Danish Man Who Burned Quran Is Prosecuted for Blasphemy

Qasim Cheema — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 19:52:16 +0000

A Danish man who posed a video of himself setting fire to the Quran on Facebook has been charged with blasphemy in the first such prosecution for 46 years. The 42-year-old suspect put the clip, entitled “Consider your neighbour: it stinks when it burns” to a group called “YES TO FREEDOM – NO TO ISLAM” in December 2015. Jan Reckendorff, from the public prosecutor’s office in Viborg, said: “It is the prosecution’s view that circumstances involving the burning of holy books such as the Bible and the Quran can in some cases be a violation of the blasphemy clause, which covers public scorn or mockery of religion. “It is our opinion that the circumstances of this case mean it should be prosecuted so the courts now have an opportunity to take a position on the matter.” Judges in Aalborg will heard the case, although a date has not yet been set. The maximum sentence for blasphemy is four months in prison but Mr Reckendorff said prosecutors were more likely to seek a fine. Copies of the Quran are treated with reverence by Muslims and any move to desecrate or destroy the holy book is seen as a grave insult. Rumours of Quran burnings have sparked arrests, lynchings and riots in Muslim-majority countries, while the move has been appropriated by the far-right and anti-Islamic groups, including the Westboro Baptist Church in America.

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Under clause 140 of Denmark’s penal code, anyone can be imprisoned or fined for publicly insulting or degrading religious doctrines or worship. Only four blasphemy prosecutions have ever been attempted in the country. The last was in 1971, when two Denmark Radio producers were acquitted after airing a song mocking Christianity. Two people were previously fined in 1946 after acting out a “baptism” at a ball in Copenhagen, while four others were sentenced for putting up anti-Semitic posters and leaflets in 1938. At least a dozen other cases have been considered but not charged, including in 2006 when prosecutors decided to stop an investigation into the Jyllands-Posten newspaper over a controversial set of caricatures under the headline “The Face of Mohamed”. The publication sparked protests around the world, with insulting the Prophet seen as a grave offence to Muslims and Islamic scholars interpreting Quran verses on idolatry to forbid any representation of Mohamed.
Courtesy: Independent

Ahrar rejected the highly controversial legislation of Sindh Assembly

Qasim Cheema — Sat, 19 Nov 2016 23:08:17 +0000

LAHORE: Majlis-e-Ahrar, the religious party struggling to protect the finality of Prophet (SAW) against Qadiyanis’ hijacking of Islam in the subcontinent for over one hundred years, has rejected the highly controversial legislation of Sindh Assembly which bars any non-Muslim under 18 years of age to embrace Islam in the country, and also bars any adult Muslim convert to announce his new religion within 21 days of his becoming Muslim.
Majlis Ahrar secretary general Abdul Latif Khalid Cheema and deputy secretary general Qari Yusuf Ahrar, have warned that the legislation was against Quran and Sunnah, and the very objectives of creation of Pakistan as an Islamic state. They alleged that the legislation was a continuation of foreign agenda being pursued by Pakistani legislators on the behest of their foreign masters, and expressed sorrow that PPP’s present leadership was being used for this ugly agenda despite that its founding chairman ZA Bhutto was the pioneer who enacted an Islamic constitution declaring the country an Islamic state by protecting it against all secularist conspiracies 45 years ago.

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Danish Man Who Burned Quran Is Prosecuted for Blasphemy

Ahrar rejected the highly controversial legislation of Sindh Assembly