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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @06:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @06:12PM (#524554)

    YOU don't realize how fucked up we are, and your fellow mid westerners as a whole.

    There are quite a few cities with massive cultural mixing, but ironically we're demonized as elitist ivory tower communists/socialists. I've lost a lot of the patience I had for close minded people once I realized how they view me. I'm an oddball loony who is entertaining in their mind, and more often than not they try and convert me to their way of thinking.

    PS: the close minded / crazies are on the left and right, but overwhelmingly on the conservative spectrum. For all the new age crystal healers you get twice the number of faith healers. Christian fundamentalism, one of the big industries of the US...