Anytime there is an accusation of blasphemy against Islam, there is violence or the threat of violence. Eventually the whole world will be frightened and intimidated into silence, and Islam will be supreme. Or else some people will speak up despite the cost, and the courageous will prevail in defending freedom.
“College vandalised after protest against chairman accused of insulting Islam,” Maldives Independent, January 22, 2019
The glass door of Mandhu College was smashed around 2am on Tuesday, hours after a protest was staged outside the building calling for the arrest of the college’s chairman Ibrahim Ismail ‘Ibra’ for allegedly insulting or mocking Islam.
The vandalism is under investigation, police said.
On Monday night, a group of about 30 young men, identified as activists of jailed former vice president Ahmed Adeeb’s new party, gathered in front of the college premises on the capital’s main thoroughfare, holding up placards condemning Ibra as well as Home Minister Imran Abdulla and chanting for the former lawmaker’s arrest.
‘Arrest laadheenee [irreligious or secular] Ibra!’ ‘Scholars come out in defence of religion!’ and ‘To insult is not freedom,’ read some of the placards.
The protest continued Tuesday afternoon with about 50 people marching in the capital’s suburb Vilimalé. Calls to “behead Ibra” and “hang Ibra” were heard among chants to arrest him and “protect Islam.”
Ibra, a former president of the Maldivian Democratic Party and chairman of the committee that drafted the 2008 constitution, stirred controversy during a Twitter debate last Friday on the absence of a verse in the Quran that prescribes stoning as a punishment for adultery.
Ibra challenged claims that such a verse had been revealed but was lost after it was written on a leaf and kept underneath the bed of the Prophet’s wife Aisha.
The belief that it was later revealed by Caliph Umar implies “that the Prophet was not trustworthy. That some revelations of Allah were kept under Aisha’s bed and not revealed. What laadheenee talk is this? That Mohamed concealed. That Umar revealed. Which one is the Prophet here?”
The tweet was misreported by the tabloid Vaguthu as Ibra “exceeding all bounds” by calling the Prophet dishonest. News site Miadhu and opposition TV station Channel 13 accused him of mocking Prophet Mohamed (pbuh).
On Sunday night, Ibra was summoned to the police headquarters amid a growing public backlash against his tweet. The summons came after the Islamic ministry advised against “misleading” debates about Sharia law.
The ministry has recently been receiving complaints about insulting and mocking religion as well as the dissemination of inaccurate information about Islam in the news media, social media, websites and public spaces, it said in a statement, noting that the constitution prohibits speech that is contrary to tenets of Islam.
Religious information could be clarified through the ministry, it advised.
The ministry was also working with the authorities to identify those who mock and insult Islam as well as those who “encourage harshness and violence in the name of religion while remaining hidden and threaten to damage life and property outside legal bounds.”
On Monday morning, three young men who were protesting against Ibra outside Mandhu College were taken into custody. They were not arrested but briefly detained for disobeying police before being advised and released, police said.
The protests against Ibra come amid growing calls to mete out harsh punishments for Maldivians who mock Islam.
Former vice president Dr Mohamed Jameel Ahmed proposed introducing a blasphemy law to prescribe life imprisonment for those who mock the Prophet.
He previously suggested that “influential people” were behind the police failure to take action under the 1994 Religious Unity Act.
Former home minister Umar Naseer warned the new government to stop people insulting Islam if President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih wants to complete a five-year term.
Earlier this month, police launched an investigation into hate speech and death threats after a public chat channel started branding individuals as apostates.
At least three people, including a local cleric and radio journalist branded as an apostate, have been questioned so far.
Debates and heated arguments raged on Twitter and Facebook earlier this month after an island magistrate court sentenced a woman to death by stoning….
Walter Sieruk says
This reveals that those Muslims have no good or valid logic based arguments to defend Islam if it’s criticized .
Therefore the followers of Islam resort to making death threats and vandalism if Islam is “insulted.”
For Islam is based on strong ,and somethings spiteful emotions and powerful,and sometimes vicious , feeling to uphold it . Faith in Islam is not based logic or reason as its foundation .Just blind unquestioning feeling and emotions.
Such unreasoning folly is reflected in the old periodical POOR RICHARD’S ALMANAC in which Benjamin Franklin printed “To see by the eye of faith is to shut the door of reason.”
mortimer says
Walter, the verse of stoning is treated AS IF it were in the Koran, though it is not CURRENTLY in the Koran, Muslims PRETEND that it is STILL in the Koran though it is NOT FOUND in the Koran.
They think it is BLASPHEMY to say the verse of stoning is NOT found in the Koran, even though NO ONE can find the verse in the Koran.
gravenimage says
True, Mortimer. Here are two Hadith:
[Narrated ‘Aisha] “The verse of the stoning and of suckling an adult ten times were revealed, and they were (written) on a paper and kept under my bed. When the messenger of Allah expired and we were preoccupied with his death, a goat entered and ate away the paper.”
And:
Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas: ‘Umar said, “I am afraid that after a long time has passed, people may say, “We do not find the Verses of the Rajam (stoning to death) in the Holy Book,” and consequently they may go astray by leaving an obligation that Allah has revealed. Lo! I confirm that the penalty of Rajam be inflicted on him who commits illegal sexual intercourse, if he is already married and the crime is proved by witnesses or pregnancy or confession.” Sufyan added, “I have memorized this narration in this way.” ‘Umar added, “Surely Allah’s Apostle carried out the penalty of Rajam, and so did we after him.”
— Sahih al-Bukhari, 8:82:816
christianblood says
Mortimer is a liar, deceiver and hypocrite, he is in league with the jihadists. He repeatedly told me to drop my “christianblood” screen moniker which he thought is very offensive name and started calling me names afterwards!
He is the type of people that Jesus spoke about in the New Testament saying:
(..Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence…) St. Matthew 23:25
gravenimage says
christianblood wrote:
Mortimer is a liar, deceiver and hypocrite, he is in league with the jihadists. He repeatedly told me to drop my “christianblood” screen moniker which he thought is very offensive name and started calling me names afterwards!
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Mortimer took issue with christianblood’s username because he has made light of Christians being persecuted by Iran, Hezb’allah, and Chechnya.
christianblood has gone so far as to say that Christians persecuted in Iran are all “American spies”. I have pointed this out myself.
More:
He is the type of people that Jesus spoke about in the New Testament saying:
(..Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence…) St. Matthew 23:25
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There is nothing hypocritical about what Mortimer has said here. Citations, places.
mortimer says
Thank you, GI. Genocidal fascists always reveal their viciousness and lack of compassion for ‘others’.
The genocidal fascism of the BloodthirstyPseudoChristian is A GRAVE MORAL DISORDER and unless he REPENT of his criminal ideation, without doubt, he will perish eternally.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Mortimer.
While christianblood has said some pretty appalling things, though, I can never recall his preaching genocide. Do you have any links?
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Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
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Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
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Lydia Church says
I am proud of him too!!!
: D
And anyone like him!
gravenimage says
Thanks for that heartening link, Flavius.
mortimer says
An accusation of blasphemy against Islam is tantamount to a death sentence, because Muslim VIGILANTES know they must TAKE ACTION TO DEFEND THE HONOR OF ISLAM and receive HEAVENLY REWARDS … it is COMMANDED BY ALLAH and MOHAMMED and DISCRIMINATORY Sharia law …
“There is no indemnity obligatory for killing a non-Muslim at war (‘kafir harbi’) with Muslims.” -Reliance of the Traveller, o4.17, p.593
The Sharia manual of the Shafi school states:
“We have already discussed killing the person who, with intent, curses the Prophet, belittles him or slights him in any way. The judgement in this case is clear.” (i.e. the sentence is execution)- from Sharia law manual, “Qadhi Iyaadh in ash-Shifa”, Volume No.2, Page No. 27
-as-Suyuti writes: “(If they break their oaths…) This ayah (K. 9:11-12) is used as a proof by those who say that if a dhimmi attacks Islam (VERBALLY) or the Qur’an or MENTIONS the Prophet in a bad manner, HE IS KILLED, whether he has broken a treaty or not. Those who say that his repentance is accepted use as a proof, ‘hopefully they will stop.’”
– from a Sharia law web site…the “punishment of execution which sharee’ah imposes on everyone who reviles the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), whether he is a Muslim, a dhimmi or a mu’aahid, because transgressing against the status of the Prophets is disbelief in Allaah Almighty, and it invalidates every sanctity, right and covenant; it is a major betrayal which deserves the most severe punishment.
3 – Although this was a hadd punishment, it also comes under the heading of killing a harbi (a non-Muslim in a state of WAR against Islam), and it is permissible for anyone to kill a harbi.” (i.e. vigilante murder is thus permitted by Islam)
NOTE: a blasphemer is not forgiven, but must be killed. Is that what you want in any country? No.
gravenimage says
I hope this man survives.
mortimer says
AHHHH … the DISAPPEARING VERSE OF STONING that is NOT in the Koran. Now you see it, now you don’t.
Where is the VERSE OF STONING that OMAR said existed in the Koran? Where did ALLAH MISPLACE the VERSE OF STONING which HE PROMISED TO PRESERVE???
Obviously, if THE VERSE OF STONING was not preserved, then the Koran’s claim of preservation is false and Allah is false, and Islam is false.
The verse was IN the Koran, but now Muslims think that it SHOULD BE in the Koran and act AS IF it is STILL in the Koran, though the verse of stoning is NOT in the Koran. Confused? That’s ISLAM LOGIC 101.
gravenimage says
Maldives: Muslims call for murder of college chairman accused of insulting Islam, smash college door
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And this, for questioning whether it is holy to stone women to death.
God, I hate Islam.
DHazard says
M.O.B. rule. Muslims Offended, Because.
Or was it Muslims Offended By ….
mortimer says
Hazard, vigilantism is actually recommended by Mohammed and his words have the force of a decree from Allah. Thus, all Muslims are called to take the law into their own hands in the matter of BLASPHEMY.
Wellington says
“Muslims call for murder….”
Yeah, Muslims regularly call for murder (and that is what it is as opposed to a defensible killing, for instance as occurs in true self-defense situations).
No other major religion REMOTELY produces lethal believers as Islam does. Why? Well, because the Islamic theological blueprint allows for its believers to use force, even kill, in the name of their religion—and so often for nothing more than criticism of Islam, as here.
Once again I will point out that virtually all religions threaten two things for sundry kinds of opposition to the belief system of choice—1) punishment in the next world; 2) punishment by the deity (or deities) in this world. Here Islam is no different, but both of these threats pose little to no jeopardy to liberty.
But ONLY Islam has that “third threat,” i.e, the allowance by it followers IN THIS WORLD to use force, including killing, to enforce its theological dictates. Herein lies the ultimate menace which is Islam. If this “menace” did not exist, if this “third threat did not exist, neither would Jihad Watch. And neither would 9/11 have occurred. And neither would have occurred since that infamous date over 34,000 documented Islamic terrorist attacks worldwide just in the past 17+ years,
Oh, c’mon world. Islam sucks. I mean it really, really sucks as no other major faith remotely does—and it is due to the “third threat.”
So, it is truly sickening that Islam still gets any kind of pass. For God’s sake, just reading the effing Koran, hadiths and sira, as well as what EVERY major school of Islamic theology to this day, whether Sunni or Shiite, preach should waken up everyone with at least half a brain and not corrupted by political correctness, multiculturalism and massive willful ignorance. Unfortunately, the “requirements” I just mentioned cannot be found in a very large portion of the human race, most sadly and disastrously among so many current leaders of the West.
For the record, I have with this post of mine summed up, as any post of mine at JW over the past ten years could have summed up, everything about me where my take on Islam is concerned. Oh yeah, focus on the “third threat” I have mentioned to know where I have been coming from for a very long time now. That is, of course, assuming you are interested in what I have to say. Perhaps too much of an assumption, I readily admit, but, a la Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms in 1521, “Here I stand; I can do no other.”
Rufolino says
I for one am ALWAYS interested by your fresh and perceptive posts Wellington !
Take heart. What you have to say is appreciated here.
gravenimage says
+1
mortimer says
Wellington, unless people buy a COPY of THE RELIANCE OF THE TRAVELLER (Sharia law manual) and READ IT, they will never understand that Islam deputizes every Muslims to commit murder of blasphemers.
It’s Islamic law … and NOT a mere ‘opinion’.
Billy Chickens says
“A goat ate it” … And people believe such rubbish as islam. So, boys and girls. If you didn’t do your homework just say that your goat ate it. If it’s good enough of an excuse for islam and people believe it, it will be a good enough of and excuse for you, and no one…NO ONE…had better laugh at or disbelieve you. Because if they do you can hurl violent threats and silence them into submission.
sheliak says
Just read that Gwyneth Paltrow honeymooned in the Maldives and described it as heaven on earth. Who knew there were such people there?
somehistory says
A news article today said there is a travel warning about the Maldives due to drownings.
Perhaps there should be one due to islam.
wherever moslims are, there are dangers to everyone else.
Joe says
“The goat ate it” is the Sunni tradition. The Shia story is even crazier. They say that the Quran is perfect to the last diacritical mark, but Arabic didn’t have those marks, or at least the earliest Quran didn’t, until after Mohammed was dead for several decades. Even then, the marks were slowly developed as Arabic gained sophistication. Without the diacritical marks, which are not in the earliest Qurans after Mohammed, no one clearly knows what a verse says. Each verse has a dozen different meanings.
But the Shias say that every diacritical mark is preserved when no marks are in the original text.
Ezra says
The basis of the claim by moslems that blasphemy should be punished by death is wrong on several counts. I mention two: 1) muhammedanism has no honor to defend as it is a dishonorable enterprise. As evidence notice how they do their deeds of violence under cover of darkness hoping not to be seen doing their evil deeds; 2) blasphemy is a term correctly applied to God and His Christ, not man made systems like muhammedanism. In short, their so-called blashphemy cannot be applied because the false prophet and his evil religion are far from any divinity.
And people they are “moslems” not “Muslims”. You need to review your history for why this is so.
dlbrand says
Spencer stated: “Anytime there is an accusation of blasphemy against Islam, there is violence or the threat of violence. Eventually the whole world will be frightened and intimidated into silence, and Islam will be supreme. Or else some people will speak up despite the cost….”
Indeed , indeed.
As well is known by those who have much water under the bridge in their personal opposition to the way of the alleged Arabian “Prophet” — oppose this way, this message, this supremacy, do so at your own risk.
Do so willing, prepared, to pay the cost for your choice, your resignation, in brief, to state and show the facts and realities of this way; cost for so doing , left in the hands of God…