A bipartisan group of senators today urged Pakistani Prime Minister Asif Ali Zardari to free a mentally disabled Christian girl accused of desecrating Koran pages.
Rimsha Masih, 11, is being held in solitary confinement in Islamabad and could be charged with blasphemy, which carries a maximum of the death penalty. The girl was reportedly abused by a mob in her village and Christians had to flee the neighborhood; it’s been reported that either she collected the Koran pages while scavenging paper in a waste dump or the pages were maliciously planted in her bag.
“We urge you to take immediate action to ensure the protection and equitable treatment of all Pakistani citizens, regardless of their religion,” wrote the senators, led by Robert Menendez (D-N.J.). “…We urge your government to do more to prevent abuse, as blasphemy allegations have resulted in the lengthy detention of, and violence committed against, Christians, Ahmadis, Hindus and other religious minorities, as well as members of the Muslim majority community.”
Also signing the letter were Sens. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), Bob Casey Jr. (D-Pa.), and Mike Johanns (R-Neb.).
“While we do not condone the destruction of any religious document or artifact or the defamation of any religion, the application of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws undermines the State’s obligation to protect the rights of all religious groups in Pakistan and in fact has repeatedly been used to harass and intimidate members of minority religious groups,” they wrote. “…These violations run counter to the Pakistani constitution and the vision of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founding father of Pakistan, when he stated ‘you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in this State of Pakistan.’”
If this doesn’t turn your stomach, bring a tear to your eye, make you rage, or all three… I don’t know what would. The girl in question suffers from Down’s Syndrome… If Americans knew the hatred Muslims hold in their hearts for humanity, and the kinds of ignorant and genocidal sewage regularly espoused in mosques, we wouldn’t allow another Muslim into our nation. We would also be fighting a real War on Terror.
We’ve spent over trillion dollars and sacrificed 6,000 patriot soldiers to win their black hearts and poisoned minds — we’ve built schools hospitals and roads, we’ve stockpiled food and medicine and technology, we’ve brought modernity to these venomous cavemen – and they hate us more than ever. When 9/11 happened we should have violently taken every nuke in Pakistan, and cratered any and all nuke sites in Islam as a warning… Shock and awe lasted all of a few months until the Left got hold of the narrative and joined the Jihadis to blunt and ruin the war. Sadly Bush, and to his and our eternal shame, Bush proved to be unequal to the challenge when the unforgiving moment came.
Clearly we will see more and worse from the Muslim world until we wake up and pay them in their own coin of terror, or succumb to the scourge of Islam. (with apologies for using the tautism “scourge of Islam” – they are one and the same)
Well said Morton.