The government of Pakistan has sentenced a Christian couple to 25 years in prison for 'blasphemy', offering us a glimpse of what life would be like under Sharia Law. Pakistan and other Muslim countries have attempted to enact this tenet of Sharia Law over the entire world through the United Nations. Pakistan first introduced a resolution entitled “Combating the Defamation of Religion” aimed at condemning criticism of Islam worldwide in 1999, and a version of this has been passed by the United Nations as a 'nonbinding resolution' in some form every year since then. For example Resolution 62/145 in 2007 which “notes with deep concern the intensification of the campaign of defamation of religions and the ethnic and religious profiling of Muslim minorities in the aftermath of 11 September 2001.”
Muslims believe that their law should expand until it is enforced upon the entire world, as declared in the Koran, for example in Surah 9: 29-30:
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Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Messenger have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.
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And the Jews say: Uzair is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!
Although the UN resolutions condemning criticism of Islam are 'non-binding', socialist governments in Europe have taken up the cause and enacted laws in line with the spirit of the resolution, for example placing Dutch maverick politician Geert Wilders on trial for 'insulting muslims in a documentary entitled 'Fitna.' The Dutch court decided that the traditional western principle of free speech was no defense, declaring that “The court considers [Wilders' film] so insulting for Muslims that it is in the public interest to prosecute Wilders," on the basis that Wilders' statements were "one-sided generalizations” This may have backfired on the socialist government, with Wilders winning local elections and poised to make an electoral breakthrough in the upcoming Dutch Parliamentary elections.
The European socialist media and governments however have no problem with “one-sided generalizations” when they come from far-left organizations such as the wealthy fundraising organization 'Southern Poverty Law Center', for example reprinting a fearmongering screed attempting to link Glenn Beck and Fox News to a handful of threats and violent outbursts by individuals suffering from mental illness. This canard is repeated Obama's head of 'Homeland Security', Janet Napolitano, who has declared that 'Tea Party participants' and other 'right-wingers' constitute a greater threat to homeland security than Islamic terrorists.
One would think that an ideology in which is it 'mainstream' thought to throw people in jail for 25 years for touching a book would constitute a greater threat to the western way of life than groups which espouse the 'live and let live' principles America was founded on. Yet, the socialists and Islamists find common cause in using force to punish those viewed as heretics, such as a recent incident in which a childish prank of littering was turned into a felony because it occurred on the lawn of a shrine to 'diversity'.
According to Asia News:
A court in Kasur district, Punjab, convicted a Christian couple, Munir Masih and Ruqqiya Bibi, to 25 years in prison. According to the Center for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS), judge Ajmal Hussein convicted the couple for touching the Qur‘an without washing their hands.
Munir Masih and Ruqqiya Bibi were released on bail last January, but were re-arrested after the judge ruled against them. The husband was locked up in Kasur’s district prison; the wife was sent to the women’s prison in Multan. Both have started serving 25 years behind bars.
CLAAS, an association that fights for the rights of the poor and marginalized, said that the couple was accused of “contaminating” the Qur‘an when they touched it “without washing their hands”.
The incident, which dates back to December 2008, unleashed the fury of Muslim extremists who put pressure on police. Unconfirmed reports suggest that extremists paid off police agents to discover “new evidence” to justify the sentence.
At the end of the police investigation, husband and wife were charged with blasphemy.
The blasphemy law is the harshest tool for religious repression available in Pakistan. It was adopted in 1986 by then dictator Zia ul-Haq to protect Islam and its prophet, Muhammad, from attacks and insults.
In fact, it is actually comprised of sections 295-B and 295-C of the Pakistan Penal Code, which respectively punish with life in prison anyone who defiles, damages or desecrates a copy of the Holy Qur‘an, and imposes the death penalty on anyone who defiles the name of the Prophet Muhammad.
