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Man Sentenced to Death For Blasphemous Facebook Comments In Pakistan (gizmodo.com)
In what is believed to be "the first time the death penalty had been awarded in a case related to social media," a 30-year-old man in Pakistan has been sentenced to death for blasphemy in comments made on Facebook. Gizmodo reports: The prosecutor told The Times of India that Taimoor Raza was arrested "after playing blasphemous and hate speech material on his phone on a bus stop in Bahawalpur, where a counter-terrorism officer arrested him and confiscated his phone." It was the material on Raza's phone that led to his arrest. The Guardian reports that the accused's brother said Raza "indulged in a sectarian debate on Facebook with a person, who we later come to know, was a [counter-terrorism department] official with the name of Muhammad Usman." Raza's defense attorney told The Guardian the initial charges were limited to "insulting remarks on sectarian grounds," which carries a maximum two-year jail sentence, but that "derogatory acts against prophet Muhammad," which carry a death sentence, were added later. According to The Times of India, Raza will be able to appeal the ruling to the Pakistani High Court and the Supreme Court. Facebook said in a statement: "We are deeply saddened and concerned by the death sentence served in Pakistan for a Facebook post. Facebook uses powerful systems to keep people's information secure and tools to keep their accounts safe, and we do not provide any government with direct access to people's data. We will continue to protect our community from unnecessary or overreaching government intervention."
Congratulations, you found the one religiously run state that doesn't have any need for such laws. Well, maybe because that particular state is very special in a lot of aspects. One of them probably being that to get in, you first and foremost have to have drunk the cool-aid and totally love it, or you just would not be there. It's not like you can be born in the Holy See (yup. Only country in existence with 100% (former) foreigners making up the population). You pretty much HAVE TO be all-in on the whole religious spiel already to even have a chance to become a citizen.
I hope it's easy to see how you can get away with not having any laws like this and still have a 100% devotee population. You don't have to enforce anything there. People ARE already completely sold to the cult.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
They do it because American Evangelists encouraged them to do so.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/how-uganda-was-seduced-by-anti-gay-conservative-evangelicals-9193593.html
Things get hard when "soft power" is used in the wrong way.
Of cause Saudi Arabian Muslim evangelists are doing far worse and probably inspired the problem in the article.
Nazi-ism isn't a person and thus cannot be violent at all. Nazi-ism is a bunch of words and ideas.
Now there are places where some "less enlightened" people are in power and one of the bases for their power as well as their beliefs happen to be Nazist in nature.
What you need to do is accept that these countries are, in fact, fundamentalist. You need to accuse Germany, Austria and other nations DIRECTLY and not go through the strawman of ideology in order to not offend your own.
FTFY.
I'm an Islamophobe because I READ the Quran and know the history of Islam and it scares the shit out of me. More books get translated in a single year into Spanish than have to Arabic since the 1500s onwards combined.
You're religious relativism is beyond naive and something like Jainism has never spawned a hate state. Mohammed himself is a murderer and pedophile rapist... and held up as beyond a hero in that religion, and cowards such as yourself paint him as just another Buddha or Jesus figure. HE IS NOT.
I wish you would go live under Sharia law someplace for a year before spouting this drivel.
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/
Can't speak for Canada, but the blasphemy law in Denmark had been used four times (if I remember it correctly) in the past 100 years. The last time was in the 70s, and the accused was found innocent.
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Canada's was last used in the '80s against a theatre owner who showed "The life of Brian". Local Crown prosecutors had laid the charge following a complaint by an Anglican vicar. The attorney general moved swiftly to stay the charge.
>Especially the old testament in the bible. Try reading it one day.
One problem with the Christibans is that the new testament's hippie socialist "turn the other cheek," "love thy neighbour," etc. is supposed to override the old testament's "non-Jews are untermenschen who should be killed and enslaved," "sacrifice your firstborn son to Ba'al-Yahweh," and similar messages; adherence to this was what originally set Christians apart from non-reformist Jews.
that religion should be made illegal in every nation possible, because everywhere that islam dominates they quickly become an oppressive theocratic tyranny.
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Other religions believe that newer instructions -- for example, the New Testament -- or interpretations can supersede or limit previous scriptures. The Koran specifically forbids that. Try reading it one day.
âoeDo not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. (NIV, Matthew 5:17â"18)
There's a lot of interpretation of this one. Some people say that it means that Mosaic law is still in effect, others don't. Since Jesus and his disciples arguably ignored certain parts of Mosaic law, the latter interpretation is generally held to be more accurate, but it still causes problems.
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
I would challenge your interpretation. Jesus was saying that the OT was not wrong, but that HE was the realization of the prophecies and that his life and eventual sacrifice was to meet the objectives of Gods laws. Jesus does not change the fact that we need to obey God but his life changes virtually everything about how we obey God.
The OT is still useful in enhancing our understanding. Even later prophets like Timothy explicitly say so. As a Christian though you must look at the OT thru a NT lens.
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