Posted on 07/06/2010 1:42:58 AM PDT by Traianus
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Ernakulam (AsiaNews) - A group of unknown assailants severed the hand and the right arm of a university professor accused of defaming Mohammed months ago. The execution took place yesterday morning in Muvattupuzha, Ernakulam district (Kerala). Sajan K George, president of the Global Council of Indian Christians condemns this "barbaric act" and recalls that "Sharia is not the law of India."
According to the police, Prof. TJ Joseph, was returning with his family from Sunday service when a group of people in a Maruti Omni van drew up beside him stopping him close to home. After forcing Joseph to get out of his car, they attacked him with knives and swords, then cut off his hand and right arm throwing them away after about 200 meters.
The professor was immediately transported to a hospital in Muvattupuzha and then to another specialized in surgery, where doctors are trying to mend his severed hand. The professor has also suffered deep wounds to his body and is in need of plastic surgery.
Joseph, Kerala, a professor at Newman's College, Thodupuzha, is free on bail. Last March he had prepared a questionnaire for examinations in the private college and according to the Muslims had included questions offensive to Muhammad.
Due to a series of protests by Islamic groups, he was suspended from school. Later, Joseph publicly apologized for his "unintentional error". Joseph's mother said that in recent months her son continued to receive threats.
Meanwhile, the police found the van of the attackers, empty, and "the vehicle registration number is false," said police inspector P.P. Shams. Some of the detained are activists of the Popular Front of India, a right wing Muslim group, formerly called the National Development Front, which is very strong in Kerala.
Joseph’s sister, Mary Stella, says that "the assailants destroyed the window of our car and pulled out my brother to execute him. My poor mother, who was in the car with us, witnessed the crime".
The Minister of Education, M.A. Baby has condemned the incident, expressing his displeasure because some have turned the issue of the exam questionnaire into a matter of religious conflict.
Sajan K. George, president of the Global Council of India (Gcoi), condemned the "barbaric act" and demands that "the attackers are brought to justice soon. I hope that - as usually happens - the complaint will not disappear in police records because of threats from Islamic militants in Kerala. "
Sajan K. George gives voice to the whole civil society which "expresses sorrow for these attacks by Muslims against Christians in Kerala. It should be noted that Islamic law is not the law of our country”.According to the Gcoi president Kerala is witnessing a growth of Islamic extremism: "Christian schools are often targeted on the headscarf issue or another issue and unfortunately many schools succumb under pressure. The design of these militants is to provoke peaceful Christian communities and provoke a civil war. The rapid growth of the Muslim population and their influence in elections is increasing safety concerns for Christians throughout the country".
The attack against Joseph has been condemned by several Muslim organizations, including the Indian Union Muslim League (Iuml) and the Jama'at-e-Islami, which calls for a significant response against the culprits. Panakad Hyderali Shiyab Thangal, supreme leader of Iuml, has asked that the perpetrators be prosecuted harshly. And referring to the questionnaire compiled by Joseph, said: “An error can not be corrected by another mistake".
The indicted questionnaire however did not include anything that could be construed as against the Muslim religion. The authorities of Newman College, told AsiaNews that in the test, Prof. Joseph tells the story of a fishmonger who, despite hard work, becomes increasingly poor. The monger’s name is Mohammad In his desperation, he spoke to God and also asked his brother why his fortunes were dwindling. His brother told Mohammed:"Why are you calling God, God, God...." Students were asked to specify the punctuation of the narrative.
UPDATE:
Two arrested for cutting off lecturer’s palm in Kerala
http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/two-arrested-for-cutting-off-lecturer-s-palm-in-kerala-35710
Updated: July 05, 2010 21:56 IST
For more than 16 hours, six doctors performed a series of surgeries to reattach T. Joseph’s hand to his right arm.
It was cut off by seven people in broad daylight when Joseph was on his way home from church with his family on Sunday morning. An axe was used on Joseph. It was his sister who picked up his severed hand and carried it to the hospital in a plastic bag. “They pulled him out of the car and hacked him mercilessly,” she said.
Two people with alleged links to a radical Muslim organization, Popular Front, have been arrested in connection with the attack, criticized widely by moderate Muslim leaders.
Joseph, age 52, is a lecturer at Newman College in Kerala’s Muvattupuzha district. He was granted bail in April after being arrested for preparing a controversial exam at his college - some local Muslim groups said a reference to Prophet Mohammed in the exam paper was offensive.
In the Kerala Assembly, Home Minister Kodiyari Balakrishnan said that the state government will not tolerate such “Taliban-type” attacks.
A statement from groups including the All India Milli Council and All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat described the attack as un-Islamic. “We find that the attack on the Kerala lecturer is against the basic tenets of Islam and the Sunnah of the Prophet which emphasis on forgiveness. Islam explicitly forbids taking law and order into one’s hands in the presence of competent authorities to deal with an issue. We hope that law will take its due course to punish the criminals who attacked the professor. They have clearly sinned and defamed Islam by committing this crime which we condemn without reservations.”
Joseph’s doctors say he will remain in emergency care for at least another week. “When he was brought to the hospital, he was almost dead. There were some fractures and injuries all over the body. He had lost a lot of blood,” shared Dr R. Jaykumar. (With PTI inputs)
BARBARIANS! LOW LIFE ISLAMIC SCUM! HANG THEM HIGH!
The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist!!!
my sentiments exactly! We should nuke them into oblivian. They are like serial killers and child rapists, they can never be rehabilitated. It is time to take action.
Glad to see the 'definitive' . . ./sarc off. (Are those who do NOT acknowledge 'sharia' competent and authoritative? Then there is the question of 'in the presence of'. . .)
Whatever the translation. . .do hope the 'competent Authorities' manage to actually serve Justice on behalf of this victim.
Free lance Bounty hunters are the answer Muslim terrorism.
It’s the American Way and the Code of the West - You kill one of ours and we put a price on your head.
Then follow up the money trail until we kill, “Mr. Big.”
yeah, and Obama has made NASA’s highest priority “to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering.” More liberal self esteem bull shiite.
http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpps/news/national/070510-NASA-Chief_8493869
Kerala is said to be the most heavily Leftist and Communist region of India, a region also with the highest literacy rate. Lesson to be learned: literacy in the cause of intolerance and terrorism is not beneficial to anyone.
Kerala is said to be the most heavily Leftist and Communist region of India, a region also with the highest literacy rate. Lesson to be learned: literacy in the cause of intolerance and terrorism is not beneficial to anyone.
But then I do take a lot of drugs ....
‘ROP.’
Again.
‘Nuff said.
Who is your PUSHER? :-)))
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