A glimpse into the future of the West. This is where the Left’s “hate speech” rhetoric is tending.
“Multan lecturer sentenced to death on blasphemy charge,” by Shakeel Ahmed, Dawn, December 22, 2019:
MULTAN: A district and sessions court on Saturday sentenced a former university lecturer to death on blasphemy charges.
Junaid Hafeez — a visiting lecturer at the Department of English Literature of the Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU), Multan — was booked on a blasphemy charge on March 13, 2013. He was arrested the same day.
The trial began in 2014 and the court reserved its verdict on Dec 18.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Kashif Qayyum announced the decision on Saturday in the presence of the accused at the New Central Jail.
The court found Hafeez guilty of all charges and handed down 10-year imprisonment under Section 295-A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs); life term under Section 295-B (defiling, etc, of Holy Quran) and death sentence under Section 295-C (use of derogatory remarks, etc, in respect of the Holy Prophet) of the Pakistan Penal Code.
It also imposed a collective fine of Rs600,000 and in case of default he would have to undergo an additional one-year imprisonment.
“All the sentences shall run consecutively and the accused would not be entitled to the benefit of Section 382-B CrPC because in case of blasphemer, this court has got no circumstance for taking lenient view and it is also not permitted in Islam,” ruled the court….