Supporters of the religious and political party Jamaat-e-Islami hold a banner that reads “Pakistani Demand to Hang Raymond Davis Immediately” while praying during a protest rally in Karachi January 30, 2011. – ReutersThe hardline islamists of Pakistan took to the streets today to protest any Pakistani government consideration of amendments to the anti-Islam blasphemy laws with over 40,000 of the blood thirsty minions marching the streets. And just for good measure, the same bunch decided to make a statement regarding the U.S. consulate official, Raymond Davis, who shot and killed two Pakistani thugs seeking to kidnap him, by displaying banners asking for the execution of Davis.
From the report at DAWN:
About 40,000 people rallied in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore on Sunday in the latest protest against proposed reforms of a controversial blasphemy law, police said.
Religious groups have held protests in several Pakistani cities since former Punjab governor Salman Taseer vowed to amend the law, that was recently used to sentence a Christian woman to death
Taseer’s stance enraged the country’s increasingly conservative religious base and he was assassinated on January 4 by his own security guard, who has said he killed the governor over his support for reform.
Under intense pressure from religious parties, Pakistan’s government has since said it had no intentions to amend the law.
Demonstrators from religious parties Jamaat-e-Islami, Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan and Jamaat-ud-Dawa held banners in support of Mumtaz Qadri – the police commando who shot dead Taseer.
Participants chanted slogans including “Free Mumtaz Qadri”, “We are ready to sacrifice our lives for the honour of Prophet Mohammad” and “Changes in blasphemy law not accepted.”
An AFP reporter saw activists carrying effigies of Pope Benedict XVI and Pakistani minorities affairs minister Shahbaz Bhatti shouting slogans “Allah-o-Akbar.”
Local government official Tariq Zaman put the overall number of protesters at 40,000.
I'm convinced that this is a snapshot of what is going on inside of Islam worldwide right now - there is an organized push by the hardline islamists of this world right now to push the envelope all of the way - we are seeing it with the protests in Egypt, we are seeing it in the butchering of Christians in the Middle East and Asia and we are seeing it with fall of Lebanon.
Folks, we are witnessing history at this moment. Some may say we are witnessing prophecy.
This could very well be the point in time where the "creep" of Islam across this planet goes into hyperspeed mode - this may be the time in our lives when we witness that the literal battle truly begins between Good and Evil.
Let's just not lose sight of the reason for these protests - a Christian Pakistani woman awaited a death sentence by stoning for supposedly blaspheming Islam and a Pakistani government official dared say that this was an unacceptable law in a country in the 21st century - for that he was murdered and his assassin glorified in the same vein as Mohammed himself.
This is about the final chapter when all those that refuse to bow down and submit to Islam will be killed. Or fight back.
Thousands rally in Lahore over blasphemy law
LAHORE: About 40,000 people rallied in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore on Sunday in the latest protest against proposed reforms of a controversial blasphemy law, police said.
Religious groups have held protests in several Pakistani cities since former Punjab governor Salman Taseer vowed to amend the law, that was recently used to sentence a Christian woman to death
Taseer’s stance enraged the country’s increasingly conservative religious base and he was assassinated on January 4 by his own security guard, who has said he killed the governor over his support for reform.
Under intense pressure from religious parties, Pakistan’s government has since said it had no intentions to amend the law.
Demonstrators from religious parties Jamaat-e-Islami, Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan and Jamaat-ud-Dawa held banners in support of Mumtaz Qadri – the police commando who shot dead Taseer.
Participants chanted slogans including “Free Mumtaz Qadri”, “We are ready to sacrifice our lives for the honour of Prophet Mohammad” and “Changes in blasphemy law not accepted.”
An AFP reporter saw activists carrying effigies of Pope Benedict XVI and Pakistani minorities affairs minister Shahbaz Bhatti shouting slogans “Allah-o-Akbar.”
Local government official Tariq Zaman put the overall number of protesters at 40,000.
Leaders of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz and Quaid-i-Azam group also addressed the rally.
Event organisers called the brothers of two Pakistani men shot dead by a US national in Lahore on Thursday to the stage and pledged their support for the victims’ families in pursuing a murder case.
The US man, named as Raymond Davis, is being held at a police station on double murder charges over the shooting of the two motorcyclists.
The US embassy had claimed diplomatic immunity on his behalf while Davis, who has been held at a Lahore police station since the incident, told a magistrate’s court Friday that he had fired in self-defence.
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