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

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, @06:24PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @06:24PM (#524565)

    Actually most Christians are supposed to follow Jesus. While Muhammad is supposedly an excellent example for Muslims: https://quran.com/33/21 [quran.com]

    Unlike Muhammad, Jesus didn't go about waging wars and killing people. And the Great Commission was to spread his teachings and make disciples of men, not spread terror and kill people: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+28%3A16-20&version=ESV [biblegateway.com]

    Since Jesus said he came to fulfil the Law. What that means is subject to interpretation and there's certainly enough room for Christians to consider the Old Testament as not applicable especially given the example of his disciples as allegedly recounted in the Acts of the Apostles. That's why non-Jew Christians are eating pork, wearing clothes with mixed fabric etc. Most may not know why, but those issues have actually been thought about and resolved centuries ago. They're not Jews and most aren't in Israel. The Levitical laws and even the Ten Commandments arguably don't apply to them - it's not part of their contract. In some ways it's harder to do Jesus's commandments: love your enemies, "love on another as I have loved you" etc.

    Luther's Reformation was about "returning to the Book" and the early Protestants weren't terrorists.

    In contrast any analogous Islam reformation is more likely to result in ISIS style Islam if it involves returning to their Book and examples of Muhammad and his followers. They'll be waging wars across the Middle East and trying to form a Caliphate*.

    * That it's so easy to get Muslims to kill each other is very convenient for the CIA, the US Gov and Israel; and they certainly appear to be taking advantage of it.