All it took was a local Islamic leader Ahmed Khan filing “a complaint with local police that an unregistered number sent him text messages insulting the Prophet Muhammad’s mother. ” And that’s that. Zafar Bhatti, a Christian is now in prison for life on the word of Khan alone. Let’s now hope that Lahore High Court will accept Bhatti’s appeal.
Such news has become so routine that Westerners ignore it. While Christians and minorities are murdered, abused and imprisoned on a daily basis in the Islamic world, there is little advocacy for them. Instead, the Western world is obsessed with the alleged “Islamophobia” of those who even dare to call out these pervasive human rights abuses.
“Court in Pakistan Upholds Life Sentence of Christian Wrongfully Convicted of Blasphemy,” International Christian Concern, June 28, 2021:
06/28/2021 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) – According to Morning Star News, a court in Rawalpindi, Pakistan upheld the life sentence of a Christian man convicted under the country’s controversial blasphemy laws. This conviction was upheld by the court despite claims of manipulated evidence and the prosecution’s failure to establish the Christian’s involvement in the blasphemous incident.
On June 22, an additional sessions court judge in the Rawalpindi District upheld the blasphemy conviction of Zafar Bhatti, age 56. This decision was reached even though new evidence presented by the prosecution failed against to directly link Bhatti with the blasphemous text messages he was wrongfully convicted of sending in 2017.
On July 11, 2012, Ahmed Khan, a local Islamic leader in New Town, Rawalpindi, filed a complaint with local police that an unregistered number sent him text messages insulting the Prophet Muhammad’s mother. The leader forced local police to open an investigation for blasphemy under Section 295-C of Pakistan’s Penal Code, even though the complaint truly belonged under Section 295-A. A First Information Report was then filed against an unknown person.
On July 22, police arrested Bhatti and charged him with sending the text messages from the unregistered number. According to Bhatti, police tortured him into confessing to the crime.
Multiple reports link a woman named Ghazala Khan, rather than Bhatti, with the unregistered number from which the text messages were sent. On November 11, 2012, Khan was arrested and charged with blasphemy. However, at trial in April 2013, Justice Khalid Mehmood of the Lahore High Court refused to pass judgment in Khan’s case and instead tried to convince the petitioner to forgive Khan. Khan refused but was released on bail, pending the court’s final decision. In November 2016, Khan died from Hepatitis C.
On May 3, 2017, Bhatti was sentenced to life in prison under section 295-C of Pakistan’s Penal Code by Additional District and Session Judge Mohammad Yar Gondal. According to reports, Bhatti was given life in prison even though Section 295-C carries a mandatory death sentence because there was no evidence presented linking him to the blasphemous text messages.
“The trial court judge gave this verdict under immense pressure because the complainant was an office bearer of the Islamist extremist outfit Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat,” Tahir Bashir, Bhatti’s attorney told Morning Star News. “I believe the verdict delivered this time was also under pressure, because there’s no direct evidence against Bhatti.”
Despite the disappointing verdict, Bashir told Morning Star News he is still hopeful that the Lahore High Court will accept Bhatti’s appeal and will eventually acquit his client.
In Pakistan, false accusations of blasphemy are common and often motivated by personal vendettas or religious hatred. Accusations are highly inflammatory and have the potential to spark mob lynchings, vigilante murders, and mass protests…..
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Court upholds life sentence of Christian falsely accused of blasphemy
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Just horrifying, this *poor man*–but this goes on in Pakistan and places like it all the time.
Crusades Were Right says
Western nations (Christian nations, or at least those that are traditionally/historically Christian) should have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with Mohammedan states that persecute their Christian communities:
No commerce, no tourism/travel, no aid, no diplomatic relations, NOTHING.
“No church bells pealing? No business dealing.”
gravenimage says
And no foreign aid.
James Lincoln says
Yes, gravenimage.
Not a single penny…
Crusades Were Right says
@gravenimage: Hey, I mentioned that, G! Put your reading specs on! lol
Mike says
and again Islam want to stop Islamophobia
The western world will NEVER give into them
As long as Islam terrorize the world it will get worse a great deal worse
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
There is no blind justice in Pakistan,
only mob justice. The local judge
probably feared for his life. Political prisoners in America is also becoming more common.
mortimer says
Lawyers and judges must fear for their lives if they get involved in blasphemy cases and fear more if the mullahs are displeased with the way they are handling it. Judges and lawyers could be burned out or assassinated. It could ruin their chances of promotion as well
Fitna says
Don’t forget Muslims think this is what their God wants them to do to non-Muslims. They have no compassion, remorse, pity or common sense. They’re blindly following their Arab book of hate and genocide.
Time to deport all Muslims and import/give safe haven to all non-Muslims in their nations. That’s the welcome that India offered to persecuted Christians, Hindus, Atheists, etc in Pakistan. We should follow suit. Do a population exchange.
Keep in mind if Muslims become majorities in our nations, then they will do the same to us in the West, we can never allow that even if it means going to war against them.
mortimer says
That is what Ilhan Omar and CAIR are doing … verbal jihad and the jihad of the tongue.
OLD GUY says
America needs to stop sending foreign aid to Pakistan and every other muslim/islamic country. We are not helping the people who suffer under these countries leaders. We are supporting the regimes that impose these crimes against humanity.