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Pakistani Christian charged with blasphemy over Mecca snap
[AlAhram] A Pak Christian teen has been charged with blasphemy over a derogatory picture of Islam's holiest place, police said Tuesday.Nabeel Chohan was placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! for liking and sharing on social media a disparaging photograph of the Kaaba, the building in Mecca, Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , that Moslems turn and pray to five times a day. Chohan, who is 18 and from Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard 2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers 3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... province, also kept the picture on his phone, police said. A Moslem friend of Chohan's informed police after seeing the Facebook post on September 16 and the teen was arrested after his friend filed the blasphemy case, police official Shahbaz Ahmed said. "A case of hurting religious sentiments of Moslems and desecrating the religious place has been lodged," Ahmed told AFP. Muhammad Hussain, the investigating police officer, confirmed the arrest and told AFP Chohan was in a police cell. Blasphemy is a hugely sensitive issue in conservative Moslem Pakistain, where even unproven allegations can provoke beatings and mob violence. It has extremely strict laws against blasphemy -- including the death penalty for insulting the Prophet Mohammed -- and rights campaigners say they are often used to settle personal disputes in a country where 97 percent of the population is Moslem. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-09-22 |
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