Pakistan to execute Christian mother who verbally insulted Muhammed

You should seriously read these books, DD. I think it'll give you a better understanding of how things work in that part of the world.

Mortenson's foundation funds the construction of the schools, as well as teacher salaries, school supplies, etc.

The land used to build the schools is owned by the village elders, who donate their land specifically for the purpose of having a school built to educate their young.

Mortenson even cites several examples where his schools have been spared the destruction done to the buildings of other international aid organizations, simply because the schools he built were supported by the respected elders in the village.

I think this guy is seriously on to something, and wouldn't be surprised if he won a Nobel Peace Prize pretty soon.

 

Sounds great, I will have a read....

DD

 

Supporters of Pakistani religious party Sunni Tehreek chant slogans in favor of Mumtaz Qadri, alleged killer of Punjab governor Salman Taseer, outside an Anti-Terrorist Court in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011

These guys look like total gaylords with their roses.

Not that there would be anything wrong with that, weren't their roses for a murderer, and weren't gay rights virtually non-existent in Pakistan.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/opinion/09taseer.html

Here is an article by Salman Taseer's daughter, Shehrbano Taseer, regarding the brutal assassination.

If anything, its worth a read to reinforce the fact that the fight against injustice in Pakistan did not begin with Salman Taseer, nor will it end with him.

 

The country needs some sort of transformative figure to step up and lead that country into the 21st century (or even the 20th century...baby steps).

 

The Islamists kill those people......this is Nazi-ism 101......it is a bully pulpit.

If you don't believe as we do...blam you are dead.

DD

 

Court convicts imam and son for blasphemy

A Pakistan court has jailed a Muslim prayer leader and his 20-year-old son for life on controversial blasphemy charges in the rural centre of the country, court officials said Tuesday.

The case follows the killing of Punjab provincial governor Salman Taseer by his bodyguard last Tuesday, after the outspoken politician called for reform of the law that was recently used to sentence a Christian woman to death.

Mohammad Shafi, 45, and his son Mohammad Aslam, 20, were arrested in April last year for removing a poster outside their grocery shop advertising an Islamic event in a nearby village which allegedly contained Quranic verses.

Judge Mohammad Ayub, heading an anti-terrorism court in the central Pakistani town of Muzaffargarh, handed down a life sentence to the pair on Monday, his assistant Faisal Karim told AFP by telephone.

The prosecution alleged organisers of the event, which commemorated the anniversary of the Prophet Mohammad’s birth, said the pair had “pulled the poster down, tore it and trampled it under their feet,” Karim said.

“The judge sentenced them to life imprisonment on charges of blasphemy and ordered them to pay a fine of 200,000 rupees ($2,350) each,” he said.

Liberal politicians and human rights activists in Pakistan say the blasphemy law, which carries the death penalty for the worst offences, is sometimes used to settle personal scores and encourages extremism.

Defence counsel Arif Gurmani vowed to challenge the verdict in the high court because “it has been given in haste” and was the result of inter-faith rivalries, he said.

“Both are Muslims. The case is the result of differences between Deobandi and Barelvi sects of Sunni Muslims,” he said.

“Shafi is a practising Muslim, he is the imam of a mosque and he had recently returned from a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia…. I am defending them because I am convinced they are not guilty of blasphemy,” he said.

Nobody has been executed in Pakistan for blasphemy and those given the death penalty have so far had their sentences overturned or commuted on appeal.

Since Taseer’s assassination, right-wing religious clerics have heaped praise on his killer and stoked controversy over reform of the law. The government has said it has no plan to reform the law.

The controversy was sparked when former information minister Sherry Rehman tabled a private member’s bill in November, seeking to abolish the death penalty for blasphemy.

 

If the Prophet PBUH were alive today he would be shaking his head in disgrace. Then again if he were alive today then Muslims would be much different people and so would the world.

 

Pakistan fines two channels for Taseer murder coverage

Two Pakistani television channels have been fined for breaching regulations in their coverage of the 4 January killing of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer.

The stations, Samaa and Waqt TV, were ordered to pay one million rupees each ($11,670) by media regulator, Pemra.

It said they had encouraged terrorism and shown bloodshed by repeatedly airing an interview with Mumtaz Qadri, who has admitted killing Mr Taseer.

Websites should also stop spreading violence, Pemra's head told the BBC.

Although many in Pakistan condemned the assassination, some religious leaders have praised the governor's killer.

The governor - a senior member of the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) - had recently angered Islamists by appealing for a Christian woman, sentenced to death for blasphemy, to be pardoned.

 

That is good though, right? Got to get that radicalism under control.

DD

 

Yep.

The D&D isn't only for negative articles.

 

Yep, Pakistan is run by a bunch of r****ds... As you can see this has nothing to do with Islam. Just a bunch of uneducated fools.

 

Yes, but the internet is for:

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DD

 

Nothing to do with islam? The blasphemy law is about islam. What do you think it is about...bowling?

 

Religion of peace strikes again!!!!!!

 

Christianity had the same sort of thing going on. Ever hear of the Spanish Inquisition? How about the Scarlet Letter? Or the Salem Witch Trials?

Dude, this is what provincial backwards cultures do, and yes, Pakistan is provincial and backwards much like a lot of the Islamic world. But there are plenty of Islamic countries where this stuff doesn't happen either.

Stop trying to turn Islam into some sort of Evil Religion. It's not.

 

The statement "this has nothing to do with islam" is utterly ridiculous (as virtually all of your posts).

 

I think you need to take a day off from your xenophobia

 

Around the world ignorance abounds...

 

It's about Islam but it doesn't come FROM Islam. Do you see the difference or does your prejudice not allow you to?

If Clutch made a rule on the BBS saying anyone who insults ATW will get banned, should members blame you for that ridiculous rule or Clutch? Do you see the difference or does your small little closed minded thinking not allow you to?