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Pakistani Lawyer Wants Mark Zuckerberg Executed

Posted by kdawson on from the just-cut-the-wires dept.

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."

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  1. I love moderates by Dyinobal · · Score: 5, Funny

    I for one am glad to see the Islamic religion embracing their moderate side.

    1. Re:I love moderates by mark72005 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well, at least they are bothering to pursue the execution through legal channels this time.

      Progress is progress.

    2. Re:I love moderates by clone53421 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      That is referring to his followers being persecuted and rejected by their own family members.

      Which, I might add, is an exact description of what happens when a Muslim converts to Christianity. If the family doesn’t outright execute him or her, they at the very least are completely disowned.

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    3. Re:I love moderates by zero.kalvin · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I know I may have fallen for a troll trap here, but I am not letting this one go: Hitler atheism is in doubt. The evidence point more toward him being a catholic. Beside wasn't the soldiers who committed these crimes?, are you telling me that Germany's army during ww2 was an atheist army ??None of these soldiers was a catholic one ? Stalin was dogmatic in his views about social composition, he was so dogmatic about these things, it was as religion. Same goes for Pol Pot. It was religion that started the Crusades, it was religion who started the inquisition, it was religion who brought down the Towers. What about slavery in US ? who were the south quoting on the right for slaves? Get you fact right! "Good people will do good things, and bad people will do bad things. But for good people to do bad things -- that takes religion." -- Steven Weinberg

    4. Re:I love moderates by Eivind · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Actually, I'd be more likely to agree that all religions are, at the core, about power and influence. Frequently they're tools whereby a tiny elite try to influence and control a large flock of sheep.

    5. Re:I love moderates by rednip · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Art only becomes idolatry when one feels that it has some special representation. Pledging to kill the creator of an image is in fact proof of worshiping it.

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    6. Re:I love moderates by WitnessForTheOffense · · Score: 5, Funny

      Great, now /. is going to get investigated by the Pakistani police. Happy?

    7. Re:I love moderates by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The Reformation gets very little credit for the relative moderation(or at least contemporary impotence) of Christianity, outside of some real shitholes. Calvin's Geneva was a Protestant theocracy, and there were numerous examples at least as unpleasant.

      Also, while Islam didn't have a "reformation", it also has the "two-substantially-dissimilar-and-mutually-displeased-with-one-another-sects-operating-under-one-heading" thing going, with the Sunni and Shia branches(plus some smaller oddball variants), and that hasn't exactly exposed its warm and fuzzy side.

      Most of the credit for the West not being a ghastly theocratic hellhole, torn by endless wars between the terrorized papistical minions of Rome and the terrorized heretical minions of various protestant factions, with the occasional witch burning or crusade to bring people together, is due to the Enlightenment.

      "Mankind will never be free until the last King is strangled with the entrails of the last Priest"(and the last advertising shill is buried alive alongside them)...

    8. Re:I love moderates by durrr · · Score: 5, Insightful

      So just because some of our remote ancestors behaved like giant douchebags it's okay to let people repeat it, especially if it's in the name of religion.
      What happened to learning from history to avoid repeating its mistake? Or did i miss some clause detailing exceptions to this?

    9. Re:I love moderates by Sociable+Scientician · · Score: 5, Informative

      I hate to bring this up because it's off topic. But Hitler was Catholic. He went to church, was backed by the Vatican and mentions doing Gods work in Mein Kampf. You can't disown him from your belief system because he was a cunt.

      What??? How was this modded informative?? Hitler may have been born Catholic, but he was Catholic in the same way Marx was Jewish--both are religions that are also ethnic identities, because people are inducted into them in childhood. Here are some representative quotes from his later life:

      "You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?"

      (Quoted by Albert Speer, architect of the Third Reich)

      The individual may establish with pain today that with the appearance of Christianity the first spiritual terror entered into the far freer ancient world, but he will not be able to contest the fact that since then the world has been afflicted and dominated by this coercion, and that coercion is broken only by coercion, and terror only by terror.

      --From Mein Kampf

      "We do not want any other god than Germany itself. It is essential to have fanatical faith and hope and love in and for Germany."

    10. Re:I love moderates by Endo13 · · Score: 5, Informative

      How? Religion is created by people.

      Most religions are. Judaism and Christianity claim to have been created by God.

      I, for one, do not believe that the New Testament speaks only Christ's words and teachings, especially considering that considerable portions were written hundreds of years after his death.

      Hundreds of years? The latest possible date for *any* of the books is 150AD. The most likely date places the most recent one (Revelation) as being written in 95AD.

      This isn't even considering that Jesus, like Luther centuries later, wasn't necessarily seeking to create a new religion, rather he was attempting to modify the existing Hebrew religion.

      Pretty much everything Jesus taught in his day flew directly in the face of what Judaism taught at the time. The leaders of Judaism where his biggest opponents. In fact, his blasphemy by their definition was so horrible as to warrant the worst possible sentence they had at their disposal. Not exactly what anyone would (with any seriousness) call a "modification" of an existing religion.

      And there aren't many people who would say that the Hebrews were necessarily a completely peaceful people. From the massacre of the worshipers of the golden calf to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, there was plenty of violence to go around.

      That is history prior to Christianity. No where in the New Testament will you violence being condoned for the followers of Christianity to participate in. You do however find lots of support for returning good for evil, and non-retaliation for violence received.

      Christianity is not about forcing a world view, religion, beliefs, or anything on anyone else. It's about spreading the good news of the Gospel to everyone so they have the choice to be saved or not.

      It's fine if you choose not to believe in Christianity but you should at least research the facts before you make claims when you clearly don't know the subject matter.

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  2. I demand by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I demand a pony! I want a pony! So I can chop it's head off and put it in a Pakistani lawyer's bed.

  3. They would only be hurting themselves by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If Pakistan were to actually uphold this absurd attempt, it wouldn't hurt Mark Zuckerberg (I'm pretty sure he's not planning on going to Pakistan anytime soon and no civilized country is even going to consider extradition). But it WOULD certainly hurt Pakistan (which already has a pretty bad rep to begin with). It's the equivalent of holding up a big sign to the world that reads "We're a backwards shithole, filled with intolerant Koran-thumping hicks. Don't even think about coming here or doing business here." It would be a valuable lesson on what religious fanaticism can do to your country, I suppose--especially for countries that don't have oil (the only reason any businessman from the civilized world would even be caught dead in Saudi Arabia).

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    1. Re:They would only be hurting themselves by Sir_Lewk · · Score: 5, Insightful

      More likely: "we're a bunch of weenies who are willing to bow to pressure from intolerant koran thumping hicks who say they want to behead us for exercising our rights."

      Pointing out the absurdity of people being offended by stupid things is nothing to be ashamed about. Here, I'll even do it right now: 8===D O: That is Muhammad sucking a massive cock, for those unaware.

      What facebook should be ashamed of is that they bowed to pressure from these lunatics.

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    2. Re:They would only be hurting themselves by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I support his execution for other reasons, such as his crappy facebook privacy games.

    3. Re:They would only be hurting themselves by mdm-adph · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Koran-thumping hicks" is my new phrase of the month. Thank you.

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  4. A Modest Proposal: Thunderdome by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pakistani Lawyer Wants Mark Zuckerberg Executed

    That's not "a nightmare scenario of legal jurisdiction". That's an opportunity. Allow me to sever the Gordian knot of tangled jurisdictional issues with justice, THUNDERDOME style.

    Tonight's card: Muslim Fundamentalist Lawyer vs. Mark Zuckerberg. Two men enter, one world wins.

  5. No problemo... by tekrat · · Score: 5, Funny

    All the Pakistanis have to do is give us Osama Bin Laden first!
    In the meantime, we'll keep Mark in a nice safe cave built by the CIA.

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    1. Re:No problemo... by bynary · · Score: 5, Funny

      Where's the "Like" button on Slashdot?

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  6. Re:Get in the queue buddy... by xtracto · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And on a more serious note... what does the people who want the UK Hacker extradited and tried in the USA think of this?... after all the crime was commited in Pakistan (showing drawings of Teh Propeth) no?

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  7. Mark Zuckerberg by jamesyouwish · · Score: 5, Funny

    should unfriend the Pakistani Lawyer

  8. Here is a better reason by bigredradio · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't think the pages for "Draw Muhammad Day" is that big a deal. FarmTown, now THAT is a reason for execution.

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  9. Re:This should be interesting... by mkiwi · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I thought the US was the only country that thought it could apply its laws to anyone in the world, even its own citizens when they don't reside in the country.

    No, people are assholes pretty much anywhere.

  10. Dark Ages by Jerrry · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yet another example showing that the Islamic world is still in the Dark Ages that most of the rest of the world emerged from sometime in the 13th century.

  11. Look at it this way... by mdm-adph · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Even if you look at it from their perspective, that Mark Zuckerberg is somehow guilty because he's "enabling" these "offensive" actions on his website, doesn't that make their entire religion guilty because they're enabling the grisly murders of people like Daniel Pearl, or hell, all of 9/11?

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  12. It's a real risk for Zuckerman by Animats · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's a real problem for Zuckerman. He's previously made fund-raising trips to Dubai. That's over. The UAE has blasphemy laws, which they enforce. The UAE also has an extradition treaty with Pakistan, but not with the United States. So he can no longer visit Dubai, and is unlikely to get funding from any source in the Arab world. He can't even fly Emirates Air.

  13. Re: Sure, why not? by Shakrai · · Score: 5, Informative

    How about the fact that DoD was so infested with political correctness that it ignored the warning signs regarding a Muslim service member whom later went on a shooting rampage and killed over a dozen innocent people?

    There's also Comedy Central's hypocrisy -- they allow South Park (and Jon Stewart to a lesser extent) to rip every other religion to shreds but refuse to allow them to do the same to Islam.

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    We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
  14. Re:This should be interesting... by corbettw · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mohammad was a child-raping psychopath and Allah doesn't exist.

    There, now CmdrTaco can't go to Dubai.

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  15. Re:The biggest protector of child molesters by Wyatt+Earp · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oh like Islam is any better.

    Child brides, pederasty, repression of women, homosexuality as a crime with the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Mauritania, northern Nigeria, Sudan, and Yemen.

    I'd bet that more young males are molested in countries like Morocco a year due to the repressed sexuality Islam imposes than have been molested by all the Catholic priests in the last thirty years.

    The son of one of Hamas's founders admits that the social restrictions on dating and sex in Islam and the Middle Eastern tribal society is one of the leading causes of militarism in Islam.

  16. Re:This is why the US is "anti"-Islamic-terrorist by CannonballHead · · Score: 5, Informative

    Israel has given up land.

    Israel appears to think the current national entity should not be a national entity, but appears to be willing to allow people to live there, in the name of peace.

    Hamas, on the other hand, thinks all Israel - the Jewish PEOPLE - be killed. They don't care about the political status of Israel, they hate the Jews.

    That's a big difference. One is anti-ethnic-group (genocide), and the other is anti-political-entity (mmmm land dispute, nation dispute, not genocide).

    By the way, if Israel doesn't acknowledge the right for Palestine to exist, why do they allow ANY aid into Gaza? On one hand, you have Israel allowing aid (yes, we can argue about how well they are doing that, but they ARE doing it). On the other hand, we have Hamas actively trying to kill all the Jews in Israel. Hmmmmm. Yup, sounds very equal to me, as your one-liner seemed to imply... [/sarcasm]