Pakistan cleric offers reward for killing Christian woman

Wonderful, simply wonderful… One reads stories pertaining to these Islamic religious freaks almost on a daily basis, and then Muslims complain that Americans are prejudice against their so-called “peaceful” faith. Yet this is currently the only religion that is repeatedly responsible for death and destruction. This is what Muslims call peace?

Look at the photo below; these people are emotional cripples. Only religion can have this effect on the brain. TGO

Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) – A hardline cleric in northwest Pakistan on Friday offered a reward of 6,000 dollars to anyone who kills a Christian mother sentenced to death for insulting the Prophet Mohammed.

Maulana Yousuf Qureshi issued the call in Peshawar, the capital of northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, at a rally against moves to pardon the woman.

Asia Bibi, a mother of five, was sentenced on November 8 to death by hanging, under controversial blasphemy laws that human rights activists say encourage Islamist extremism.

The government attempted to pardon Bibi after an international outcry over the case, but a Pakistani court on Monday prevented it from granting her a swift pardon.

“We demand that the government should hang her to death under the law. If it does not do so, we will offer a reward of 500,000 rupees (6,000 dollars) to anyone killing her,” Qureshi said.

“There are hundreds of thousands of people including mujahedin (warriors) and Taliban who are ready to sacrifice their lives for the honour of the Prophet Mohammed. Anyone of them could finish her,” Qureshi said.

About 200 people attended the rally after the weekly Friday prayers at the historic 17th century Mahabat Khan mosque in central Peshawar. Qureshi is the prayer leader at the mosque but does not have a large following.

He has offered rewards for killings in the past — including an offer in 2006 of one million dollars and a car for the deaths of artists whose controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed appeared in Danish newspapers.

But no one has yet attempted to claim his rewards.

Bibi can be executed only if the Lahore high court upholds her sentence, which she has appealed. No date has so far been set for the appeal hearing.

Most of those convicted of blasphemy in Pakistan have their sentences overturned or commuted on appeal through the courts.

Bibi was arrested in June 2009 after Muslim women said that she had made derogatory remarks about the Prophet Mohammed. She was set upon by a mob, then arrested by police and sentenced on November 8 this year.

Rights activists and pressure groups say it is the first time that a woman has been sentenced to hang in Pakistan for blasphemy.

A report commissioned by the government recommended a pardon, saying that “the blasphemy case against Asia Bibi has been registered on grounds of personal enmity”.

Her family said they had been forced to go into hiding after they received death threats.

Only around three percent of Pakistan’s population of 167 million are estimated to be non-Muslim.

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5 Responses to Pakistan cleric offers reward for killing Christian woman

  1. love of GOD says:

    TO TGO . THE truth was told by a man called JESUS CHRIST. IF you would only read the bible you will see the propheys of JESUS have so far come true.There are over 300 prophecys about JESUS. His word is TRUE. I did not beleive until I studyed the prophecys in the bible. The Proof is in Prophecy. Study for yourself and you will see for yourself the true Prophet. Then you will be able too read GODS WORD.and understand your place. I wish you the best of luck,and hope your fears dont stop you looking for the TRUTH….

    • TGO says:

      Unfortunately, I have read the Bible. I wanted to know what all the buzz was about. Needless to say, I wish I would have spent my time reading the story of the Three Little Pigs or Little Red Riding Hood instead. The Bible is nothing but a collection of books, written by ignorant, barbaric men with a great deal of imagination. The books that make up the Bible were written mostly in Greek with some in Aramaic and translated many, many times over into different languages throughout the centuries. These books were also hand-picked along the way until they finally settled on the composite volume currently in existence. The Bible is full of fairy tales (talking animals, people living hundreds of years, false miracles, Jonah supposedly surviving for 3 days in the stomach of a whale, etc., etc., etc. Anyone who actually believes anything written in the Bible to be historically true needs to have his head examined.

      Open your mind… Had you been born in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia you would more than likely be praying to Muhammad instead of Jesus Christ. Religion is demographic. People generally take up the religion of their birthplace and/or parents; it’s all random.

  2. love of GOD says:

    TO maulana yousuf qureshi, I will offer anyone 60,000 for the safe delievey of Asia Bibi and her family to AUSTRALIA. I WILL SPONSOR HER AND HER FAMILY.

  3. Infidelius says:

    Hey lets ALL threaten to burn a Koran if somebody does kill this woman. No need to even buy one, as many charitable Islamic websites will send a copy for FREE!

    • TGO says:

      Now, now, let’s not get nasty with our Muslim friends. They are our friends you know, or so they say. Then again, they also say that theirs is a peaceful faith. If theirs is a peaceful faith, I’m the Pope, and I can assure the readers – I ain’t no Pope.

      Truth be told, there is no such thing as a peaceful faith. They’re all divisive and founded on superstition and fear.

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