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Pakistani Muslim Clerics: Ban the Bible
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
By Patrick Goodenough
Quran burning
Pakistani lawyers burn a U.S. flag during a protest against plans to burn
copies of the Quran, in Multan, Pakistan on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. (AP
Photo/Khalid Tanveer)
(CNSNews.com) – A group of radical clerics in Pakistan wants the country’s
Supreme Court to declare certain passages in the Bible blasphemous –
because they depict as flawed certain biblical characters whom Muslims
regard as Islamic prophets.
If the court fails to do so, they said, then lawyers will submit an
application for the Bible to be formally banned in Pakistan.
The campaign, announced by the clerics at a Lahore mosque and reported
Tuesday in the Karachi daily The News and the Urdu-language Roznama Islam,
is the latest attempt by radicals to use the country’s blasphemy laws to
shield Islam from perceived insults.
Citing Florida pastor Terry Jones’ Qur’an-burning act, the leader of the
initiative, Abdul Rauf Farooqi, said the campaigners would like to pay back
such “blasphemers” by doing the same to the Bible, but would not follow in
their footsteps.
Instead, he and the other clerics in the campaign want Pakistan’s top court
to rule that certain passages in the Bible are blasphemous, since they
undermine prophets’ sanctity by portraying them as flawed or immoral.
Farooqi, who is leader of the Islamist organization JUI-S (Jamiat Ulema-e-
Islam Sami-ul-Haq group), said the “insertions” in the Bible were
offensive to Muslims, who hold all prophets in high esteem.
Reports on Farooqi’s statements did not include references to the
supposedly blasphemous passages. So sensitive is the subject in Pakistan
that people are typically accused of blasphemy without the actual offending
words being repeated, lest the accuser, court official or anyone else be
accused themselves of blaspheming.
Muslim teaching holds that Mohammed did not establish a new religion in the
7th century, but was the last in a long line of prophets of Islam stretching
back to Adam, and including Moses and Jesus.
Among the biblical figures viewed by Muslims as Islamic prophets are some
whom the Bible clearly describes as behaving immorally, such as David, who
coveted a man’s wife and so sent him to face certain death on the battle
frontlines; and Solomon, who later in life sought out pagan women and their
gods.
On the other hand, biblical assertions that Jesus is God, that he died and
rose from the dead, and that salvation comes through his name only, are all
in conflict with Islamic teachings. They, too, could arguably be seen by
Muslims as blasphemous – both towards the Qur’an and, indirectly, towards
Mohammed, who Muslims believed received the inerrant revelation from Allah.
Pakistan’s blasphemy laws include a provision (295-C) that carries life
imprisonment or the death penalty for defiling the name of Muhammad, “by
words, either spoken or written, or by visible representation or by any
imputation, innuendo, or insinuation, directly or indirectly.”
Farooqi was quoted as saying he was confident blasphemy could be proven in
court. If they failed to do so, he said, he and his colleagues would accept
whatever punishment the court would choose to impose.
In 2006, a prominent Pakistani analyst and writer, Khaled Ahmed, warned
about the possibility that radicals could use the blasphemy issue to target
the Bible.
“Most Pakistanis are not aware of the dangers our law against blasphemy
might entail,” Ahmed wrote at the time. “The law says no prophet shall be
insulted and awards death for the offence. This means that prophets in the
Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition are all protected.
“But do we know what the Bible says about Old Testament prophets? What if
the stories of the Bible are taken to court and found blasphemous? Will we
then have to burn the Bible and kill all the Christians who read it?”
Farooqi’s JUI-S party, a split from another religious party named JUI, is
closely associated with jihadi organizations including the Taliban. Its
founder, Sami-ul-Haq, heads a madrassa that was attended by key Taliban
figures, including Mullah Omar. |
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