Blasphemy Law of Pakistan – an insult to Islam

Some of my comments on recents blogs: Blasphemy law: An apparatus to sustain tyranny:

The foreign policy has already changed. The wrong policy of breeding terrorists on our soil and then sending them to foreign lands have already stopped (apparently?). The internal policies must be changed as well and we need to get rid of all these draconian laws which were created in the holy name of Islam.

Only an idiot and jahil brain washed mullah can support such non Islamic laws which have no basis in Quran or Sunnah. They are doing nothing but creating bad name to Pakistan and Islam and making lives of Pakistanis miserable.

All I need to bring you down is to accuse you of blasphemy and let the wrath of public deal with you. Not only we need to get rid of these laws, we need a state sponsored education program to counter these un islamic and barbaric ideologies to end. The same way dictator Zia used his rule to brain wash people in thinking this is Islam! It is NOT! It’s a long way to go but it has to start some where?

Another one: Stand up against the blasphemy laws

Blasphemy law has not justification in Islam. It has no basis in Quran or Sunnah. It is a fabrication of military dictator Zia to prolong his rule on the instigation of jahil maulvis. We do not want jahalat in Pakistan. We want to stand tall and proud now as Pakistanis. Let’s get rid of mistakes & jahalat of the past. May Allah enable us to do so. Ameen.

Some other Blasphemy Law related articles:
No to blasphemy laws
Pakistan’s Blasphemy Knife

Comment on Dr. Abdus Salam: Beyond Physics

A 4 year old article was reposted on Pakistaniat.com and as one can expect wherever the name Ahmadiyyat comes up, some jahil maulvi or a brain washed and brain dead Pakistani jumps on with idiotic propaganda about the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at. To set the record straight I posted a comment:

Lets separate myth from reality. Ahmadi Muslims are not allowed to practice their religion i.e. Islam in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in the very holy name of Islam. See for youself Pakistani constitutional laws 298B & C. How ironic that can be? Anyone who thinks otherwise is a brain washed jahil mullah.

Ahmadis are as much Muslims as any other sect in Pakistan because their beliefs are 100% according to the teachings of Quran & Sunnah. Again anyone who thinks otherwise is a jahil coward who can’t even take little courage to go read their website and their beliefs @ alislam.org

All we have done in Pakistan is created jahalat in the name of Islam and extremism in the name of Islam. We all should be ashamed of being Pakistani today.

What secularism and why secularism?

This blog post appeared in Tribune. It has touched upon many aspects of this topic but one important issue wasn’t touched.

Even if consider for a moment that theocratic state was an ideal solution, which religion or sect would that state follow? Islam has so many sects which are diagonally opposed to each other in their interpretation of Islam, it is practically impossible to come up with an unbiased theocratic state. The freedom of religion guaranteed in the Holy Quran is for all and not just for a select group of self-proclaimed Muslims. Hence we are left with no other choice but to separate religion and state for the functioning of a civilized society that maintains social harmony and freedom for all to practice their faith and interpretation of their religion without the fear of state persecution.

Ahmadi Muslims believe in separation of state and religion. Visit MuslimsForPeace.org to learn more about the Peaceful Islam.

Muslims must learn to speak the language of bullies?

This article appeared in Tribune blog. It is an interesting piece no doubt about it and the author has elaborated on the double standards shown towards Muslims. However it is quite ironic.

The bullying goes on with full media and state sponsorship in Muslim countries by Jama’at-e-Islami and the like minded anti-Islamic ideologies that believe in force and compulsion against the very teachings of Holy Quran. A country that was created in the name of Islam, Pakistan, has introduced anti-Islamic laws in the very name of Islam to defame Islam world over under pressure of these mullahs (read: bullying), what could one expect as a reaction to these bullying? Actions speak louder than words.

Non-Ahmadi Muslims have to act like Muslims first and eradicate the elements of bullying from among themselves before they question others. They have utterly failed in that by keeping quiet for too long. The silent majority has to wake up now!

Ahmadi Muslims have been condemning this bullying which has no place in Islam for over 120 years. Visit MuslimsForPeace.org to learn more about the Peaceful Islam.

BBC Urdu succumbs to terrorists of Pakistan? No more unbiased reporting?

It appears that BBC Urdu has stopped doing fair reporting. Instead of calling Ahmadi Mosques as Mosques, they are now under the influence of extremists and terrorist and calling a mosque as “place of worship”. This can be seen in recent news reporting after the massacre of nearly 100 Ahmadi Muslims in Lahore.

Evidence one: Calling mosque a mosque in old reporting

Evidence two: Not calling a mosque a mosque |  Still Not calling mosque a mosque

It is a shame for BBC for not upholding its old traditions of unbiased reporting. It appears that BBC Urdu staff is under the influence of terrorist and un-Islamic ideologies of Maudoodi and the like. They not only insulted the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community by calling the Islamic funeral prayers of its martys in Lahore mosques as “aakhri rasoomat” but crossed into yellow journalism as well by using these new terms.

Where should one complain about this prejudice by British Broadcasting Corporation?

Martyrdom of Ahmadi Muslims in Lahore on 28th May 2010

The Promised Messiah (alaihi salam) wrote:

‘Don’t think that God will let you go to waste. You are the seed which the Hand of God has sown in the earth. God says that this seed will grow and flower and its branches will spread in all directions and it will become a huge tree. So, blessed is one who believes in what God says and does not fear the trials which he suffers in His path. For, the coming of trials is essential so that God may try you to see who is true in his declaration of Bai‘at and who is false. Whoever falters in the face of a trial would do no harm to God whatsoever and ill- luck would only land him in hell. Were he not born, it would have been better for him. But all those who remain steadfast till the end—they will be shaken with quakes of calamities, and battered with storms of misfortune, ridiculed and mocked by people, and hated and reviled by the world—shall at last come out victorious.’ (The Will, pg. 12)

Islam Condemns Terrorism

Transcript of comments made by Mr. Naseem Mahdi on May 4, 2010 at a Press Conference held at the National Press Club, Washington, DC

We live in an expanding universe but the world is shrinking daily and it is so highly important for us all to discover and follow the paths that lead to peace.

I am going to make a few brief comments prompted by the recent attempted bombing in NY but necessitated by much broader considerations.

Islam condemns terrorism unreservedly and totally.

The Holy Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, India, had declared over 120 years ago that there is no place or justification found in Islam for violence whatsoever.

He said that Islam requires all Muslims to live in peace and harmony wherever they may be.

It is thus the duty and responsibility of all Muslims living in the US [or Canada in our case – Rationality.ca] to be loyal to the flag and to be law abiding citizens.

It is clear from the events happening all around that a small, fanatic, extremist minority of Muslims has hijacked the faith and continues to mislead and misguide the Muslims and ruin their total life.

In my considered opinion, such fanatics present a distorted view of Islam based on false and misguided interpretations.

For example such people say that it is not necessary for a Muslim to follow any non-Islamic government…This is utterly false..

If the vast majority of reasonable, peace-loving and law-abiding population of Muslims living in the US do not speak out and speak out loudly this will continue and ultimately ruin the lives, economic and social, of all Muslims and the community at large.

I am calling today on ALL MUSLIMS IN THE US to join me in condemning all actions of violence and terror caused or carried out by anyone whoever he or she may be.

I call on all of them to boldly claim and express with their tongue and action that they are loyal and law-abiding and obedient citizens of the United States of America.

This is fully in accord with the teachings of Muhammad, peace be on him, the Holy Founder of Islam, who said that hubbul watanay minal eeman.. (Love of one’s homeland, one’s place of residence, is a part of the Muslim’s faith..)

It is high time that Muslims living in the US wake up to their responsibilities and declare openly and repeatedly and loudly that they stand for peace and loyalty and are proud of it and that this is in fact what Islam itself requires of them.

Let me end by being totally forthright.

I say to those among Muslims living in the US who are not loyal or who do not want to be loyal that they are benefitting and enjoying all that this open, free, Country has to offer and yet they say that their loyalties are to another country or government.

I want to say to such people that they are not only living a false and hypocritical life but that they are thus also ungrateful and my advice to them is to be bold and leave and go and live in the lands where their loyalties belong.

Appalling human rights situation in Pakistan

I would like to draw your kind attention towards the worsening situation in district Layyah in Punjab, Pakistan. On 28 January 2009 by virtue of a police raid five members of the peaceful Ahmadiyya Muslim Community were arrested and charged under Section 295-C of the Pakistani Penal Code. In a grave blow to any standards of decency, four of the accused are children studying at the English language private school. Under the terms of Section 295-C any person found guilty is subject to either the death penalty or life imprisonment.

The arrests have been formally condemned by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), whilst Asma Jahangir the chairwoman of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights has also condemned the arrests of the children as ‘heinous’.

After four hours in custody each of the accused was charged under the terms of section 295-C on the completely false grounds that they had written the name of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) on the walls of a toilet at the Jamia Gulzar-e-Medina Mosque. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community reveres the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) as the final law bearing prophet, who brought with him a universal teaching. No disrespect towards him could ever be tolerated by any Ahmadi; man, woman or child.

Mr Salim-ud-Din, Spokesperson for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Pakistan said:

“These allegations are completely false and baseless. The police have no evidence whatsoever and have merely succumbed to the pressure of those who spread religious hatred in the region.”

The children are not being allowed to meet with any persons, in direct contravention to the provisions laid forth in Article 37 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child to which Pakistan is party.

Further to the arrests of the five Ahmadis, in the village of Chak 172/TDA the situation is becoming increasingly tense due to the acts of religious extremists in the area. A social boycott against the Ahmadis has started whereby it is not safe for them to travel home via normal routes and they are unable to purchase even food from the local shops.

Inflammatory posters in opposition to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community are being displayed throughout the village.

The International Community is urged to take immediate action to bring an end to the increasingly dangerous and threatening situation that is developing in District Layyah (Pakistan).

Yellow journalism of Geo TV and Amir Liaqat of Jahil Online

On 7th September 2008, “celebrating” the 1974’s decision of the Pakistan’s National Assembly, GEO TV’s controversial program Aalim Online which in true sense is in fact Jahil Online spreading ignorance in the name of Islam, presented a very disturbing program about Khatme Nabuwwat in which the guest mullas promoted killing of Ahmadi Muslims. This obviously resulted in a protest from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Recently Geo TV has issued a response and called this “baseless” accusation.

I watched the program from start to end and although Aamir Liaqat did not give the fatwa (his guest did) but the way the whole program was “designed” by Amir it was indeed very provocative, highly insulting, full of lies, one-sided propaganda, that in no way comes near the Geo TV’s slogan “geo or jeno do”. In fact the sole purpose of the program was to insult and spread hatred through false propaganda against the already marginalized Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Pakistan. Whether certain Ahmadis received death threats or not the fact remains that this program promoted killing of Ahmadis and Geo TV did nothing to present any response from Ahmadiyya Jama’at. How can this be a “baseless” accusation is beyond comprehension.

If they have the slightest love for humanity they should give equal time to Ahmadis to present their views. They claim in their press release that they allow other minority groups to speak. Well actions speak louder than words. When was the last time they presented any news or report or view from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community? To put salt on the wounds they have in fact lowered themselves to such a pathetic state that they allowed this program to even be planned for 7th September, a dark day in the history of Pakistan. Would they now allow Brelvis to justify the Fatwas of Kuffar against Deobandis? And vice versa?

Unbelievable.