Rimsha is a mentally challenged girl in Pakistan. And she was accused of burning the koran in her backyard. Surprise! Someone in a local mosque fingered the imam, Hafiz Mohammed Khalid Chishti, as the originator of the koran. As in, he planted the pages after the girl was arrested:
Pakistani policemen escort Islamic cleric Hafiz Mohammed Khalid Chishti to court in Islamabad.
A medical report last week said she had a mental age of less than 14 and her case has prompted concern among Western governments and anger from rights groups who say Pakistan’s strict blasphemy legislation is often abused to settle personal scores.
Hafiz Mohammed Khalid Chishti, the imam of the mosque in Rimsha’s area, who first gave police the burned papers as evidence against her, was detained by police on Saturday evening.
“The imam was arrested after his deputy Maulvi Zubair and two others told a magistrate he added pages from the Koran to the burnt pages brought to him by a witness,” police investigator Munir Hussain Jaffri said.
This is a surprising development. Is this region finally putting truth before the usual bully theocracy? This is the first time I’ve seen something turn around quite this dramatically. Of course, the imam has only been arrested. We shall see what occurs next.
Wonder if the Rev. Al trained the imam?
Ah Rev Al, good question. And he ran for President.
The real problem is it’s a young woman, a Christian and in a theocracy where Islamic philosophy puts men in the position of overruling anything involved with females or any other religion as legitimate, we can’t see a positive outcome. At least from my perspective…k
Gazing into my crystal ball ………………………………. Rimsha will be released {MAYBE with apologies to her, her family & community, but I’m not holding my breath on that one}, the imam will undergo the Pakistani equivalent of a U.S. grand jury investigation, and – surprise-surprise – he will be released for ‘lack of evidence’, ‘disparity of witness’ statements’, etc., etc., ad nauseum …………………..
Semper Fi’
DM
Kris; Call me an optimist, but I am willing to accept that they can change, ever so slightly, for the better. I could not imagine this happening ten years ago. Of course, the news cycle was different then.
DM: Sadly, I think your crystal ball is calibrated properly. I wish it weren’t so. I am glad that the girl has a chance on life. . .
Pakistani police.
Poor pay, poor training, with a high (very high) corruption rate amongst its junior & senior police officers. The judicial system is farcical, and one of the most corrupt worldwide.
This poor girl stands a very good chance of walking away (will walk away). There are some experienced NGO christian charities operating around Islamabad, who pull some major strings in the area.
In addition to this their are several senior Christian Churches operating in and around Islamabad, who involve the poorest Islamic families in their feeding programs, without trying to convert.
One of which (believed to be the Universal Gospel Assembly Church) [UGA] is responsible for outing the Imam after several tip offs.
No doubt in the near future; the Imam will pay his ‘back hander’ to have his docket torn up and he will be released back into the fold of his own community. All done with discretion to avoid a religious flare up…
The Christian NGO’s operating in the area are the bravest of the brave…
Yours Aye
(who operates without any god)
Ex Bootneck
Interesting observation on the Christian NGOs. I have always respected their bravery, but questioned their common-sense. (Hmm, I have never voiced that aloud. But it is my true thoughts on the matter. I would never go to Pakistan, except in uniform. I used to fly over the place weekly and I always looked down and thought it a hellhole. Even if I could only see dirt and rocks and trees.)
It is the Worlds toilet and no amount of cleaning agent will resolve the mess.
The NGO’s working there have no common sense, it is not a pre-requisite for the job, they plod on regardless; in effect they have gone ‘native’ to survive.
Some one I am aware of has been there so long that they will inevitably be buried in situ.
Yours Aye
And yet Pakistan will not hunt down all the folks who deposit pages of the Q’uran in the sewage canals of Pak-Land on a daily basis … how convenient! GET YOU SOME! OoraH! USA!!!!
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That is very surprising. It’s amazing really.
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