Pakistan: After protests, Christian girl acquitted for blasphemy cannot leave
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/02/outrage-as-pakistani-government-vows-to-stop-asia-bibi-leaving
Pakistan’s government has been accused of signing the “death warrant” of Asia Bibi after it said it would begin the process of preventing her leaving the country.
Bibi’s lawyer, Saif-ul-Mulook, has reportedly since fled the country amid fears for his life, telling AFP: “I need to stay alive as I still have to fight the legal battle for Asia Bibi.”
In a document signed by the PTI’s religious affairs minister and the TLP’s second-in-command, Pir Afzal Qadri, the government promised not to oppose a court petition to reverse Bibi’s release. It also pledged to work in the meantime to put her name on the exit control list (ECL) which would prevent her leaving the country.
Afzal Qadri told the Guardian “the government has almost accepted our maximum demands” and that if it backtracked “we can come [out on the streets] again”.
My guess is she will be murdered within weeks of release.
I hate this fucking piece of shit country
This country has nuclear weapons.
tactical ones though, makes you wonder why saudi arabia wants them so badly now too.
>While the protests were ongoing, unknown assailants stabbed Sami ul Haq – the leader of the Haqqania madrasa known as the “father of the Taliban” – to death in his own home.
The spokesperson for Pakistan’s army, Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor, said that the military’s chief condemned the assassination and expressed “grief and condolences” for the ul Haq family. Earlier in the day, Ghafoor released a statement about the protests which avoided criticising the TLP, despite its leaders calling for soldiers to mutiny.
Huh, so much for their cooperation in hunting the Taliban.
All of this over a cup of water.
And possibly an insult.
People are stupid, petty, and cruel.
This is why fundamentalism is so dangerous. "God told me to kill them," is the absolute worst justification for hurting anyone, but it's also been one of the most common throughout recorded history. Anyone who has so much confidence in their faith - regardless of what form it takes - that they are willing to kill people who disagree, is a danger to all of humanity. This goes not just for these fundamentalist muslim lunatics in Pakistan, but also the fundamentalist christian lunatics we're dealing with over here in the US, some of which are guaranteed to go down this same path the moment they think they have a chance to enact theocracy.
Fuck islamists and everything they stand for
I still wonder why people are so quick to defend the migration crisis in Europe considering millions of these people come to european countries, where the majority of them are muslims.
I for one 100% support the migration crisis
Perhaps not every Muslim is a fundamental extremist hell bent on murdering all non-believers?
No, every single member of [INSERT OTHER GROUP HERE] are perfect clones of each other so if one's bad, they're all bad! The only groups exempt from this is any group I'm a member of.
If she's that abhorrent then let her leave you fucking monkeys. Sick and tired of seeing these stone age fundamentalist shitheads exherting pressure on government, for a change I don't feel any sympathy for them when the government cracks down and starts applying the boot to their protests.
that picture in the OP pisses me off so much...
The only difference between tactical and strategic nuclear weapons is how you use them. Pakistan is very capable of pointing a missile at an Indian city.
tactical is the wrong word, they possess short and medium range missiles, the whole dynamic of pakistan and india is unique, unlike the US/nato/soviet/china thing where the forces are spread out and targets are far apart, they share a border and their nuclear arsenals are meant purely to threaten each other (though india's also serves as deterant to china i guess)
Pakistan is a shit hole
Imagine thinking all the muslim branches are the same.
Like thinking that all the christians behave like the ones belonging to Opus Dei or Ultraorthodox people.
Still boggles my mind how backwards some of the countries are to still follow outdated extremist thinking.
Acquitted for drinking from the Muslim water source, thus "poisoning it". What a ridiculous thing to believe in in the era of information.
Bibi, a Christian farm labourer, was acquitted of blasphemy on Wednesday. She had spent eight years on death row after she drank from the same cup as a Muslim, prompting false allegations that she insulted the prophet Muhammad.
How the fuck does that insult the prophet.
wait she was accused of blasphemy for drinking? and i thought being charged for blasphemy for complaining about noise pollution was ridiculous enough
Typically if you have principles you uphold them regardless of whether or not you like or agree with the specific people those principles apply to.
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