Posted on 03/07/2008 7:02:52 PM PST by forkinsocket
Kabeer wala (AsiaNews) – His name is Altaf Husain and he is an 80-year-old man. He was arrested by police in Kabeer wala for desecrating the Qur‘an, a crime which is punishable with life in prison according to the Pakistan Criminal Code.
The elderly man belongs to the Ahmadiyya, a Muslim religious movement condemned as heretical in 1974. With perhaps as many as 3 million followers, especially in Punjab, the Ahmadi community has suffered from harassment and persecution.
According to police, a student saw Altaf Husain rip pages out of a Qur‘an last Monday and throw them on the ground. When he shouted at him to stop, the old Ahmadi ran off.
Conversely, members of the Ahmadi community said that Altaf Husain was just reading the power meter outside his home when a madrassa student warned him that he was stepping on a page of the Qur‘an. The 80-year-old man failed to understand what the boy was saying when the latter began shouting, accusing him of blasphemy. Police arrived soon after and arrested the alleged offender.
The spokesman for the Ahmadiyya community, Saleem Ud-Din, told AsiaNews that the charges are baseless, that they are just a way to persecute Ahmadis.
For Ud-Din no one in the community could desecrate the holy text. What the community wants instead is for the government to put a stop to such incidents which are sowing hatred against the Ahmadi community.
If they got that mad at him for tearing pages out and dropping them on the ground, they would get furious, if they knew why I always take a Koran on camping trips.
No different than the Communists or Nazis. Diseased death cults that need to be wiped off the face of the earth.
Islam is a death cult.
Muslims are insane.
Islam must be stopped.
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Islam is a caustic blend of regurgitated paganism and twisted Bible stories. Muhammad, its lone prophet, conceived his religion solely to satiate his lust for power, sex, and money. He was a terrorist. And if you think these conclusions are shocking, wait until you see the evidence.
The critics of this work will claim that Prophet of Doom is offensive, racist, hatemongering, intolerant, and unnecessarily violent. I agree - but I didn’t write those parts. They came directly from Islam’s scriptures. If you don’t like what Muhammad and Allah said, don’t blame me. I’m just the messenger.....”
Hey Muslims , I’m flushing a Koran down the toilet right now.
Looks like the good old witch hunting that took place in Europe in the dark ages. Most people accused of witchcraft were completely innocent, but apparently those accusing them were driven by the urge to score some points with the establishment or saw an opportunity to get hold of the assets of the accused. Won’t be much different from what’s happening over there, now.
Islam, in the hands of some, is a powerful weapon. It easily compares to political correctness, if you look at it carefully.
Probably needed toilet paper.
AT the age of 80 just how fast could he have been?
Typically, this sort of legislation is used to harass non-muslims utilizing false accusations...this one sounds just like such an instance.
Yeah, it’s crap for sure. Persecution of the Ahmadiyyah is a national pastime in Pakistan & Bangladesh. They’re officially designated kuffar & thus fair game.
All good points. But the last time I tried flushing one, the Tidy Bowl man emerged from the drain, jumped on top of the lid holding one of those funny shaped swords, wearing a scarf around his head and shouted “Allah Akbar !” and then decapitated the flusher handle.
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