Samad does not investigate the role of the military establishment in the so called Lawyers Movement for the restoration of his hero, Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, whom he rendered a medal on behalf of the Harvard University, where he was studying on American tax payers’ money. Interestingly, Samad does not question any information or the data provided by his mentor Hamid Mir, the Taliban informant and spokesman, on the “reaction” of the drone attacks and the USA war on Taliban and Al Qaeda.
The security guard who shot the governor was not funded by a terrorist organisation or a political group.” Critical readers of Pakistani media are quite familiar with such narratives and their origins. This is particularly the case in view of Samad’s efforts to prove that Taseer’s murder “is a hate crime and nothing else. If Samad went through so much trouble in EXCLUSIVELY and SELECTIVELY going after a fatwa based on the Quran and in condemnation of the murderers of Shaheed Taseer, we shudder to think what would be done with the opinion of Muslim minorities? We have other instances of scholars and ulema from minority sects and do not wish to reveal them for obvious reasons. While concerned for the safety of democratic and progressive voices, we are equally worried for the general wellbeing of the common people of Pakistan and express our solidarity with them.” Governor Taseer was one of the “liberal and democratic voices in Pakistan who have been fighting for the repeal of this reprehensible law.” Further, “We are worried by the trend of increasing religious intolerance in Pakistan and feel that if not fought with resolve and courage, it might lead to a deathly silence in Pakistan for a long, long time to come. “The signatories said they were shocked as much by the killing as by the “cynical and vocal support” extended to the killer by extremist sections in Pakistan. This supports the fatwa posted on LUBP which even provided the Quranic verses in support of this moderate and well reasoned opinion.įurthermore, here is another instance where moderate and progressive Muslims from across the sectarian divide have issued a statement that opposes the fatwa issued by our establishment sponsored Islamofascists: If ever there were any case of such punishment being meted out, it must have been in obedience to an executive order – an extremely rare exception – and not carried out under any general law of punishment.” Except in the case of murder, there is no such severe legal punishment in Islam. Islam suggests capital punishment for only one offence, and that is murder.
He simply directed them to one of his companions, Hassan bin Sabit al-Ansari, who would respond to their blasphemous statements and remove their misunderstanding by means of argument. The Prophet of Islam never suggested any legal punishment for those persons. “It is on the record that, during the Prophet’s time, there were some non-believers who used to use abusive language against the Prophet of Islam. In his stirring article, Blasphemy and the Islamic Way, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan has this to say: Now we have two more opinions and statements from progressive, tolerant and moderate scholars from across the border. The LUBP has been following Samad Khurrum’s hectic efforts (on Twitter and Facebook) to discredit the anti-Mumtaz Qadri Fatwa posted on our site (which was sent to us by a reader in India on condition of anonymity because of threats to his life). “Civil” Society must stop blaming the PPP: A rebuttal to Naveen Naqvi and the ‘Twitter Opportunists Club’ “The blaming the victim brigade” and Shahbaz Bhatti’s murderĪn open letter to President Zardari - by Shahid Saeed
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