Posted on 05/31/2007 8:27:55 AM PDT by PapaBear3625
LAHORE: An additional district and sessions judge on Wednesday sentenced a blasphemy accused, Younis Masih, to death after a video jail trial. The court also fined him Rs 100,000.
Factory Area police had registered a blasphemy case under Section 295 C of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) against Masih on September 10, 2005, after he had allegedly made derogatory remarks about Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) at a Qawali function on September 9, 2005.
The accused challenged the whole legal process in his case and said that the investigation against him was illegal. He said that according to the law, a police officer below the rank of superintendent of police (SP) could not conduct investigation in a blasphemy case, but a sub-inspector (SI) had conducted the investigation in This case, which made the whole process illegal. He requested that the case against him be quashed.
During the proceedings, the accused was sitting in a special room at Kot Lakhpat Jail and the judge sat in a room at the Sessions Court where he recorded the evidence. The accused was seen in the court on a screen. This was the first video trial in a blasphemy case in the country.
Defence counsel Pervez Aslam Chaudhry said the trial had been arranged at the jail due to security issues, adding that all evidence in the case were also recorded through video.
The lawyer of the accused said that Christians had arranged a spiritual gathering at Chungi Ammarsidhu in September 9, 2005, at which a neighbour, Abdul Aziz, also a complainant in the case, had objected and demanded that they perform Islamic rituals instead of Christian rites. The argument turned hot during which, the complainant alleged that the accused had used the derogatory remarks.
The lawyer said that the case had not been investigated at the proper forum. He contended that the offence required investigation by an officer not below the rank of SP under section 156-A of the Criminal Procedure Code. Chaudhry said he would appeal against the decision.
The court also directed the police to provide security to the lawyer because he had been receiving threats during the trial.
Punishable by death.
I am SO GLAD I am an American.
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Mohammad smelled of elderberries!
When our representitives start taking their oaths of office on the Koran, you'd better start wondering.
Let 'em come and get me.
When I stop to consider Islam - I have to pee.
Before anyone condemns Islam for this, think of Galileo and Jacques DeMolay. Both were charged with heresy and blasphemy. DeMolay was burned at the stake.
With the amnesty deal on the fast track to approval, there could come a day where that won't protect us from this insanity. Once Mohammad's minions reach critical mass in the US after they are amnestitized by the millions they will begin pushing for federal sharia law. They have a good start in the US with the election of the moron representative from Minnesota.
Don't believe me ? Google "muslim foot wash minnesota" or "muslim cab drivers minnesota."
Note that this kind of law applies in all countries, so when the proponents of the ideology of death and destruction get to a critical mass, they will get sharia law and start chopping heads off in Detroit.
And his mother was a hamster!
No, no. His lover WAS a hamster.
DeMolay was burnt at the behest of the King of France, Philip the Fair, who wanted to confiscate his money and that of the Templars.
Sorry - I don’t see the connection between a 15th Century act of judicial murder for monetary gain dressed up under colour of religion, and the present day persecution of people in Islamic countries.
There are several layers for actions under Sharia law:
1. Wajib, Obligatory
2. Mustahabb, Recommended
3. Mubah, neither obligatory nor recommended (neutral)
4. Makruh, Abominable (undoing is recommended)
5. Haraam, Prohibited (undoing is obligatory)
Those items falling under Makruh are not punishable by things like stoning, beheading, etc. An example of a Makruh action is using too much water for pre-Salat Wudu (where they clean their feet before 5x daily prayers). A (non-exhaustive) list can be found here: http://www.shirazi.org.uk/makruh.htm
The difference being that these trials took place 400 to 700 years ago. Christians, while having a remarkably bloody and violent history, have evolved beyond this.
It is pretty nearly unanimously agreed by historians that DeMolay and the other Templars were condemned for political and financial reasons, with the blasphemy charges serving as a convenient pretext.
Wonder how he's going to come up with the money.
Islam is like a playground bully. A mass of insecurity and doubt covered up with violence. The bully knows deep down he's the real loser. Muslims know it too. Nobody secure in their faith really cares who else follows it.
What is the point of the fine if he got a death sentence?!?!
600 years ago,
which is where Islam still is.
Did he tell the TRUTH?
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