“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.”- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
Pakistan Ignorantly Says ‘Jesus
Never Existed’
By de Andréa
Opinion Editorialist for
‘THE
BOTTOM LINE’
Posted December 8, 2018
Bear in mind as you read
this, Pakistan is a so-called ally of the United States.
Pakistani’s prime minister
just made the outrageous statement that Jesus never existed.
“There
were prophets of Allah other [than Mohammed], but there is no mention of
them in human history. There is negligible mention of them. Moses is mentioned,
but there is no mention of Jesus in history. But the entire life of Mohammed,
who was Allah’s last prophet, is part of history.”
What
makes it outrageous is not only the fact that it’s false, but Jesus is
mentioned over and over as a prophet in the Muslim Quran: As I have so often
said Muslims don’t even know their own religion. Moreover, Khan believes
freedom of speech to insult Christianity is fine. It’s just when it’s the truth
about Islam that the freedom is objectionable.
Witnessed
in the same speech, Khan launched into a diatribe against those who insult
Islam and its prophet Mohammed, saying freedom of speech could not be used “as a cover for hurting the religious sentiments of Muslims
around the world.”
Continuing
his breathtaking ignorant hypocrisy, Khan urged, “We want the countries of the
world to sign a convention which will be called the International Convention on
Preventing the Defamation of Religions” [my emphasis].
Of
course Khan is referring to his ignorant one way defamation of Islam — not “religions,”
as evidenced by his lies about Jesus. As he explained about the convention, “[This]
means that freedom of speech cannot be used as a pretext to hurt the world’s
1.25 billion Muslims.”
Khan is
well on his way to seeing this convention enacted. The European Court of Human Rights recently set a precedent for this when it ruled that
defaming the Islamic prophet Mohammed was prohibited and exceeds the
permissible limits of free speech in Europe. (This is in contrast to a ruling
by the same court which allowed the insulting of Christianity in 2012.)
Khan
cited this ruling, which significantly bolsters his program. “The
European Union’s Human Rights Court said for the first time that you cannot
hurt somebody’s religion under the pretext of freedom of speech, and especially
it said that you cannot blaspheme against Mohammed’s honor,” Khan
noted.
So,
it should not come as a surprise that Khan consistently upholds Pakistan’s
blasphemy laws, which are predominantly used to persecute and carry out
vendettas against Christians and other minorities in the country.
As
reported by Breitbart, Pakistan was placed on a special watch list for “severe violations of religious freedom”
less than a year ago. It made the list for “having engaged in or tolerated egregious
violations of religious freedom.”
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