[ April 23, 2024 ]
It isn’t just in Pakistan. Western elites strictly adhere to and enforce the blasphemy laws under the sharia. They attack those of us, like me, who refuse to submit to the most savage and extreme ideology on the face of the earth. Because our stand in defense of freedom shows them to be the craven quislings that they are. They won’t depict Muhammad or say a cross word about that mass murderer, but they viciously attack decent Americans who stand in defense of freedom.
“If religious freedom’s a process, why not name the elephant in the room?,” by John L. Allen Jr., Crux, February 6, 2019:
ROME – One way to measure the real nature of struggles over religious freedom in the Islamic world is by the kind of person who would show up in the United Arab Emirates over the last three days, joining Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar in Egypt for a massive interreligious paean to peace, love and tolerance.
Story continues below advertisementThere were more than 700 religious leaders on hand, and Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi, a well-known Muslim cleric from Pakistan, is a good example of the kind of crowd the event drew.
Ashrafi is known as a “liberal” cleric in his native country, the kind of religious leader who condemns extremism and stands for tolerance and acceptance and who’s been awarded a presidential honor for the defense of peace and human rights. So real are those commitments that there was recently a push in the Pakistan Ulema Council, the main body of Islamic clerics in the country, to expel him and replace him with someone more traditional.
Certainly, Ashrafi said all the right things in Abu Dhabi in terms of the event’s official talking points.
“All religious leaders today are saying that religion doesn’t have anything to do with extremism and terrorism,” he said.
“I think the UAE has achieved a great victory, because today a message is going from the UAE to the whole world that we are Muslims, Christians, Jews and other religious people, united for brotherhood of human beings against those using the name of religion for his personal cause and personal needs,” he said.
All that is encouraging, offering a classic example of the “other face” of Islam.
Yet even such an enlightened cleric as Ashrafi defended his nation’s notorious blasphemy laws, which envisions death sentences for perceived outrages against religious figures, texts and beliefs – and what’s most telling is why.
“Because of the blasphemy laws, thousands of people have been saved,” Ashrafi insisted. “If the law weren’t there, I tell you, it’s possible that I speak blasphemy you’ll kill me, or if you do it I’ll kill you.”
He cited the well-known 2012 case of a Christian girl named Rishma, who was 14 years old at the time and who suffers from a mental disability. She was arrested under the blasphemy laws after reports that she had burned pages from a Koran, and theoretically faced execution. After the case was reviewed, and in light of her condition, she was released.
“With the law, there can be negotiations,” Ashrafi said. “She was released because of the blasphemy law.”
That, in a nutshell, is the problem: A respected and clearly moderate Islamic cleric – the kind of guy, after all, happy to be seen with a pope – nevertheless is saying that in one of the world’s flagship Muslim nations, religious sensitivities are so extreme that if the civil law didn’t punish perceived acts of blasphemy, vigilante violence would be ungovernable….
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13 Comments
5 years ago
Muhammadism is moderate to the extreme.
When someone is about to be stoned to death, no big stones are recommended, just moderate ones.
Not all Jews & Jesuists are to be killed, if they pay the Jizya-extortion tax reserved for these two groups.
5 years ago
Left/Liberal loons support these hell hounds
And Macron threatens Hungary , poland for not selling out their countries to islamonazis
like he and his party has been doing in france https://tinyurl.com/y6vlqtwq
what’s wrong with these lunatics ?
5 years ago
I hate Islamic blasphemy laws. In Islamic nations like Pakistan, blasphemy laws are used as an excuse to murder Christians and other non muslims. Just look at the case of Asia Bibi, after 8 years there are Muslims who want Asia Bibi dead. Islam is an evil ideology for this, Jihad, and other things.
5 years ago
Allah is SATAN in disguise.
Don’t be fooled.
Copying CHRISTIAN terminology won’t work with me.
I am “saved” FROM Islam.
A Ummah or Empire of Islam is their goal.
5 years ago
The entirety of Islam’s fundamentalism, its tenets, the Qu’ran are built brick by brick, lie by lie. Imagine the dullards that are taking word for word as the truth and this cleric. He is but one of copious disseminators of outlandish hatred, antisemitism, barbarity and perversion to the ignorant masses.
It reminds me of the Democrat/leftists, who deem themselves the intelligentsia, duping the wannabe revolutionaries and possible, the eventual proletariat of America.
5 years ago
I think this report reminds me of someone else. Do you know who? Can’t guess right?
It’s the nobel prize winner and known for human rights advocacy, malala yousafzai, in a interview she said that
“the more you speak against islam and against all muslims, the more terrorists it will create”
and she was from pakistan. I’m not kidding, she actually said that. I have video proof that showing she said that, and if I knew how to upload the video in disqus’s comment section without a link I would upload that.
5 years ago
LOL…..get a “LOAD” of this guy! World’s FATTEST MOSLEM!!
Must be Stacey Abrams eating partner when they go the The Golden Corral!
5 years ago
Reply to
ace wheeler
Yes! Has anyone noticed that many if not most Muslim Imams and other clerics seem to be very overweight, while a great many of ordinary Muslims look slim or under nourished?
5 years ago
The networks that ‘fat-shamed’ Trump about his BMI last week need to get a load of this fella. Pity Muslims have an aversion to pork because this Fat Bastard wouldn’t want just the baby back ribs, he’d want the whole hog.
5 years ago
I read this several times and I still don’t understand what’s it about. I do know that the outcome of all this baloney will be WAR and not PEACE.
Sodomites getting together with pedophiles is NEVER a good thing. These two religions have so much BLOOD on their hands and they should be asking for forgiveness to the world and not about accepting each other. WTF??
5 years ago
Because of the 72 Virgins Dating Service providing Muslims with their ticket to hell, thousands of decent people have been saved.
5 years ago
Perhaps instead of preaching about Sharia laws, Ashface should be more concerned with cutting his daily calorie intake to about 5000 and not eating whole goats for lunch.
