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Pakistani Muslim Cleric Accused of Framing Disabled Christian Girl in Koran-Burning Case

Sep. 3, 2012 7:51am Billy Hallowell

ISLAMABAD (TheBlaze/AP) — Pakistani police are investigating whether a Muslim cleric who allegedly tried to frame a Christian girl for blasphemy should be charged with insulting Islam himself and potentially face life in prison, a police officer said Monday.

Khalid Chisti was arrested Saturday after a member of his mosque accused him of stashing pages of a Koran in a Christian girl’s bag to make it seem like she burned the Islamic holy book. He allegedly planted the evidence to push Christians out of his neighborhood in Islamabad. He has denied the allegations.

Pakistani Cleric Khalid Chisti Accused of Framing Christian Girl in Koran Case

Pakistani police officers escort blindfolded Muslim cleric Khalid Chishti to appear in court in Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012. In the latest twist in a religiously charged case that has focused attention on the country's harsh blasphemy laws, Pakistani police arrested Chishti who they say planted evidence in the case of a Christian girl accused of blasphemy. (Credit: AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

The case has generated significant international attention because of reports that the girl is as young as 11 and is mentally handicapped.

Human rights activists have long criticized Pakistan’s harsh blasphemy laws, saying they are misused to persecute non-Muslims and settle personal vendettas. They have hailed Chisti’s arrest as unprecedented and hope it will prevent false blasphemy accusations in the future.

More immediately, they have called for the release of the Christian girl, who has been held in prison for over two weeks. Last week, TheBlaze reported that she was denied bail — an action that took place before the cleric’s alleged actions surfaced.

She will remain in jail until at least Friday after her bail hearing was postponed for a second time Monday, said her lawyer, Tahir Naveed Chaudhry. The court adjourned the hearing until then because of a lawyers’ strike, he said.

Credit: AP

Police registered a blasphemy case against Chisti on Monday for allegedly desecrating the Koran, said police officer Munir Jafferi. If he is charged by a court and convicted, he could face life in prison, said Jafferi.

A separate section of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws says insulting Islam’s Prophet Muhammed carries the death penalty.

Police are also contemplating leveling additional charges against Chisti, such as fraud, planting evidence and making false allegations, said Jafferi.

Police arrested the girl from her neighborhood in Islamabad over two weeks after an angry mob of several hundred appeared at a local police station, demanding action against her for alleged blasphemy. Police said at the time that they took her into custody partly to protect her from potential harm.

People accused of blasphemy, even those who aren’t convicted, often face vigilante justice by outraged Pakistanis. A Pakistani man accused of blasphemy in July was dragged from a police station in the center of the country, beaten to death and his body set on fire.

Christians in the girl’s neighborhood left the area en masse as soon as the accusations surfaced, fearing retribution from their Muslim neighbors.

The Associated Press has withheld the girl’s name because it does not generally identify juveniles under 18 who are accused of crimes.

The girl’s supporters say she is 11 years old and has Down syndrome; a medical board said she was about 14 and that her mental age didn’t match her physical age.

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Comments (32)

cantstandlibs
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 1:38pm
He should get the proscribed 4000 lashes, then life, then his family slaughtered. Gotta live moo-slimes.

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Passerbye
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 8:22am
Every time I feel sorry for the Muslims in Syria being exterminated by the pagan Alawites, something like this comes up.

I guess after 1300 years of living under Muslim oppression, they’re ready to die (or kill sufficient numbers of Muslims) before going back under the yoke. Too bad it benefits Iran.

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RoguePO
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 3:19am
Oh how the tables have turned!

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- RayOne
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 12:04pm
  The table is the same, more are paying attention.
  
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sacwoodpusher
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 2:12am
When the gov’t of Afghanistan decided it was ok to beat women in accordance with Islamic law, I decided that we should bring the US troops home immediately! We are wasting our time there. If any terrorists from there kill Americans’ we should establish a 1000 fold greater body count, and then pull back. do all of this via drone. These people do not deserve American lives being spent on them.

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- cantstandlibs
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 1:46pm
  Nicely said. I agree. 1000x is a great number I can get behind. To wish they would extinguish themselves even faster…
  
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SilentReader
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:49am
It just goes to show how screwed up these Islamists are. Look forward to Muslim Brotherhood Mohammed Morsi turning Egypt into Pakistan. It won’t be long now. I’m sure they’ll be hanging people in the public square and stoning them very soon. And scooping women up off the streets to rape and kill at will. Like they’ve been doing in Iran for a long time now.

And we won’t hear a thing about it from the egregious MSM. Nothing at all! Just as we heard nothing about Libya after the terrorist dragged thug Gadhafi out on the streets and sodomized and killed him, and Hillary Clinton laughed about it. I wonder how many women were gang raped and killed there in the globalist’s urgency to “protect?”

Not to mention Syria, where the Turkish al Qaeda are having their way and killing people left and right, and throwing postal workers off buildings. I’m sure that there’s a few Mujahedeen there too. Courtesy of Iran et al. And anyone else who wants to join in the mayhem for Mohammed.

Islam’s sword of intolerance, plunder, genocide and occupation has been raging out of control for 1400 years now, and the silence is still deafening.

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- OldOllie
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 1:45am
  I’m sure there’s something in Sharia law that says the Christian girl should still be whipped to death for corrupting the morals of the Muslim cleric and leading him to sin against Allah.
  
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- Passerbye
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 8:25am
  Law or not, guilty or not, she and her family will have to leave the country or die.
  
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DYNA
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 7:37pm
If this comes with diversity, I don’t want it.

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dovndce
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 7:28pm
This clown will be performing his “salah” (prayers) while in prison but I guarantee you it’ll be more than 5x a day and he won’t be facing Mecca, he’ll be on his knees facing his cellmates.

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dovndce
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 7:13pm
This Imam will be performing his required “salah” (prayers) in prison, I can guarantee you he’ll be on his knees more than 5 times a day and he won’t be facing Mecca, his cellmates will make sure of that.

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SlyFox123
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 6:36pm
Add your comments

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SlyFox123
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 6:35pm
There book says——-”you MUST lie to protect your brother”, and to lie to an Infidel, on ANY thing is good!.

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blazingaway
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 6:19pm
Look at the way the security men are holding their weapons … they’ve been trained or are professionals who are CIA plants.

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Dave In Arizona
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:36pm
The worst that will happen: Chisti will be nominated for a Nobel prize for creative literature.

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Thomas
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:02pm
…it says a member of his mask, (mosque) whatever.. same difference, turned him in after seeing him plant false evidence in her bag…hmm…maybe that person has a heart and a conscience. I wonder how long they will live?…or be shunned.

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The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 4:50pm
We can’t totally give up on Pakistan. If you look at the amount of trouble this cleric is in, it’s definitely a bright side to this unfortunate story.

It’s less likely the little girl would be set free in Iran. Remember the girl who had acid thrown on her face? And then the hospital refused to touch her because they believe khaffirs are filthy.

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- SlushPuppyKing
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:25am
  Yeah let’s keep giving them money and calling them ally and friend. I’m sure one day they will be a nation for good……
  
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- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 3:12pm
  I disproved my first point with my second point lol, you’re right.
  
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Grand design
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 11:26am
Why are we, as a nation, giving these idiots financial support? They seem to be living in the seventh century as savages!

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- roscoe569
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 5:37pm
  oh get off your moral highhorse and listen to your hatred!
  
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Grand design
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 11:19am
This is how you keep stupid people in line! You threaten them with death for steping out of the main stream thought! Someone said that Islam is a cult. They are right, it is a cult and not a religion! It’s too bad that Muslim’s are not allowed to think for themselves. I guess this makes it easier for their Clerics to control them!

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deadend
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:26am
I’m supprised since the koran condones lieing to infidels that it doesn’t condone lieing about infedels.

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- DeathTongue
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 11:22am
  it probably also condones mis-spelling
  
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- proliance
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 11:40am
  You should see what it says about poor punctuation.
  
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Hoax And Chains
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:04am
Well, I say we keep handing them billions in “aid”. Yep… you can just see the progress of these savages.

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termyt
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 8:28am
Wow. I didn’t see this coming. I was hoping the Pakistanis would at least recognize a mentally disable child could not be responsible for such a technical crime but to actually arrest the one who set her up? I didn’t dream it was possible.

Maybe they will actually stone a male who commits adultery instead of the girl he raped. Now that would be progress.

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Jenny Lind
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 8:23am
There is so much wrong with this mindset that we will never understand understand them, and I am to the point where I do not care, get them out of the US, even the nice ones, I cannot feel good will come from them being here.

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- roscoe569
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 5:38pm
  ” even the nice ones?” Really?
  
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grayling646
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 8:16am
Holy Cow!!! …and we’re supporting these savages?

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- Displacedsoutherner
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 8:37am
  Eugenics in the name of religion. Just ask the late term/partial birth/immediate post birth abortion fans in the Obama administration. Eugenics in the name of a political agenda.
  
  I think Hitler and friends dabbled in that area as well.
  
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