Sunni Ittehad Council warns of anarchy if Aasia pardoned

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Sunni Ittehad Council warns of anarchy if Aasia pardoned​

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s most influential Sunni Muslim alliance urged the government Friday not to pardon a Christian mother sentenced to death for blasphemy, warning that it would lead to nationwide anarchy.

Politicians and conservative clerics are at loggerheads on whether President Asif Ali Zardari should pardon Aasia Bibi, a mother of five sentenced to hang for defaming Prophet Mohammad under blasphemy laws.

While a growing number of moderate politicians have backed calls for clemency for Aasia, religious conservatives have organised a rival campaign.

“The pardon would lead to anarchy in the country,” the head of Sunni Ittehad Council, Sahibzada Fazal Kareem, told AFP.

“Our stand is very clear that this punishment cannot be waived.”

Kareem said that the alliance would lead protests nationwide on Friday against any moves to pardon Aasia.

The council opposes Taliban militants, which are fighting government troops in parts of northwest Pakistan, and has also organised a protest march against deadly attacks on Sufi shrines blamed on hardliners.

Rights activists say Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy law, under which the offence is punishable by death, encourages extremism in the country.

Minority affairs minister Shahbaz Bhatti presented a clemency plea to Zardari late Thursday on the grounds that the case against Aasia was based only on personal enmity.

Pope Benedict XVI has also called for Aasia’s release and said Christians in Pakistan were “often victims of violence and discrimination”.

Aasia was arrested in June 2009 after Muslim women labourers refused to drink from a bowl of water she was asked to fetch while out working in the fields.

Days later, the women complained that she made derogatory remarks about the Prophet Mohammed. Aasia was set upon by a mob, arrested by police and sentenced on November 8.

Rights activists and pressure groups say it is the first time that a woman had been sentenced to hang in Pakistan for blasphemy.

Only around three per cent of Pakistan’s population of 167 million are estimated to be non-Muslim.

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[CaptainJackSparrow]

Pak religious parties say pardoning blasphemy accused Christian woman 'unIslamic'

Lahore, Nov 24 (ANI): Religious parties in Pakistan have come down heavily on the PPP-led government, especially Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, for their 'anti-Islamic' attempts to pardon and exile blasphemy convict Asia Bibi to the United States, and demanded Taseer be immediately dismissed as governor, and punished in accordance with the law.

Various religious organisations held protest demonstrations and meetings condemning the PPP government and the secular lobby in the country, particularly Taseer, holding him part of the international conspiracy to amend the Blasphemy Law in Pakistan, The News reported.

Addressing a meeting, Jamaat e Islami Ameer Syed Munawar Hasan said that the PPP government and Taseer were trying to release the death convict Christian woman, Asia Bibi, and send her abroad in violation of the Islamic laws and the law of the land, in connivance with some foreign powers and secular NGOs, instead of adopting the legal procedure by filing an appeal against her death sentence.

He condemned the campaign by Taseer and the country's secular lobby for the release and exile of Asia, and said that it would prove to be the final nail in Zardari government's coffin, as the country would foil every conspiracy to abolish the Blasphemy (of the Holy Prophet) Law.

Besides some foreign powers, the secular lobby and the foreign funded NGOs having an anti-Islam and anti-Pakistan agenda are pressurising the Pakistan government for the release of the convicted woman, in a blatant interference in the country's judicial system and its internal affairs, Munawar said.

He argued why none of the human rights or women's rights bodies had made such moves to release Dr Aafia Siddiqui sentenced by a US court to 86 years for crimes she never committed.

Aalmi Tanzim Ahle Sunnat (ATAS) staged a demonstration outside the Lahore Press Club, condemning what they called a conspiracy to amend the Blasphemy Law and exile a blasphemy convict, saying that Taseer had committed a crime by flouting the Islamic punishment for blasphemy.

ATAS Chief Pir Afzal Qadri and other leaders challenged those terming the Blasphemy Law a creation of General Zia-ul Haq for a TV debate, arguing that the law was implemented by Holy Prophet (SAW) and Khulafa-e-Rashedin, and those who followed them for centuries.

Addressing a protest meeting, JUI-F Punjab Deputy Secretary General, Maulana Abubakar Chaudhry, warned against the western conspiracy to amend the Blasphemy Law, and argued that sacred personalities and ideals were protected by law in every country and society. (ANI)

Pak religious parties say pardoning blasphemy accused Christian woman 'unIslamic' - Oneindia News

 

[GentlemanObserver]

Jack im beginning to see a pattern with your posts. anyway i will bite the bait.

Personally i think these religious nut jobs need to get a life, chillax and drink so rooh afza

 

[Tayyab1796]

religious parties are usually the most hypocrate of the lot in Pakistan ... ordinary folks don't take them seriously though . Zardari's pardon is going to further diminish his popularity and enforce his status as a foreign stooge because we are talking about a convicted woman of blasphemy in a deeply conservative country.

 

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Jack im beginning to see a pattern with your posts. anyway i will bite the bait.

One sees what one wants to see.

Personally i think these religious nut jobs need to get a life, chillax and drink so rooh afza

Personally, I believe she should be hanged. It is not that I want so, but that is what your law states and not abiding by the law will send a wrong signal to others that you can break the law and get away with it.

 

[somebozo]

the biggest anarchy itself is the sunni itthad council..somebody shut and ban these buggers..or send them on fast trip to their future with 72 virgins!

Also the minorities should mind themselves as resident of an Islamic state they are not supposed to go around insulting the majority sentiments.

 

[GentlemanObserver]

Personally, I believe she should be hanged. It is not that I want so, but that is what your law states and not abiding by the law will send a wrong signal to others that you can break the law and get away with it.

Hanging her would send the wrong message, the prophet Mohammed (pbuh) does not need these bigots to protect his name.

Even when he was mocked, stoned, beaten. He never cursed the aggressors nor did he seek vengeance, he prayed for their forgiveness.

These so called Muslims clerics need to take a leaf out of his book.

Compassion is better than vengeance.

 

[Bang Galore]

One sees what one wants to see.



Personally, I believe she should be hanged. It is not that I want so, but that is what your law states and not abiding by the law will send a wrong signal to others that you can break the law and get away with it.

J
Personally i think these religious nut jobs need to get a life, chillax and drink so rooh afza

Jack has a point. Everyone is trying to get this woman pardoned because they don't want to directly confront the law itself. Either the law is good in which case people found guilty under it should face the punishment as laid down under the law or the law itself is fundamentally wrong & should be repealed. The law was not put on the statute books by the "religious nut jobs", others will have to take that blame.

 

[GentlemanObserver]

Jack has a point. Everyone is trying to get this woman pardoned because they don't want to directly confront the law itself. Either the law is good in which case people found guilty under it should face the punishment as laid down under the law or the law itself is fundamentally wrong & should be repealed. The law was not put on the statute books by the "religious nut jobs", others will have to take that blame.

Yar, everyone want the law repealed. Its only the blood crackpot looser who are still hiding in their caves who are moaning and groaning.

Agreeing with Jack's point is giving into the voice of fear and oppression and silencing the voice of reason... Is that what any nation state should do...

Get rid of this law just like Hudood Ordinance.

 

[Awesome]

I think Pakistan's media has a role to play and not become a mouthpiece for these nutjobs. Or at least only publish these comments in editorials which properly portray them as what they are, vicious murderers.

 

[pak-marine]

this itehad council are bunch of no good retards .. what mandate do they have to come and dictate their terms .... govt shud lock these morons for threatning peace this statement gives more than a reason to clamp down on these rats

 

[TARIQ BN ZIYAAD]

assalam alaikum,

There was column yesterday on the same topic by hamid meer ( jang news). According to him she confessed the blashemy.

Jang Group Online

TARIQ

 

[GentlemanObserver]

assalam alaikum,

There was column yesterday on the same topic by hamid meer ( jang news). According to him she confessed the blashemy.

Jang Group Online

TARIQ

Think about it for a minute. You hang her, not only do you take an innocent life you make a Marty out of her. Then what if 100 more Aasia's do the same, will you hang them too? What about 1000 or 100,000?

Some things require logic and some require emotion, this situation requires logic override our emotion, for the better outcome.

 

[Meengla]

Either the law is good in which case people found guilty under it should face the punishment as laid down under the law or the law itself is fundamentally wrong & should be repealed. The law was not put on the statute books by the "religious nut jobs", others will have to take that blame.

The Law was introduced by GENERAL Zia ul Haq during Martial Law and made part of the Constitution by the partially-representative Assemblies and that too after threatening even that Assembly.

Surely, this law would have not passed without the bigot Zia in place. Even Nawaz Sharif--who tried to be an Amir ul Mominoon--could not introduce 'Shariat Bill' because the legislators were far more independent by then.

A quick question to Indians: Would it not please you that Pakistan follows through and hang Ms. Asiya? I mean, the worse Pakistan looks internationally the more India gains? Call me a cynic but it is hard to escape such thoughts.

 

[TARIQ BN ZIYAAD]

assalam alaikum,

You think about it if a murderer confess he or she is punisthed according to the law, so first we wanna establish did this act happened from him or her or didnot and they were not accused wrongly . I was just pointing that she has committed a crime that is punishable. U also think if somebody wanna goto europe or america he will easily insult the prophet and get away, but if the law is applied may be there won't be any asia or john doing it in future while i think u also think. i m all for law change the law otherwise dont call for justice to any crime coz u r helping the criminals get away. Let the rapists, murderers, chor dakoo get away and stop complaining about the lawlessness. If u have anything to say just goto the parliment and change the law i dont have a problem.

Regards

TARIQ