August 20, 2012, - 11:40 am
Paki Down’s Syndrome Girl Facing Death Nothing New in Islamic World (Where Mentally Disabled Are Seen as Subhuman)
As I’ve noted several times on this site, the Islamic world doesn’t view the mentally disabled as human. In fact, Muslims regard mentally disabled fellow Muslims as damaged goods to be disposed of like an abortion. And, so, I am neither shocked nor surprised that a Pakistani girl with Down’s Syndrome may face a death sentence in a blasphemy trial. After all, Muslims in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority constantly send their mentally disabled with suicide bombs to blow themselves and Israeli soldiers up. Muslims in Iraq did this with a mentally disabled Muslim woman whom they tried to use as a bomb against American soldiers and other Iraqis. And I noted that Palestinian Muslims who wanted to get rid of their Down’s Syndrome boy sent him into a restricted area where they knew he’d be shot up by Israeli soldiers (the soldiers saved him from his horrid family). My own former Saudi Muslim neighbors (I’ll tell you about them another time) locked their empty apartment and left their Down’s Syndrome child to roam the parking lot helplessly (and she couldn’t speak English or communicate). So, this story is just consistent with how they treat those who are handicapped, either physically or mentally. That this girl in Pakistan is a Christian makes her doubly subhuman in their minds.
Greater Barbaria: How Muslims Treat The Mentally Disabled
A Christian girl with Down’s Syndrome has been arrested on blasphemy charges in Pakistan, accused of burning pages inscribed with verses from the Koran, police and activists said on Sunday.
Police arrested Rimsha, who is recognized by a single name, on Thursday after she was reported holding in public burnt pages which had Islamic text and Koranic verses on them, a police official told AFP.
A conviction for blasphemy is punishable by death in Pakistan. . . .
Angry Muslim protesters held rallies demanding she be punished, said the official, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case. . . .
Rimsha was produced before a court on Friday and remanded in custody for 14 days, another police official said. She is expected to go before the court again by end of this month. . . .
The girl’s alleged behavior sparked Muslim anger in Mehrabad, an area of the capital where she lives with her parents and where up to 800 Christians reside. Christians there were forced to leave amid mounting fury. . . .
“She was just 11 to 12 years old,” he said, adding it was a hugely sensitive issue and “we would not like it to be mishandled and would rather want to resolve it amicably”.
Even if this girl is set free, she faces a likely death sentence anyway, as one or more Pakistanis will probably kill her. Oh, and by the way, this isn’t just “a few extremists who hijacked a religion.” Nope, it’s a sea of Muslims throughout Pakistan who mostly want her dead. It’s not just a few fringe “extremist Muslims.” Remember . . .
THIS. IS. ISLAM.
Tags: blasphemy, burning pages of the koran, burnt pages of the koran, Christian, Christian Girl, Death Sentence, Down's Syndrome, how Islam treats the mentally disabled, Islam, Jihad, Koran, Mehrabad, Pakistan, Rimsha
That saddens me as a Muslim; since blasphemy is not publishable in Islam and we are instructed per the Quran to ignore those who are blasphemous to us and our religion. I wish more Muslims follow the Quran as it is without outside influences such as non-proven Hadiths and Fatwas; which both are things that emerged after the death of the Prophet.
“(Muslims) are those who walk on the earth in humility, and when the ignorant address them, they say ‘Peace'” (Quran 25:63)
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“And when they hear vain talk, they turn away therefrom and say: ‘To us our deeds, and to you yours; peace be to you: we seek not the ignorant.'” (Quran 28:55)
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“When ye hear the signs of Allah held in defiance and ridicule, ye are not to sit with them unless they turn to a different theme.” (Quran 4:140)
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“And those who take as protectors others besides Him – Allah doth watch over them; and thou art not the disposer of their affairs.” (Quran 42:6)
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“Let there be no compulsion in religion…” (Quran 2:256)
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“To you be your Way, and to me mine.” (Quran 109:6)
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“Say, ‘The truth is from your Lord’: Let him who will believe, and let him who will reject it..” (Quran 18:29)
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“Those who pervert the Truth in Our Signs are not hidden from Us… Do what ye will: Verily He seeth (clearly) all that ye do.” (Quran 41:40)
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“And to rehearse the Qur’an: and if any accept guidance, they do it for the good of their own souls, and if any stray, say: ‘I am only a Warner.'” (Quran 27:92)
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“Say: ‘O ye men! Now Truth hath reached you from your Lord! those who receive guidance, do so for the good of their own souls; those who stray, do so to their own loss: and (say) I am not (set) over you to arrange your affairs.'” (Quran 10:108)
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PP on August 20, 2012 at 11:46 am