Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Shouldn't Muslim Clergy Condemn Lahore Attack?

Shouldn't Muslim clergy condemn the Lahore attack?  Well, by Western standards, they should, but the author plainly has no concept of Sharia or the mandate that every Muslim must do all they can to impose Islam on all of humanity. 

FROM HUFFINGTONPOST.COM:

Neale Donald Walsch
Writer

Shouldn't Muslim Clergy Condemn Lahore Attack?

Posted: 03/10/2013 12:26 pm

The question that must be asked in the aftermath of the latest incident revolving around Pakistan's blasphemy law is: Why are no Muslim spiritual leaders speaking out against the violence that Muslim mobs perpetrate under cover of the law? 

Because Muslim violence is mandated by the Quran and Sunna when persuasion or threats fail to convert non-Muslims. 

Indeed, why are no Muslim spiritual leaders speaking out against the law itself? 

Because, Pakistan's law is based on and subservience to the Quran.  (BTW, Pakistan is the Islamic Republic of Pakistan)

Another question that must be asked: How can merely an accusation of speaking in disrespect of the Prophet Muhammad or of Islam be enough for police to place official charges against a person? 

Because Islam is a religion of violence, retribution and mob rule.

The filing of such charges requires police to then arrest the accused, who must await trial in jail. Some people so accused have been killed in jail by religious zealots who have somehow reached them, or in the premises of the court, according to reports coming out of Pakistan. 

Well, those "religious zealots" are often the police and legal officials so reaching prisoners is not a problem.

The present situation again got out of hand March 9 when 3,000 rioters burned out virtually the entire Christian neighborhood of Joseph Colony in Lahore, Pakistan. The small enclave contained about 200 homes, 178 of which were destroyed by fire, according to a report in the New York Times.

The Times story said that the incident grew out of a simple allegation by a local Muslim barber that his friend, a Christian sanitation worker, had spoken disrespectfully about the Prophet Muhammad. Yet such an allegation is anything but simple in Pakistan. 

It IS that simple in Pakistan.  The population is 98% Muslim therefore all authority is Muslim and subject to the decrees of the Quran to conquer, convert or kill all infidels. 

There are those who reportedly observed the two men who say that they were indeed friends, that they had become inebriated together a few evenings before the charges were filed, during which time of drinking they had argued. The next day, the Muslim made the accusation.

According to press reports, there are those who say that the accusation is false, and has simply been used as a form of pay back for the argument. People in Pakistan know that accusations of violating the country's blasphemy law can spell big trouble, ruining the accused's life, if not ending it. (In Pakistan, insulting the Prophet Muhammad or the religion of Islam is a capital offense. There are at least 16 people on death row for blasphemy and another 20 are serving life sentences, Human Rights Watch says.)

After making the blasphemy accusation, the barber then reportedly called friends and members of his community and told them about the alleged disrespectful comments, and those people, in turn, became agitated and went to the local police, demanding action.

According to media reports originating in Lahore, the police felt pressured to file a case against the sanitation worker, who was immediately arrested. As word spread of the arrest and the filing of charges, 3,000 rioters on March 9 descended upon the Christian community of Joseph Colony where the sanitation worker lived, burned his house, and set fire to nearly every other home in the village as well.

At this writing, not a single major Muslim spiritual leader --- in Pakistan or anywhere else --- has openly condemned the violence, much less the law under which the sanitation worker was charged. It is perhaps understandable why.

"Two prominent politicians were assassinated in 2011 for urging reform of the law. The killer of one of the politicians was hailed as a hero, and lawyers at his legal appearances showered him with rose petals," a report by the Associated Press authored by Zaheer Babar and Rebecca Santana on March 9 said.

Still, if the role of the clergy of any religion is to lead the way to righteous action, moral thinking, and appropriate behavior, how can the increasingly vitriolic responses of thousands to a law that itself would seem by most standards to violate every norm of human rights be ignored, with Islam's spiritual leadership utterly silent? 

Here is where the writer most shows his ignorance of Islam.  In Islam, it is the spiritual leaders obligation to instruct his congregation to dominate all infidels, THAT is their norm of human rights.  In Islam, infidels have no human rights.  

Even more to the point, how can any people, using their spirituality as their reasoning, justify perpetrations of violence? People have done so, of course, for centuries -- as the Christian crusades evidenced, and as other religious brutality, savagery, and barbarity by people of many varying beliefs in a loving god has sadly demonstrated. 

How can they justify perpetrations of violence?  Because they are following the example of the most perfect man, Mohammed, a man who rose to power through continual acts of warfare, deceit and violence once he arrived in Median.

It has been said that no one does anything inappropriate, given their model of the world. Is it time to change humanity's model of the world? Have we had enough now of our ideas of a God who demands and commands violence and killing in the name of religious "honor"?