Posted on 12/10/2018 5:02:46 PM PST by Simon Green
Saima - not her real name- still hasn't recovered from her four years in solitary confinement in a small Pakistani prison cell.
"Even now I feel like I am in jail. You can see the scars on my legs from when I was chained."
Saima was sentenced to life imprisonment for having committed blasphemy, before her conviction was eventually overturned.
She says her jailers at times wouldn't give her food because she was Christian. "They would say, 'You disgraced our religion,'" she told the BBC.
She was accused of defiling the Koran and using it to perform exorcisms.
But Saima says her Muslim neighbours launched the case against her, following a petty fight between their children.
Human rights groups say Pakistan's blasphemy laws are often used to settle personal disputes.
According to the Pakistani penal code, anyone convicted of insulting Prophet Muhammad can be sentenced to death, and anyone guilty of insulting "any religion" can be sent to jail for up to 10 years.
A spokesman for the police in Punjab, Pakistan's largest province, declined to give figures on the number of blasphemy cases registered this year.
But at least 1,472 people were charged under the law between 1987 and 2016, according to advocacy group the Centre for Social Justice.
Religious minorities are disproportionately affected by blasphemy laws, although more Muslims are prosecuted than any other group.
The most high-profile case has been that of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman recently acquitted by the supreme court after being sentenced to death in 2010.
The verdict was met with angry protests, and the intelligence services are believed to be protecting her in an undisclosed location until a final legal challenge against her release has been heard.
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[ She was accused of defiling the Koran and using it to perform exorcisms. ]
Wait wait... She was using a koran to perform exorcisms??
How did that go?
“The power of satan already compels you, the power of satan already compels you!!!”
Why would they object using the Koran to exorcise demonic entiti......OH WAIT.....
[ Religious minorities are disproportionately affected by blasphemy laws, although more Muslims are prosecuted than any other group. ]
It is the western equivalent of accusing the neighbor you don’t like with a verbal hate crime.
No wonder the SJW demons and the Islamic demons get along so very well.
Who doesn’t live in fear in Pakistan?
There can be no peace unless there is only Islam or no Islam.
Mad Mo made it so.
*** Who doesn’t live in fear in Pakistan? ***
90% of Pakistani Catholics attend weekly Mass.
And?
Isn't that just lovely?
Wonderful! A Google hit list for Mad Mo’s followers.
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