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Pakistan: ‘Heavy police contingent’ arrests Ahmadis on blasphemy charge for allegedly burning pages of Qur’an

Aug 22, 2024 8:30 am By Robert Spencer

The lives of the accused men are now in serious danger, for in Pakistan, the accusation is enough to enflame angry mobs. Often Muslims use blasphemy charges to settle scores or gain an advantage over a member of a minority community. Pakistan’s blasphemy laws are an international disgrace, but no one cares, as stories about it don’t fit the media paradigm in which Muslims are always victims.

Ahmadi man held, three booked on blasphemy charge in Narowal

Dawn, August 21, 2024:

NAROWAL: Narowal police arrested an Ahmadi man and registered a case against three other members of his community on the charge of burning pages of the Holy Quran. (I really want to misspell Holy here, but I dare not!) 

A local leader of the Jamaat Ahle Sunnat Pakistan at village Dharg Miana of Narowal district told police he was present at a mosque in the village square on Monday night when he heard a noise. When he came out, he saw four men allegedly burning some papers on a garbage heap.

He claimed that he and other locals turned on the lights of the mobile phones and saw the pages of the Holy Quran had been set on fire. He said the four men who burned the pages had fled from the spot. He said information was immediately given to police emergency 15.

On receiving the information, a heavy police contingent reached the spot and recorded the evidence as well as statements of the eyewitnesses.

On the request of a member of the religious outfit, police registered a case against four members of the Ahmadiyya community, identified by him….

Pakistan’s top court withdraws part of ruling about Ahmadis’ rights after Islamists vowed protests

Associated Press, August 22, 2024:

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday removed a controversial part of its recent verdict concerning minority Ahmadis, apparently yielding to criticism from religious groups and clerics who had threatened nationwide protests.

Not to mention, threatening the life of the Supreme Court Justice. 

The ruling was quickly praised by Islamists who had earlier sought the resignation of the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Qazi Faez Esa, for his alleged support for the minority Ahmadi community.

Pakistan’s Parliament declared Ahmadis non-Muslims in 1974. Since then, they have been repeatedly targeted by Islamic extremists, drawing condemnation from domestic and international human rights groups.

The controversy began in February when the court overturned the conviction of Mubarak Sani, a member of the Ahmadi community who had been convicted by another court in 2021 on charges of insulting Islam.

Initially the Supreme Court ruling went unnoticed but last month Zaheerul Islam, a deputy chief of the Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan party, was arrested after he issued a call for the killing of the chief justice over his alleged support for the Ahmadis….

 

Pakistani Muslims hate Ahmadis enough to murder them - Ahmadis are Muslims

 

Pakistan: Muslim leader offers $36,000 to anyone who

beheads Supreme Court Chief Justice for supporting Ahmadis

Aug 4, 2024 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer

This is why we don’t see more genuine Islamic reform, or sincere and trustworthy reformers. Those who actually stand against Islamic orthodoxy, or who are perceived as doing so, are putting their lives in danger.

Pakistan arrests radical Islamist leader for placing bounty on chief justice

by Ayaz Gul, Voice of America, July 29, 2024:

ISLAMABAD — Police in central Pakistan on Monday arrested a leader of a far-right Islamist party on charges of ordering the assassination of the country’s top judge over his alleged support for minority Ahmadis.

Zaheerul Hassan Shah, deputy chief of Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan, or TLP, was taken into custody under the anti-terrorism law in Punjab, the country’s most populous province, according to an official police complaint.

The arrest came a day after Shah was seen in a viral video on social media announcing to a crowd of TLP supporters that he would personally give 10 million rupees ($36,000) to anyone who beheads Supreme Court Chief Justice Qazi Faez Esa.

The radical leader delivered the speech in the provincial capital of Lahore, accusing the 65-year-old top judge of “desecrating the law of the country.”

The rally was one of a series of public gatherings organized by TLP in recent days in parts of Pakistan to condemn Esa for granting bail to a member of the minority Ahmadi community, who was accused of posting material against Islam on social media.

Hours before Shah’s arrest, the federal defense minister told reporters in the national capital, Islamabad, that the government would sternly deal with those making false allegations against the chief justice and issuing death threats in the name of the Islamic religion.

“No group can incite violence in the name of faith or politics. We will use the full force of the law to bring them to justice,” Khawaja Asif said. “The state will not allow you to issue a fatwa [decree] to kill someone,” he added….

I wonder how long Asif has to live? 

Ahmadi Muslims follow the same holy scriptures and teachings as other Muslims. The key difference is that Ahmadi Muslims believe that the Promised Messiah (also referred to as the Mahdi in some texts) of the latter days has arrived and he established the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in 1889. It is a revivalist movement that has no new religious laws or teachings as it seeks to rejuvenate the true Islam as taught by the Holy Prophet Muhammad(sa). Other Muslims are still waiting for a reformer to come.

Apparently, the differences are significant enough to some Muslim sects that they are worth murdering for. But, of course, life is cheap in Islam.

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