The woman pictured below (she looks as if she’s in a cocoon) was sentenced to death in Pakistan for insulting Islam. Wow, how stupid can these people be!!! It’s no wonder the idiotic Muslims can’t advance beyond the Stone Age!
Had I lived in a backward country such as Pakistan I would have been sentenced to death as a teenager, as I’ve been criticizing religions, ALL religions, since high school; and with good reason.
As anyone with half a brain should realize, and I’ve made this point before on this Blog, religions are like language. People generally adopt the religion of their parents and/or birthplace, it’s that simple. Realizing this, are people really ignorant enough to believe that they just happened to be born into the “right” religion?
I never seize to be amazed at the stupidity of religious people. TGO
Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s president will not immediately pardon a Christian woman sentenced to die for insulting Islam but may do so later if an appeals court delays her case too long, an official said Thursday.
The case against Asia Bibi has inflamed religious passions in Pakistan. Hard-line Muslims demonstrated again Thursday against any pardon for her, and minority Christians held their own protests calling for abolishment of the blasphemy law, which critics say is misused by some to settle personal scores and persecute minorities.
Pope Benedict XVI has appealed for the release of Bibi, a 45-year-old mother of five who has said she was wrongly accused by a group of Muslim women with a grudge against her. The pope said her case highlights the persecution of Pakistani Christians, who make up less than 5 percent of the country’s 175 million people.
Bibi, 45, is the first woman condemned to die under the blasphemy law. She has been jailed for 18 months and was sentenced Nov. 8 to hang for insulting Islam’s Prophet Mohammed.
Her lawyer has filed an appeal with the Lahore High Court, and President Asif Ali Zardari has decided to let the appeal process play out instead of immediately pardoning her, said Minister for Minority Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti, who met with Zardari on Thursday.
Pardoning Bibi would carry political risk for Zardari, whose broadly secular ruling party relies on the support of Islamist groupings in Parliament.
However, the president agreed to pardon Bibi later if the appeal case is unduly delayed, said Bhatti, who delivered a report to the president Thursday recommending Bibi be immediately freed. Zardari’s spokesman could not be reached Thursday.
Bhatti said Zardari did not specify any deadline but he believes the president “will not wait months or weeks.”
About 100 Muslim demonstrators rallied Thursday in the central city of Multan, warning against any presidential pardon for Bibi and burning an effigy of the Punjab provincial governor who has supported her appeal.
“We will resist if the government moves against the court verdict and attempts to amend the blasphemy law,” warned Tariq Naeemullah, a leader of Citizen Front of Multan.
Dozens of Christians held their own protest in the southern city of Karachi, carrying a large crucifix and placards reading “Down with Black Law” and “Stop Discrimination Against Religious Minorities.”
Pakistan’s higher courts have always struck down lower courts’ death penalties in past blasphemy cases. Still, Bhatti said many who are falsely accused are unjustly jailed for months and often targeted by violence. Two Christian brothers in Punjab were gunned down earlier this year as they were leaving a court hearing on a blasphemy charge.
The minorities minister acknowledges that repealing the blasphemy law is politically unfeasible but has proposed changes to it including making it a crime to falsely accuse someone, abolishing the death penalty for the crime and requiring initial cases to be heard by higher courts instead of local ones.
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Associated Press writers Ashraf Khan in Karachi and Khalid Tanveer in Multan contributed to this report.
not mine, muslims are obsessed with virgins and jannah
they really beleive if u kill a non muslim u will go to heaven, they really are pathetic, only loser think like that as they have nothing to do in this life except beg eg pak, afganistan egyppt ect
pakistn is a very into;erant country, as u say u critisised all religion, than god u are not in pakistn, u would be totured and then killed, and the killer would be a hero, and called ghazi, and he would go to paradise with 22 virgins, mind u there are plenty of virgin in jannah, and they are all muslim, no other religion allowed
Do you really believe all of this nonsense about paradise and virgins. By the way, what is your obsession with virgins? If Muslims love virgins so much, why not seek them out here in this world, rather than expecting to find them in the fictitious, non-existent hereafter?
Islam is such a flawed ideology. Time and time again we hear that it is a peaceful faith, yet all the Muslims talk about is torture and killing. What hypocrisy!