
Farooq Naeem / AFP - Getty Images, file
Pakistani security personnel shift Rimsha Masih (L), a Christian girl accused of blasphemy, to a helicopter after her release from jail in Rawalpindi on September 8, 2012. Masih was arrested on August 16 for allegedly burning pages containing verses from the Quran but she was released from a prison in Rawalpindi after a court accepted her bail application.
A Pakistani Christian girl who was accused of burning pages of Muslim holy texts has been cleared of blasphemy charges against her.
Pakistan’s Islamabad High Court ordered a police report against Rimsha Masih discharged on Tuesday.
Rimsha, who is believed to be 14, was arrested earlier this year on charges of blasphemy for allegedly burning Muslim holy texts.
Later, police officials said she may have been framed by the cleric who accused her of the crime. He was later arrested.
In Muslim Pakistan, the mere allegation of an offense to Islam can mean death. Those accused under an anti-blasphemy law are sometimes lynched by the public even if they are found innocent by the courts.
Rimsha was held in a garrison near Islamabad for nearly three weeks before she was freed after a judge granted her bail, the Associated Press reported. A reporter on the scene said she was taken from the prison in an armored vehicle and whisked away by helicopter. Her face was covered to protect her identity.
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so what happen to the douche bag that framed her ?
You can run with the dogs, tonight, in Surburbia. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VCqAjYO3NM
The article clearly said he was arrested.
If she was framed for burning pages containing Koranic verses, then presumably the pages were burned by the cleric who did the framing. In the sake of justice and consistency, the cleric should be put to death. However, please note that I am not in favor of putting anyone to death for merely insulting anything or anybody.
Islam has no real authority over her, though it will attempt to impose it anyway. We must not give in to their demands or blasphemy laws. To do so would be the same as giving in to an extortionist. "Do this or I will hurt you" is extortion. There is no difference between that and "Don't do this or we will hurt you". If we do "not burn" their book or whatever, out of fear of them being violent, where does it end? "Your women must Wear a burka or we will hurt you" and "submit your will to islam\mohammed" is where I believe it will eventually end, provided we continue to do what the islamists wish and "not offend them".
But hey, maybe Chaimberlain was right after all when he tried to appease Hitler. Maybe islam will be different. . .
Exactly -trying to appease the Islamic countries is useless. Contain and let them implode on their own slave driven war glorifying ideology. Why we have let and continue to let Muslims from these countries come here is another outrageous betrayal by both political parties. This so called contemporary warfare of insurgency efforts is not winning any hearts or minds. It only makes these aggressive Muslims believe they can push their belief system on everyone else. No aid No trade No immigration and Deport when necessary.
You can be put to death for burning Muslim holy texts? Wow.
... and the cleric who actually burned the books, goes scot free. I thought for a moment that burning the holy book was a crime punishable by death. O wait, it is applicable only for the girl, right? My bad.
Ireland or Islam? Who can tell them apart. In Ireland a woman died because the church supports a law that murders a woman because the church doesn't belief in abortion and the doctors, who could have saved a woman were COWARDS. In Paki land they want to murder a christian child because she might have burned their Bull @!$%# Holy Book.
I'm glad because the Paki Courts released this child for saves many people the effort of burning down a Muslim Church in retaliation.
There are no Muslim churches.
Well that is a swell leftist talking point, but it's as actuate as saying Islam is peace.
translation, she made @!$%# up.
The entire story may have been a "figment" of an over active leftist mind.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/cristinaodone/100192639/doubts-over-savitas-tragic-death-she-may-not-have-been-denied-an-abortion/
This young Christian woman is also developmentally disabled. Her accuser should burn in hell. This case and the case of the young woman advocating education who was shot for her views will hopefully advance the cause of women's rights in Pakistan. That having been said, Ireland can certainly do with some introspection on this issue! AND thank God, we did not get Ryan elected to a higher post here, or we would be facing the same issues!! A-hole thinks he OWNS us!!@!
So, could someone just go over there and start rumors about clerics ( muslim imams ) wiping their butts with their Quran, and get them all killed off by angry mobs? Might be kind of karma.....
She should not have burned those pages. They come in handy in case one runs out of toilet paper.
She didn't burn them. That's what the whole thing was about--she didn't do it.
Apparently, the cleric who accused her did to frame her. Why he wanted to pick on a developmentally disabled girl is beyond anyone's guess, other than she was a Christian, and he wanted to pick a fight and be the big bossy leader.
I find it interesting that, at her age, she wasn't married already, but that might be because of her handicap, and her handicap is probably why everyone in her village knew that she didn't do it, she couldn't do it, and why the villagers knew that the cleric was corrupt, made sure that the disgusting, guilty man was reported.
What a terrific religion, where 14 year old girls need to be protected from mob lynching. Do they ever reflect on just how perverted their beliefs are?
Not unlike some of the fundamentalist Christians in the U.S.
Please, do tell of a recent case in the US where a 14 year old girl had to be protected from mob lynching religious supremacists.
He's just an appeaser to islam. I guess he thinks if he talks nice about them that they will be nice in return. Hahahahahahaha oohh my
omnipotus clever name. We may not always agree but I do think there will be many issues we will agree on. I will treat you with respect and gladly accept you as a friend
Thanks, Fight. I chose the name and pic because I like to make fun of myself for my habit of going on & on about what I feel is important. I don't always take myself seriously, but sometimes i do, especially when it concerns islam.
Religion of peace? Yeah... right...
It seems to me that Islam isn't a religion, but a method of subjugation over the masses. It is a product of man to control the masses, like we have these beliefs from this Mr. Moon we kept hearing about ten years ago or so. The problem is we have ignored Islam for so long, it has grown to massive following that needs to be stamped out for the good of the human race. A fake religion that subjugates it's followers and commands them to kill themselves for the sake of the religion (that is just plain wrong)!
No God would ask it's followers to kill innocent people!
Oh now who was it that told a certain follower to kill his son, but then showed as a burning bush and said, nah i was just fool'n ya you past the test!! Every religion is wacky. Just my opinion.
You don't think J said that believing those he told would look at him as a prophet?? Nothing in it for him, eh??
So what happens to this poor girl now. Is she returned home to be lynched by her neighbors even though she is innocent? Does the cleric get executed for burning that Qu'ran and for trying to frame an innocent child? How about trying to provoke a riot possibly costing the lives of many people along with the girl?
I say we give a Tip o' the Hat to that Paki court and the honest judge that presides over it. He has had the innocent victim of the cleric released and has had the cleric arrested. One cannot ask more of him or complain about his actions in good faith. Heck, I say let that judge appoint the cleric's successor at that mosque. He'll be sure to appoint a just and honest man to fill that position.
At the same time, I hope that the cleric's case goes before that same judge for trial as he recognizes how foul, evil and despicable were his actions and the false accusation. If the girl is lynched by her neighbors or community that cleric should also stand trial for her murder along with those who perpetrate the act. I do hope that the people of her community will recognize and accept that the wrong was done to her by a cleric unworthy to hold his position of leadership to the faithful. She didn't cause his arrest or his downfall into lies and sin against innocents. Those were HIS OWN sinful actions. If anything, they should thank her for being the vehicle who brought to light the perfidy of the cleric. Had he continued at the mosque, having gotten away with her murder, there is no telling what evils he may have perpetrated even amongst the muslims or any who disagreed with/defied him, or maybe he just didn't like. I hope that that mosque's faithful realize that and say "Good riddance to bad garbage". Any muslim cleric who would commit the sacrilege of burning a Qu'ran, and then falsely accuse a developmentally disabled child (of ANY faith!) of his own crime and endangering both child and family of an unjust retribution- that cleric should never be trusted with the souls of the faithful again. He has little regard for his own soul and righteousness, and leading a mosque is the last place he is fitted for.
Good luck to this poor little girl, his victim. I hope that any lynching is saved for the cleric, the proper target for any righteous retribution.
And once again, a Tip o' the Hat to that righteous judge who wouldn't condemn an innocent child for the benefit of his co-religionist. A cleric bearing false witness against an accused innocent child- who'd a thunk it? Did he get lessons from AL Sharpton? Sharpton still hasn't faced prosecution for rubbing sh/t and garbage over Tawana Brawley and then accusing innocent cops of doing it, trying to stir up racial hatred in her community.
I believe that the girl has Down Syndrome. I think that's what was determined when this first started. (Don't quote me, but it's what I recall.) Therefore, it is doubtful that she would have been able to defend herself in any court, religious or secular. Being a member of another religion, and then supposedly damaging Muslim holy texts, fanned the fires of Muslim hatred of other belief systems, and we all know how that is in that part of the world.
Then, in steps an imam, who says this and that, and frames the child. I don't know how they figured out he was the instigator, but he deserves the worst of sentencing. It'll never happen, and it will all be swept under the rug, but he deserves it, nonetheless.
It's just one more child who has gotten in the way of an out of control cult. She would have easily been sacrificed on their altar of hate and malice. Then the easily led followers could chant and dance in the streets about how wonderful their religion is. It's a very sad state of affairs, but expect to see it again and again.
You know it's a screwed up place and situation when she is found innocent and yet they still have to cover her face and protect her with armored vehicles. In other words, she is STILL at risk of being assaulted or killed by mobs inspite of it being determined and publicly stated that she was framed.
I find it telling that the Pakistan court decides to finally free this child right when the Jews are being attacked and are killing Hamas and some of the Gazan people. I am so sick of the sick politics and so called contemporary warfare. Maybe it is time for an all out carpet bombing by the US and her allies. Maybe it is time to show the Muslims around the world that they are not going to force others to their theocratic dictatorships. The winning hearts and minds campaigns have only made these Muslims more aggressive with their expansion agenda.