... [T]he magistrate hearing the bail application dismissed it while there was a heavy presence of mullahs at the court premises.
Source/Credit: Ahmadiyya Times
By Imran Jattala | December 3, 2013
A bail application was denied today for the 72 years old Ahmadi doctor who has been languishing in a Pakistani jail since Monday, November 25th.
Dr Masood Ahmad, a British national, was arrested in Old Anarkali area of Lahore on blasphemy allegations for having read the translation of a verse from the Qur'an, the Muslim Holy Book.
The Defendant was later charged with the Ahmadi-specific portion of the Blasphemy Law - section 298-C of the Pakistan Penal Code - when an enraged mob showed up at the police station demanding charging Dr Masood for ‘posing as a Muslim.'
The mullahs presented a secretly recorded video as an evidence of the ‘crime’ showing Dr Masood referring to a Quranic verse while reading aloud its Urdu translation.
The local police accepted the video tape into evidence and later raided the defendant's clinic for additional 'objectionable materials.'
According to a Twitter post by the Ahmadiyya spokesperson in Pakistan, Mr Saleem-ud Din, 'the magistrate hearing the bail application dismissed it while there was a heavy presence of mullahs at the court premises.'
According to the laws of Pakistan it is a criminal act for an Ahmadi to read the Holy Qur'ān or act in a manner that may project the Ahmadī as 'posing as a Muslim.'
- Pakistan: Bail denied to Ahmadi doctor caught reading the Holy Qur'an
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crazy Mullahs of Pakistan on the prowl again...Can we have a Govt strong enough and willing to abolish these irrational laws and stand up to the Mullahs?
ReplyDeleteIgnoring the fact that the government has no right to declare anyone's religious status, is the Quran a book for an exclusive audience of readers?
ReplyDeleteeven christian scholars read the quran as part of research. this is bullshit. anyone can read the quran if they want.
ReplyDeleteThe muslim were very happy when a Hindu actor Amitabh Batchan started reading Quran.
ReplyDeleteDear Editor,
ReplyDeleteWASL. Please print news from the rest of the world and ignore Pakistan. When the Pakistanis are Educated enough to accept each other and we have positive news only than you should print the good news. You seem to enjoy printing only the bad news from Pakistan. Many of us have given up and left the country and your new only give us nightmares.
Yes, I like to read news from my home but your contents are too concentrated with the Pak-bad news. I may consider to stop reading the America Times.
Mullahs are not crazy...the are uneducated in secular ways. The must first get a collage degree and than go yo 'mullah training school'
ReplyDeleteMaybe it is time for the Ahmadis or Qadianis to publicly stop associating themselves with this particular faith. Why not create exact replicas of the holy book and call it by different name?
ReplyDeleteWhy endure the mass murders and boundless fanaticism if the majority do not want them in the first place?
This is what Bhutto quoted when he was himself accused of being non-Muslim in court by Mullahs...
ReplyDelete"...it (is) an acknowledged principle that the person who recites the Kalima is a Muslim, and no one has the right to call him a non-Muslim...Abu Sufyan, a great enemy of the Holy Prophet, was brought to him. He claimed to have recited the Kalima, but the Holy Prophet (P.B.U.H)said that as he had recited the Kalima, he was now a Muslim, and could not be harmed."