Pakistan: Muslims ask imam to make funeral announcement for Christian; they argue, and are charged with blasphemy

[duluxe]

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Pakistani police have arrested four men charged with blasphemy after they argued with an ‘imam’ (religious cleric) over whether a funeral announcement for a Christian neighbour could be made from a mosque, officials say.

The case occurred in the village of Khodi Khushal Singh, near the eastern city of Lahore, on November 18, a local police official Faryad, who goes by one name, told Al Jazeera on Thursday.

“The men have been detained and we have presented them before the court,” he said.

The men, who were Muslim, argued with a local cleric after he refused to make a funeral announcement for a Christian man from his mosque, the initial police report says.

“As soon as they arrived [at the mosque], they started cursing the mosque’s imam, they disrespected the mosque and they insulted Islam,” reads the report….

Pakistani human rights activists have decried the case against the four men as being unfounded.

“If there was a Muslim who in good faith wants to have an announcement such as this made in the community, it’s not an attack on someone’s faith, it’s a good cause,” said human rights activist and lawyer Nadeem Anthony.

“So if someone announces [a funeral] on a loudspeaker, how is it a religious violation?”

 

[JohnTan]

“As soon as they arrived [at the mosque], they started cursing the mosque’s imam, they disrespected the mosque and they insulted Islam,” reads the report….

imams are like little sultans for their community. To insult them is to insult the mohamedan religion. So it is blasphemy.

 

[syed putra]

imams are like little sultans for their community. To insult them is to insult the mohamedan religion. So it is blasphemy.

There is now need for imams in the mohamedan faith. Look at mecca.and medina. Can you find relics of mohamad mosque? Everything there are brand new.
Whatever evidence of earlier beliefs were destroyed and no desire to dig it out.

 

[JohnTan]

There is now need for imams in the mohamedan faith. Look at mecca.and medina. Can you find relics of mohamad mosque? Everything there are brand new.
Whatever evidence of earlier beliefs were destroyed and no desire to dig it out.

There's still the fragments of the black stone idol at mecca. It was stolen out of mecca by other moslem gangs long ago. By the time the idol was returned to mecca, it came back in pieces, and needed to be superglued. Even so, it's no longer a complete idol after all that damage it took. Is that why the idol is now hidden in some cube like the Transformers movie?

 

[syed putra]

There's still the fragments of the black stone idol at mecca. It was stolen out of mecca by other moslem gangs long ago. By the time the idol was returned to mecca, it came back in pieces, and needed to be superglued. Even so, it's no longer a complete idol after all that damage it took. Is that why the idol is now hidden in some cube like the Transformers movie?

Th black stone has no significant place in the belief.

 

[JohnTan]

Th black stone has no significant place in the belief.

The black stone may not have significance in your particular version of islam, but it has a huge significance to the overwhelming majority of moslems who bow before it 5 times a day and for those who make the pilgrimmage to mecca.