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Christian boy, 16, facing death penalty for offending Muslims in Facebook post
UK Express ^ | Sep 30, 2016 | KATIE MANSFIELD

Posted on 09/30/2016 9:29:40 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo

A 16-YEAR-OLD Christian boy faces the death penalty after he was accused of insulting Islam in a Facebook post.

The boy has been arrested and charged with blasphemy after a photo of the Kaaba in Mecca, one of the holiest sites in Islam, appeared on his profile.

A Muslim man told police the image, which was part of an alleged derogatory post against Islam on the boy’s profile, was insulting and sacrilegious.

The black cube-shape is built around an ancient stone at the centre of Islam’s most sacred mosque Al-Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

Locals reportedly claimed the image showed the Kaaba with a pig’s head on top.

Shahbaz Ahmed, a police official, said the informant contacted officers over a post “hurting religious sentiments of Muslims and desecrating the religious place”.

He said the boy "had done a great injustice to us by badly hurting our religious feelings”.

Police did not release details of the contents of the post, other than it included a photo of the Kaaba.

It is unclear if the boy posted the image, was tagged in the post or liked the post.

But under Pakistan’s strict blasphemy laws, the teenage boy faces the death penalty or a life sentence.

The Facebook post has since been deleted.

His family have been forced to flee their home in Bhai Pheru for fear of violence as their sons awaits trial in prison.

Wilson Chowdhry, chairman of the British Pakistani Christian Association, said: "This incident again underlines the worthlessness of Christians in Pakistan. A 16-year-old boy who has been accused of a blasphemy, has been placed in a prison without any proper investigation.

“Social media can be a force for good or for bad, and we are all too aware of trolling in the west. However few understand the blasphemy entrapment Christians can face in Pakistan and often on flimsiest evidence, for which I can see social media becoming an ever more prolific weapon.

Pakistani Christians try to be active parts of society and will have friends from the local Muslim community. It is hard to be part of the local community when you exclude the largest diversity, however perhaps in future Christians in Pakistan should observe a more stand-offish approach when adding Muslims to their social media.

"Clearly, even long term friends will bay for your blood if they feel that you have slighted their faith. perhaps it would be wise to prevent such hatred by more aloofness in future."

Human rights organisations say Pakistan’s blasphemy laws often target religious minorities.

Religious offences include “wounding religious feelings”, “derogatory remarks” and “defiling the Koran”.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: arabchristians; blasphemy; christianpersecution; facebook; islam; jihad; kaaba; muslimworld; pakistan; saudiarabia; taliban; terrorism
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1 posted on 09/30/2016 9:29:40 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Mr. Mojo

“Locals reportedly claimed the image showed the Kaaba with a pig’s head on top.”

Sounds like a FReeper challenge to me! (-:


2 posted on 09/30/2016 9:32:14 AM PDT by MeganC (JE SUIS CHARLES MARTEL!!!)
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To: Mr. Mojo

If we make anti-Islamic posts from the USA, will Saudi Arabia come after us, given the recently enacted law allowing 9-11 survivors to sue KSA?


3 posted on 09/30/2016 9:32:25 AM PDT by CMB_polarization
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To: Mr. Mojo
If I recall they're supposed to be our more moderate allies.

We should've let india wipe them out in the last century.

4 posted on 09/30/2016 9:33:13 AM PDT by mainestategop (DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away! After America , There is No Place to Go)
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5 posted on 09/30/2016 9:34:00 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo ("To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." - Teddy Roosevelt)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Yeah, let’s give foreigners including Muslims, Russians, communist China, and totalitarians of every stripe, etc, control over OUR internet. What could possibly go wrong?


6 posted on 09/30/2016 9:35:00 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: MeganC

Such tauntery can be tempting, but it isn’t necessary to do it in order to make a good explication of Christ.


7 posted on 09/30/2016 9:36:08 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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8 posted on 09/30/2016 9:36:24 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo ("To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." - Teddy Roosevelt)
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To: Jim Robinson

Frankly I have not heard anything about whether this new arrangement still provides for individual countries to police their own nslookups.

I would think that this is a must. Otherwise it isn’t just pig-Mohammed cartoons that could be hushed this way; it could be anything that the world is fashionably hating at the moment.


9 posted on 09/30/2016 9:38:18 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Mr. Mojo
Religious offences include “wounding religious feelings...


10 posted on 09/30/2016 9:38:47 AM PDT by mainestategop (DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away! After America , There is No Place to Go)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Why ruin a perfectly good picture of a pig with... [duck’n & runn’n!]


11 posted on 09/30/2016 9:39:17 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Yet they do like things to Christin symbols, objects, holy sites, feelings, and more.


12 posted on 09/30/2016 9:40:17 AM PDT by SandRat (<Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Mr. Mojo

The black cube-shape is built around an ancient stone at the centre of Islam’s most sacred mosque Al-Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, ONE NUKE


13 posted on 09/30/2016 9:40:33 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (I)
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To: SandRat

The point isn’t to be consistent, it is to be bullies while the west is hectored not just to be tolerant but to be uber-tolerant.


14 posted on 09/30/2016 9:41:10 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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“had done a great injustice to us by badly hurting our religious feelings”.

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And for that they will kill you.

They must kill you.

They are commanded by their prophet and his instructions in their book to kill you.

There is nothing peaceful about Islam.
It is impossible to coexist with people who have a religious obligation to kill you.


15 posted on 09/30/2016 9:42:45 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: ronnie raygun

Nobody would dare, unless they want to see rabies explode overnight. The core concept of Allah in Islam doesn’t depend upon that stone, though it would require Allah to avenge it furiously.


16 posted on 09/30/2016 9:43:21 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

That’s beside the point here.

It’s how Moslems/Islam treat anything they perceive as anti-Islam.


17 posted on 09/30/2016 9:44:11 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Not all will. The rage often slumbers. They would get pretty tired of having to hack each other’s heads off.


18 posted on 09/30/2016 9:44:57 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Jim Robinson

It appears to be a done deal. The Uniparty wants internet censorship.


19 posted on 09/30/2016 9:45:08 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

As long as this is not introduced with “suppose” then it’s a suggestion and very much on the point to treat it like that.


20 posted on 09/30/2016 9:45:42 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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