Mentally challenged child jailed for ‘blasphemy’

[MikeJay]

Originally Posted by the_gelf

Whoa whoa whoa, slow down there.

1) You are talking about a society that does not respect freedom of choice
2) Down's syndrome doesn't necessarily predicate low IQ

Actually I was referring to western christian organisations and the press.

And I agree, there is a .2% to .5% (depending on the source of the stats) chance of a Down's sufferer not having mental retardation, but I'm not the one playing the Down's card.

[the_gelf]

Originally Posted by MikeJay

Actually I was referring to western christian organisations and the press.

And I agree, there is a .2% to .5% (depending on the source of the stats) chance of a Down's sufferer not having mental retardation, but I'm not the one playing the Down's card.

The media is 'playing' it, the muslims¹ aren't recognising that it exists.


¹"the muslims" being the crowd fueled with hatred in this area of Pakistan, not to eb misconstrued as a general statement of followers of islam

[Logic please]

Originally Posted by MikeJay

Actually I was referring to western christian organisations and the press.

And I agree, there is a .2% to .5% (depending on the source of the stats) chance of a Down's sufferer not having mental retardation, but I'm not the one playing the Down's card.

Originally Posted by the_gelf

The media is 'playing' it, the muslims¹ aren't recognising that it exists.

Perhaps the issue is coming from somewhere else?:

Originally Posted by abc.net.au

Pakistani police say the girl was taken to a police station in Islamabad, where she has been detained since.
Police say that when they interviewed Rimsha, she could not answer their questions and she had no concept of what she was carrying.
It is believed she was holding a bag of waste containing pieces of paper which had texts from the Koran written on them.

Interesting, if the police themselves are saying this publicly.

Two problems are raised by this, if accurate. Capacity to understand the "crime" (ie: under that law), for one*. And without further evidence or witness accounts, how can it be legally proven* that she actually committed the "crime". What's to say that she didn't just find it in the street and pick it up, for example?

* I note that I'm assessing these against local legal concepts, and I'm unaware of the extent to which they apply in Pakistan.

[Loki]

So theoretically he's now guilty of desecrating the koran. Isn't that blasphemy?

[Logic please]

Hmmm...

"The imam was arrested after his deputy Maulvi Zubair and two others told a magistrate he added pages from the Koran to the burnt pages brought to him by a witness," police investigator Munir Hussain Jaffri said.

Zubair and the two others, Mohammad Shahzad and Awais Ahmed, told police they had urged Chishti not to interfere with the papers, Jaffri said.

"They protested that he should not add something to the evidence and he should give the evidence to the police as he got it and should not do this," Jaffri said. (my emphasis)

...a set-up within a set-up, perhaps? Such laudable religious morals, if so.

[Cosmic Teapot]

Originally Posted by Logic please

Hmmm...

...a set-up within a set-up, perhaps? Such laughable religious morals, if so.

I noticed the oxymoron and fixed it for you (my bold).
Obviously it takes blasphemy to fight blasphemy. Sounds legit to me.




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