Defund the (Pakistani) police! This isn’t a “tiny minority of extremists” doing this. This was done by officers of the law. Pakistan is beset by systemic discrimination against Christians and other religious minorities. No one cares. Doesn’t fit the narrative.
“Police in Pakistan Torture Christian into False Confession,” Morning Star News, April 29, 2021:
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Police in Pakistan tortured a Christian man into confessing to a false allegation of blaspheming Islam and illegally kept him in custody for more than two months, his attorney said.
Salamat Mansha Masih’s attorney, Aneeqa Maria of The Voice Society, said police were required to present the 26-year-old Christian before a judge within 24 hours of arrest. Lahore police arrested Masih on Feb. 13 after Muslims overheard him reading the Bible in a park and accused him and a friend of ridiculing Islam and its prophet.
Masih was in custody for two months and three days before he was presented before a judge on April 16, Maria said.
“During this period, he was kept in at least three different police stations and illegal torture cells, where he was mentally and physically tortured to confess to the baseless accusation,” Maria told Morning Star News.
While incarcerated, police repeatedly threatened to kill him, she said. Family members were not allowed to meet him, and his mother and siblings saw him for the first time in two months when the police brought him to jail after his appearance before a judge. Even then police did not let them talk to Masih, whose father died 20 years ago, until a week later, she said.
“When we were finally able to talk to Salamat in private at the District Camp Jail in Lahore on Friday [April 23], he told us that he had suffered immense torture and verbal abuse during his illegal confinement,” Maria told Morning Star News. “The police investigators forced him to admit to blasphemy. They also tortured him into naming other members of the Bible study circle.”
Authorities also questioned him about the whereabouts of the friend with whom he was reading the Bible, Haroon Ayub Masih, also charged, who fled the city after gaining pre-arrest bail, she said.
The attorney said she regretted that neither the court nor senior police officials have taken notice of officers’ illegal actions against Salamat Masih.
“This is a serious human rights violation, yet no one seems to be bothered about it,” Maria said, adding that she was preparing to seek bail for him despite slim chances of success.
“Obtaining bails in blasphemy cases has become virtually impossible now,” she said, citing pressure by an Islamist political party and a hardline group of Muslim lawyers to keep judges from granting bail. “One of my clients, Patras Masih, a 21-year-old blasphemy accused, is in jail for the last three years. I’ve moved three bail petitions for his release on statutory grounds, however, the judges keep issuing notices to the prosecution at every hearing instead of granting him bail.”…
Peter Buckley says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ8APOseQ6c
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link to the Harris Sultan video.
Keith O says
The only difference between this and the inquisition is that the Catholics stopped “putting them to the question” a few hundred years ago.
Islam is still carrying on like the clock stopped 1400 years ago.
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Police torture Christian into false confession of blaspheming Islam, detain him for over two months
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Hideous–this poor man. But this kind of thing is *very* common in Pakistan and other parts of Dar-al-Islam.
And just reading the Bible in public–even if it is not proselytizing–is considered “blasphemy” in Islam.
tim gallagher says
Oh, not Pakistan again. What a shit of a country that sorry place is. I’m glad that Jihad Watch does bring all this evil garbage that happens in this place of utter darkness and barbarity, Pakistan, to our attention because I hardly ever hear anything about this disgraceful country on the mainstream news. It is the same for all those atrocities that Muslims are carrying out, day after day in various African countries. I only hear about them here at Jihad Watch. You are doing excellent work in bringing this information to light. Pakistan definitely seems like an appalling country, peopled by some of the most ignorant and barbaric people you could find anywhere.
Infidel says
Tim, it’s certainly Asia’s Somalia, and a gateway for China to the Indian Ocean.
tim gallagher says
It seems a truly terrible country, Infidel. As I mentioned up above, it is only at Jihad Watch that I ever get any news about the barbaric garbage that goes on in Pakistan. I hadn’t thought about Pakistan’s connection to that gigantic bully, China, but no doubt two evil regimes such as these two will find a way to get together. As I’ve said before, Pakistan should have been thrown out of international cricket ages ago.It’ll never happen, but, if it did, it might let them know that they need to become a bit more decent in the way they treat non-Muslims in Pakistan. On China, I heard an amazing response to China by the government of the Philippines on the radio here in Australia today. Apparently China has been sending ships into Philippines territory and the Philippines used the most undiplomatic language in telling China to get lost. It called China an ugly bully or something and actually told them to fuck off. It was either fuck off or piss off. The radio presenter said he’d never heard such language used by a government to another government. Nor had I. If it is true, it was extraordinary language the Philippines government representative used. I guess it showed the amount of anger the Philippines is feeling at China’s incursions.
Singh T. junior says
Moelems in Eastern Indian state of West Bengal are in full genocidal mode, looting, raping, and murdering Hindus. Twitter, Facebook and Youtube are banning the accounts of Hindus who are reporting this. Most of the Indian media is silent, and so is islamic controlled BBC news. The moslems want to transform India into “pakistan.”
tim gallagher says
Thanks for that information, Singh T. junior. A lot of this news doesn’t seem to get out to most people in the world. It is no surprise to hear about the Muslims behaving in the way you are talking about in West Bengal. And we keep hearing this lying garbage about how Islam is basically peaceful from so many people. Islam is, and always has been, a vicious, murderously violent ideology, and it will never change.
gravenimage says
Terrible, Singh.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
BOYCOTT ALL MUSLIM COUNTRIES. THEY ARE CESSPOOLS OF HATRED.
BlackSabbath says
Hear hear!!!
OLD GUY says
Also close our BORDERS to these hate America islamic/muslim animals. Their migration to America is nothing short of an invasion of out country by our ENEMY.