Pakistan: ‘It is acceptable to murder blasphemers in cold blood,’ says Islamist cleric

The cleric decried lack of enforcement of the blasphemy laws in Pakistan, suggesting the failure resulted in the Faisalabad incident where two Christian clergymen were murdered in cold blood at the courthouse steps after being released from blasphemy related detention.

Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | Int'l Desk
Sources: Multiple | July 21, 2010
By Ahmadiyya Times | Staff

KARACHI - There is no cruelty in killing those who insult the prophethood of the Holy Founder of Islam, Prophet Mohammad, says the Sind chief of the worldwide Khatm-e Nubuwat movement in Pakistan.

According to an Urdu daily newspaper, Jasarat, the Pakistani cleric, Allama Ahmad Mian Hamadi scolded Shahbaz Bhatti, the Federal Minister for the Minority Affair in Pakistan for being sympathetic to the congregation and families of the two Christians murdered in Faisalabad two days ago.

The cleric issued a dare to Minister Bhatti with a death threat, accusing the Minister for being guilty of blasphemous actions himself by being sympathetic to the Christians.


“The killing of those accused of blasphemy is OK because the act of blasphemy is far too heinous – so heinous that the accused loses the right to live,” explained cleric Hamadi.

Mullah Hamadi demanded immediate removal of the Federal Minister from the government because of his failure to secure punishment for the Christian pastors who were accused of blasphemy.

The cleric decried lack of enforcement of the blasphemy laws in Pakistan, suggesting the failure resulted in the Faisalabad incident where two Christian clergymen were murdered in cold blood at the courthouse steps after being released from blasphemy related detention.

“It is the courts’ responsibility to use and implement blasphemy laws, not of the public,” said the Khatm-e Nubuwwat leader. “The Muslims [who killed Christians] were only forced into action by the courts’ failure.”

Another extremist leader of the Khatm-e Nubuwat movement in Punjab, Allama Ehstsam Elahi Zahir issued a video threat pledging street violence if the Pakistani Government will not force the Ahmadiyya Community from professing Islam as their faith.

“We will create the 1973 [sic] like conditions and bring about agitation in streets of Pakistan,” the cleric challenged the government in his video tirade.

“Are you ready and prepared to take it to the streets and give up your lives for this cause?” the cleric sought and received pledge from the congregation present at the mosque.

“There is just no compromise in the matter of Qadians [Ahmadis] desiring to be known as Muslims,” Zaheer stressed.

“Mubashir Luqman is hell-bound for accommodating this,” the cleric complained about a TV Talk show anchor where an Ahmadi leader professed to be a Muslim, according to the cleric.

It is against the law in Pakistan for an Ahmadi to call himself a Muslim. The Anti-Ahmadiyya ordinace was made part of the wider Blasphemy statute of the Penal Code.



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Read Urdu source here: Jasarat