by Hugh Fitzgerald
At any moment you can be accused of blasphemy based on mere rumor - and beaten to death by a mob.
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Dennis Albert, a Pakistani Christian, has been charged with “blasphemy” because he happened to step on a few pages lying on the ground that turned out to have come from a Qur’an. His attorney, Asad Jamal, has defended others who were similarly accused. More on this can be found here: “Christian in Pakistan Jailed for Stepping on Papers in Street,” Morning Star News, June 18, 2024:
Jamal co-authored a fact-finding mission report of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) into the lynching of 74-year-old Nazeer Masih Gill in Sargodha on May 25.
Nazeer Masih Gill was attacked by a Muslim mob, and beaten to death, all because of a mere rumor that he had set fire to pages of the Qur’an. Does such an act seem likely? You know the answer to that.
Jamal, a Muslim, has defended several blasphemy suspects, including Junaid Hafeez, a former Fullbright scholar at Bahauddin Zakariya University in Multan who was sentenced to death on Dec. 21, 2019, after students accused him of insulting the Prophet Muhammad on social media in 2013.
Imran Albert said he has sent his family to Karachi to keep them from potential Islamist retaliation, and that he has lived with other relatives since his brother’s arrest.
“We live in the Qurban Lines area where two Christian boys were arrested and charged with blasphemy last year for allegedly insulting the prophet of Islam,” he said. “There was a lot of tension in our locality when the two were arrested, so I felt it would be safer not to stay in our rented house there. Though we have been very discreet about Dennis’s arrest, and very few people know about the case, I feel it’s best to find a new abode.”
In other words, Dennis Albert’s brother Imran is moving his family away — “to find a new abode”— in far-off Karachi, because of his fear that he, and his family, could also suffer a Muslim mob’s retribution for his brother’s claimed act of blasphemy. The hysteria of maddened Muslims knows few limits.
Adil Masih, 18, and 14-year-old Simon Nadeem Masih, were arrested and charged under Section 295-C of the blasphemy statutes on May 18, 2023, when Muslim policeman Zahid Sohail accused them of blasphemy against Prophet Muhammad.
The two Christians were engaged in light-hearted banter when Sohail attacked them, alleging that they were disrespecting Muhammad and then laughing over it. Section 295-C carries a mandatory death sentence for insulting the Muslim prophet….
Again we must ask: how likely is it that in the presence of a Muslim policeman, these two young Christians were “disrespecting” Muhammad — what might they have said? — and what’s more, “laughing over it”? It is much more likely that this policeman, consumed by a fanatical hatred of Christians, decided to fabricate the charge — “insulting the Muslim prophet” — a charge that, he was well aware, carried a mandatory death sentence.
What a constant nightmare it must be for Christians living in the Muslim hellhole of Pakistan! A place where at any moment, some malignant Muslim may accuse you of blasphemy on the flimsiest, or even nonexistence, of evidence, and based on a mere rumor, you may be beaten to death by a Muslim mob, or whisked off to jail, perhaps to be sentenced to life imprisonment for happening to step on some illegible pages on the pavement that turn to have been torn from a Qur’an. Yet no students in the Western world have ever gathered on campuses, or in street demonstrations, to protest this deadly persecution of Pakistani Christians by Pakistani Muslims. The protesters shouting “from the river to the sea” and “ Intifada Now” only have time, it seems, to protest the putative sins — “apartheid,” “ethnic cleansing,” and “genocide” — of the tiny Jewish state, that the shouters insist has no right to exist and, if justice is to be served, must disappear, to be replaced by a 23rd Arab state. What explains this fixation on, and hideous nonstop calumniation of, tiny Israel, as it fights for its very survival, and the complete indifference shown to the ongoing Arab massacres of blacks in the Sudan, to the Muslims tormenting Christians in Pakistan, to the hundreds of thousands of black slaves of Arab masters in Mauritania, Mali, and Niger? Could it be anything other than antisemitism?
Hugh Fitzgerald
Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/christians-constant-nightmare-in-pakistan/
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