Man gets death for blasphemy

Guess what religion. "The complainant alleged that the accused had used the derogatory remarks." So it's death. Pakistan is gradually turning into the taliban.

It's difficult for those of us in civilized Western societies to grasp the mindset of religious fundamentists (saves me from having to put a word to them).

The OP is reminiscent in horror of the Pakistani widow's fate a few years ago. Widowed and with several children to support, this poor, emaciated woman travelled via crowded bus, in broad daylight, to sell her few pathetic wares at a large public market. The money earned fed and educated her sons.

The frock-wearing religious elders -- having nothing better to do than sit around twirling their prayer-beads all day whilst practicing their rabid woman-hating-fearing paranoia --- decided the poor widow (middle aged and toothless) had 'broken' some religious law which prohibits women from travelling or even leaving the home, without at least one male escort .

The fat, nose-picking, bead-twirling, do-nothing, 'religious experts' of the village decided amongst themselves that the widow -- by travelling alone on a crowded bus in broad daylight and returning in daylight --- had Disgraced Her Family's (and by extension the village's) HONOUR !

Penalty -----> Death.

The widow's eldest son was instructed by the foul-breathed 'elders' to kill his mother. Only by killing her, apparently, could he hope to restore .... HONOUR !

So the kid --- aged about 15 --- was supplied a gun by the frock wearing 'religious elders'.

He waited until his mother was making her way through the dirt-poor village and shot her in cold blood.

Pat on the back from the elders.

When a tv-documentary team went to the village, they found the son, playing cricket with other do-nothing young males.

They asked him if he missed his mother, now that he'd killed her for trying to feed him and his siblings.

The boy replied, after some thought, that Yes, he did miss his mother.

There was now no-one to feed, clothe and work themselves to the bone anymore, in the attempt to keep her killer son and his siblings alive.

But the kid didn't bother with sentimentality.

He didn't miss his mother for any other than practical, self-serving reasons.

He didn't miss her smile or gestures of affection, loyalty and devotion to him and his siblings.

And, he added, she'd dishonoured him by travelling to the market alone.

Why hadn't he travelled with his mother, he was asked.

His mother hadn't been able to afford two bus tickets, that's why.

And gee, guess it had never occurred to him to stop playing cricket and get out and earn a bit of money to support himself, or his younger siblings, or -- heaven forbid, help the poor woman who'd given birth to him and who'd obviously sacrificed and devoted herself to his survival, in that one-goat town where most children die in their first year.

Nope. He just wandered off to continue playing cricket.

And I won't depress you further by recounting the publicised case where a young girl (Pakistan again, where else?) was mass-raped by the 'religious elders' of the village because of some minor infringement allegedly committed by some other member of her family.

They will pull us backward, into war and into the dark ages. Which is why our zionist politicians are inflicting as many of them on us as possible, in the guise of 'migrants'.

Groin-fixated, orifice fixated, sex-fixated, female-hating because they're envious and fearful of females. They blame their god for their sub-human behaviours and crimes. When it's clear they HAVE no god. Or if they do, he's clearly just a reflection of their own base fixations.

Not all followers of that religion are as backwards and ignorant and toxic. Of course not. So many of them are exemplary individuals who also decry and abhor cases like the OP. But if they speak out, they find themselves under primitive death threats posing as 'religious edict'.

I don't care how this sounds, but instead of dumping toxic Chemtrails on their own populations, have our mentally-challenged politicians ever considered adding adding birth-control additives in the water supplies of the religious fundamentalists? Don't make war for oil and wannbe-empires. Just help the religious fundies to limit their population growth, thus enabling them to properly feed, clothe and educate the population they already have. We could probably cope with them and might even be able to drag them at least into the 13th century. Limiting their growth would enable them to get tvs and mortgages and collagen lips and after that, they'd be caught up like the rest of us in hanging onto all that garbage and wouldn't want to have more than two kids per household --- then, voila, they wouldn't need to entertain themselves by murdering people for fun: they'd have Discovery channel and pizzas.

Because, no matter what they tell you ---- they'd love a western lifestyle full of consumer junk and 'freedoms'.

That's a touching story, but we don't really need the purple prose and a link to corroborate the story wouldn't hurt, either.

Back in 1990, when I went to Saudi Arabia, it was really the first time in my life I was ever confronted with what we in the west consider to be barbaric. Their laws (Sha'ria). Ancient, cruel laws that they very strictly enforce.

I remember hearing the crime rate in the Kingdom, at the time, was 2%. That's an incredibly low percentage. Every Friday in city squares they decapitated criminals. It always happened at high noon. I was in Dammam, a city on the (Eastern) coast one Friday at noon. It was really weird. The city went dead in the dead of the day. Everyone was at the square for the execution(s).

One thing I have always loved about the USA, is tyrranical freaks, like the Taliban, have not been allowed to subject us to their rule. I cannot think of living a worse existence than under that sort of oppression and danger. Its biblical - when they behave like humans and actually sin a little, people get raped, mutilated and killed, depending on the country, the tribe.

Thank God! for the freedoms we have here. We still have the greatest, most free and wide open, nation in the world.

Originally posted by EastCoastKid

Thank God! for the freedoms we have here. We still have the greatest, most free and wide open, nation in the world.

It's refreshing to hear someone say that from time to time.

Imagine what life must be like in Venezuela or Cuba right now.

This is about as bad as it gets-non compliance with religious fanaticism = capital offense.
Pakistan have a lot of explaining to do.

Have you been living in cave?

This kind of oppression has a much longer history and is far more widespread than the liberty we Westerners have come to take for granted.

In fact, this is what radical Islam has in mind for the US.

Did you miss 9/11, too?

Originally posted by GradyPhilpott

Originally posted by EastCoastKid

Thank God! for the freedoms we have here. We still have the greatest, most free and wide open, nation in the world.

It's refreshing to hear someone say that from time to time.

Imagine what life must be like in Venezuela or Cuba right now.

Grady, I know we've disagreed alot, but don't ever misunderstand my love for our country.

Originally posted by EastCoastKid

Thank God! for the freedoms we have here. We still have the greatest, most free and wide open, nation in the world.

actually, you should be thanking LOCKE for the freedoms we have here... and SECULARISM from keeping theocratic law from being enforced in this country

Originally posted by madnessinmysoul



actually, you should be thanking LOCKE for the freedoms we have here... and SECULARISM from keeping theocratic law from being enforced in this country

I thank God and our founding fathers' wisdom for the life we have here. Oh yeah, and the brave individuals who have served in our military to stand and fight against any threat against us.

Originally posted by rdang
Guess what religion.

"The complainant alleged that the accused had used the derogatory remarks." So it's death. Pakistan is gradually turning into the taliban.

Good thing that both Pakistan and Saudia Arabia are valued allies of the West, isn't it? Otherwise we'd have to civilise them the same as was was done to Iraq.

[Good thing that both Pakistan and Saudia Arabia are valued allies of the West, isn't it?


Yes its pretty ironic when you think that these countries are the two main hotbeds for wabbalist fanaticism which is the cause for most of the hatred, bigotry ,prejudice and racism in the region.
Executing a person just because they don't mindlessly and unquestioningly (and slavishly) conform to a non provable beleif system is indefensibly barbaric -I'd like to know how the Pakistani government tried to explain this one to the international community.

When I read the title my first thoughts were "Pakistan..."

And sure enough, the Patans prove to me they are indeed madly narrow-minded :shk:

Karl 12: It's Wahabbi fanaticsm, to be exact.

animas, thats why they need to be exterminated like the animals that they are...but wait Bush is a warmonger because he is trying to stop this sort of behavior..hhhmmm, what a dilemma we find ourselves in, stop these zealots from killing women or stop Bush from doing it..OR..BASH BUSH WHILE HE DOES WHAT WE ARE TOO WEAK TO ADMIT NEEDS TO BE DONE!

Originally posted by infiltr8u
animas, thats why they need to be exterminated like the animals that they are...but wait Bush is a warmonger because he is trying to stop this sort of behavior..hhhmmm, what a dilemma we find ourselves in, stop these zealots from killing women or stop Bush from doing it..OR..BASH BUSH WHILE HE DOES WHAT WE ARE TOO WEAK TO ADMIT NEEDS TO BE DONE!

Sure hope reversing that rectal/cranial inversion is covered by your HMO, dude.

Karl 12: It's Wahabbi fanaticsm, to be exact.

(Thanks )


All in all its a pretty poor show-many organised religions cry out for tolerance and understanding of their opinions -then utterly fail to reciprocate those same values to agnostics,freethinkers,atheists etc..

We all know tolerance is a two way street but for (superior?) religious folk to execute a man for speaking his mind-thats just bonkers!
Cheers Karl