Pakistan’s blasphemy laws are routinely used for the worst human rights abuses. The world yawns, as stories such as this one don’t fit the narrative.
“PAKISTAN: Christian Hospital Worker in Danger After Being Accused of Blasphemy,” Voice of the Martyrs, October 12, 2022:
Forty-two-year-old James Masih has been a hospital worker at the THQ Hospital for the last 12 years.
Now, his life is under threat due to a false allegation last week that James committed blasphemy.
The allegation, which was made last week by a disgruntled Muslim hospital patient, has drawn much media attention in a video that has now gone viral on social media and has been featured in the Punjab local news.
The incident occurred last Wednesday 5 October when a Muslim woman named Nazia went to the hospital for a medical screening.
James, whose duties included assisting staff in the emergency ward, described their interaction: “I asked her to go to Room 11 to get her blood pressure checked, but she refused. While I was trying my best to convince her to go to Room 11, a staff nurse came. I told the nurse that this lady was not listening to me, and the nurse then asked the patient to go to Room 11. She listened to her.”
After completing her initial screening with the doctor, Nazia returned to the waiting room and began abusing James. “She came back to me and started threatening and accusing me of uttering disrespectful words about the prophet Muhammad,” he said. “I hadn’t done any such thing.”
“I am very concerned about my safety and that of my family, and don’t know how we can continue living here. [Blasphemy] is a very sensitive matter, and in such cases, people become very emotional. They could kill me on the spot, as normally happens in such cases. There are a number of examples where innocent people have been killed based on one person’s accusations.”…
CogitoErgoSum says
Muslims will always take the word of another Muslim over the word of any Infidel. But Muslims can be liars too. It’s stupid not to require the testimony of several witnesses in a court of law before finding somone guilty of anything – but even apart from the problem of stupidy Islam will always have the problem of instilling hate and aggressiveness within the hearts and minds of its adherents.
Hank says
Nothing could possibly go wrong. Lying against infidels is authorized and approved by Mr Mo. It is called Taqiya. Even if that lying has consequences like getting his whole family killed and his house burned down by an ignorant Muslim mob. So the Muslim in this case did nothing wrong as she was just practicing her faith by using a tool given her in the Quran called Taqiya. It’s just a means to an end. In this case the end was to settle a score.