I don't know how high expectations to have of the High Court in Pakistan, hopefully it will overturn it, but it's quite shocking that actual official courts, even lower-level, would make nonsensical decisions like this in Pakistan.
I'm assuming these decisions have something to do with the violent clashes between the religions in Pakistan in the past years, and with trying to avoid such riots, but that really isn't a justification for this kind of crap. I could understand having a fine for blasphemy, although I'm sure that would be rampantly abused and lead to miscarriages of justice as well, but this is ridiculous.
Needless to say, this kind of nonsense has no place in Islam. It belongs to that kind of xenophobic and/or anti-minority measures that dictators so love to use to foment strife among their population and to keep them from uniting against the dictatorship.
I'm assuming these decisions have something to do with the violent clashes between the religions in Pakistan in the past years, and with trying to avoid such riots, but that really isn't a justification for this kind of crap. I could understand having a fine for blasphemy, although I'm sure that would be rampantly abused and lead to miscarriages of justice as well, but this is ridiculous.
Needless to say, this kind of nonsense has no place in Islam. It belongs to that kind of xenophobic and/or anti-minority measures that dictators so love to use to foment strife among their population and to keep them from uniting against the dictatorship.
Christian couple gets 25 years in prison for allegedly touching Qur'an with "dirty hands"
- 04/03/2010 03:52:58 PM
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That's completely inane.
- 04/03/2010 04:09:27 PM
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Of course, it's the religion of peace.
- 04/03/2010 04:19:26 PM
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here let me sum it up for you
- 04/03/2010 04:41:24 PM
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do you believe any amount of prison time is justiifed for insulting the Quran?
- 04/03/2010 04:55:08 PM
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Pretty sure life sentences for touching the Koran "foment interfaith hatred" the most.
- 04/03/2010 06:37:56 PM
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