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Pakistan Sentences Man to Death for Blasphemy on Facebook

posted by martyb on Monday June 12 2017, @06:03AM   Printer-friendly

BK writes:

From Reuters:

A Pakistani counter-terrorism court has sentenced to death a man who allegedly committed blasphemy on Facebook, a government prosecutor said on Sunday, the first time someone has been handed the death penalty for blaspheming on social media.

[...] Shafiq Qureshi, public prosecutor in Bahawalpur, about 500km (300 miles) south of provincial capital Lahore, said Raza was convicted for allegedly making derogatory remarks against Prophet Mohammad, his wives and companions.

"An anti terrorism court of Bahawalpur has awarded him the death sentence," Qureshi told Reuters." It is the first ever death sentence in a case that involves social media."

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by art guerrilla on Saturday June 17 2017, @12:02PM (1 child)

    by art guerrilla (3082) on Saturday June 17 2017, @12:02PM (#526922)

    1. no, i do not take runaway as a moron, except sometimes... 8^)
    (ahem, we are ALL ignorant of MOST things, we are ALL susceptible to moronicity... yeah, this moron just neologied the shit out of that...)
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    2. in point of fact, i have on different occasions defended runaways arguments, or at least right to make them... unfortunately, his hyper-rational, super-strict, calvinistic, and draconian take on issues usually ignores one tiny factor : human beans and their confounding behaviors...
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    3. and -yes- my meta-point was i find runaway (like a LOT of people) far too prone to kneejerk authoritarianism in order to 'solve' (ie NOT solve, suppress) problems in society... again, EVERYONE thinks: IF ONLY those idiots would do like i tell them, it is all for their own good... (says a thousand kings, a thousand dictators, and 7 billion runaways...)

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday June 17 2017, @12:34PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday June 17 2017, @12:34PM (#526936) Journal

    we are ALL susceptible to moronicity... yeah, this moron just neologied the shit out of that...

    +1. Twice.

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    3. and -yes- my meta-point was i find runaway (like a LOT of people) far too prone to kneejerk authoritarianism in order to 'solve' (ie NOT solve, suppress) problems in society...

    in the context of:

    1. well, well, well, appears our li'l runaway is capable of a certain amount of learning...

    So I take your diagnostic is "a common case of age-related degenerative kneejerkism, with authoritarian pronation" rather than unwillingness or lack of intellectual capability.

    You see, in their youth, humans have a wide horizon of choices, reactions and thoughts. As we progress through the age and experience, this horizon reduces to a point; this is what is called "the personal Point of View about life". Happens to most of us, the only difference is the position of that point.

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford