Dipanker wrote:Take a look at these neanderthals, they want to hang a poor women for being christian.
Religious parties threaten protest in blasphemy case
LAHORE: Religious parties have warned the Pakistan People’s Party government, especially Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer, of a rigorous protest drive if they try to release the woman convicted of blasphemy
Activists of Jamaat-e-Ahl-e-Sunnat stage demonstration in support of their demands outside press club Lahore on Wednesday. – Online Photo
The Minister for Minorities Affairs in Pakistan, Mr. Bhatti, was reported to have said that Blasphemy Law cannot be repealed but it can be amended so that frivolous accusations like in this case of this Christian woman did not happen.
Mr. Bhatti, being a non-Muslim, must now worry about his dear life. He has already committed Blasphemy by speaking of amending a law that has been found to be in compliance with the Shariat by a body no less than the CII (Council of Islamic Ideology). Remember that all laws in Islamic Pakistan have to comply with the Shariat and the CII is the certifying authority ?
No less than Gen. Musharraf promised his Western donors that he would repeal the Blasphemy & Hudood Laws. But, he could not so much as raise his little finger. In April 2000, Gen. Musharraf announced a new procedure for filing FIR in blasphemy cases which required a magistrate to certify that a prima-facie case existed before acceptance of the FIR by the police. Within a month, he had to rescind the order under pressure from the clergy.
In the recently enacted 18th Amendment which made wholesale changes to various laws and which was unanimously passed by the National Assembly, there was not even an attempt to touch these two provisions of law.
In 1991, the Federal Shariah Court struck down a provision of the Blasphemy Law that allowed life imprisonment instead of death for acts of blasphemy and opined that only death was permissible under the Islamic shariah. When Ms Benazir Bhutto criticized this ruling, a fatwa was issued in 1992 by the then Religious Affairs minister of Pakistan, Maulana Abdul Sattar Niazi, who was also an Islamic cleric, calling her a
kafir for acting in an unIslamic way. . In
c. 1997, a judge of the Lahore High Court, Arif Iqbal Hussain Bhatti, was assassinated in his chambers for releasing two prisoners accused of blasphemy.
The Human Rights Council of Pakistan (HRCP) estimates that the number of blasphemers booked under the infamous Blasphemy Law far exceeds those punished for the same crime in the entire 1400 year old history of Islam.
Forget about it Mr. Bhatti, go and hide yourself somewhere and now because your namesake and that too a Judge of the Lahore High Court was murdered in the court itself.
