Posted on 03/03/2020 6:52:10 PM PST by marshmallow
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The appeal verdict of Shafqat Emmanuel and Shagufta Kausar, a Christian couple from Gjra (in Punjab) sentenced to death for blasphemy in 2014, will be read on 8 April 2020 by the Lahore High Court on charges of having sent telephone text messages deemed blasphemous. This is what Catholic lawyer Khalil Tahir Sandhu, who took over the defense of the two defendants, reports to Agenzia Fides. The lawyer says he is "confident" for the positive outcome of the hearing and for an acquittal verdict, as "there is no clear evidence against the two of them. The case is clearly an artifact", he explains.
The incriminated SMS, in fact, were written in English, but both defendants, who have four children, are poor and illiterate, they cannot write in Urdu, nor in English. "The trial before the Session Court (First Instance) was conditioned by Islamist pressure", notes the lawyer. The appeal presented to the Lahore Court of Appeal is examined six years after the first instance sentence "and this delay in the justice system, which some say is accentuated for Christian victims, is in itself a very negative fact, which heightens the suffering of two innocent people", notes lawyer Sandhu who in his career has defended over 40 cases of Christians wrongly accused of blasphemy.
There are currently 25 Christians in prison for blasphemy in Pakistan, 6 of whom sentenced to death. All victims who, according to the lawyer, "are safer inside a prison rather than outside, where they would be exposed to the revenge of Islamic radicals who would like to execute those who are branded as blasphemers even before the trial that ascertains the responsibility", explains the lawyer.
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Pres. Trump should intervene and have these individuals leave Pakistan.
Ha, Blasphemy. Lord, may Your name be gloried through their suffering.
Who knew?
I saw a video yesterday on that Documenting reality website, looked middle eastern and recent, of a women getting stoned to death. They had her stand in a hole and they just started throwing rocks at her head and it goes on a long time. She does everything to protect her head, ducking down, covering her head with her hands and arms and eventually it’s too much, too many direct hits and she’s gone. All men throwing the rocks. I assume they did it because she had the audacity to be raped, but hey! This is their culture right??
islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.
“Pres. Trump should intervene and have these individuals leave Pakistan.”
This article was written for the Catholic Church news. It is an activist article that has nothing to do with the missionary new coverage the paper was designed for. Agenzia Fides is the news agency of the Vatican. It is based in the Palazzo de Propaganda Fide in Vatican City. It is part of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. It was formed on June 5, 1927, as the first missionary news agency of the Roman Catholic Church and was approved by Pope Pius XI.
We cannot go around the world, and expect a president, this time Trump, to step in when the country is acting within its boarders, to non-American citizens, within its rules no matter what they are. It’s not our place. We did ours in 1775, if their people disagree with the way the government handles things like this, do something about it.
Things like this are not rare in many countries. Closer to home for us are atrocities in Central and South America in places like Columbia, Venezuela, El Salvador, Paraguay....and many others. We are not the world cops. We don’t want them to get into our governmental policies, we should reciprocate if it doesn’t effect us.
rwood
I disagree on this one. These persecuted Christians should be taken up for by this President. Pakistan is a $hithole and letting these Mohammadan scum treat our fellow Christians like this is absolutely unacceptable.
And what about the many American citizens who are daily executed without a trial for simply being found in their mother’s wombs? Pockistan is a country of barbarians but we are thought to be more cultured.
Throwing rocks at a women’s head = them just trying to make their god so proud of them.
I would simply say do not express any vestiges of Christian faith in any psycho country of islamists like Pakistan
Nothing not a nobody no one
There are presently over 8,000 Pakistani students sitting in American Universities. Did you know that? These are seats that belong to Americans! Do you know that millions of Pakistanis rally and chant “Death to America!”
Do you know that previous administrations sent tens of Billions in foreign aid to this hellhole. If these people are not immediately set free and brought to safety.every one of these Pakistani students should be Arrested and sent back to Pakistan. When will we say “Enough!”
Different issues. While the courts, at the moment, won’t rein in Roe, our President can at least help get these handful of people out of harm’s way.
God commands us to speak truth to power and evil. While it may not be wise on the surface, if we sit quietly while evil continues, we end up being just as guilty.
Exactly.
It’s their religion. Arab Christian, Iranian Christian and Zoroastrian people don’t do this.
Islam is evil. Ban it from the west
“...this is absolutely unacceptable.”
You’re right, it is, in our society. But not in theirs. We can’t continue to find every place and time something like this happens and get into an argument within their borders or societal theories. Especially on a religious basis in a country that doesn’t really want to talk with us at all.
This process of bailing out people started long before our entry into Panama in 1989. But that’s when the first of the slippery slope got started post Vietnam. And it always seemed to be the right thing to do.
When we first went into Iraq in 1991 it was to free Kuwait. That was followed by Somalia in 1993 and Haiti in 1994. Then there was Bosnia in 1994 and Kosovo in 1999.
Then began Afghanistan in 2001. The Taliban government harbored Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda terrorist group, responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. After Afghanistan refused to turn over Bin Laden, the U.S. and UN coalition forces invaded. The Taliban government was ousted and many terrorist camps in Afghanistan were destroyed. But even though it was for us, we lost a lot of people. Since July of 2018’s tally, over 1850 deaths by conflict and over 20,000 troops injured. Of the deaths, over 1500 of them have happened post 2011. And we’re still there.
Thereafter, the Taliban begin regrouping. By 2005, the Taliban and coalition troops were engaged in ongoing clashes with coaltition troops. The year 2006 was the deadliest year for U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan since 2001. And we’re still there today. And then back into Iraq in 2003 to overthrow the Hussein government that was supplying arms (WMD included) and safe haven to al-Queda. Got rid of Saddam, but we are still there today.
So I have to ask....where does it stop? Since WW II. we have gone into one conflict after another and lost troops, property, and a lot of our diplomatic reputation overseas that has put our troops and civilian people in danger repeatedly. (Bosnia and every roadside bomb and RPG are examples of a non-conflict attack.
We have got to stop this. And getting into the treatment of one family, even though it is wrong to us, is just another coffin nail to our foreign diplomacy. And they will probably tell us to go to he((. If they approached us on our ways, wouldn’t we do the same? Needs to stop. Time for a little tough love. Factually, past time.
rwood
We’re expected to bend over backwards to these countries to accommodate their evil 7th century Satanic death cult. But conversely, they will not similarly extend such “tolerance” to non-cultists. Indeed, they can merely execute such individuals with impunity.
Pakistan, as pointed out by another poster, has countless thousands of individuals in our country taking advantage of our freedoms that their own country refuses to recognize. This was the same country that quietly protected Osama bin Laden for over a decade. I see an extraordinary imbalance here, a gargantuan double-standard.
I think it’s time we make these countries play by the same rules they have the audacity to demand of us. If they do not release these prisoners, either within their own country, or allow them to leave (surely we can accommodate a few dozen of these persecuted individuals), we see no reason for their citizens to be on our soil enjoying what it has to offer.
“.....we see no reason for their citizens to be on our soil enjoying what it has to offer.”
Completely agree. But with them goes any other Muslim, even those born in this country, that do not wish to stay within our accepted societal guidelines established by our laws and our Constitution, whether they are born here or not. If they profess allegiance to the deviancy of one of the third world countries practicing Sharia law, they need to be shipped to where it is in use.
But this should be for use for our purposes of deporting those that threaten the US people. What happens in the country they profess is not our problem. They need to clean up their own mess without the lives of our troops or property.
rwood
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