Express Tribune: A cleric in Sialkot district disrupted a Saturday mass, abused the pastor and is now threatening to register a blasphemy FIR against him for drawing upon verses from the Quran during his sermon.
Pastor Messiah George* had been invited by Data Zedka village Christians to give a sermon at the local church.
According to Arif Hameed*, a school teacher who arranged the pastor’s visit, Qari Muhammad Fazal* disrupted the mass around 11 pm, abusing the pastor and threatening to kill him. Fazal had objections to the pastor reading Quranic verses during his sermon. “He [Fazal] tried to get through to the pastor but we were able to help him escape,” said Hameed.
Fazal called the police to the church but by the time the police reached the church, the pastor had fled. Police officials were able to “persuade the Qari” to go home after assuring him that action will be taken against the pastor.
The next morning local Christians, said the school teacher, apologised to Fazal who is still insisting that the pastor “confess to his crime”, and publicly apologise for quoting the Quran. “Fazal has warned us that we will be responsible for the consequences,” he said.
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I wrote a comment to the original post:
“It is sad to read from the comments to the article that some people are becoming non-Muslim due to the actions of these unlearned Mullahs. Why not instead surf a bit further and go to http://www.themuslimtimes.org and http://www.alislam.org and learn about a beautiful and peaceful Islam.”
A Muslim should be happy that people belonging to other religions also read Qur’an. They will understand only if they read, quote, compare and explain it to others.
Mullah can not apply its law on the Non Muslim writers, historians, scholars,newspapers libraries and so on.
Does this Mullah believe in tabligh? How else is a non-Muslim supposed to learn more about Islam?
Pakistan should go into the Guinness Book of World Records for having the largest numbers of illogical and insane Mullahs on Earth!
And to make matter worse, the police instead of ignoring this insanity add fuel to the fire. How very strange!