A PAKISTANI student is in custody in Pakistan following his recent arrest for blasphemy.
The unnamed student was arrested for allegedly writing derogatory remarks about the “prophet” Mohammed in his test papers, according to this report.
Mohammed and mad mullah Saeed
Police in the port city of Karachi said the student was taken into custody following a complaint from the head of the education examination board who allegedly found the remarks on the student’s answer sheets.
A police official said the student’s answer sheets were obtained before he was taken into custody and that the accused had since written an apology.
A Â judicial magistrate has reportedly ordered that the student be sent to a juvenile detention centre. The report said the student told investigators he had became troubled after discussing “certain issues” with his cousins visiting from Norway.
Meanwhile, it is reported here that mad mullah Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, chief of a lunatic organisation called Jamaat-ud-Dawa, made a rare appearance on Sunday when he addressed a rally in Lahore, capital of Pakistan’s Punjab province, and vowed to resist any change in the blasphemy law.
He used the occasion to lambast Pope Ratzinger, who had issued the statement about the need to repeal Pakistan’s blasphemy law in the aftermath of Punjab governor Salman Taseer’s assassination by his security guard on January 4.
Saeed asked what right the Pope had to poke his nose into Pakistan’s affairs, and added:
The foreign countries want to give a message to their public that it is ok to demean Islam … The anti-Islamic forces are out to conspire against Pakistan and I urge the government to severe all diplomatic ties with these countries, including the US.
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February 1st, 2011 at 10:43 am
A little bit of European free-thought seems to have punctured Pakistan’s Islam bubble there, and it doesn’t sound like it took too much effort for it to sink in.
February 1st, 2011 at 11:01 am
Do these religious folk really provide any value to humanity?
February 1st, 2011 at 11:02 am
I do agree that a foreign head of state should not interfere with the internal workings of another country. That said, I don’t consider ratboy to be a head of state, the vatican isn’t a country (though it is full of—no, no, mustn’t go there).
I think this student needs more visits from his cousins, they’ve obviously managed to get his brain working, just.
February 1st, 2011 at 11:03 am
Severing diplomatic ties, and all other ties for that matter, doesn’t seem that bad an idea. In fact we have many death cult citizens in the UK who would prefer to live under Pakistan’s despotic regime. Maybe we could provide the necessary transport so that they can have their wish granted, before the ties are severed of course.
February 1st, 2011 at 11:03 am
@Mike, no!
February 1st, 2011 at 11:17 am
I need to find me a atheist meeting for a group hug of reason and rational thought, last weeks meeting is wearing off. The stupid is too much this week
February 1st, 2011 at 11:36 am
“…I urge the [Pakistan] government to severe all diplomatic ties with these [western] countries, including the US”
So do I.
February 1st, 2011 at 12:42 pm
“Saeed asked what right the Pope had to poke his nose into ….”
Well he has as the xtian leader as much ‘right’ as this schite for brains idiot does. After all there are xtians in that country and as most know both the IsLameics and the xtians and other religious have to be told by their leaders what to think and do as they are basically incapable of real thought. The proof of the statement lies in their very actions and speech.
February 1st, 2011 at 2:28 pm
The student discusses “certain issues” with his cousins from Norway and his faith, never before I suppose subjected to challenge, goes belly up. Not difficult to achieve bearing in mind the nonsensical beliefs, and irrational claptrap, on which it is based. The only way it can be sustained in anyone with half a brain is by censorship, ignorance and condign punishment if you step out of line.
You see in this case, in a more heated form, the reason why the religious mafia at the BBC must censor all sceptical opinions on Thought for the Day. Only people of faith may appear. If the listeners, like this student, were given an intellectual and atheist prod, the game would be up. They might actually start to think.
I conducted a little survey of TFTD involving six friends who listen to the whole programme. (I know if they are friends of mine they must be disreputable people “not of faith” but here goes anyway.) My question was whether if they listened could they recall the subject. Results:
2 – switched off till the weather forecast arrived and they reckoned they had the timing to the point where it was a reflex action.
1 – wouldn’t miss it for anything. Loves the way they increasingly try to start with something intriguing and shove in god in the last few seconds.
1 – there is a ponderous cum preachy cum whiny tone that always puts him into non attention mode. Never know what they are saying.
1 – usually foams at the mouth because they are never challenged and the content, with few exceptions, is vacuuous.
1 – listens with attention as his wife is a fan and a christian and she insists he “might learn something.”
February 1st, 2011 at 5:02 pm
Well, I s’pose they’ll be burning the Norwegian flag now…or will they burn their own flag seeing as these boys were cousins.
I just hope the lad isn’t having too hard a time of it where they’ve jailed him.
February 1st, 2011 at 5:18 pm
Since every religous idiot feels a duty to stick his nose into other people’s matters, Saeed can’t be surprised if other play the same kind of game.
As a small example: some Xtians at my door this morning, inquiring if I thought that – I guess their – religion would bring peace to the world? I had to say ‘No’ and was then told that their Bible contains many wonderful things that would bring peace about. I had to leave them there, afer reminding them of the more ‘not suitable for children’ stuff in their book.
February 1st, 2011 at 5:36 pm
Graham: I don’t think the vatican is a country; rather, given the dramatis personae therein, it’s more like “another country”.
February 1st, 2011 at 6:40 pm
I think the vatican is a country when it suits itself.
But lets hope with everything thats happening in Tunisia and Egypt and now the government in Jordan is bringing in reforms to head off any protests that this wave of revolution keeps spreading.
February 1st, 2011 at 10:10 pm
ZombieHunter – trouble is, a lot of these countries are, or were, open to having dialogue with the West. Could be that what we get instead is hardline Islamic states run along Shiria Law lines. (So, a bit like America – but with their versions of Sarah Palin, Pastor Terry Jones and Fred Phelps brandishing copies of the Koran instead of the Bible.) Doesn’t bear thinking about.
February 2nd, 2011 at 1:01 am
After reading the threadhead, I was disappointed. Not because of what I learned, but what I didn’t learn. I haven’t seen a CNN segment on the subject, I just saw it on their ticker, and I was so curious as to what the student had said that infuriated the clergy.
I have said it before, that Pakistan, along with Iran, are cesspools of Islamic extremism. After 9/11 a call came from George W. Bush to Mushariff asked “are you for us or against us?” They let us use their airspace unchallenged, and we therefore deemed them “allies in the war on terror”. I deem them milktoast trying to play both sides of the game. They receive billions in military aid to subdue the northwest territories where Taliban and Al Quaeda militants find refuge, yet they do token service. When unmanned drones destroy known safehouses in those territories, they shut down supply routes, claiming they cannot police the local rage. What does a few billion buy?
Of deepest concern is that they are a nuclear power, and this story demonstrates beyond any doubt, that fanatic islam, if not extremist islam is the law of the land. Obama worries about boots on the ground in Afghanistan, a clearly legal target, but as a commander in chief, I think he needs to have boots on the ground in Pakistan, NOW!!! Enough dancing, we know the enemy.
NeoWolfe
February 2nd, 2011 at 8:27 am
We have a consensus ..
“Pakistan should severe all diplomatic ties with these countries, including the US”
Think of the money we would save!
February 2nd, 2011 at 9:57 am
@gsw Not only would it save the rest of us buckets of money but it would reduce the stress on all those actors in Pakistan pretending to clamp down on terrorism, no to mention the banking charges made to the officials who send their cut to their Swiss bank accounts. You are right, cutting all ties can do nothing but good.
February 2nd, 2011 at 12:24 pm
@ gsw & Newspaniard Rhetoric and hyperbole aside, the last thing nations should do is stop talking to each other. When the talking stops, the fighting usually starts.
February 3rd, 2011 at 6:59 am
More here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl.....a-12351125
February 3rd, 2011 at 8:05 am
Coming sooon to a town near you!
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/.....m-tweet.do
February 3rd, 2011 at 9:35 pm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new.....-case.html
February 4th, 2011 at 12:02 am
The terrible tweet:
“Says in the Holy Qu’ran Mohammad used to get his neighbours to vote by AV which of his 4 wives he’d shag each night.”
I wonder if you must select only one and does it include toddlers? Were there any side bets on whether he poked them in the mud puddle? How about the ol’ salty gargle?
NeoWolfe