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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @07:15AM (1 child)
>Lets use our superior experience and try and improve the region
Right after condemning the west for genocide. Okay then.
>Enact various global punishments (trade sanctions and the like)
You're new to this aren't you, the Norks haven't stopped being little shits.
>Acting like xenophobic little children will NOT help the problem
So does acting like World Police and assuming the world has the same values as you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 13 2017, @05:29PM
I did not get much into the details of how it should be done, that is a longer conversation. I did reply to someone further down the thread saying we should use trade sanctions and isolationism. Military intervention is the worst, a society needs to fix itself. Imposing a new system will just create a large group of pissed off people leading to trouble down the road. That is what we are experiencing right now, the effects of world policing / imperialism.