On the Rise: Islamists Scapegoating Children for Blasphemy
Rimsha Masih
The proof of imam complicity appears in the case of a young Pakistani girl with Downs’s syndrome, Rimsha Masih, arrested and detained for weeks in August for setting fire to papers that contained Quranic verses. The resulting mobs caused over 600 Christians to flee the area to the forests in fear. As it turned out, the local imam had falsely accused the girl as a pretext “to expel the Christians from the area.” The imam has since been released on bail, while Rimsha and her family remain in hiding.
There is also indication that blasphemy charges instigated the abduction of a young boy, Samuel Yaqoob, an 11 year old from Christian Faisalabad, several days after Rimsha’s arrest. Samuel was brutally tortured and burned to death. In the Egyptian Coptic children’s case, a local Islamist leader, Shamardal, insisted that the “two boys could not have acted alone and that they must remain in custody until they confess who incited them.” Raymond Ibrahim has documented the distribution of leaflets in Egypt calling on “all brothers and sisters” to “kill or physically attack the enemies of the religion of Allah—the Christians in all of Egypt’s provinces, the slaves of the Cross.”
Samuel Yaqoob
These campaigns against Christians and Buddhists are not new, and have been ongoing long before the latest parody of Islam video. Although initially posted to YouTube in July 2012, it was appropriated only in September by the Egyptian Islamists. Islamist clerics continually strive for ever more creative ways of inciting violence and causing intimidation amongst unbelievers; and currently accusing children is “all the rage.” It stands to reason that more such instances will be forthcoming as long as Islamist religious leaders encourage violence in a bid to ensure the dominance of Islam.
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Uppity women, wanting to be educated and not property… that’s blasphemy and promoting western values! (And they want to be taken seriously?)
Remember this is Islam the religion of peace don’t make them kill you. As for respect for children why would there be any after all Mohamed was a pedophile.
May the martyrs welcome you into Paradise! May your blood win at least three converts!
The god of the Kaabba is weak, and you must murder for him. Muhammad would be proud.
Yes, yes, I know. The god is greatest!
When I practice my religion correctly the homeless get shelter, the naked are clothed and the hungry are fed. When the Muslim correctly practices their religion there is dismember and death, and always hunger.
By their fruits you shall know them.
Once again the mobs’ actions say: “Our religion is stupid & violent!” Once again they demonstrate the proverbial power of stupid people in large groups (and the disadvantages of unarmed targets).