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Pakistani Lawyer Wants Mark Zuckerberg Executed
Earthquake Retrofit sends along a piece from The Register reporting on a nightmare scenario of legal jurisdiction on the Internet: a Pakistani lawyer has filed blasphemy charges, carrying the death penalty, against Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives (and the pseudonomous user who initiated the "Draw Muhammad" contest last month). Pakistani police have apparently opened an investigation, according to this Google translation of a BBC Urdu report."
What I really expect is for people to be able to tell the difference between an entire religion, and one asshat who claims to follow that religion.
Not when the asshat is able to get the police to open an investigation. Not when the asshat can issue a fatwa that someone else should die, and others try to carry that out. Not when the asshat's religious point of view is part and parcel of the entire structure of government. Not when there is a pattern of asshattery associated with the entire country.
When Rev Phelps says that God hates fags, I don't blame Christianity. I look around and see that the legal system and religious institutions are set up that nutcases like him are allowed to be asshats, because it means freedom of religion and expression for everyone. In this case, I do blame Islam. It is intimately tied to the government, their legal system, and allows, even condones, this sort of thing. It's a (further) indication that Islam is broken in a fundamental way and is incompatible with western civilization. One asshat, that's an outlier; an entire frigging country of government backed asshats, that's a problem.
The more people I meet, the better I like my dog.