A common target of Pakistan's controversial blasphemy laws is the country's poor Christians or the working-class Hindus - the Islamic republic's downtrodden minorities also face cultural and economic discrimination. It is rare though that a Muslim cleric gets booked for insulting Islam, its prophet Muhammad, or the Koran. So when Junaid Jamshed, a former pop-star-turned-mullah, gets accused of committing blasphemy, everyone was a bit surprised: how could an Islamic preacher desecrate Islam?
In a video, which went viral on the social media in Pakistan earlier this week, Jamshed appeared to insult Aisha, Muhammad's youngest wife, in order to prove a point that women were inferior to men. The followers of the Sunni sect of Islam, particularly the Hanafis, revere Aisha and the prophet's other spouses, and any slur against them is considered outrageous.
Jamshed, who was the lead singer of the famous pop band "Vital Signs" in the early 1990s, realized he had made a mistake, and he swiftly released another video on Tuesday, December 2, rendering an apology. "I confess to my mistake," he said. "I did not do it intentionally."
But the hard-line Islamic groups and jihadists are unwilling to forgive Jamshed.
"We demand an immediate arrest of Junaid Jamshed, who is a cursed person," Mobin Qadri, a spokesman of Pakistan Sunni Tehreek party said on Wednesday. Full story...
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In a video, which went viral on the social media in Pakistan earlier this week, Jamshed appeared to insult Aisha, Muhammad's youngest wife, in order to prove a point that women were inferior to men. The followers of the Sunni sect of Islam, particularly the Hanafis, revere Aisha and the prophet's other spouses, and any slur against them is considered outrageous.
Jamshed, who was the lead singer of the famous pop band "Vital Signs" in the early 1990s, realized he had made a mistake, and he swiftly released another video on Tuesday, December 2, rendering an apology. "I confess to my mistake," he said. "I did not do it intentionally."
But the hard-line Islamic groups and jihadists are unwilling to forgive Jamshed.
"We demand an immediate arrest of Junaid Jamshed, who is a cursed person," Mobin Qadri, a spokesman of Pakistan Sunni Tehreek party said on Wednesday. Full story...
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