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 wanted to outlaw desecration of the Qur’an. As the movement for criminalization grows, so will violence directed at transgressors. We are far closer to this than most people think.
“Islamic Extremists Charge Christian Woman with Blasphemy,” Morning Star News, September 21, 2021:
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Blasphemy charges against a Christian preacher in Pakistan were filed not with help from members of the Ahmadiyya religion but only by Islamic extremists, sources said.
A source in the Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya Pakistan said the complainant in the case, Shiraz Farooqi, was not a member of the Ahmadiyya, a religion with roots in Islam but regarded as heretical by Muslims. As Ahmadis are often victims of persecution, they would never consider helping Muslims persecute others, he said.
Hafiz Ihtesham Ahmed, general secretary of the Islamist group that filed blasphemy charges against Christian preacher Shagufta Kiran, confirmed that Farooqi is a member of the group, the Tehreek Tahaffuz-i-Namoos-Risalat (Movement for Protection of Finality of Prophethood).
Ahmed also said the person who supplied screenshots of text messages as evidence was not an Ahmadi. He said admins for the WhatsApp group where Kiran allegedly forwarded the comments invited members of the Tehreek tahaffuz-i-Namoos-Risalat to monitor the social media group’s conversations.
The members of the Islamic extremist group did not engage in the discussions but were apparently present only to gather evidence for a blasphemy case against Kiran.
Ahmed said the group filed the case with Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in September 2020 after receiving the screenshots of text messages by others that were allegedly forwarded by Kiran, a 35-year-old Christian preacher in Islamabad.
A source close to Kiran had claimed that the complainant in the case, Farooqi, was an Ahmadi.
Kiran has been jailed and her family is in hiding after she was charged with insulting Islam and its prophet. She has been in jail since FIA agents raided her house on July 29 in the Iqbal Town area of Islamabad and took her and her sons, 10 and 12 years old, into custody, a source said.
The boys were soon released, said her husband, who was not at home at the time of the raid. Kiran is now in Central Jail Adiala, Rawalpindi, while her sons and husband have gone into hiding due to security threats surrounding the blasphemy charges against Kiran….
At least 35 people in prison in 2020 received death sentences for blasphemy, compared with 29 the previous year, according to the U.S. State Department’s 2020 International Religious Freedom Report.
The U.S. State Department in December re-designated Pakistan among nine other “Countries of Particular Concern” for severe violations of religious freedom. Previously Pakistan had been added to the list on Nov. 28, 2018.
Pakistan ranked fifth on Christian support organization Open Doors 2021 World Watch list of the 50 countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian.
abu taleb says
Muslims always try to find excuses to attack non muslims, doesn’t matter how absurd the excuse is.
Infidel says
I’m not getting the relevance of whether the Ahmadiyas helped file the above report. Since they consider themselves muslims, outside muslim countries, they’d happily co-operate w/ sunnis or shi’a, if allowed, and are no allies of non-muslims in the jihad against jihad
gravenimage says
I’m not sure, either, Infidel. It looks as though the “Federal Investigation Agency” is claiming that the complaint was filed by an Ahmadi, and the Ahmadiyas are denying it.
I doubt that Ahmadis would file such a complaint in Pakistan, if only because they would risk being accused of “blasphemy” themselves.
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Christian woman jailed and her family in hiding after she is charged with insulting Islam and Muhammad
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More sick “blasphemy” persecution in Pakistan. Just being non-Muslim is “blasphemy” as Islam sees it.
Westman says
Leave it to Islam-warped minds to redefine “cybercrimes” to become a weapon against Christian preachers like Shagufta Kiran.
“At least 35 people in prison in 2020 received death sentences for blasphemy, compared with 29 the previous year….”
A reason why there will be more Christans charged with trumped-up “crimes”: The Pakistan FIA has received extra funding every year since 2018.
It’s ironic that Pakistan’s capital city, in English syllables, is ISLAM-A-BAD (complete here with your choice).
OLD GUY says
Coming to America, these refugees and migrants are not going to leave their religious and political beliefs behind when they get to our shores. When you have been indoctrinated from childhood on that girls and women are subservient to men and that non-islamic people are the same it won’t change with a simple move of location.
Open borders is bringing a mess to America that won’t be easy to sweep under the rug. The politicians that think they are bringing in voters that will vote with their party are making a long term mistake that will cost citizens lives.
Billy Chickens says
Islam is filth and was invented by the filthy devil, who dictated the filthy Quran and its filthy contents to the filthy Muhammad.
So come get me and put me in jail.