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 level of compliance with those same Islamic blasphemy laws.
In fact, the EU, America (under Biden) and Canada are currently going down a destructive path of punishing dissent. Whenever Muslims are offended, out comes the “Islamophobia” battering ram to shut down the offending person or organization. The framework of the cancel culture in the U.S. was created in part by mainstream Muslim groups connected to the Muslim Brotherhood. In most Western countries, these same groups parrot the ideologies found in Pakistan, among the members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and among Muslim Brotherhood agents. It is the essence of the stealth jihad against the West.
The Western kowtowing to the “religious sensitivities” of Pakistan and other Muslim “sensitivities” continues the enabling of the destruction of free societies in the West.
“According to domestic and international human rights groups, blasphemy allegations in Pakistan have often been used to intimidate religious minorities and to settle personal scores.”
So what do these groups think is happening under cancel culture now? Short answer: nothing less than a milder version of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, but all this is certain to escalate if it is not fought off.
Pakistan only two weeks ago called for the launch of a global campaign by Muslim countries against “blasphemy” and “Islamophobia.”
The West needs to straightforwardly reject each and every hint of Islamic blasphemy laws.
The EU Parliament’s latest puzzling but constructive decision should be wider policy everywhere in the West.
“Pakistan decries EU parliament’s move on blasphemy laws,” by Munir Ahmed, Associated Press, April 30, 2021:
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan on Friday decried a move by the European Parliament, which a day earlier adopted a resolution demanding Islamabad allow freedom for religious minorities and asked the EU to reconsider the South Asian country’s preferential trade status.
The European Parliament appealed on Islamabad to free a Christian couple — Shagufta Kausar and her husband Shafqat Emmanuel — who have been on death row since 2014. The two were convicted of insulting Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.
It also urged Pakistani authorities to repeal the country’s controversial blasphemy laws, provide Kausar and Emmanuel with needed medical care and “immediately and unconditionally” overrule their death sentence.
It also expressed concern at increasing online and other attacks on journalists and human rights activists and asked Pakistan to take steps to ensure their safety.
Under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, anyone accused of insulting Islam can be sentenced to death if convicted. Just the mere accusation of blasphemy can cause riots and incite mobs to violence and killings.
The foreign ministry in Islamabad released a statement expressing the government’s disappointment at the European resolution, saying it “reflects a lack of understanding in the context of blasphemy laws and associated religious sensitivities in Pakistan — and in the wider Muslim world”.
However, it is unlikely that Islamabad will act on the charged issue. Radical Islamists parties have in recent years held violent rallies to stop the government from making any changes in the blasphemy laws.
Kausar and Emmanuel were arrested in 2013 on suspicion of sending a blasphemous text message to a local cleric in eastern Punjab province, an allegation they denied. The two were tried and sentenced to death in 2014. Since then, their appeals have been pending in the Lahore High Court.
According to domestic and international human rights groups, blasphemy allegations in Pakistan have often been used to intimidate religious minorities and to settle personal scores…..
Peter Buckley says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1xc4SRx0RI
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link to the Sultan Harris video. Good stuff.
Raja says
Peter,
You seem to be a fan of Harris Sultan.I enjoy his videos too.Thanks for the link
G says
The threat of these blasphemous laws (if that’s a pun then intended) may be likened to the hate laws here. Happily, though what a waste of court time, Marine Le Pen has demonstrated they can be defeated. (‘Now is the time for all good men to…….’ donate).
BlackSabbath says
Due to fear of pakistan beheading me, I will no longer (for today) say that Muhammad Ibn Abdullah (may police be upon him) committed rape, theft, racketeering, fraud, organized crime, pandering, pedophilia, necrophilia, incest, slavery, psyche warfare, murder, terrorism, transmission of sexual diseases, animal cruelty, and systematic genocide, which has led to the murder of over 270,000,000 people and counting.
Keith O says
Blacksabbath, Bastard, I read your comment with a mouth full of coffee.
Caffeine is meant to go down the throat, not out the nose!
gravenimage says
Pakistan enraged over EU parliamentary resolution calling for its repeal of blasphemy laws
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Pious Muslims want to force us to enact “blasphemy laws”–of course they are outraged over any suggestion of freedom from civilized nations. For once I can say good for the EU.
Wellington says
I respectfully disagree, gravenimage. The EU “merely” stumbled into the truth for an occasion but still remains overwhelmingly stupid and clueless overall. I assign it no credit here since it remains as dumb as ever. After all, even the EU can’t get everything wrong, just almost everything wrong.
gravenimage says
Wellington, I agree with you about the EU overall–they are generally hopeless dhimmis in deep denial about the threat of Islam.
I just always give credit where it is due–even when it seems unlikely that something as good as this will ever be repeated.
Wellington says
Proving, gravenimage, and I of course say this at my expense, that you are a more gracious person than I am.
gravenimage says
🙂
Wellington says
The EU’s continued cluelessness and stupidity is actually worse than Islam’s historic malevolence and intolerance since allowance for iniquity is invariably worse than iniquity itself because of the pass, the longer life, it gives to iniquity.
Put another way, Islam is awful and the EU is awful, though for pretty much entirely different reasons—though awful remains awful, with all of its destructive consequences, whatever the deficient reason or reasons for the awfulness in the first place.
To sum up: Islam sucks and the EU sucks and whatever sucks does not benefit the human species. Take it form here.
Dude says
An intelligent person will question “Why is ‘blasphemy’ so rampant in islam?”
Is it because it is so full of holes? Perhaps it is because it has caused people to behave so deplorably over the centuries.
But really it’s because even muslims see their god as an impotent joke, simply a bandit cult scam propaganda that can only exist by being constantly propped up with more lies and violence – like shouting all day that their concept of reality is the greatest while bullying anyone who knows the opposite to be true.
The truth is that anyone who embraces the cult is the BLASPHEMER; and a monster cursed by God for believing that such wickedness could ever possibly be divine.
Infidel says
Dude, like I’ve said many times, islam tries to redefine the scope of blasphemy to be far wider than what it actually is. Blasphemy is simply the adherent of a religion violating a major rule of that religion, or insulting a major deity. But it doesn’t cover somebody violating the rule of a religion one doesn’t belong to. Like I can’t accuse Christians of blasphemy for not accepting the supremacy of Shiva, since they don’t believe in him in the first place. Similarly, since I’m not a Christian, I’m not guilty of blasphemy when I don’t believe in the divinity of Christ
Islam tries to claim that anybody who denies the oneness of allah and Mo being his final prophet is a blasphemer. Strictly speaking, that’s only true if a muslim does it: if others, be it Christians, Buddhists, Jews, Hindus, et al accepted the above premises, they’d be muslims, not Christians/Buddhists/… Somehow, mohammedans are too stupid to understand that, and think that everybody who doesn’t agree w/ them on these very fundamental concepts is guilty of blasphemy
As for those who do believe, I’ve long concluded that islam is a geopolitical cult – something like a cross b/w a Branch Davidian and a Nazi
Raja says
Infidel,
Your comment is irrational for a Muslim, because Islamic laws are inhuman and barbaric with deceit peppered in their “holy” books.
Pakistan is a good example of why Islamic nations should never be carved out of infidel lands. The evil spirits just spiral out of control thanks to Islam.
Infidel says
Raja, it was a tough call in the 1940s. Had there never been a Pakistan, a united India would have had that islamic ball & chain to lug around everywhere, and more importantly, would never have had the sort of Hindutva government that it has today. Although I do think that after 1971, Bangladesh should have been annexed a la Sikkim or Goa, since it was linguistic pride that was peaking. Had that been done, the jihadist tendencies that we see today in an independent Bangladesh might have been contained
gravenimage says
Good analysis, Infidel. But even Bangladesh would have been difficult to deal with, its being Muslim-majority.
As bad as having Pakistan on their border has been for India, having to cope with these Muslims in their own nation may well have been much worse.
Just note how much more civilized a nation India is by almost every yardstick than is Pakistan.
Dude says
God is absolute. It would seem that the common understanding of “blasphemy” differs from yours:
https://www.google.ca/search?q=blasphemy&sxsrf=ALeKk01NWBUkcGz4J1bpKk1RIBx0ov-czg%3A1620242161270&source=hp&ei=8e6SYMfVDcO2tAaUk6roDA&oq=&gs_lcp=ChFtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1ocBABGAAyBwgjEOoCECcyBwgjEOoCECcyBwgjEOoCECcyBwgjEOoCECcyBwgjEOoCECcyCggjEOoCECcQiwMyCggjEOoCECcQiwMyCggjEOoCECcQiwMyCggjEOoCECcQiwMyCggjEOoCECcQiwMyBwgjEOoCECcyBwgjEOoCECcyBwgjEOoCECcyBwgjEOoCECcyBwgjEOoCECdQAFgAYP0gaAFwAHgAgAEAiAEAkgEAmAEAsAEPuAEB&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-hp
Infidel says
The concept varies from religion to religion. Ask any Christian if s/he believes in Vishnu being supreme among all gods
gravenimage says
And Dude, the Islamic concept of god is *very* different from that of Jews and Christians. Moreover, Judaism and Christianity are not persecuting people under “blasphemy” laws.
PRCS says
Associated Press:
“However, it is unlikely that Islamabad will act on the charged issue. Radical Islamists parties have in recent years held violent rallies to stop the government from making any changes in the blasphemy laws.
The ability to spot “radical” Islamists within a throng of regular, everyday Pakistani Islamists must surely be a learned skill there.
gravenimage says
So true.
Andrew Blackadder says
I dont understand why people say the Quran is a useless book because I have one and it works really well as a Door stopper, because the wind sometimes slams my front door closed, and the Quran, being a really big thick book, works a charm by holding the door open, so perhaps its really the power of the words of allah written down that in fact hold the door open and controls the wind so it will not slam my door shut, either way I am glad I found a use for it…
Remember that muslims dont have a sense of humour and so its my duty in life to awaken them from their woke slumber…
Heres yer blaspheming ali baba, islam is a Fascist Religious Cult.
Oh now Im shaking….
Infidel says
Andrew, if you happen to live in an aerated, windy house, it’s also pretty useful as a paperweight. Also, if you happen to spend a lot of time sitting in your restroom, a Quran is good, appropriate reading for the spot – mental ?in, physical ? out
OLD GUY says
Biden-Harris read the sign. Why in the hell do you want to expose the American citizens to these barbaric Islamic/Muslim people.? Whats wrong with you? Even a blind Squirrel can find the NUT once in awhile, so why can’t you? It’s plain NUTS to allow your enemy to invade your country through migration. If you don’t have the GUTS to stand up for AMERICA then step down and let someone who cares about US take charge.
Dude says
Like I said earlier: “God is absolute.”
Someone familiar with the actual history of revealed religion on this planet will know that the entire planet followed the ancient Vedic religion eons before the advent of the desert new-age religions.
The truth is that the Christian who worships Yahweh actually worships Vishnu – They are ontologically the same Primal Person. If they think they aren’t, then they are simply poseurs.
If we haven’t gotten beyond the words, then it is foolish to feign opinions. It’s not a trivial quest – real life is not trivial. In truth, each bonafide religion points in the very same direction, to an esoteric world that lifts us out of this trivial mundane existence, into an eternal wonderland of joy and contentment. We get what we need, when we need it.
Even the thugs get their islam. OMG