Pakistani sentenced to die for blasphemy

Posted by Robert on June 18, 2008 7:39 AM

He insulted Muhammad. Wonder what will be the final outcome of Sharia accommodation in the West? Things like this.

From [1] AP, June 18 (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist):

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani judge sentenced a Muslim man to death Wednesday on charges he insulted Islam's Prophet Muhammad, a court official said.

Falk Sher, a court administrator, said Judge Shoaib Ahmad Roomi also sentenced the man, Shafeeq Latif, to life in prison and fined him $75,000 on a separate charge of desecrating pages of Islam's holy book, the Quran, in 2006.

Latif was accused of making derogatory remarks about Muhammad....

Under Pakistan's blasphemy laws, anyone who insults Muhammad can be punished by death. Scores of people, including Muslims and minority Christians, are facing trial under the laws, which human rights groups have demanded be abolished....


Article printed from Jihad Watch: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/06/pakistani-sentenced-to-die-for-blasphemy.html

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