Bible Ban Sought By Muslims in Pakistan

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Bible Ban Sought By Islamists in Pakistan June 9.2011

Bishop of Lahore Calls for Calm

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Lahore, Pakistan, JUNE 7, 2011 (Zenit.org).- An Islamist politcal party in Pakistan has called on the country's Supreme Court to investigate "blasphemous" and "pornographic" passages of the Bible, appealing to Pakistan's controversial blasphemy law. In response, the Catholic bishop of Lahore has appealed to the faithful to resist this provocation and asked for prayer and patience.
The Jamiat-Ulema-e-Islami party held a press conference at a mosque in the city of Lahore in which the party leader, Maulana Abdul Rauf Farooqi, criticized certain passages of the bible that portrayed some prophets as sinners, guilty of "a variety of moral crimes, which undermine the sanctity of the holy figures."
Although Islam considers Old and New Testament figures to be part of their own spiritual tradition, Farooqi objects to their portrayal in the Bible as sinners, citing the story of King David's adultery and facilitation of the killing of Bathsheba's husband as an example.
The party has informally petitioned the Supreme Court of Pakistan to declare certain Biblical passages "blasphemous" and also announced that their lawyers would appeal for a formal banning of the Bible in Pakistan if the Court fails to meet their demands. Farooqi declared the campaign to be a direct response to the controversial Gainsville, Florida, pastor Terry Jones' Koran-burning episode in March.
That same month a Pakistani man tried to burn a copy of the Bible in the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Lahore but was stopped at the gates by guards and proceeded to burn his copy there.

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Pakistan's blasphemy against Islam laws have endangered Christian's freedom to worship and even to simply live without fear of attack several times in the recent past, the most famous example being the case of Asia Bibi, a Christian farm laborer who was accused of blasphemy by some of her co-workers and sentenced to death by hanging. Bibi's case has been appealed but her family has had to go into hiding to save their lives.
Even those non-Christians who defended Bibi and criticized the blasphemy law have paid the ultimate price: in January the Governor of Punjab, Salmaan Taseer, was assassinated by his body guard for his support of the law's repeal and for Bibi's pardon.
Benedict XVI has repeatedly called for the law to be repealed, describing it as a pretext for violence against minorities. "The tragic murder of the governor of Punjab shows the urgent need to make progress in this direction," the Pope said in January.

In response to these papal remarks, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, the same political party that is now calling for a Bible ban said then: "The Pope has given a statement today that has not only offended the 180 million Muslims in Pakistan, it has also hurt the sentiments of the entire Islamic world. This is an interference in Pakistan's internal matters. … We respect the Pope, being head of Christians and their religion, but he should also refrain from interfering in Muslims' religious affairs."

The blasphemy law sentences those convicted of desecration against the Qur'an to a life sentence or death. In March, the only Christian in the Pakistani federal government, Shahbaz Bhatti, was also assassinated. He served as the minorities minister, and was respected across the political and religious spectrum in the Pakistani government.

Fear and emotions are running high following the party's press release, Bishop Shaw reported, but he is cautioning his flock to take the prudent path: "Problems like this are happening one after the other. If we give the right response, the matter will die away just like any other debate that suddenly flares up."

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sean
sean
12 years ago

Islam cannot withstand competition. It needs to shut down the free marketplace of ideas or perish. But if they do ban paper Bibles in Pakistan, how are they going to stop The Word coming in through the internet?

salah
salah
12 years ago

They can’t. The facts about Islam and it’s founder Muhammad are spreading very rapidly, and Muslims are frantically scurrying to defend their faith. But the information superhighway is paving over the ignorance that has for centuries been the stronghold of Islamic dogma. In the end, Islam will fall, for the entire structure is built upon the belief that Muhammad was the greatest moral example in history, and this belief is demonstrably false.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/12/perfect-man-of-islam.html

american
american
12 years ago

Manwhile, Eboo-whover, barry’s “faith advisor,” is giving statements to the press about his group working against American “religious intolerance.” Uh-huh. Get that traitor out of the White House — It’s the first step to reclaiming the country.

xyzabc
xyzabc
12 years ago

Holy Bible — just an old book printed with ink on paper — is banned in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia; but, Muslims in America are interested in building a mosque at destroyed World Trade Center, New York, for inter-faith dialogue.
What’s wrong with this scenario?

Person of the Book
Person of the Book
12 years ago

What exactly are the muslims scared of? Why do they need to ban the Bible?
This sounds more and more like the Nazis and their book-burning ceremonies.

Revnant Dream
Revnant Dream
12 years ago

Let them fight the living G-D. See howfar it gets them.
There time is coming sooner than they think.

Kufar Dawg
Kufar Dawg
12 years ago

Why are US tax dollars going to support Islamo-nazi baboons in Pakistan and Egypt? Why are US citizens
subsidizing Islamo-nazi persecution of people of other faiths and their jihad?

Jim Baxter
Jim Baxter
12 years ago

The Human Paradigm: Earth’s Choicemaker Psalm 25:12
Consider: The missing element in every human ‘solution’ is an accurate
definition of the creature.
In an effort to diminish the multiple and persistent dangers and abuses
which have characterized the affairs of man in his every Age, and to assist
in the requisite search for human identity, it is essential to perceive and
specify that distinction which naturally and most uniquely defines the human
being.
Because definitions rule in the minds, behaviors, and institutions of men,
we can be confident that delineating and communicating that quality will
assist the process of resolution and the courageous ascension to which
man is called. As Americans of the 21st Century, we are obliged and
privileged to join our forebears and participate in this continuing
paradigm proclamation.
The way we define ‘human’ determines our view of self, others,
relationships, institutions, life, and future. Many problems in human
experience are the result of false and inaccurate definitions of humankind
premised in man-made religions and humanistic philosophies.
Human knowledge is a fraction of the whole universe. The balance is a vast
void of human ignorance. Human reason cannot fully function in such a void;
thus, the intellect can rise no higher than the criteria by which it perceives and
measures values.
Humanism makes man his own standard of measure. However, as with all
measuring systems, a standard must be greater than the value measured. Based
on preponderant ignorance and an egocentric carnal nature, humanism demotes
reason to the simpleton task of excuse-making in behalf of the rule of
appetites, desires, feelings, emotions, – and glands.
Because man, hobbled in an ego-centric predicament, cannot invent criteria
greater than himself, the humanist lacks a predictive capability. Thus, his
man-made criteria rises no higher than eyebrows – and too often, no higher
than pubic hair! Without instinct or transcendent criteria, humanism cannot
evaluate options with foresight and vision for progression and survival.
Lacking foresight, man is blind to potential consequence and is unwittingly
committed to mediocrity, collectivism, averages, and regression – and worse.
Humanism is an unworthy worship.
The void of human ignorance can easily be filled with a functional faith
while not-so-patiently awaiting the foot-dragging growth of human knowledge
and behavior. Faith, initiated by the Creator and revealed and validated in
His Word, the Bible, brings a transcendent standard to man the choice-maker.
Other philosophies and religions are man-made, humanism, and thereby lack
what only the Bible has:
1.Transcendent Criteria and
2.Fulfilled Prophetic Validation.
The vision of faith in God and His Word is survival equipment for today and
the future. Only the Creator, who made us in His own image, is qualified to
define us accurately.
Human is earth’s Choicemaker. Psalm 25:12 He is by nature and nature’s
God a creature of Choice – and of Criteria. Psalm 119:30,173 His unique and
definitive characteristic is, and of Right ought to be, the natural
foundation of his environments, institutions, and respectful relations to
his fellow-man. Thus, he is oriented to a Freedom whose roots are in the
Order of the universe. selah
At the sub-atomic level of the physical universe quantum physics indicates a
multifarious gap or division in the causal chain; particles to which
position cannot be assigned at all times, systems that pass from one energy
state to another without manifestation in intermediate states, entities
without mass, fields whose substance is as insubstantial as “a probability.”
Only statistical conglomerates pay tribute to deterministic forces.
Singularities do not and are therefore random, unpredictable, mutant, and in
this sense, uncaused. The finest contribution inanimate reality is capable
of making toward choice, without its own selective agencies, is this
continuing manifestation of opportunity as the pre-condition to choice it
defers to the natural action of living forms.
Biological science affirms that each level of life, single-cell to man
himself, possesses attributes of sensitivity, discrimination, and
selectivity, and in the exclusive and unique nature of each diversified life
form.
The survival and progression of life forms has all too often been dependent
upon the ever-present undeterminative potential and appearance of one unique
individual organism within the whole spectrum of a given life-form. Only the
uniquely equipped individual organism is, like The Golden Wedge of Ophir,
capable of traversing the causal gap to survival and progression. Mere
reproductive determinacy would have rendered life forms incapable of such
potential.
Only a moving universe of opportunity plus choice enables the present
reality.
Each individual human being possesses a unique, highly developed, and
sensitive perception of variety. Thus aware, man is endowed with a natural
capability for enacting internal mental and external physical selectivity.
Quantitative and qualitative choice-making thus lends itself as the superior
basis of an active intelligence.
Human is earth’s Choicemaker. His title describes his definitive and
typifying characteristic. Recall that his other features are but vehicles of
experience intent on the development of perceptive awareness and the
following acts of decision and choice. Note that the products of man cannot
define him for they are the fruit of the discerning choicemaking process and
include the cognition of self, the utility of experience, the development of
value measuring systems and language, and the acculturation of
civilization.
The arts and the sciences of man, as with his habits, customs, and
traditions, are the creative harvest of his perceptive and selective powers.
Creativity, the creative process, is a choice-making process. His articles,
constructs, and commodities, however marvelous to behold, deserve neither
awe nor idolatry, for man, not his contrivance, is earth’s own highest
expression of the creative process.
Human is earth’s Choicemaker. The sublime and significant act of choosing
is, itself, the Archimedean fulcrum upon which man levers and redirects the
forces of cause and effect to an elected level of quality and diversity.
Further, it orients him toward a natural environmental opportunity, freedom,
and bestows earth’s paradigm title, The Choicemaker, on his singular and
plural brow.
In the Bible, God’s Word has accurately defined the human being as
‘the earth creature endowed with the ability to choose.’ His natural Rights,
therefore, are merely an extension and application of natural human
endowments, which all humans – everywhere in the world – possess.
Even as goldfish, canaries, and puppy dogs require an environment
based on their natural features, so humans require external freedom
to fulfill their natural internal abilities of decision, choice, selection,
election, and consent. Uniquely, America was founded on this definitive
paradigm in human nature. All nations should reject foundational human
opinion that teaches otherwise.
Deterministic systems, ideological symbols of abdication by man from his
natural role as earth’s Choicemaker, inevitably degenerate into
collectivism; the negation of singularity, they become a conglomerate
plural-based system of measuring human value. Blunting an awareness of
diversity, blurring alternatives, and limiting the selective creative
process, they are self-relegated to a passive and circular regression.
Tampering with man’s selective nature endangers his survival for it would
render him impotent and obsolete by denying the tools of variety,
individuality, perception, criteria, selectivity, and progress. Coercive
attempts produce revulsion, for such acts are contrary to an indeterminate
nature and nature’s indeterminate off-spring, man the Choicemaker.
Until the oppressors discover that wisdom only just begins with a respectful
acknowledgment of The Creator, The Creation, and The Choicemaker, they will
be ever learning but never coming to a knowledge of the truth. The rejection of
Creator-initiated standards relegates the mind of man to its own primitive,
empirical, and delimited devices. It is thus that the human intellect cannot
ascend and function at any level higher than the criteria by which it
perceives and measures values.
Additionally, such rejection of transcendent criteria self-denies man the
vision and foresight essential to decision-making for survival and
progression. He is left, instead, with the redundant wreckage of expensive
hind sight, including human institutions characterized by averages,
mediocrity, and regression.
Humanism, mired in the circular and mundane egocentric predicament, is
ill-equipped to produce transcendent criteria. Evidenced by those who do not
perceive superiority and thus find themselves beset by the shifting winds of
the carnal-ego; i.e., moods, feelings, desires, appetites, etc., the mind
becomes subordinate: a mere device for excuse-making and rationalizing
self-justification.
The carnal-ego rejects criteria and self-discipline for such instruments are
tools of the mind and the attitude. The appetites of the flesh have no need
of standards for at the point of contention standards are perceived as
alien, restrictive, and inhibiting. Yet, the very survival of our physical
nature itself depends upon a maintained sovereignty of the mind and of the
spirit.
It remained, therefore, to the initiative of a personal and living Creator
to traverse the human horizon and fill the vast void of human ignorance
with an intelligent and definitive faith. Man is thus afforded the prime
tool of the intellect – a Transcendent Standard by which he may measure
values in experience, anticipate results, and make enlightened and visionary
choices.
Only the unique and superior God-man Person can deservedly displace the
ego-person from his predicament and free the individual to measure values
and choose in a more excellent way. That sublime Person was indicated in the
words of the prophet Amos, “…said the Lord, Behold,
I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel.” Y’shua Mashiyach
Jesus said, “If I be lifted up I will draw all men unto myself.”
As long as some choose to abdicate their personal reality and submit to the
delusions of humanism, determinism, and collectivism, just so long will they
be subject and re-acting only, to be tossed by every impulse emanating from
others. Those who abdicate such reality may, in perfect justice, find
themselves weighed in the balances of their own choosing.
That human institution which is structured on the principle, “…all men are
endowed by their Creator with…Liberty…,” is a system with its roots in
the natural Order of the universe. The opponents of such a system are
necessarily engaged in a losing contest with nature and nature’s God.
Biblical principles are still today the foundation under Western
Civilization and the American way of life. To the advent of a new season we
commend the present generation and the “multitudes in the valley of
decision.”
Let us proclaim it. Behold!
The Season of Generation-Choicemaker

Jim Baxter
Jim Baxter
12 years ago

CONTEMPORARY COMMENTS
“I should think that if there is one thing that man has learned about
himself it is that he is a creature of choice.” Richard M. Weaver
“Man is a being capable of subduing his emotions and impulses; he can
rationalize his behavior. He arranges his wishes into a scale, he chooses;
in short, he acts. What distinguishes man from beasts is precisely that he
adjusts his behavior deliberately.” Ludwig von Mises
“To make any sense of the idea of morality, it must be presumed that the
human being is responsible for his actions and responsibility cannot be
understood apart from the presumption of freedom of choice.” John
Chamberlain
“The advocate of liberty believes that it is complementary of the orderly
laws of cause and effect, of probability and of chance, of which man is not
completely informed. It is complementary of them because it rests in part
upon the faith that each individual is endowed by his Creator with the power
of individual choice.” Wendell J. Brown
“These examples demonstrate a basic truth — that human dignity is embodied
in the free choice of individuals.” Condoleeza Rice
“Our Founding Fathers believed that we live in an ordered universe. They
believed themselves to be a part of the universal order of things. Stated
another way, they believed in God. They believed that every man must find
his own place in a world where a place has been made for him. They sought
independence for their nation but, more importantly, they sought freedom for
individuals to think and act for themselves. They established a republic
dedicated to one purpose above all others – the preservation of individual
liberty…” Ralph W. Husted
“We have the gift of an inner liberty so far-reaching that we can choose
either to accept or reject the God who gave it to us, and it would seem to
follow that the Author of a liberty so radical wills that we should be
equally free in our relationships with other men. Spiritual liberty
logically demands conditions of outer and social freedom for its
completion.” Edmund A. Opitz
“Above all I see an ability to choose the better from the worse that has
made possible life’s progress.” Charles Lindbergh
“Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for oneself the
alternatives of Choice. Without the possibility of Choice, and the exercise
of Choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.”
Thomas Jefferson

Jim Baxter
Jim Baxter
12 years ago

THE QUESTION AND THE ANSWER
Q: “What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You
visit him?” Psalm 8:4
A: “I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set
before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that
both you and your descendants may live.” Deuteronomy 30:19
Q: “Lord, what is man, that You take knowledge of him? Or the son of man,
that you are mindful of him?” Psalm 144:3
A: “And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves
this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served
that were on the other side of the river, or the gods of the Amorites, in
whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
Joshua 24:15
Q: “What is man, that he could be pure? And he who is born of a woman, that
he could be righteous?” Job 15:14
A: “Who is the man that fears the Lord? Him shall He teach in the way he
chooses.” Psalm 25:12
Q: “What is man, that You should magnify him, that You should set Your heart
on him?” Job 7:17
A: “Do not envy the oppressor and choose none of his ways.” Proverbs 3:31
Q: “What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You take
care of him?” Hebrews 2:6
A: “I have chosen the way of truth; your judgments I have laid before me.”
Psalm 119:30 “Let Your hand become my help, for I have chosen Your
precepts.”Psalm 119:173
References:
Genesis 3:3,6 Deuteronomy 11:26-28; 30:19 Job 5:23 Isaiah 7:14-15; 13:12;
61:1 Amos 7:8 Joel 3:14 Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 Psalms 25:12 119:1-176
DEDICATION
Sir Isaac Newton
The greatest scientist in human history, a Bible-Believing Christian, an
authority on the Bible’s Book of Daniel, committed to individual value and
individual liberty

JJ
JJ
12 years ago

Ah, those Wacky Paki’s again…….there’s a story in Heaven is For Real, about a little girl who has a NDE, brought up without any religious exposure, who sees Jesus; I wonder if there are any true accounts of Muslims having NDE’s and what they see? 72 Virgins?

al-Kidya
al-Kidya
12 years ago

“Until the oppressors discover that wisdom only just begins with a respectful
acknowledgment of The Creator, The Creation, and The Choicemaker, they will
be ever learning but never coming to a knowledge of the truth.”

There is no mind altering of an Islamist. Their minds are altered at birth to recite the Qur’an over and over until their little minds are full of hatred for all Infidels and Jews.
The psychotic mindset is already in play and unalterable. The only solution for this mental illness is paradise for the devout Muslim believer.
If the Supreme Muslim Council in Pakstan decide to ban the Bible then I believe it is up to the western nations to counter with a banning of their trash-can worthy Qur’an. We should also ban the entire Sunnah of Islam. Damn their blasphemy charges.
Islamists are the illegitimate thieves of the quest for knowledge and advancement.

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