Monday, June 12, 2017

Unprecedented: Pakistani Man Sentenced to Death for Blasphemous Facebook Post | The Daily Sheeple

Unprecedented: Pakistani Man Sentenced to Death for Blasphemous Facebook Post | The Daily Sheeple:
Image result for islam religion of peace meme"Pakistan has handed down the stiffest penalty imaginable for a post to social media — the death penalty — for blasphemy, after a 30-year-old man argued with someone online who turned out to be a counterterrorism agent.
Taimoor Raza allegedly denigrated the Prophet Muhammad, his wives, and companions, in a debate about Islam, according to Bahawalpur public prosecutor Shafiq Qureshi and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, and was arrested and charged for the crime as part of an oppressive crackdown on dissent by the administration of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
“An anti terrorism court of Bahawalpur has awarded him the death sentence,” Qureshi told Reuters. “It is the first ever death sentence in a case that involves social media...”

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