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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: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Monday June 12 2017, @10:44AM (9 children)
Once again Runaway1955 has demonstrated his deep and crotchety understanding of religion, political systems, and what gets the alt-right all riled up. How much more of his searing insight can SN withstand? Serious question, seriously.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday June 12 2017, @11:34AM
Red - a colour that protects against the evil eye.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @11:43AM (3 children)
Oddly - or not so oddly - once again Aristarchus contributes nothing to the conversation. It is more his style to attempt to attack the person with whom he disagrees. Trolllollollollol
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @06:04PM (2 children)
He used to post more insightful stuff, but I feel his pain. After years now of dealing with close minded fools who think they are "so very smart^TM" it gets tiring to respond to everything with well formed arguments. Most of the time the arguments are quickly dismissed and you realize your effort was just a fart in the wind. So it boils down to irritation and "you're wrong dummy" since so many people are incapable of internalizing new information that conflicts with their world view.
ISLAM BAD! RAWWRRRR
xenophobic over generalizing nonsense. christians pull the same shit, other countries do horrifying things to their people for reasons other than religion.
The answer is not xenophobic tribalism, but it isn't kumbaya hold hands and heal the extremists either. But the extremists on both sides only think in extremes, a major part of why discussions go nowhere.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday June 14 2017, @04:16AM (1 child)
Ah, yes, the "we made awesome posts and got ignored" argument. I think rather the above passage is an example of your life-long efforts. It's sad that so many of our blowhards could have just learned how to argue and reason some point in the distant past. So much could be different now. As to aristarchus, he never was more insightful. My experiences with him got quite nasty.
And the platitudes about everyone doing it.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday June 14 2017, @09:23PM
Love you, too, khallow! But isn't this a rather obscure way of saying you lost arguments to me? I love how your idea of "learning how to argue" is to accept your innovative definitions and agree with you. Tarbaby, bro! Tarbaby!
(Score: 2, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Monday June 12 2017, @11:56AM (3 children)
Meanwhile, Aristarchus has demonstrated no understanding of Islam - crotchety or otherwise.
Try reading about Islam. http://canadafreepress.com/article/islam-is-not-a-religion-it-is-foreign-law [canadafreepress.com]
"Yes, everyone in America has the right to freedom of religion, but Islam is not a religion. Religious faith is only a part of Islam. The rest is a socially engineered society with its own laws and customs that seriously conflict with American law."
"We must recognize that religion is only one aspect of Islam‘s Qur’an. The rest of this charter advances ideas, social behavior, and laws that are in direct conflict with American and western laws and values. Teddy Roosevelt once said that to live in America, immigrants must have undivided loyalty to America and to no one else. How is that possible for Muslims who swear loyalty to Islam where their governing laws are found in the Qur‘an?"
You may double down on the progressive posiiton that Islam is just another religion, and that you must be tolerant - or you may actually study Islam, to see how compatible it is with western society.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @11:59AM
You may double down . . . or you may actually study Islam
Don't be silly. Aristarchus won't do either of those, while there are little boy's asses to study. But, don't call him a faggot or a pedo because those terms are politically incorrect.
(Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Tuesday June 13 2017, @12:29AM (1 child)
"Study", hmm, I think that Runaway has a rather unique definition of this activity.
The Guardian [theguardian.com] You might study this article, Runaway, if you are interested in realizing just how used you are.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday June 13 2017, @12:40AM
You and The Guardian are still operating under the illusion that Islam is a religion. Islam is a totalitarian regime, that covers politics, law, marital relations, business relations - everything. Everything.