A Barbaric Jeffrey Dahmer: The Story of Javed Iqbal

The person who made the headlines in Pakistan on Jan 1st, 2000 wasn't anyone other than a serial killer named Javed Iqbal. Javed handed himself to the authorities in a walk-in surrender at a newspaper office. Read further about the motive behind Javed's 100 brutal murders.

Javed Iqbal was a well-settled individual who ran his father's business. There wasn't much going on with his life until one day, Javed craved massage or something else, leading him to appoint a boy to massage at home. Shockingly, Javed tried raping the boy (or raped him). The boy picked up a pistol which was present at Javed's place and hit it at Javed's head. The boy attacked Javed only in his defence but that injury lead to Javed being admitted to the hospital for 5 months. Meanwhile, Javed's mother died. Javed felt that it was the fault of the boy that he wasn't with his mother in her last moments. Javed's rage took over his mind and he decided to bereave 100 children of their mothers.

Javed's gruesome process of murdering his victims started with capturing children of age between 6 and 16 and then raping them. He would then kill each victim and then dismember their body. At last, he would dissolve body parts in acid and throw those parts in the river to vanish any sign of murder. He repeated this process exactly 100 times.

After doing his thing, Javed himself informed DIG Lahore about the murders. Police investigated and surprisingly concluded that Javed was innocent. After not getting the necessary attention from the police, Javed wrote to a newspaper in Lahore precisely on Dec 31st, 1999. The letter included pictures of 75 children he murdered, and a testimony from Javed accepting the crime.

Police departments and authorities were quick to react and launched an operation across the whole of Punjab. Police couldn't find Javed anywhere. Javed escaped every time police tried to reach him. The testimony of Javed and pictures of the children were everywhere on the news. The police found a drum full of human body parts and acid at Javed's house. At last, Javed himself walked into a newspaper office and surrendered. The judge ordered Javed to be persecuted in the same manner as he did his victims. The Judge even called for public punishment in front of the parents of the victims but that verdict was discarded by the government as it didn't fall under the constitution. Javed was sentenced to death. However, after a few days, both Javed and his inmate were found dead in their cell.

This report states that Isaac Newton was a Muslim!

The name Isaac Newton needs no introduction. Being one of the most influential individuals in human history, Newton tops any list of scientists, mathematicians or physicists. Despite being that renowned, many people are unaware that Newton's trajectory of interests was far beyond just mathematics or physics. To anyone's surprise, Newton also invested much of his time in theology. Newton accomplished almost everything in the field of physics but still felt he was missing something much more important. He searched for one true God despite being raised as a Christian. Newton, with time, became aware that the faith he believed in wasn't stable. It wasn't until much later after his death, it was revealed that he identified himself as a Nontrinitarian Monotheist.

When Newton died, in addition to his scientific work, he left a huge collection of his religious work as well, comprising his interpretation and explanation of the Bible. However, Newton's descendants felt that it wasn't the right time to reveal his religious beliefs to the general public as it might hurt Newton's scientific legacy. Newton believed that the doctrine of the Trinity was bogus. Newton insisted that the Church was responsible for the corruption of Biblical texts. When Newton's unorthodox beliefs were made public by the end of the 20th century, scholars were associating him with Nontrinitarian Arians, Socinians or sometimes Unitarians. Newton's beliefs were shockingly much closer to orthodox Muslims than unorthodox Christians. But can we state Newton as a Muslim without any proof of his testimony? Well, there is a distant report present in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge indicating that Newton believed in Prophet Muhammad. This report can be found in the German language in Correspondence of Sir Isaac Newton and Professor Cotes1. The complete account is translated into the English language as stated below.

On 8th Dec 1773, Swedish Professor Jakob Jonas Björnståhl paid a visit to Amsterdam to meet Fontein Pieter (Anabaptist preacher and scholar of Hemsterhuis and Albert Schultens). Fontein told Björnståhl that in 1738, he made a trip to England and made the acquaintance of the great Bentley (probably Richard Bentley). At Cambridge, he heard various anecdotes about Newton, who had died nine or ten years before, among others: Newton had believed that Muhammad had been sent by God to lead the Arabs back from the darkness and to the belief in a God, etc. (This, at least, the professors or fellows at Cambridge told him as a special curiosity from Newton's story). However, this enlightened man did not believe the fables and miracles occurring in the Koran and Muhammad's life. He told me that Newton had published a treatise to prove that the passage 1 John, v. 7. was not eight, and that the text had a far better context without this verse.

Newton believed that God was one, Christ was not divine, and the doctrine of the Trinity was added to the sacred scripts much later. Collectively saying, these beliefs conclude that Newton might have lived his later part of life as a Muslim. Only God knows better.

1 This report is cited in German in J. Edleston, Correspondence of Sir Isaac Newton and Professor Cotes, London, p. 1xxx. Link: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/rmsfytdh