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Sherry Rehman, Pakistan's ambassador to the U.S., seen in November last year, is facing accusations of blasphemy.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A petition accusing Pakistan's ambassador to the United States of committing blasphemy has been filed with the country's Supreme Court.
Police were directed on Thursday to investigate allegations against Sherry Rehman, who has already faced death threats from militants after calling for reforms to the country's anti-blasphemy law, according to court documents.
If the police find that there is enough evidence to support the allegations, the court will press charges against Rehman.
According to Pakistan's blasphemy laws, anyone found to have uttered words derogatory to the Prophet Muhammad can be put to death.
And those who are accused are sometimes lynched by mobs even if they are found innocent by the courts.
The allegations against Rehman, which revolve around comments she made on Pakistani television in 2010, are being brought by Muhammad Faheem Ahkter Gill, a 31-year-old businessman who owns a marble business in the city of Multan.
Gill was watching the television interview with Rehman with two friends. He said he felt her comments were derogatory to the Prophet Muhammad and, being a Muslim, it was his responsibility to do something about it.
"I had been striving to get a blasphemy case registered against her since 2010, but in vain. Today the supreme court has ordered (the police) to register a case against her," he said.
Muhammed Muheisen / AP
Images of daily life, political pursuits, religious rites and deadly violence.
In November, a Pakistani Christian girl, Rimsha Masih, who was accused of burning pages of Muslim holy texts was cleared of blasphemy.
Rehman, a prominent member of the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP), was appointed as Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States in November 2011.
Before being named envoy, she led the Pakistan Red Crescent Society and was a ranking member of the National Security Committee in the country's Parliament.
She also the founding chairperson of the Jinnah Institute, a non-partisan public policy think tank "committed to the strengthening of democracy, governance and an independent national security project in Pakistan," according to the website of Pakistan's embassy in the United States.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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F(*^ Muhammad - how's that for blasphemy for you? These terrorists can't stand to see women in positions in power. Women need to start turning the tables and start throwing acid on their male terrorist rapist husbands/fathers/brothers/uncles, etc. Cut off their genitalia. How any women outside of the middle east can convert to this backwards, terrorist religion is baffling.
Hide their obesity?
And the horse he rode in on...
When are we going to leave this country of monkeys to themselves?
As long as the educated play to the ignorant rabble and allow this religious madness to continue Pakistan should not be recognized.
"And those who are accused are sometimes lynched by mobs even if they are found innocent by the courts."
That is Pakistan, a pure Islamic nation invented by the British and kept in the map alive the US, British and others.
But for the US and allies, India or Russia would have wiped out the pure Islamic nation, still a "strategic ally"!
If this is the case in a pure Islamic nation, imagine how it will be in an impure Muslim nation!
Bet she's counting her blessings that they've not yet located that little caricature she did of der Prophet with a little dick...
How curious that an Islamic fundamentalist with no marbles operates a marble business?
Yes, Xians, in the totem pole of religious outrage there's a group that gets a worse ranking than you...
That's a whole lot of hatred coming from you rswall...
Wow, what is it with the men over there and what they think of the women who bring them into this world? Are they really that jealous of women that they have to kill them? I mean I know we have everything men want, but putting them to death because you can't have it is just ..... wow.
People in America can look forward to the EXACT SAME PUNISHMENT if the "Christian" mob continues to infiltrate our government and it's laws. The screaming of the teabaggers of not wanting "shaira law" in America is planning the exact same thing, only without islam as their cause. Hipocrits from Paul Ryan on down to Haley Barbor.
It is incredible that this type of medieval ignorance, hatred, and fanaticism manages to continue into 21st century... "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind..."
May be a ploy by Sherry to take asylum in the US!
As the time moves on: we will have lots of Pakis, who ruined Pakistan, trying to enter the US with different Ramadan style dramas, dances, songs and screams.
Gill has committed blasphemy against humanity, he should castrate and then hang himself.
Hey Max. I love the "Master Blaster" too, but we both no what the next line he sang was "have no fear for atomic energy." Unfortunately Pakistan has nukes and medieval ignorance and we all must fear what may happen if we do not keep a tight lid on that country.
Do the males in Pakistan have severe inferiority issues or what? Those neolithic barbarians need to join the 20 th century ASAP!
Hell you could say the same about fundamental Christians here in the US. The Christian right has been pushing for years to limit personal freedoms, don't you think if left unchecked those idiots would return to the Inquisition?
I've even heard mumblings about Witch trials, and Moral trials. In some communities, there are people killed or "excommunicated" for behaviors they don't approve of, according to their interpretation of the "Word" of the Bible.
Do a little research into offshoots of the Mormon church and Amish, or Mennonite. I read about a little girl in one of those communities who had been stoned not too long ago. A Mormon girl's body was found a few years ago, after she had been reported as a run away, it turned out she had been "punished".
I've read articles about some members/groups of the Christian right in the US that would like to take us back to a world where adulterers and homosexuals would be put to death. Their system of justice would be based on the Old Testament writings. Can you imagine what would happen to a thief or anyone else that didn't adhere to their dictates, a woman spoke out against a man, or you made any statement against the Christian God or Jesus? It would be very similar to Sharia law.
Let's make an international law that any Pakistani asking to kill someone because they think they blasphemed can be killed themselves. And then we can enforce it with a drone strike.
I'm all for it.
Muhammad Faheem Ahkter Gill should be hanged by his little balls to see if he can shout "blasphemy" anymore, POS clown.
Women, pay attention...this is what a society looks like when men make all the rules!
It's not the man's fault that he can't keep it in his pants...it's the woman's fault for wearing clothes that indicated she was 'asking for it'.
It's not the man's fault that he doesn't agree with what you say; it's your fault for not being quiet.
It's not the man's fault that you got raped outside a bar...it's your fault for being there.
If it happens to you, it's your fault.
Validation of the wisdom of the separation of church and state.
working poor;
ABSOLUTELY!!!!!
While the practice has not quite caught up with the idea, we're a lot better in this category than most simply because our Founding Fathers saw the wisdom in a secular society.
terrible written article; what did she say; death to question anything in the Koran; , and we have to rely on these nuts to continue our war in Afghanistan .
You stole my line workingpoor :( That was my thought exactly when reading this article.
Really, now......it's not really Mohameds fault; not any more than Timothy McVeigh was Jesus fault; it's HOW the PEOPLE follow, not HOW the Teachers lead.....
In reality, if you take the Haddith fully into account - and I know American Feminists with Degrees who've done just that (in fact, I'm sharing HER opinion) - Mohamed comes across as a "proto-feminst"; though the same auther who came to that conclusion, also pooh-poohed these SO-CALLED MUSLIM MEN who've never once, in all of their 1300+ year history, ever LIVED UP TO WHAT THE PROPHET COMMANDED THEM TO DO REGARDING WOMEN; BUT THEN, KEEPING THEM 'SECOND CLASS CITIZENS' MAKES THEM EASIER TARGETS TO RAPE!!!
There still are cavemen !!
Most dangerous barbaric and beastly seventh century Islamic bigoted ungrateful and backstabbing ones in cave and deserts!
Jonathan, and those are the nice ones you just mentioned.
I'm so glad that I don't believe in their religion or their god or their prophet. (I don't believe in the Christian one, either.) They keep proving over and over that their religion is nothing but a bogus cult. It amazes me at how stupid people are to continue following a belief system that advocates harming another person. Mohammed, the so-called prophet,--he created an evil cult (probably in his own image. [Think about that.]). A god has enough power of its own accord that it does not need humans to defend it.
that the rest of the world decided that if they (cave dudes) were armed with modern weapons that they would leave their caves and become civilized.
Either that or that they would kill each other without any further intervention needed.
So, how's the plan workin out for ya?
zapper: We should not get hung up on any religion.
If priests/monks/gurus talk sense, we can listen to them. If they talk nonsense and do non-religious acts, just ignore and dump them.
Religions have to reform with times. We are ICT age and not print age any more!
Religion is the opiate of the masses.
The God of the Torah, Bible and Qu'ran are the same God:
‘Those who follow the Messenger, the Prophet, the Immaculate One, whom they find mentioned in the Torah and the Gospel which are with them. He enjoins on them good and forbids them evil, and makes lawful for them the good things and forbids them the bad, and removes from them their burden and the shackles that were among them. So those who shall believe in him, and honor and support him, and help him, and follow the light that has been sent down with him—these shall prosper.’ (Qu’ran 7:158)
Muslims are exhorted to obey the Ten Commandments and the teachings in the Gospels:
God said ‘O Moses, I have chosen thee above the people of thy time by My messages and by My word. So take hold of that which I have given thee and be of the grateful.' And We wrote for him upon the tablets about everything—an admonition and an explanation of all things. So hold them fast and bid thy people follow the best thereof. Soon shall I show you the abode of the transgressors.” (Qu’ran 7: 145-146)
Jesus is acknowledged as the Messiah in both Bible and Qu'ran:
When the angels said, ‘O Mary, Allah gives thee glad tidings of a word from Him; his name shall be the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, honored in this world and the next, and of those who are granted nearness to God.‘And he shall speak to the people in the cradle and when of middle age, and he shall be of the righteous.’
She said ‘My Lord, how shall I have a son when no man has touched me?’ He said “Such is the way of Allah, He creates what He pleases. When He decrees a thing, He says to it, ‘Be!’ and it is. And He will teach him the Book and the Wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and will make him a Messenger to the children of Israel (to say): ‘I come to you with a Sign from your Lord, which is that I will fashion out for you a creation of clay after the manner of a bird, then I will breathe into it a new spirit and it will become a soaring being by the command of Allah; and I will heal the night-blind and leprous, and I will quicken the dead, by the command of Allah, and I will announce to you what you will eat and what you will store up in your houses. Surely, therein is a Sign for you, if you be believers.
“And I come fulfilling that which is is before me, namely the Torah; and to allow you some of that which was forbidden you; and I come to you with a Sign from your Lord: so fear Allah and obey me.’ (Qu’ran 3:46-51)
And a Papal Bull issued in 1968 called the Nostra Aetate specifies that the Pope understands the God of the Muslims is the same God of the Jews and Christians:
3. The Church regards with esteem also the Moslems. They adore the one God, living and subsisting in Himself; merciful and all- powerful, the Creator of heaven and earth,(5) who has spoken to men; they take pains to submit wholeheartedly to even His inscrutable decrees, just as Abraham, with whom the faith of Islam takes pleasure in linking itself, submitted to God. Though they do not acknowledge Jesus as God, they revere Him as a prophet. They also honor Mary, His virgin Mother; at times they even call on her with devotion. In addition, they await the day of judgment when God will render their deserts to all those who have been raised up from the dead. Finally, they value the moral life and worship God especially through prayer, almsgiving and fasting.
Actually it doesn't. The fanatics' interpretation of it has skewed the perception, but Muhammad was pretty clear that martyrs were going to hell:
a3.3 The Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said:
(1) "The first person judged on Resurrection Day will be a man martyred in battle. He'll be brought forth, Allah will reacquaint him with His blessings upon him and the man will acknowledge them, where-upon Allah will say, 'What have you done with them?' to which the man will respond, 'I fought to the death for you.'
"Allah will reply, `You lie. You fought in order to be called a hero, and it has already been said.' Then he will be sentenced and dragged away on his face to be flung into the fire."
-Reliance of the Traveller (a codified guide to Shari'a law written in the 1300's)
Being a member of none of the Abrahamic religions, I have a little more perspective on all of this, and trust me, from where I stand there's little difference in the doctrine and theology of all three of those belief systems. The only thing that differs is where each of you are in your religion's evolution.
I don't quote the ancient fairy tales to reinforce a religious viewpoint. I live in a land that has laws that are written for all, regardless of what they choose (or not) to worship. The old Abrahamic laws did call for a lot of destruction and death. Stoning, stabbing, chopping, you name it. Murder, mutilation and death are plastered all over those ancient texts. To think that any of that old and unnecessary hate and violence is still acceptable in today's world demeans us all.
zapper: I agree. Some scriputres/fairy tales are fit for garbage dumps!
Islamic ones are fit for the dirtiest ones. Most followers of Islamic cult have been doing exactly opposite of what they say/claim!
Time for her to come to the US!
Sherry, can you say "asylum?"
GM, DB!
Okay, you guys beat me to it. She needs to get to the US ASAP.
Doesn't matter, someone will find a way....
Since she is Pakistan's ambassador to the US, she is already IN the US.
She's also subject to diplomatic immunity, so Pakistan had better be very, very, very careful here.
Yes and these Cavemen have nukes. We should get them before they get us......
Better nuke the most Islamic militant and nuke areas.
They won't keep quiet. Either you get them or they will get you.
Better to get them before they get us.
despite that ambiguity, I don't think the world will sit by and watch if there are nukes in that country.
How about let's just keep our own country separate from religion and let them work out their own problems? I do, however, seriously object to sending any of my tax money there, it all ends up in the hands of the elite, while the common people suffer.
"I had a lovely dinner and all I said to my wife was 'That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah.'"
"Are there any women here??"
Great movie, great schtick...
"Nobody throws another stone until I tell you to, I don't care if they DO say Jehovah!"
'but I'm Brian!'
She's the ambassador to the USA, you moron. She LIVES in the USA.
So he misstated something why does that give you the right to call him a moron?
Here goes a Paki sample.
In posts, if he can be so abusive, imagine how it will when one has to face them in groups in Banistan/Hateistan/Killistan!
Hey Paki Zohaib, learn to use better language !
The reason we have so many different "ideas" today is PEOPLE CANNOT READ AND COMPREHEND WHAT THEY READ. Give the same sentence to two people and have 2 different understandings. We have allowed ourselves to become predisposed to our own representation of facts, NOT NECESSARILY WHAT WAS INTENDED TO START OFF WITH. Take the present gun fiasco, NO ONE is coming for your guns, we just want common sense to prevail, what is wrong with that? Common sense used to be an admirable thing, it meant that a person could take in information and CORRECTLY understand it's meaning. Today because telling a lie is accepted as "the normal thing to do in business AND GOVERNMENT( 8 years of it under Bush Jr) NO ONE BELIEVES WHAT IS SAID AND THEY HAVE TO "THINK" OF WHAT IS ACTUALLY GOING ON". When LIER'S are exposed AND IMPRISONED for crime's against humanity then we will see a return to "common sense" and civility, along with honesty and truthful dealing. Not until then will we lift this burden of "educated" people thinking there is no climate change, and we need to kill wolves in our park systems. I am fortunate, I have but a few more years to endure this madness before I can rest my weary bones, but many of you have a miserable life ahead of you. Lying politicians, lying corporations, lying police officials, lying priest, lying family members all while the weather go's crazy with super hurricanes and drought like never before seen by man, along with the scarcity of clean drinking water and food supplies. ALL THE WHILE WONDERING WHEN SOME CRIMINAL WITH A GUN WILL COME FOR WHAT LITTLE YOU HAVE LEFT, such a wonderful scenario, maybe when you are on your knees PRAYING to your savior he will come and "save" you from your horrors. INSTEAD SOME CRIMINALLY INSANE FREAK ( NO MENTAL HEALTH AVAILABLE, REMEMBER THOSE THINGS YOU ALLOWED TO BE CUT FROM HEALTH CARE) WILL END YOUR MISERY WITH A QUICK BULLET. Remember the good old days when there WAS common sense!!!!!!! If only you had some NOW!
Um I can agree with some of what you said, but this is about Islamic brutality and ignorance. So go back under the bridge and take a nap!!! NO MORE SUGAR TODAY!!!
They want her dead because of her views on democracy. The world needs her to rule the violent backward country.
The "crime" of blasphemy is a hallmark of a backward society and represents religious fascism.
Pakistan is descending further and further into social and intellectual barbarism. Beware of barbarians with nukes.
If US evangelicals had their way, this Country would fall into the same trap of religious fanaticism.
Isalmic one is the worst of all barbarisms world has seen/faced till now.
There are group in America who want the same for our country.
Rweber, US evangelicals want nothing of the sort.
That is right Joe. There is no profit to be made off of the infirmed and aged without pay to pray religion.
Muhammad's legacy and the results of the teachings and his hallucinatory "revelations" are insult enough, by himself to himself.
The Christian revelations and prophecies are usually thought of as being hallucinatory also. What's your point.
Here we go with the religion of peace. I think even Mohammad was more tolerant than his followers.
The same of course can easily be said of Jesus and his followers.
Culheath, you are absolutely spot on! All religions promise one thing but deliver something else. The adherents get so caught up in their beliefs that they lose all perspective.
Religion is opium of the masses.
Pakis, Saudis and many Muslims are high dosage heroin addicts, who can't think or act straight!
They have to invent enemies and kill, kill, kill, and more killing!
Jonathan -- that's exactly what Stalin and Mao quoted as they oversaw the slaughter of tens of millions free of any perceived moral constraints!
Jogrinder: There is nothing wrong in taking good points from communism. This applies to Islam also.
We should learn and adjust to take good points from wherever they are. They may be enemies too.
To...Johnathon""""
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
--Tom Robbins
the best way to control the masses is to offer up a common enemy.
Helps focus the lower castes on something other then their missery.
Hate is an easy fire to start and once anger at their lot in life is displaced by hate for a common enemy it is easy to stoke.
Amunaka: Yes, Islam has become cyanide.
Ah, reminds me of Salem back in the 1600's. Burn the witch. Actually, Muhammad Faheem Ahkter Gill should be slapped for being a tattle-tale.
Pakistan is nothing but a third-world rat hole; they are a bunch of nasty, stinkin' vermin and need to be gone. We either need to blow them away and start over, or leave 'em alone, but still the majority of those rats are smegma. The idea that any civilized country wood lend creedence to such a cesspool is indigative of just how far we have regressed.
A few years ago, I worked on a project in the middle east and had several Pakistani electricians that worked for me. They were the nicest, most polite people on the site. Making overtly general statements about an entire country based on the idiocy of a portion of that country isn't particularly constructive.
After reading some of the trite, "enlightening" posts in your comment history I find myself even more firmly entrenched in that belief. (i.e.: I'd be pretty saddened to be lumped into the same group by people from another country and judged with that group based on your comments.)
Battsman, I have worked in the Middle East as well. As with people everywhere, the public face of the people is not always revealing. I am pretty sure that if you were to meet or work with the marble salesman, he would come come across as a polite and friendly fellow, one on one. But do something to incur the wrath of his religion, and you would see a totally different side. Generalizations are often based on a wealth of examples, even though they aren't accurate down to the individual level. Of course, individual examples are no more accurate than generalizations. But sociology and anthropology would be nowhere if it weren't for generalizations.
Why USA is pumping BILLIONS of dollars every year to this country of nasty stinking vermin? Because we the voters keep on electing politicians who think that every country in the world should follow their dictum. Look Pakistan (ruled by likes of Yaya Khan and Musharraf military dictators) fought against a democratic India and yet USA gave Billions in military aid to vermin of Pakistan (so that they will fight against Russian soldiers in Afghanistan) rulers. What actually happened is that Taliban and Al-U were created to spread teachings of child molester Mohammad and terrorize the world. Do you get it? Still today as we discuss these issues, US is giving Billions to Pakistan. Go figure that one out.
So, she's both female and she's pro-democracy?
Yeah, it's just the blasphemy and no other reason why they'd want her dead.
Being pro-democracy in Pakistan doesn't mean anything. The country is a (weak) democracy with pseudo-secular institutions.
Despite popular assumptions, most Muslims do not oppose democracy.
We piss and moan about human rights in Russia and China, they pale in comparison to the abuses of these @!$%# Muslim countries, yet we say very little.
Muhammed was a pimp. He don't care about this crap.
That entire region of the planet seems to be stuck in the 12th century. Their "prophet" would not have most of it's followers!
Only "stuck" in some ways. They have cell phones, motor vehicles, modern weaponry, modern medicine, computers, the printing press, the ball point pen, etc...
They are much like the Amish in America today. They pick and choose which technology to accept and how it is to be used. But when it comes to "religion", they are very close-minded.
Sounds like Tennessee or Kentucky or Alabama or Mississippi or Texas or anywhere that the American form of Christian Taliban is hard at work trying to overturn the secular aspect of the US form of government. Religious extremists are the most dangerous elements of any society because they do not operate from a rational mindset and in their minds their is no act too terrible or immoral when it is committed for the sake of their deity.
If anything this article should be a wake up call to the American public to be on guard against any and all attempts to merge church and state.
Our Planet,
I would have to disagree with you. While your 12th century comment was accurate, Muhammed led a (for lack of a better term) gang of brigands who raped, murdered, and enslaved a swath across the Middle East. He wanted men who were ignorant, violent, and interested in oppressing any women (and anybody else) they could get under their power. These are exactly the sort of followers he would have wanted.
The U.S. should not even have normal diplomatic relations with any nations which have religious blasphemy laws, since these laws are a complete affront to the principle of free speech. Furthermore, any Americans choosing to travel to these countries should be regarded as completely on their own, and should be notified of that upfront. - Rick Carter
Stop praying to a silly, uneducated pedophile.
Another example of Pakistan being a massively failed state. And Islam falling backwards into decay and decline. A religion that could create great minds like Ibn Arabi is now cannibalizing itself, and rendering itself incapable of any form of civilizational development. Its greatest failure is its inability to evolve its people past the original tribalism of its preIslamic past. Ironically, fundamentalist Christianity here will do the same thing if allowed the same degree of power.
All three of the corrupt Abrahamic religions were originally designed and covertly installed by outside offensive totalitarian ETs, who repeatedly masqueraded as Divinity toward mankind in the process of covertly installing them in a serial way into our emerging human world. They are all Human Software Viruses (HSVs) and biocybernetic warfare components of a larger ET designed PWMD, or Program Weapon of Mass Destruction, whose purpose is to one day (soon) crash and explode our emerging human world in a final programmed cataclysm of global warfare fueled with WMDs, known as the Christian Apocalypse or World War III. These outside offensive totalitarian ETs are trying to create a pretext for future eminent domain military intervention into our world on the heels of the WWIII, while once more masquerading as Divinity toward mankind, this time as the returning Christ, Messiah, or Mahdi, whichever the case may be. These ETs are trying to position themselves to one day steal and annex our extremely valuable real estate completely away, after supposedly trying for a thousand intervening years following their military intervention to salvage or redeem mankind from their "hopelessly violent ways". These ETs were forced to take this covert approach at territorial conquest which relies upon their eminent domain rights of military intervention in our sector of the Milky Way galaxy, because there are Free Galaxy powers which reside elsewhere in our Milky Way galaxy who currently stand in the way of overt military conquest on a stellar level. The real "Gospel" or "Good News" is that mankind potentially has countless millions (even billions) of years of growth, development and expansion ahead of them, so long as they don't fall for the ET designed and installed terminal religious "End Time" belief systems known as the Abrahamic religions. Please listen, everyone, before it is too late for mankind here on Earth !!! - Rick Carter
(Am I finally done now, FGPs, UFPs, XUFPs ?????? I would really like to give up and go ASAP !!!!!!! They really are NEVER going to listen to me, especially with the U.S. government (military & civilian) TOTALLY discrediting me every step of the way!)
((PS - I REALLY need to get the frick'n 'you know what' OUT OF HERE !!! The long established secret society activities of these ETs behind the scenes really has a total suicidal 'death lock' on this (now) insane emerging world. I strongly suspect they have done a lot of tampering with the "pool" along the way as well!)) - RC
(((Something which really needs to be corrected, but practically / realistically speaking, there is really only one way to correct it. Get my DRIFT ???))) - RC
(You all have really had one heck of a lot of time to figure out your all's role in all of this. You all do realize that our extremely valuable celestial real estate is but a stepping stone to further galactic conquest by these offensive totalitarian ETs, don't you?)
It is against the law to insult an imaginary being. She should know better.
Tom, I'm not a supporter if Islam, but I think most historians, scholars, and people in general reasonably agree that Mohammed was an actual historical figure, and not an imaginary being. You have reason to believe Mohammed is a made up idea and not an actual person?
I think that he is saying that the idea of a magical being is ridiculous.
It is much easier to form a social identity if the binding agent can deny you of your virgins when you die.
Bring home any Americans in Pakistan, withdraw all aid, cut off all ties. Work with India to contain the pakis.
India still likes us! and though they have their own problems, Hinduism seems to go better with the modern world than Islam...
I find the reporting poor and incomplete. What exactly where the comments in question?
NBCNews is not reporting that to avoid a Fatwa, and a suicide bomber.
I agree -- what were the statements that were so offensive? They were on TV, can't they be cited? If not, why run a story that is now really based on innuendo?
She didn't actually say anything bad about the pedophile or the Quran!!
Gill petitioned district and sessions court in Multan, saying Rehman had committed blasphemy by speaking against the blasphemy law on a TV talk show.
Just what did she say that they considered blasphemy? Did I miss it in the article?
Mohamend sodimized little boys and animals so whats the issue
There are Catholic priests living today that sodomize little boys, so what's your point?
Not to mention school teachers, pre-school teachers, and public health professionals. I'm sure you don't want to be perceived as a bigot piglizard by singling out a particular class or profession that fails the perfection test...
pig - We arrest and prosecute catholic priests, but they worship muhammed for the same crimes. That is the point.
Muhammed never engaged in homosexuality. The Qu'ran is quite clear on its denunciation of that point--just as clear as the Bible is. Homosexuality is evil and those who practice it must be stoned.
Now yes, Muhammad had a bride/wife who would be considered a child today...but then so did Joseph. Joseph and Mary were Jews, and Jewish law at the time was based on God's words 'be fruitful and multiply'. Since life was short and infant mortality was high, a female started childbearing as soon as she was physically capable of it.
Accordingly, by Jewish law, a girl could be betrothed, or engaged, soon after birth, with the marriage being consummated when the girl had her first 'emission from the privates' (period), or she turned 15, whatever came first. As the New Testament accounts tell us may was betrothed to Joseph but not yet married when God told her she would have the Messiah, that would have made Mary somewhere between about 9 and 14 when she married Joseph and had Jesus.
Got your bomb fitted yet, Amanda?
Excuse me?
Why would you assume that someone who doesn't think the way you do automatically means they are Muslim'?
For your information, I'm Wiccan. Grew up a devout Catholic, renounced Christianity because of some blatantly unChristian attitudes, then looked around and found what works for me. if being Christian works for you,have at it. If being Muslim works for you,feel free. According to my belief system, 'There is no one true way'. I'm just trying to correct misconceptions that certain people have about a few centuries-old books.
Now, as to the points in my prior post...If anyone had ever actually read the Qu'ran, they'd know that Muhammad condemned homosexuals.
If the extremists had ever actually sat down and learned how to read what the Qu'ran actually says, they'd realize a lot of the lies and half-truths they've been told by their extremist religious leaders is wrong. There's no 72 virgins waiting for the martyr; the martyr is going to hell (see above quotes at 2.6.
Along as Obama (the closet muslem) is in office muslems will be left alone to do there weird muslem crap with out US interferance. Just do it in there own country. F#@k mahamed.
Sunjka - You just brought the collective IQ of this site down 10 points. Congratulations on posting one of the dumbest things on the internet today.
Just 10 points IsrJ?
Lets face it, posters to the newsvine are not the braintrust of the country. We come here to waste time and anonymously spout our opinions cowering behind our computers. Here is the place we argue who's right, not what's right, and we are the fringe by and large. It is, by and large, a reservoir of hatred, anger, and ignorance as is displayed in nearly every vine...
No kidding? I thought all the idiots were listening to talk radio. But OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGD!!! You put da ugly on STUPIDDDDDDDDDDD!