Man Jailed for Life in Blasphemy Case in Karachi
International Christian Concern, August 31, 2024
8/31/2024 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) — On Thursday, a sessions court in Karachi sentenced Ali Hyder to life imprisonment for desecrating the Holy Quran in 2021. Additional District and Sessions Judge (East) Shahid Ali Memon found the accused guilty, ruling that the prosecution had convincingly proven the charge of defiling copies of the Quran under Section 295-B of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC).
“All the prime witnesses had fully supported the case regarding the date of offense, time of the offense, arrest of accused, seizure of property, etc. In other words, it can safely be said that all the witnesses, including the complainant, had corroborated each other, and the learned defense counsel made cross-examination upon them, but he has not been able to cause any dent to their evidence,” the judge said.
Hyder was accused of desecrating the pages of the Quran. A complaint was filed, and he was arrested shortly after. During the trial, the prosecution presented eight witnesses and contended that the evidence against Hyder was overwhelming and called for a conviction.
The defense pointed out an unexplained delay in filing the complaint and noted that no members of the public had reported the incident to the police that day….
Houthis hit another ship — $1 trillion in goods
passing through the Red Sea now disrupted
The Greek vessel, still burning, was described as a “an environmental nuclear bomb.” The Houthis released a video of themselves setting off the blaze after boarding and placing explosives on the ship, and shouting “death to America; death to Israel; curse the Jews.” Fortunately, there was no oil spill.
Little is being reported by the mainstream media about the devastating economic fallout from the Iran-backed Houthi jihadists. They have already disrupted the flow of a trillion dollars in goods.
Last month, Maersk CEO Vincent Clerc warned customers of “challenging” months ahead for carriers and shippers due to the Red Sea Houthi attacks.
The Red Sea is a critically important route for companies that are shipping goods from Asia to Europe. It accounts for about “15% of total global sea trade.” Due to the Houthis, those goods are now costing more to ship and are taking longer to arrive as the ships face attacks. This translates into higher prices for Western consumers in already bad economies.
The attack marks the latest in a series of strikes by the Iranian-backed Houthis that have disrupted the flow of $1 trillion in goods passing through the Red Sea annually.
A suspected attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels targeted a ship in the Red Sea on Monday, just north of the area where crews are attempting to salvage a tanker loaded with oil and still ablaze after an earlier assault by the group, authorities said.
The attack marks the latest in a series of strikes by the Iranian-backed Houthis that have disrupted the flow of $1 trillion in goods passing through the Red Sea annually and halted some aid shipments to Sudan and Yemen. The group has targeted over 80 vessels with missiles and drones since Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza began in October.…
Surely there must be a way for somebody to take these Houthis out, or is it necessary to take Iran out first? Devout Muslims, if they are not killing people, they seem to have to be destroying something.
Sin is progressive! Islam is also progressive - it tends toward becoming more and more radical, dangerous, descructive, and unholy.
Pakistan: Islamic party riots, demands that government
ban marches calling for rights for religious minorities
“Islam must dominate, and not be dominated.” — Hasan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood
Officials in Pakistan Attempt to Ban Rights March Organizers
Morning Star News, August 29, 2024 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Sindh Province officials are trying to impose a ban on organizers of a minority rights march under pressure from an extremist Islamist party opposed to any changes in Pakistan’s harsh blasphemy laws, sources said.
In an official letter to the Commissioner of Karachi Division on Friday (Aug. 23), the Sindh Home Department stated that the organizers of the Minorities Rights March held on the Aug. 11 National Minorities Day had violated their responsibility “to uphold religious harmony and respect interfaith boundaries.”
“The SSP [Senior Superintendent of Police] has recommended that the NOC [No Objection Certificate] granted to Mr. [Luke] Victor and his associates may be prohibited from organizing any future events for violating the said code of conduct to prevent any potential law and order issues,” states the letter viewed by Christian Daily International-Morning Star News.
Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) and other Islamist parties, including the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam and Sunni Tehreek, had earlier threatened the Sindh government with unrest if it allowed the minorities rights march on Aug. 11. The government initially withdrew the NOC granted to march organizers in Karachi but later allowed them to hold a gathering after protests against the decision.
Hundreds of TLP workers on Friday (Aug. 23) clashed with police outside the office of the Sindh Police Inspector General, demanding that a case be registered against march organizers for allegedly spreading “fake propaganda” against Section 295-C of Pakistan’s widely condemned blasphemy statutes. The law carries a mandatory death penalty for disrespecting Islam’s prophet, Muhammad.
The TLP workers attacked policemen with stones, injuring several officers, and were dispersed only after senior police officials vowed that NOCs for such marches would not be given in the future….
Bangladesh releases chief of jihad terror outfit
Ansarullah Bangla Team and lifts ban on
jihad group Jamaat e Islami
Thinking that Bangladesh’s political crisis was initiated by a mere student protest expressing outrage against a random policy introduced by the Hasina government would be naïve and unwise. The uprising was fueled by Islamic organizations with the goal of making Bangladesh the new cradle of jihad in South Asia. Bangladesh’s interim government has placed Muhammed Yunus in the role of leader as a sham to camouflage their jihadist and supremacist ambitions; the ruling group already has pro-jihad ministers, introduced as advisors who play vital roles in influencing the administrative machinery.
In one of their first steps towards extending a warm embrace to Islamic jihad, the newly-formed government released the Ansarullah Bangla Team chief, Mufti Jashimuddin Rahmani, on bail from a Kashimur jail on Wednesday, August 18. The Ansarullah Bangla Team is an Al-Qaeda-inspired jihad group now known as Ansar al Islam. Its chief was convicted of the murder of architect and blogger Rajib Haider in 2013. Haider was hacked to death in front of his house in February 2013, and Rahmani was arrested in connection to this killing six months later. He was also accused of four other cases under the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act and Anti-Terrorism Act in Bangladesh. On Sunday, Rahmani was granted bail in an Anti-Terrorism Act case, and all other cases against him were also withdrawn.
The release of Mufti Jashimuddin gave us a sneak peek into the future Bangladesh has chosen for itself. And so it did not come as a surprise when the current ruling group went further on its jihadi path and officially lifted the ban on another jihad group, Jamaat-e-Islami, and its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir. The home ministry also issued a notification stating that there was no evidence of Jamaat-e-Islami, Islami Chhatra Shibir, or their associate bodies being involved in violence, thus acquitting these organizations of all accusations and charges without any conclusive investigation or judicial proceedings.
Sheikh Hasina banned both these organizations at the peak of the students’ movement on August 1; four days later, her government was toppled, and she was forced to flee to India. The following day, over 2200 members of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Jamaat-e-Islami were granted bail by Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Courts. But this was not the first time the Islamic outfit courted controversy. Once the country’s largest Islamic party, the Jamaat was taken out of running in elections after a Bangladesh court in 2013 declared it illegal. The ruling came in after it was observed that the Jamaat’s charter breached the “secular spirit” of Bangladesh’s constitution.
Jamaat-e-Islami was founded by Muslim Brotherhood prodigy Sayyid Abul A’la Maududi with the agenda of “bringing the world under the flag of Islam,” and was an active cohort of Pakistani forces during Bangladesh’s Liberation War in 1971. It had a crucial role in forming several of the Pakistani army’s auxiliary forces, such as Razakar, Al-Shams Al-Badr, and the Peace Committee, that committed heinous atrocities against Hindu freedom fighters during the Liberation movement. They massacred Hindu men and children and raped Hindu women and girls in the hundreds of thousands.
The citizenship of prominent JeI leader and war criminal Ghulam Azam was canceled by the first president of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Azam fled to Pakistan and tried to win the patronage of Saudi Arabia, asserting that Muslims in Bangladesh were in danger as the Hindu minority were killing them and burning their properties. He collected large donations from the Middle East to defend “endangered Islam” in Bangladesh. The JeI returned to Bangladesh in its full strength after the assassination of Mujibur in 1975. Soon after the end of the military rule in Bangladesh in 1990, Azam’s Bangladeshi passport was reinstated, and the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, during pro-JeI, BNP matriarch Khaleda Zia’s tenure, granted him the freedom to resume his political career.
While the JeI is recognized as a terror organization and is banned in Russia and India, it is known for maintaining close links with many Islamic jihad groups, including Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and the Muslim Brotherhood. It built its presence in parts of Europe since the 1960s and has gradually gained prominence in the United States. The Islamic Circle of North America, which seeks to propagate Islam and promote the Islamic way of life among American Muslims, has strong links with the JeI.
The Islamic group has been wreaking havoc on the streets of Bangladesh since the fall of the Hasina government, and terrorizing minority communities, particularly the Hindus. Speaking to Indian media, the Hindus in Bangladesh stated that Jamaat-e-Islami members were listing the names of Hindu businesses and houses and blocking roads so that the Hindus couldn’t escape.
As predicted after the coup of Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh is becoming more radical by the day. Nothing good can come out of this.
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