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Woman sentenced to death in Pakistan over ‘blasphemous’ WhatsApp activity
The Guardian ^ | 19 January 2022 | Shah Baloch

Posted on 01/19/2022 1:56:24 PM PST by Cronos

A court in Pakistan has sentenced a woman to death over allegedly blasphemous messages sent over WhatsApp and Facebook.

Aneeqa Ateeq, 26, was found guilty and given a death sentence by a court in Rawalpindi on Wednesday after a complaint was registered against her under Pakistan’s draconian cybercrime and blasphemy laws

According to the charge sheet, Ateeq, 26, met her accuser, a fellow Pakistani, online in 2019 through a mobile gaming app and the pair began corresponding over WhatsApp.

He accused her of sending blasphemous caricatures of holy prophets, making remarks about “holy personages” on WhatsApp and using her Facebook account to transmit blasphemous material to other accounts. In doing so, she “deliberately and intentionally defiles sacred righteous personalities and insulted the religious beliefs of Muslims”, according to the charge sheet.

...The court found her guilty, gave her to a 20-year sentence and ordered her to be hanged.

While minorities such as Christians and Hindus have largely been targeted by the laws, Pakistani Muslims have also found themselves facing blasphemy charges. The cases often take place quickly, in a closed court, away from public scrutiny.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aneeqaateeq; islam; pakistan

1 posted on 01/19/2022 1:56:24 PM PST by Cronos
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To: Cronos

2nd amendment ping


2 posted on 01/19/2022 2:00:44 PM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Cronos
20-year sentence followed by a hanging?


3 posted on 01/19/2022 2:02:03 PM PST by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: Cronos

islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.


4 posted on 01/19/2022 2:03:07 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (How many were shot dead at the insurrection?)
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To: Cronos

She gets 20 years and then they hang her? Those people are something else.

“You’ll get used to the smell . lf you don’t, they got a sure cure for it. They hang ya !” - Hang ‘em high.


5 posted on 01/19/2022 2:04:44 PM PST by plain talk
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To: Cronos

Is Allah too puny to take care of himself?


6 posted on 01/19/2022 2:05:44 PM PST by GingisK
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To: Cronos
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7 posted on 01/19/2022 2:12:32 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: plain talk

Great character.

“Umm … Put it in my pocket … for later.”


8 posted on 01/19/2022 2:17:56 PM PST by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow. )
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To: Cronos

9 posted on 01/19/2022 2:20:49 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Captain Rhino

Yeah I remember that.

Then another dude says - “tell that guy to shut up and let’s get it over with”.

And the dude at the end - he didn’t want to be hanged ... and fought all the way to the end. ha ha


10 posted on 01/19/2022 2:23:17 PM PST by plain talk
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To: Cronos

Yet the DemonRATs get upset if anyone calls Pakistan a shythole and doesn’t want immigrants from there.


11 posted on 01/19/2022 2:32:49 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: BenLurkin; ebb tide; SJackson; SunkenCiv; Liz

I am waiting for the Obama-Harris-Pelosi-Biden administration to protest this murder of a woman by Muslim extremists.... it might take a while.

After all, the Muslim community in the US supports their abortions.


12 posted on 01/19/2022 2:37:22 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Cronos

Who the hell do they think they are, twitter?


13 posted on 01/19/2022 2:44:31 PM PST by freedumb2003 (What’s the point in drumming up anarchy if you don’t use it to promote tyranny. /BenLurkin 12/21)
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To: Cronos

I wish a nuke would just reduce Pakistan, harborer of terrorists and traitorous to a fault, to a lake of molten glass. They are rotten to the core.


14 posted on 01/19/2022 3:47:01 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: Cronos

He was spurned so he now is instrumental in her death sentence


15 posted on 01/20/2022 4:27:30 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: NohSpinZone

That’s FDR! Franklin Delano Romanowsky.


16 posted on 01/20/2022 4:30:42 AM PST by JerseyDvl (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; ...
Thanks RACPE.

17 posted on 01/20/2022 10:14:40 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: JerseyDvl

That’s right! I knew I saw him somewhere else. It was Seinfeld!


18 posted on 01/20/2022 11:34:27 AM PST by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: Cronos; nuconvert
According to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, about 80 people are known to be jailed in Pakistan on blasphemy charges — half of whom face life in prison or the death penalty. People have been lynched and even killed following allegations of insulting Islam or the Prophet Muhammad. In December, a Sri Lankan working in a factory in the eastern business hub of Sialkot was killed by an enraged mob over blasphemy suspicions, an incident that grabbed global headlines.

Activists and rights groups believe that Pakistan's blasphemy laws are draconian and are often misused. The laws are often employed in cases that have little to do with blasphemy and are used to settle petty disputes and personal vendettas. Christians, Hindus and Ahmadis — a minority Islamic sect — are often victimized as a result, they point out.

Pakistani politicians appeared to lack the courage to tackle the problem. “They are too afraid of the noisy street power of the mullahs and religious-political parties like the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP),” the expert underlined. TLP is a largely Barelvi (a sect in Islam) party, founded in 2015 by Khadim Hussain Rizvi, a firebrand cleric who died in November 2020. The core ideology of this party revolves around the “finality of Prophet Muhammad” and the protection of Pakistan's blasphemy laws.

https://frontline.thehindu.com/dispatches/explained-whatsapp-blasphemy-case-in-pakistan-reinforces-dangerous-trend/article38308333.ece

19 posted on 01/25/2022 1:32:45 AM PST by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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