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."
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday June 12 2017, @06:18PM (2 children)
But we're not talking about the holy texts, we're talking about the religions as they are currently practised in the real world
Lord's Resistance Army [wikipedia.org]
Name a religion and I can name a group of assholes abusing it to do evil.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Wootery on Tuesday June 13 2017, @08:24AM (1 child)
The Onion put it better than I ever could.
(NSFW) http://www.theonion.com/article/no-one-murdered-because-of-this-image-29553 [theonion.com]
(Score: 2) by ilsa on Tuesday June 13 2017, @05:58PM
I didn't realized we needed a "+1 WTF" mod until now.