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Religion-Fueled Mobs on the Rise Again in Pakistan

KARACHI, Pakistan — Last month, a man named Muhammad Mushtaq was accused of burning pages of the Quran inside a mosque in central Pakistan. A mob armed with sticks, bricks and axes gathered at the mosque and dragged him out.

Mr. Mushtaq was tortured for hours and eventually killed, his body hung from a tree. A handful of police officers were among those who watched.

The Feb. 12 killing in the district of Khanewal was denounced across Pakistan. Prime Minister Imran Khan said the government had “zero tolerance” for such mob violence and promised that the police officers would be punished.

by Blazingcatfur•March 22, 2022March 21, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Pakistan, Pakistan - Islamic Failed State

Your lives are in danger, police warn Pakistani dissidents in UK

Exiles advised to keep a low profile as hitman is convicted in London

Pakistani exiles seeking refuge in the UK are being advised by counter-terrorism police to keep a low profile following warnings that their lives may be at risk after criticising Pakistan’s powerful military.

Counter Terrorism Policing, a collaboration of UK police forces and the security services, has told possible targets that they need to inform police if they intend to travel within the UK.

One British-based dissident said she had received information that hitmen linked to Pakistani drug gangs would be contracted to target her.

by Blazingcatfur•February 5, 2022February 5, 2022•0•Pakistan, Pakistan - Islamic Failed State, UK

British ‘hitman’ found guilty of plotting to kill Pakistani activist

A British “hitman” has been found guilty of conspiring to kill a Pakistani dissident in the Netherlands.

A court in London heard Muhammad Gohir Khan was offered £100,000 (about $134,000) to carry out the murder in Rotterdam last year.

However he failed to track his target down, and was arrested on his return to the UK.

Now a jury has given a unanimous guilty verdict of conspiracy to murder and he is set be sentenced in March.

by Blazingcatfur•January 28, 2022January 28, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Pakistan, Pakistan - Islamic Failed State, UK

Woman sentenced to death in Pakistan over ‘blasphemous’ WhatsApp activity

… According to the charge sheet, Ateeq, 26, met her accuser, a fellow Pakistani, online in 2019 through a mobile gaming app and the pair began corresponding over WhatsApp.

He accused her of sending blasphemous caricatures of holy prophets, making remarks about “holy personages” on WhatsApp and using her Facebook account to transmit blasphemous material to other accounts. In doing so, she “deliberately and intentionally defiles sacred righteous personalities and insulted the religious beliefs of Muslims”, according to the charge sheet.

by Blazingcatfur•January 20, 2022January 20, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Blasphemy, Islam, Islam and violence, Pakistan, Pakistan - Islamic Failed State

Religious Persecution On The Rise

Christians in Pakistan have suffered the secondary effects of U.S. intervention abroad.

On St. Patrick’s Day, 2018, four men waved down a rickshaw driver in a suburb of the Pakistani megalopolis of Karachi. The men, all Muslim and led by a Muslim cleric, recognized the cabbie, who happened to be a Catholic they had harassed many years prior. They pulled him out of the rickshaw, beat him almost to death, and then set fire to the vehicle, his only source of income.

I know that Christian, whose name is Michael D’Souza. My wife and I befriended him during three years living in Bangkok, where he and his family had fled in 2012, seeking asylum and refugee status. With the assistance of some family and friends, we paid his family’s airfare when they decided, after almost a year in Bangkok’s infamous Immigration Detention Center, to return to Pakistan in summer 2017.

by Blazingcatfur•January 15, 2022January 14, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Christian Persecution, Islam, Islam and violence, Pakistan, Pakistan - Islamic Failed State

FATAH: Stripping women and burning non-Muslims: horrors in Pakistan

In October 2007, the cover of Newsweek magazine described Pakistan as the Most Dangerous Nation in the World. Five years later, TIME magazine followed with a cover that labelled my birthplace as a country with a “Dark Heart.”

by Blazingcatfur•December 9, 2021December 9, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Pakistan, Pakistan - Islamic Failed State

Pakistani mob tortures Sri Lankan man to death, burns body for tearing up posters of radical Islamist party

A frenzied mob in Pakistan tortured a Sri Lankan man to death and then burnt his body in public allegedly over blasphemy accusations, according to local media reports.

The incident took place on Wazirabad Road in Sialkot on Friday, where reportedly the workers of private factories attacked the export manager, a Sri Lankan national, of a factory and burnt his body after killing him, the Dawn reported.

Sialkot district police officer Umar Saeed Malik said the man was identified as Priyantha Kumara, who was in his 40s.

#Pakistani buslims in the city of Sialkot set a #SriLankan on fire and killed him for #blasphemy with chants of “gustakh-e-nabi ki ek saza sar-tan-se-juda”
He was the general manager of RajCo Industries. pic.twitter.com/wrykUbiHo5

— saumya jatav (@jatav_saumya) December 3, 2021

by Blazingcatfur•December 3, 2021December 3, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Pakistan, Pakistan - Islamic Failed State

Pakistan: Islamists against Muhammad cartoons stage comeback

Last month, Pakistan lifted a ban on the hardline Islamist party, Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP), which has been the face of anti-France protests over the reprinting of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. The TLP’s jailed leader, as well as hundreds of his supporters, were released and the party will now be allowed to participate in mainstream politics. Many fear that the move has implications not just for Pakistan’s politics but also for the wider region and the rest of the world.

On 31 October, police officer Irfan Ahsan was posted to provide security at Wazirabad town in Pakistan’s Punjab Province, where hundreds of TLP protestors had been camping for more than a week with the aim marching to the capital Islamabad to force the government to expel the French envoy over the reprinting of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in a satirical magazine.

The protesters were also demanding the release of their leader, Saad Rizvi, who had been jailed under anti-terrorism laws.

by Blazingcatfur•December 1, 2021December 1, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Pakistan, Pakistan - Islamic Failed State

Pakistan: The Anti-American “Ally”

Pakistan, once presumed an ally of the US, has been willfully responsible for the slaughter of many US and NATO troops by having massively assisted enemy jihadists in Afghanistan. Throughout the 20-year presence of US forces in Afghanistan, Pakistani intelligence operations have included the recruiting, training and arming of the largely ethnic Pashtun Taliban.

by Blazingcatfur•November 5, 2021November 5, 2021•0•Pakistan, Pakistan - Islamic Failed State

Islamist Sh^thole Pakistan begins dialogue on “inclusivity” with Islamist Sh^thole Afghanistan

Pakistan PM says he has started dialogue with Taliban over inclusivity

Pakistan’s prime minister says he has initiated a dialogue with the Taliban to encourage them to form an inclusive government that would ensure peace and stability in Afghanistan and the region.

Imran Khan tweeted on Saturday that he took the initiative after his meetings this week in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, with leaders of countries neighbouring Afghanistan.

Last week the Taliban announced an all-male interim government that included no women or members of Afghanistan’s minorities, contrary to their earlier pledges on inclusivity. They have also since moved to curb women’s rights, harking back to when they were in power in the 1990s.

by Blazingcatfur•September 18, 2021September 18, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Afghanistan, Islam, Islam and violence, Pakistan, Pakistan - Islamic Failed State, WTF?

Pakistan rejoices at Taliban victory as West flounders

Afghanistan has a familiar power back in place. Kabul has fallen. The Taliban have won. And Pakistanis are euphoric.

To many a foe, but to others a friend, the cloistered group of extremists has long held cordial ties with Islamabad, and the Taliban’s recent rise from the flames has left many Pakistanis in raptures.

Even the country’s prime minister, Imran Khan, has been waxing lyrical, heaping eulogies on the group of militants, who openly violated women’s rights, in addition to flouting a number of other norms of the civilized world, during their stint in power from 1996 to 2001.

Khan, who often resorts to anti-West rhetoric, said Monday during a ceremony in Islamabad that Afghans have broken the “shackles of slavery.” It was seen as a clear endorsement of Afghanistan’s new rulers, but also as a sideswipe at those who invaded Pakistan’s neighbor in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in the United States.

h/t John

by Blazingcatfur•August 19, 2021August 19, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Afghanistan, Islam, Islam and violence, Pakistan, Pakistan - Islamic Failed State

Pakistan: Outpouring of anger after woman assaulted by over 400 men

Cases have been registered against 400 unidentified people after a viral video showed a woman being assaulted at Minar-e-Pakistan on the country’s independence day.

This is why #Pakistanis r supporting #Taliban they have become 1 of them a Girl was Sexually Molested Stripped Naked by 400 Men at Minar E #Pakistan #Lahore on #IndependenceDayPakistan Celebrations NOT ALL MEN #Congratulationsindia #AfghanWomen #Afghanistan #TalibanSympathisers pic.twitter.com/9TIIh6tjC0

— 🇮🇳 Gopal Thakkar🚩 (@GopalAThakkar_) August 17, 2021

by Blazingcatfur•August 18, 2021August 18, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Pakistan, Pakistan - Islamic Failed State

Dissident Pakistani exiles in UK ‘on hit list’

Pakistani exiles living in London who have criticised the country’s powerful military have been warned that their lives are in danger, raising fresh concern over authoritarian regimes targeting foreign dissidents in the UK.

British security sources are understood to be concerned that Pakistan, a strong UK ally – particularly on intelligence issues – might be prepared to target individuals on British soil.

Pakistan a “strong ally?” Now that’s a laugh.

by Blazingcatfur•August 8, 2021August 8, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Pakistan, Pakistan - Islamic Failed State, UK

Pakistan deploys paramilitary after Muslims attack Hindu temple because boy peed in a madrassa

Pakistan on Thursday deployed paramilitary troops in a conservative town in the eastern Punjab province, a day after a Muslim crowd attacked and badly damaged a Hindu temple there.

In Delhi, India’s foreign ministry summoned a Pakistani diplomat to protest against the attack and demand protection for Hindus living in the predominantly Muslim Pakistan.

Wednesday’s attack took place in the town of Bhong in Rahim Yar Khan district after a court granted bail to an eight-year-old Hindu boy who allegedly desecrated a madrassa, or religious school, earlier in the week. The mob damaged statues, burned down the temple’s main door and briefly blocked a nearby road.

by Blazingcatfur•August 5, 2021August 5, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Pakistan, Pakistan - Islamic Failed State

Pakistani policeman accused of killing man acquitted of blasphemy

LAHORE, Pakistan, July 3 (Reuters) – A Pakistani police constable has been arrested over the murder of a man who was acquitted of blasphemy charges last year, a police spokesman said.

Ahmed Nawaz told Reuters that Muhammad Waqas was hacked to death on Friday in the central Pakistani district of Sadiqabad.

He said the suspect, a 21-year-old man who joined the force just months ago, told investigators he killed Waqas because “he had committed blasphemy”.

by Blazingcatfur•July 3, 2021July 3, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Blasphemy, Islam, Islam and violence, Pakistan, Pakistan - Islamic Failed State