Asia Bibi
A hardline, pro-Taliban Pakistani Muslim cleric Friday offered a reward for anyone who kills a Christian woman sentenced to death by a court on charges of insulting Islam.The sentence against Asia Bibi has renewed debate about Pakistan’s blasphemy law which critics say is used to persecute religious minorities, fan religious extremism and settle personal scores. Non-Muslim minorities account roughly 4 percent of Pakistan’s about 170 million population.Maulana Yousef Qureshi, the imam of a major mosque in the northwestern city of Peshawar, offered a $5,800 (3,700 pounds) reward and warned the government against any move to abolish or change the blasphemy law.“We will strongly resist any attempt to repeal laws which provide protection to the sanctity of Holy Prophet Mohammad,” Qureshi told a rally of hardline Islamists.“Anyone who kills Asia will be given 500,000 rupees in reward from Masjid Mohabat Khan,” he said referring to his mosque.
Background:
- Pakistan: Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy.
- Pakistan: your signature to save Asia Bibi.
- Asia Bibi: Pope appeals for “full freedom“.
- Pakistan: Asia Bibi NOT pardoned, protests are announced in case she is.
- Pakistan: Both Minister of Minorities and Punjab Governor threatened by Islamists over Asia Bibi’s release.
4 comments:
We should just issue a congressional fatwa that any of these morons who do this, are on the Awlaki list, and have their own special MQ-9's always awake, aloft and looking.
The religion of pieces.
Bloody, bloody pieces.
Glad to see tolerance only goes one way. Not.
Epaminondas,
Too bad, if it does happen we may never know who did it.
In a civilized country this imam would be in prison. He's basically soliciting her murder.
Just goes to show how backwards they are.
In a civilized country this imam would be in prison. He's basically soliciting her murder.
I agree. That's why the people who are supporting this cleric are not only those who actually went to the demonstration.
Worrying as it is, the fact is that blasphemers have been killed normally after freed on bail or in jail, without nearly no MSM reporting on it. At least this has been reported even in MSNBC...
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