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词条 Younus Shaikh (author)
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  1. Personal details

  2. The offence

  3. See also

  4. References

  5. External links

{{About|Younus Shaikh, author of Shaitan Maulvi (Satanic Cleric)|Younus Shaikh, physician, rationalist|Younus Shaikh}}Mohammad Younus Shaikh (or Younis Sheik or Younis Sheikh) (born 1965) is a hotel manager and writer in Kharadar, Pakistan. In 2005, he wrote a book: "Shaitan Maulvi" (Satanic Cleric). On account of that book, the police charged Shaikh with offences under Pakistan's Penal Code and under the Anti-terrorism Act. An anti-terrorism court found Shaikh guilty of those offences, and sentenced him to a fine and to life in prison.[1] Amnesty International designated him a prisoner of conscience and called for his immediate release.[2]

Personal details

Shaikh is a matriculate but he has not had any religious education.[1]

The offence

On 3 February 2005, Shaikh was distributing copies of his book when he came to the attention of Sub-inspector Gulzar Ahmed Khokhar. The Sub-inspector arrested Shaikh for violating Sections 153A, 295A, and 295B of the Pakistan Penal Code, and Sections 8 and 9 of the Anti-terrorism Act.[1] The police placed Shaikh in solitary confinement in Karachi Central Prison to prevent other inmates from attacking him.[2]

At trial, the special public prosecutor proved that Shaikh had committed blasphemy by writing that stoning to death (Rajm) as a punishment for adultery was not mentioned in the Quran, and by insulting four historical Imams (religious leaders) by describing them as “Jews.”[2]

On 11 August 2005, Judge Arshad Noor Khan of the Anti-Terrorist Court found Shaikh guilty of “defiling a copy of the Quran, outraging religious feelings and propagating religious hatred among society.”[3] The judge imposed upon Shaikh a fine of 100,000 rupees, and sentenced him to spend his life in jail.[1]

In 2007, a blogger reported that Shaikh appealed his conviction to the High Court, and won the right to a new trial.[4]

At least one observer, legal historian Sadakat Kadri, has noted the case as an example of the "mean spirit" of some anti-blaspheme campaigners, as, in fact Shaikh is correct that nowhere in the Quran is stoning to death (rajm) called for to punish the sin of adultery or fornication (zina).[10] (The Quran mentions only lashing as a punishment for zina. It is ahadith (the collections of the reports claiming to quote what the prophet Muhammad said) that call for rajm.[5])

See also

  • Apostasy in Islam
  • Blasphemy law in Pakistan
  • Blasphemy

References

1. ^{{cite web | url = http://www.dawn.com/news/151925/karachi-writer-of-sacrilegious-book-gets-life-term | title = KARACHI: Writer of sacrilegious book gets life term | date = 12 August 2005 | publisher = Dawn the Internet Edition | accessdate = 3 December 2015}}
2. ^{{cite web | url = https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa33/023/2005/en/ | title = Document - Pakistan: Fear for safety/ Prisoner of Conscience (POC), Mohammed Younus Shaikh | date = 19 August 2005 | publisher = Amnesty International | accessdate = 2009-06-21}}
3. ^{{cite web | url = http://www.secularism.org.uk/writerinpakistangivenlifeforblas.html | title = Writer in Pakistan given life for "blasphemy" | date = 27 July 2007 | publisher = National Secular Society | accessdate = 2009-06-21}}
4. ^{{cite web | url = http://pubphilosopher.blogs.com/pub_philosopher/2007/07/index.html | title = Writer gets life for defiling the Koran| date = 29 July 2007 | accessdate = 2009-06-19}}
5. ^{{cite book|last1=Kadri|first1=Sadakat|title=Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Shari'a Law from the Deserts of Ancient Arabia ...|date=2012|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=9780099523277|page=257|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ztCRZOhJ10wC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Heaven+on+Earth:+A+Journey+Through+Shari%27a+Law&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAWoVChMIob7syrnZxwIVhg6SCh0fYg3Z#v=onepage&q=Heaven%20on%20Earth%3A%20A%20Journey%20Through%20Shari'a%20Law&f=false|}}

External links

  • http://www.rationalistinternational.net/archive/en/rationalist_2005/146.html Dr. Younas Shaikh in solidarity with Younas Shaikh (author)
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