Thursday, May 8, 2014

Pakistani Lawyer Rashid Rehman Murdered for Defending Client Accused of Blasphemy

So now any Muslim can accuse any non-Muslim of blasphemy, and the non-Muslim won't even be able to stand trial, because lawyers are too scared to defend people accused of blasphemy.

Welcome to the Islam that the media says has nothing to do with Islam.
Rashid Rehman
Pakistan (Reuters) - Gunmen posing as clients shot dead a prominent human rights lawyer defending a professor accused of blasphemy, officials said Thursday, underscoring the danger facing those trying to put an end to religious intolerance in majority-Muslim Pakistan.

Wednesday's killing of Rashid Rehman in the southern city Multan of was the first time a lawyer has been killed for taking on a blasphemy case, police said.

Rehman had been representing Junaid Hafeez, a lecturer in English accused by hardline student groups of making blasphemous remarks against the Prophet Mohammed in March last year.

Hafeez had been in prison without being able to find a lawyer until Rehman agreed to represent him in February.

Blasphemy carries the death penalty in Pakistan. The accused are often lynched or languish for years in jail without trial because lawyers are too afraid to defend them. Rights groups say the laws are increasingly used to seize money or property.

Judges have previously been attacked in Pakistan for acquitting blasphemy defendants and two politicians who discussed reforming the law were shot dead.

Rehman was shot dead by two gunmen at his office on Wednesday night. A junior lawyer and an assistant were wounded, police said.

"Rehman was at his office at night when two men came there posing as potential clients, asking for his help with a marriage case," police officer Shaukat Abbas told Reuters.

"He was shot five times and succumbed to his injuries on the way to hospital."

On Thursday morning, an unsigned pamphlet was distributed in Multan saying Rehman met his "rightful end" for trying to "save someone who disrespected the Prophet Mohammed".

"We warn all lawyers to be afraid of god and think twice before engaging in such acts," the pamphlet said.

Rehman worked for the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP). He frequently denounced the repression of Pakistan's dwindling religious minorities. (Continue Reading.)

6 comments:

Unknown said...

Shame on muslims... What ur religion have done to u...

Unknown said...

Let's see what yahya snow will say now!

David Wood said...

Yahya Snow will say that this has nothing to do with Islam. Then he'll attack us personally for daring to mention it.

Unknown said...

@ David wood
peace of LORD JESUS be with you.
Or yahya will say Christians in west are blowing this out of proportion so they can get donations or he'll sugar coat Islam so much that rest of the world will get diabetes.

David Wood said...

Yahya will even say that we like it when people are killed, because it gives us more ammunition against Islam.

Depraved minds are no joke. Given how hostile Yahya is to any criticism of Islam, we can only wonder what he would do if he were in a place like Pakistan, where he can do more than talk.

Unknown said...

If yahya was in Pakistan there's one thing for sure. There will be less diabetes in the west by all that cotton candy Islam lol