Author Topic: Oh dear  (Read 917 times)

agricola

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Oh dear
« on: September 02, 2012, 09:05:34 AM »
Frame a disabled child in a country where they execute people for blasphemy?  You better make sure that your mates dont dob you in to the cops, then:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/02/pakistan-mullah-blasphemy-girl-framed

The law and its application is of course sickeningly offensive, but I would be lying if this chap being hoist by his own petard isnt found by myself to be just slightly hilarious.
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Re: Oh dear
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2012, 09:23:29 AM »
Frame a disabled child in a country where they execute people for blasphemy?  You better make sure that your mates dont dob you in to the cops, then:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/02/pakistan-mullah-blasphemy-girl-framed

The law and its application is of course sickeningly offensive, but I would be lying if this chap being hoist by his own petard isnt found by myself to be just slightly hilarious.

So is he facing a death penalty now for the same offense?  The article also doesn't say anything about what happened to the girl.
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Re: Oh dear
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2012, 09:55:37 AM »
So he he facing a death penalty now for the same offense?  The article also doesn't say anything about what happened to the girl.

He should be facing the death penalty, though it appears that the usual mobs havent appeared demanding his death up to this point. 

The girl is still in custody, in an adult jail IIRC.
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Re: Oh dear
« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2012, 10:48:01 AM »
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"[Chishti] must be prosecuted under the blasphemy law as it will set a precedent against anyone else who tries to misuse that law."
she is Christian.  I have little expectation of any justice.
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