Police the other day registered a case against Shaan Taseer, son of slain Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer, for alleged ‘hate speech’ after he sent a greeting out to fellow countrymen on the occasion of Christmas..
On the Christmas Day, Shaan sent a greeting out to fellow countrymen especially blasphemy accused Aasia Bibi.
In the video, shared by Christian Times on social networking website Facebook, Shaan had criticised the misuse of blasphemy laws in Pakistan and expressed his solidarity with blasphemy accused Aasia Bibi and Nabeel Masih, another Christian boy accused of blasphemy.
Soon after the video went viral, Islampura police station received an application from its SHO Nasir Hameed and subsequently booked Shaan under Section 295-A of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) without naming him in the report.
Meanwhile, Sunni Tehreek also issued a fatwa against Shaan for allegedly committing blasphemy as well as apostasy.
According to the SHO, he received a video message in a USB wherein a man was wishing his viewers Merry Christmas and requesting fellow countrymen to pray for minority members being exploited by, what he called, the “inhumane blasphemy law”.
This man deserves the highest possible respect. As a Muslim, and the son of a man who was already murdered at an Islamabad market by his own bodyguard for daring to suggest the blasphemy laws in Pakistan were retrograde and should not be applied the way they are, Shaan Taseer knows better than anyone what the cost is for saying Merry Christmas and standing up for the innocent before muslim mobs.
The man also requested prayers for blasphemy victims including Asia Bibi, Nabeel Masih and their families, and all other Pakistanis languishing in jails on charges of blasphemy, the SHO added.
Video below, a group of religious muslims make a formal complaint against Shaan Taseer for daring to say Merry Christmas.
To understand just how warped and evil this all is, please read this article on the woman, Asia Bibi, who has been in jail since 2009 because she was a Christian who drank from a well and so the local muslims all said she contaminated it and that is blasphemy or something. She will likely be executed.
Ya know, killing all of the shites who condemned this brave soul might send an important message.
This man is so handsome and looks so noble – that he reminds me of someone saying once: “islam has great difficulties to justify its existence on moral grounds”. When I look at the “tards” in general, I strongly believe that they have even greater difficulties from an aesthetic point of view. They all seem to be “blessed” with that kind of uglyness that comes from something deeper than just physicals – perhaps it’s the centuries of inbreeding in the petri dish of Arabia ? Anyway, I think this video and this post should be spread far and wide ! And yes, if you have not done so already, do read the story of Aasia Bibi, it will show you why I dont like muslimas either ! (the oppressed having become the oppressors for a long time).
PS: I meant to say that this man looks too handsome for a muslim! And no, I won’t wash out my mouth with soap !
Rita thank you for your comments, the man deserves respect for his bravery and hopefully will do some good before the fundamentalist Moslems manage to murder him.
My Sikh friend – a lurker who refuses to register – says [more or less, his fault if I misstate his thinking]:
The policies enacted by the British in the Indian Subcontinent and Mandate Palestine generated an impossible karmic debt. Not the governance, but the hasty retreat. An exhausted post-war kingdom, more than they could possibly be expected to manage.
A great pity for all concerned, not least for the present day citizens of the UK.
Pakistan, Bangladesh. Arguments for abortion writ nation-state scale.
Over 100 clerics arrested in Lahore for trying to ‘celebrate’ Salmaan Taseer’s assassination (tribune, Jan 4, 2017)
http://tribune.com.pk/story/1284399/100-clerics-arrested-lahore-trying-celebrate-salmaan-taseers-assassination/
“LAHORE: Punjab Police on Wednesday arrested over 100 clerics for attempting to hold a rally in Lahore in ‘celebration’ of the assassination of Salmaan Taseer on his death anniversary.
The clerics were gathering to hold a rally on Main Boulevard in Gulberg area of the city.
Meanwhile, Tehreek Labbaik Ya Rasoolallah has organised two separate rallies, one on Mall Road and the other in Gulberg led by Dr Ashraf Asif Jalali and Hafiz Khadim Hussain Rizvi respectively, sources told The Express Tribune.
The clerics have been given a go-ahead to hold a rally on Mall Road but not in Gulberg. Heavy police contingents have been deployed at Kalma Chowk and roads have been blocked with containers. Some people clashed with police when they were stopped from going towards the road leading to a severe traffic jams on various roads of the city. Further, the Metro Bus Service has also been suspended after a few clerics and their followers entered its track.
Taseer, who had angered religious zealots with his statements against the country’s controversial blasphemy laws, was killed by his own security guard, an elite force personnel, in a firing incident in Islamabad’s Kohsar Market on January 4, 2011. His assailant Mumtaz Qadri, who had later admitted the killing, was subsequently executed in Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail in 2016.
Blasphemy is a sensitive issue in Pakistan, with allegations often prompting mob violence.”
Tell them to answer the phone. It’s Al;lah calling.
You could drop a nuclear bomb on Pakistan and not harm one innocent by-stander.
Too right, Gary!