Pakistani Muslims love their blasphemy laws and all attempts at reform have failed. The fate of these Christian men will never involve facts or truth. Mobs and Shariah friendly judges have overseen Islamic injustice in Pakistan for a long time and are comfortable with it as it is.
Keith O says
I can’t understand why anyone would want to burn a koran? After all, isn’t there a toilet paper shortage at the moment?
And I’ve been told the koran comes in two ply!
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Muslims charge three Christians with blasphemy, accuse them of burning Qur’an pages
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Sounds like yet another put up job.
God, I hate Islam.
Mojdeh says
I do not approve the way of life in many Muslim nations. DUBAI Robert Spencer knows the Sultan gave almost 500 Millions to make a mega church for Christians . We also see some positiveness in Persian Gulf. I do not approve of Quran but only chapter 1-10 rest is garbage. Since start of tomorrow we must change our language a little bit lower. OR … We will miss this web sites. Instead of hate we must say i do not like it Google keep closing a lot of web sites, Twit tr, Facebook, .So please say what you want freely but little bit tone it down. We must go to war with truth and correct languages so we can bring more Muslims to Christianity. You tube it then and see why so many Muslims in Iran and middle east become Christians. So we do not want piss them off and go differently?? Pakistan is also very very like Iran.Iraq,Egypt.
gravenimage says
Mojdeh, I know you have said many times that we dare not say anything critical of Islam lest Muslims get pissed off and wage violent Jihad against us.
But this dhimmitude does not work–do you suppose that these Christians in Pakistan *really* burned the Qur’an? Their keeping quiet about the violence of Islam has not saved them.
If we do not speak out against the violence of Islam while we have the chance in our own nations, then we will find ourselves in the same state as these poor Infidels in Pakistan.
As for Dubai, no Christian is allowed to speak to a Muslim about faith:
“Free to pray – but don’t try to convert anyone”
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33480115
And churches are not allowed to display crosses. Yes–other parts of Dar-al-Islam are even worse for Christians, but this is damning with faint praise.
Worst of all, though, the law does not recognize conversion from Islam to any other faith–and the legal penalty *is death*.
Raja says
Our silence is their strength. This is true of politicians and more so of Islam which is diametrically opposite to Christianity.
Islam breeds hatred and genocide. Most Muslims are not against Jihad. It is a hate-worthy corrupt religion. I have been commanded by God to hate evil
Love must be free of hypocrisy. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good. Romans 12:9
john smith says
Good points Raja