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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."
Christians might tell you that you're going to hell and say offensive things to you, but they're thankfully not killing people like the Muslims are.
"One of the delegates, Nabil Shaath, who was Palestinian foreign minister at the time, said: "President Bush said to all of us: 'I am driven with a mission from God'. God would tell me, 'George go and fight these terrorists in Afghanistan'. And I did. And then God would tell me 'George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq'. And I did.""
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"Tony Blair viewed his decision to go to war in Iraq and Kosovo as part of a "Christian battle", according to one of his closest political allies."
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Yet Pakistan is a classic example of a majority muslim country, and this is what happens. If you transferred all the Pakistanis in the world to the United States, do you think their beliefs and personalities would magically change just because they were standing on a different piece of land? Probably...
It is up to people in the free (i.e. non-muslim) world to continually expose and fight against the evil that is Islam, before the entire planet is living under this insane, tyrannous system.
maybe, just maybe, the problem isn't a particular religion (or religion in general). maybe the problem is human nature. take away religion, we'll find some other idea to exploit for power and control.
The problem with christianity as well as islam is both holy books are filled with multiple instructions both to be nice to everyone and fucking kill anyone who's not the same as you. Especially the old testament in the bible. Try reading it one day.
yes, but Christians by their name, tend to follow the 2nd book, you know the one that says love thy neighbor.
Where is the book of Islam that focuses on being nice to others...
Only a few months ago: (google facebook helps pakistan monitor speech)
Pakistan asking Facebook and Twitter to point out blasphemers ...
www.theblaze.com/.../pakistan-asking-facebook-and-twitter-to-point-out-blasphemers-a...
Mar 29, 2017 - Facebook has signalled its intent to help Pakistan identify thought .... promise to PROSECUTE anyone guilty of "ANTI-MUSLIM" speech.
https://www.infowars.com/facebook-helps-pakistan-identify-thought-criminals/
Pakistan asks Facebook to help fight blasphemy - BBC News
www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39300270
Mar 17, 2017 - Pakistan says it has asked Facebook to help investigate "blasphemous content" posted on the social network by Pakistanis. Facebook has ... ...
Facebook Helps Pakistan Ban "Blasphemy" Under Islamic Law
pamelageller.com/2017/03/facebook-helps-pakistan-ban-blasphemy-islamic-law.html/
Mar 9, 2017 - Pakistan: Facebook helping Pakistani officials remove ... Pakistan is already a barely functioning democracy, and to stifle free speech further in ...
Governments are religions?
As a non-American, it strikes me as quite... interesting... how worshipful Americans are of their politicians and institutions. The US constitution, its amendments, and the declaration of independence, are quoted as if they were scripture. The Founding Fathers get this Very Important Uppercased Title of Utter Respect and are quoted all around by all sides as if they were some kind of prophets or sages possessing of final wisdom. A mountain was carved so that the faces of the tetrany (?) of the Greatest Presidents Ever is forever remembered. And so on and so forth.
The US government might be secular, but secularism alone isn't enough to nullify religious impulses. They just shift around and resettle in a different shape and form.
Conservatism: (n.) love of the existing evils. Liberalism: (n.) desire to substitute new evils for the existing ones.