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Once again Islam and Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم is attacked by the west. The
US is mourning the death of Chris Stevens (US ambassador to Libya) and three
other Americans, killed in Benghazi and the filmmaker of the controversial movie
is trying to save his life hiding his face.
In this most recent act of blasphemy an anti-Islam film by the name of
“Innocence of Muslims” sparked deadly protests in the Middle East, amid
conflicting claims of Jewish or Coptic Christian involvement. The film’s
director Sam Bacile said Tuesday he is American-Israeli and had Jewish financial
backing. He went into hiding after the protests in Egypt and Libya over his
low-budget movie.
Islam, Blasphemy and West
Once again Islam and Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم is attacked by the west. The
US is mourning the death of Chris Stevens (US ambassador to Libya) and three
other Americans, killed in Benghazi and the filmmaker of the controversial movie
is trying to save his life hiding his face.
In this most recent act of blasphemy an anti-Islam film by the name of
“Innocence of Muslims” sparked deadly protests in the Middle East, amid
conflicting claims of Jewish or Coptic Christian involvement. The film’s
director Sam Bacile said Tuesday he is American-Israeli and had Jewish financial
backing. He went into hiding after the protests in Egypt and Libya over his
low-budget movie.
According to Sam Bacile, he had raised $5 million to make it from about 100
Jewish donors, and used some 60 actors and 45 crew members to make the two-hour
movie in a three-month period last year in California.
The film was screened in one Hollywood movie theater about three months ago,
and sank without trace. But after the failure of English version an
Arabic-language dubbed version was released last week and footage was aired by
an Egyptian TV station, triggering protests.
This is not the first occasion that Christians or Jews used media as a tool
to malign Islam. A Christian surveyor, Professor Edward reported in the TIME
Magazine of April 16, 1979 that in a span of 150 years, from 1800 CE to 1950 CE
over 60,000 books have been written against Islam. It works out to more than one
book against Islam every day.
What is blasphemy?
Christians define blasphemy as:
“The public or criminal libel of speaking matter relating to God, Jesus
Christ, the Bible, or the Book of Common Prayer, intending to wound the feelings
of mankind or to excite contempt and hatred against the Church under any law
established, or to promote immorality.”
The punishment for blasphemy in most of the major religions is death. It is
stated in the Old Testament of the Bible, which is the authority for both the
Jews and the Christians:
“And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be
put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him.”
[Book of Leviticus 24:16]
Moreover, if we read Manusmriti, the Law book of the Hindus, it says:
“If a man born of a lower class intentionally bothers a priest,
the king should punish him physically with various forms of corporal and capital
punishment that make men shudder.” [Manusmriti 9:248]
Blasphemy in Islam, as in other faiths, is speech that is insulting to God.
In Muslim history, blasphemy came to be associated mainly with perceived insults
to the prophet of Islam.
Islamic traditions indicate that from the start of Islamic history, speaking
against Muḥammad صلى الله عليه وسلم had come to be regarded an intolerable act
within the Muslims. Later, legal scholars began to discuss blasphemy, whether
against God, the prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم , or his companions, in the
context of apostasy (riddah) and unbelief (kufr). Islamic Law takes a more
severe view toward reviling Muḥammad صلى الله عليه وسلم than it does toward
reviling God. By the beginning of the fourth Islamic century, a consensus had
developed among the scholars that the one who insults the prophet of Islam must
be put to death. Muslim nations today who seek to abide by Islamic Law continue
to mete out punishment to citizens accused of blasphemy.
In 1982, Pakistani President Zia ul-Haqq introduced Section 295B into the
Pakistan Penal Code, punishing “defiling the Holy Qur’an” with life
imprisonment. In 1986, Section 295C was introduced, mandating the death penalty
for “use of derogatory remarks in respect of the Holy Prophet.”
Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم had ordered to his followers “Whoever curses a
prophet kill him,” (Tabarani, Daraqutni) and there are many examples of people
during his time who were guilty of blaspheming Islam and its Prophet. Most of
these people were assassinated with Muhammad’s blessing, and no punishment or
compensation was imposed on the murderers.
Why blasphemy law is different in Islam and other Religions /
West.
In Islam blasphemy is treated as Treason. In order to properly grasp the
significance of why blasphemy are treated as Treason, it is crucial to note that
the Islamic concepts of “State, nation/nationality,” “citizenship” and
“naturalization” are drastically different from these notions as we understand
and routinely use them in the Western secular countries where they are defined
as follows: a “nation” is defined as:
- “a body of people recognized as an entity by virtue of their
historical, linguistic or ethnic links; a body of people united under a
particular political organization, and usually occupying a defined
territory.”
- And a “state” is defined as:
“a self-governing political community occupying its own territory; a
partly autonomous member of a political federation; the political organism as an
abstract concept.”
Islam came to class these notions among the evil traits of humanity and tried
to bring about a cure. What is the Islamic cure? Or to put it another way: How
different then is the Islamic concept? To start with, the basis of the Islamic
nationality is religious not political, ethnic, linguistic or regional.
A common ideology is the basis of “nationality” among the Muslims and Islam
is this ideology and this Islamic ideology is a synthesis of the requirements
both of the body and the soul. After all, life in this world is but ephemeral,
and there must be a difference between the behavior of a man and a beast.
“Naturalization” (to grant citizenship) or “nationality” in Islam is a thing
depending solely upon the will and the voluntary choice of the individual, not
on an essentially ineluctable accident of nature.
In Islam, contemptuous, irreverent speech or sacrilegious acts, not only
about God , but also about the Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and all other
Prophets, and the members of these Prophets’ households, as well as the holy
scriptures, including the Qur’an, and other things that are of a similar
religious nature (i.e., which are regarded as sacred) are all acts of
blasphemy.
Muslims regard blasphemy to be as heinous a crime as apostasy. Since
blasphemy is tantamount to apostasy, which in Islam is an act of political
treason, (i.e. a crime against the state which is a capital offence) the
punishment for blasphemy is the same as the punishment for apostasy. In other
words, by committing blasphemy, a Muslim takes himself out of the pale of Islam
and becomes an infidel, an apostate. As to the question of the severity of
punishment for treason, we need only mention the fact that almost every country
and every nation in the world regards Political Treason as a capital offence
which calls for capital punishment involving forfeiture of life.
In order to bring the differences and similarities of the two systems into
relief, the following illustration may be useful: -
Freedom of speech, Islam and Blasphemy
As the concept of state and its laws are different in Islam compared to west
and other religions, similar is the case with freedom of speech.
The concept of freedom of speech came from the capitalist ideology and
according to this ideology God and religion should be separated from life’s
affair. According to this ideology individuals or human beings will define how
to live their lives; freedom of individual, ownership, religion and speech are
the foundation of capitalism. The limits of speech and right to speak both are
defined by human beings.
This concept completely contradicts Islam. Muslims will follow the orders of
the Creator of the human beings (Allah). Muslims will lead their life according
to the teaching of Islam and Allah is the one who gave the right of speech to
people and defined the limits on what is acceptable and unacceptable.
Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم said “Whosoever believes in Allah and the
last day, then let him speak good (khair) or remain silent.” Khair in this
hadith means Islam or what Islam approved of.
According to Islamic law, speaking ill of Islam, its prophets and its holy
scriptures (Quran and Hadith) comes in Blasphemy and Blasphemy is punishable by
death.
Islam is a religion of peace. Muslims respect every religion, for Muslims
Jesus Christ, Isaac (Ishaq) and Jacob (Yaqoob) are also as honorable as our
Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم that’s why muslims never disrespect, mock or
ridiculate them. But as Muslims respect all the prophets because it’s the part
of Islam similarly we can’t tolerate if someone disgrace Muhammad صلى الله عليه
وسلم because this is also the part of Islam.
Today there is virulent propaganda against Islam in the international media,
in international newspapers and magazines, on radio broadcast stations and
satellite TV channels. A section of the media is attacking Islam, and this has
reached epidemic levels especially after eleventh of September, 2001.
It’s an open fact that in spite of all the negative propaganda in western
media, Islam is the fastest growing religion, not just in the west but also
across the world. Mocking and ridiculing our messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم can’t
stop this. It cannot bring any harm to the grace of our Prophet but it always
hurt the feelings of Muslims just because Muslims love him the most in this
world and whenever our loved ones are disgraced, it’s beyond our tolerance.
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No Place for Women in India
No Place for Women in India
by Atiq-Durrani
Mahatma Gandhi once said “Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; to me, the female sex is not the weaker sex.”by Atiq-Durrani
According to Jawaharlal Nehru “You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women”.
In a recent survey, polling 370 gender specialists found India to be the worst place to be a woman among G20 countries, considering policies that promote gender equality, safeguards against violence and exploitation and access to healthcare.
Results of this survey were published in leading newspapers in the world last month and just after one month our TV screens showed us why India is the worst country to be a woman and how woman are treated in India.
A video was aired on Indian TV channels showing a gang of 18 men molesting a young 16 year old girl on the busiest street of Guwathi city in north-east India. A young girl left a bar after celebrating the birthday of her friend was attacked by a gang of 18 men. They dragged her on the road by her hair, tried to rip off her clothes while smiling at the camera that filmed this incident. She was abused for 45 minutes but no one even tried to help her. They were busy in capturing the video of assault with their mobile phones but no one called the police when the girl was begging for help.
This is not the first time that a girl is treated like this on the roads of India. Just after one week of Guwathi incident, similar kind of incident happened in Sewri-Mumbai. Where a 23 year old girls was attacked, abused and slapped by two boys in broad day light.
In a similar kind of incident a girl committed suicide after teasing and harassment by a boy just few days after the Guwathi incident. In Osmanabad- India, a girl set herself at fire and committed suicide after persistent harassment by a 22-year-old boy.
On the New Year eve of 2012, 20-25 drunken boys attacked a woman on Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road and molested her.
In May 2010, a girl was molested and beaten up by a mob in bright day light in Patna Bihar. The girl was striped, humiliated and paraded in cycle rickshaw on the crowded roads of Patna. The crowd was watching the show of woman humiliation but no one helped her.
In Jan 2009, around 40 people reportedly barged into a pub on Balmatta Road in Manglore and viciously attacked girls who were at the pub. At least two girls had been hospitalized.
In 2009 a girl was filmed throwing stones at the Army Jawan of India who tried to molest her.
On New Year eve in 2007, a girl was attacked by a gang at Gateway of India. the girl was stripped and molested in the crowd.
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There is no law in India against sexual assault or harassment. In case of molestation the culprit is charged under the cases of “insulting or outraging the modesty of a woman” or “intruding upon her privacy” and the punishment for these charges if proved is only 1 year maximum.With population of 1.22 billion, India is the second most populous country in the world. 591.4 million population is female in India that is about 48.5% of total Indian population. According to UN Population Fund, India recorded 56,000 maternal deaths in 2010. According to International Center for Research on Woman, 44.5% girls in India get married before the age of 18. According to UNISEF, 52% of Indian women think that it’s justifiable for man to beat women.
Gulshan Rehman, health program development adviser, explained the conditions of woman in India more precisely. He said “In India, woman and girls continue to be sold as cattels, married off as young as 10, burned alive as a result of dowry-related disputes and young girls exploited and abused as domestic slave labor.”
The birth of a girl, according to a popular Hindu saying, is like the arrival of Lakshmi – the four-armed goddess of wealth, often depicted holding lotus flowers and an overflowing pot of gold.
But in reality being a girl in India is a continuous struggle against life. Her fight against life starts in the womb. “It’s a Girl” are the three deadliest words in India. India is among the top nations where girls are eliminated. In last three decades 12 million girls were aborted in India.
If by miracle or ignorance of the parents about the sex of the baby in the mother’s womb, a baby girl makes it to the world alive; she will be facing other life threatening dangers. Baby girls are killed or abandoned if not aborted as fetuses. Infant girls are killed through different methods. Girls are buried alive and they die because of suffocation. Some are strangled to death. In a trailer of documentary “It’s a girl”, most disturbing scene is one with an Indian woman who, unable to contain her laughter, confesses to having killed eight infant daughters.
Recently an incident was reported by NDTV, of a seven year old girl adopted by her uncle and aunt, who could not have children of their own. The adopted mother accused her father for raping the little girl. The man was arrested, but just after two days the mother stabbed the girl to death and tried to kill herself. She said it was difficult for her to take the pressure, after the family harassed her for going to the police. In another case a 3 year old daughter was raped by her father in Bangalore. In Delhi a 15 year old girl was raped and beaten by her father for 2 years.
If a girl in India makes it to the age of marriage, dowry is the problem she will be facing for marriage. Dowry is the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage. Many parents can’t pay the amount or can’t fulfill the demands of the groom’s family. Even the curse of dowry continues after marriage. According to National Crime Record Bureau, one bride was murdered every hour over dowry demands in 2010. Some are “stove burnings” where in-laws pour kerosene, the commonly-used cooking fuel of poorer homes; over women and set them alight, making it appear accidental.
After marriage, problems are even more worst for the woman. Just few days back a 20 year old married woman was tied to a tree, stripped, tortured, and head shaved by villagers on the orders of an Udaipur village caste panchayat “offended” by the “illicit” relationship.
In another report by The Indian Express, a mechanic has been arrested in Indore for keeping his wife’s genitals locked for four years. Sohanlal Chouhan, 38, drilled holes on the either sides of his wife’s genitals after drugging her, before going out for work every day, he would insert a small lock. The incident only came to light when the victim tried to commit suicide.
A country where female goddesses are worshiped, yet they fail to protect woman from such crimes. Brothers are supposed to protect sisters in rest of the world but in India, girls tie Raksha Bandhan or “safety ties” around their brother’s wrists as a symbol of their duty to protect them. Rightly said by Jawaharlal Nehru “You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women”.
Souce: http://www.pakistankakhudahafiz.com/2012/08/05/india-no-place-for-women/
Leaders and Pakistan (Imran Khan our HOPE)
We Pakistani’s are very unlucky in case of leadership. In last 65 years
there were very few leaders who tried for the wellbeing of Pakistan.
Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is on the top of that list. According to a BBC
poll in 2004, Jinnah is considered as South Asia's greatest-ever leader with
the highest score of 39%, higher than Gandhi and Subhash Chandra Bose.
The historian, Stanley Wolpert, makes the following observation that succinctly describes the legacy of
Jinnah and his footprint on history.
Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still
modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a
nation-state. Muhammad Ali Jinnah did all three.
Luck didn’t favor us for long here. This great leader died just 1 year
after the independence of Pakistan, at the time when we needed him the most
because that was the time when we were working on the base of Pakistan. It is
said that when the viceroy of India at that point of time, Lord Louis
Mountbatten, learned of Jinnah's ailment he said 'had they known that Jinnah
was about to die, they'd have postponed India's independence by a few months as
he was being inflexible on Pakistan'.
After Jinnah military started intervening in the political matters and this
went on till Pakistan found Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. Bhutto started his political
career in 1957 when he became the youngest member of Pakistan's
delegation to the United Nations. He addressed the United Nations Sixth Committee on Aggression on 25
October 1957 and led Pakistan's delegation to the first United Nations
Conference on the Law of the Sea in 1958. That same year, Bhutto became the
youngest Pakistan cabinet minister, on appointment to the Ministry of Water and
Power by President Field Marshal Ayub Khan.
Bhutto was noted for his progressive economic initiatives,
industrialization, education, and foreign policy, and his intellectualism. In
addition to national security issues, Bhutto promoted his policies on nationalization, health care, and social reforms. Under his premiership, Pakistan's Parliament
gave approval and passed unanimously the 1973 Constitution of Pakistan, a
supreme law that provides a parliamentary system to Pakistan, strengthened Sino-Pakistani
and Saudi-Pakistani relations, recognized East-Pakistan as Bangladesh, and hosted
the second Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in 1974 where he
delegated and invited leaders from the Muslim world to Lahore, Punjab Province
of Pakistan. In July 1972, Bhutto successfully preceded the Shimla treaty,
signed with Indira Gandhi of India, brought 93,000 Prisoners of War back to
Pakistan, and secured 5,000 sq. mi (13,000 km2) held by India. In 20
January 1972, weeks after the Indo-Pakistani 1971 winter war, Bhutto
orchestrated, authorized, and administrated the scientific research on nuclear
weapons; for this, he is colloquially known in the world as "Father of the
Pakistan's nuclear deterrent program”. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was executed in 1979
after the Supreme Court of Pakistan controversially sentenced him to death by hanging
for authorizing the murder of a political opponent.
After that there was a long pause although we saw leaders like Nawaz
Sharif, Benazir Bhutto, Pervez Musharraf, Shoukat Aziz, Zafar Ullah Jamali,
Yousaf Raza Gilani, Chaudhry Shujjat, Asif Ali Zardari etc. but no one was able
to impress Pakistani nation as they were impressed by Muhammad Ali Jinnah and
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.
Now Imran Khan is gaining popularity among Pakistani Nation as a leader.
Imran Khan is considered Pakistan's most
successful cricket captain, Khan played for the Pakistani cricket team from
1971 to 1992 and served as its captain intermittently throughout 1982–1992.
After retiring from cricket at the end of the 1987 World Cup, in 1988 due to
popular public demand he was requested to come back by the President of
Pakistan to lead the team once again. At 39, Khan led his teammates to
Pakistan's first and only World Cup victory in 1992.
In April 1996, Khan founded and became the chairman of a political party Pakistan
Tehreek-e-Insaf. Through worldwide fundraising, he has also helped establish
the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre in 1996 and
Mianwali's Namal College in 2008. He represented Mianwali as a
member of the National Assembly from November 2002 to October 2007. But Khan’s
party was not much popular in Pakistan. Many Political leaders considered him
as a total failure in politics and is alive just because of the media coverage
until 30 October 2011, Imran Khan changed the political picture of the country
by addressing more than 100,000 supporters in Lahore challenging the policies
of the current government, calling this new change a "tsunami"
against the ruling parties, followed by another successful public
gathering of 250,000 supporters in Karachi on 25 December 2011. Since then
Imran Khan has become a real threat for the current ruling parties and future
political prospect in Pakistan. According to International Republican Institute
(IRI)'s survey, Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) tops the list of
popular parties in Pakistan both at the national as well as provincial level,
leaving Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)
behind.
Today Imran Khan is the new HOPE of Pakistani youth and they want to see
him the next prime minister of Pakistan. Today he is the only leader of
Political Party who is participating in every TV talk shows when he is invited
and is answering every criticism made on him or his party where as leaders of
other political parties are not that brave to do this. He is the only Leader of
Political Party against whom there is no case of corruption, no scandal. Other
parties tried their best to involve him in different scandals but he faced all
those allegations and cleared them on media. One of his answer is very popular
when Babar Ghauri of MQM asked him in a TV show that look at this picture this
kid’s (Sita white’s daughter) face look like you. Imran Khans answered Babar
Ghauri, if I go to Africa, I can show you a hundred kids that look like you.
After this answer I guess no one asked him again about Sita white and her kid.
I don’t think we have any other choice in the upcoming elections other than
Imran Khan. We already tried all the options but no one was able to deliver
according to our wishes. Imran Khan and PTI is the only hope left behind. He is
the only person with all his assets in Pakistan. He is the only person who will
not leave this country. He is the only person talking about change in system of
Pakistan and we need that change to save our Pakistan.
I specially added these last 2 pics to show you what he was and what he is today. In the above picture you can see his life style when he was cricketer. Then check the following picture.
I never voted in elections for anyone in my life but this time i will vote for him. After watching this how can i vote for anyone else. My vote is only for him because he earned my vote with his efforts for my pakistan that i can see. You are definitly blind if you cant see those efforts that he made and the efforts he is making today for you and for Pakistan..
CHANGE starts from you
Yesterday I was watching news on
television, it was showing that angry people are protesting against unscheduled
load shedding. Protestants were damaging shops, Buses, Trains, Banks, visitor’s
guidance boards and other public/ government properties of their own city. As I
was watching this news many questions were running in my mind. When we will
start acting as educated nation? When will we learn that all Gov. Properties
are our own properties? When we will learn effective methods of protests? When
we will learn that by burning a shop or bus we are snatching away the only
source of income from poor people?
I am not saying that we should
not protest, we should do this as the country in which we are living no one
will listen to us without that but we should do it in effective and peaceful
way. Round the world there are about 7 common methods of peaceful protests.
- Petitions - here signatures are collected to protest against an issue and then handed into the relevant body or authority. An alternative here is a letter petition where people sign a pre-written letter that is sent by many people as a protest.
- Demonstrations - here people gather together to make a particular protest.
- Rallies - here people gather together to listen to speakers covering issues.
- Marches - here people march on a certain route to make a protest.
- Pickets - here people will occupy a certain area (i.e. outside a factory or government building) to make a protest.
- Sit Ins - here people will occupy a specific area to make a protest.
- Strikes - here employees will go on strike to protest against something that relates to their employment.
We have to select the most effective
method for our protests from the above but one thing we should keep in mind
that all protests should be peaceful. Never ever damage any public or
Government property during the protest.
If you think that your message will reach more strongly if you burn
Government/Public property then you are wrong. It will only effect the mango
people like us. Only we will be effected.
If you want to protest in effective way. You
should select the Sit Ins Method. Occupy main gate of your MNA’s or MPA’s
house. Sit there and record your protest. Make your MPA’s and MNA’s life
miserable so that they know how they made our life miserable. That’s the most
effective way to protest.
Everyone want change in Pakistan, Everyone
is talking about change but this change will never come until you change your
own behavior. Wake up change is there, Change will start from individuals, Change
will start from you. Stop destroying public/Government properties. Don’t play
in the hands of anti-Pakistan forces. Don’t let the enemies of Pakistan to use
you against your own country.
Favoritsm Policy of Governments in Pakistan
Nadeem Yousafzai is another favorite of this corrupt Government. Nadeem
Yousafzai was an ordinary Pilot during his career. This government made him MD
Pakistan International Airlines on the merits of favoritism. He was on merit in
the list of favorites of this government for the post of MD PIA. 
Government
brings their favorites on the key posts. Later the persons on these key posts
will bring their favorites on the key posts with in the organization. MD PIA
was Government’s favorite, Sadia Saeed was MD’s favorite now Allah knows who
was Sadia Saeed’s favorite in PIA and this chain of favoritism will go on. In
the chain of this favoritism Bhoja was also cleared and ban on Bhoja Airlines
was lifted off, Bhoja Airlines was allowed to start its flights once again with
the 30 years old planes already banned in many countries. Objections are also
raised on the flying license of Bhoja pilot Noor ullah Afridi. Means pilot was
also part of this favoritism and maybe he was favorite of Bhoja Airlines. The
result of this favoritism chain is in front of us in the form of Bhoja Crash
and loss of life of 126 citizens of Pakistan.
Now
if there will be no merits for the posts like DG’s and MD’s in our government
organizations, how can the system work properly. How can anyone expect that the
organizations like PIA, PCB, Railway, WAPDA, HEC, NAB and FIA will improve its
performance? If such posts will be awarded on favoritism then the results will
be the same, downfall of our organizations, incidents like Bhoja crash. And an
ordinary Pakistani will have to lose his job, his career and in many cases his
life because of the favoritism policy of his government.
