Christian girl with downs syn faces death over having partly burned koran.

[powderman]

Christian girl with Down syndrome could face death penalty over burning of Islamic text in Pakistan  Published August 20, 2012
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•    Supporters of a religious party chant slogans during a rally against Pope Benedict XVI's recent statements about Pakistan's blasphemy laws, in Lahore January 16, 2011. (Reuters)

  A Christian girl with Down syndrome could be punished by death in Pakistan after she was spotted holding burned pages of Islamic text in public, activists and police say.
The girl, identified by police as Rimsha, was arrested on blasphemy charges and is being detained in Islamabad ahead of a court appearance before the end of the month, AFP reports.
Defaming Islam, the Koran or the Prophet Muhammed is a capital offense in Pakistan.
After the incident, religious tensions and rallies involving Muslim protesters forced Christians to temporarily flee Mehrabad, the Islamabad neighborhood where Rimsha resides, a senior official of All Pakistan Minorities Alliance told AFP.
A Pakistani police officer, Zabi Ullah, said Monday that the girl was arrested Thursday after hundreds of neighbors, angry over reports she had allegedly burned religious papers, gathered outside her house.
"About 500-600 people had gathered outside her house in Islamabad, and they were very emotional, angry, and they might have harmed her if we had not quickly reacted," he said.
The Women’s Action Forum, a Pakistan rights group, blasted the arrest and accused police of not letting lawyers meet Rimsha in custody.
"WAF is outraged at the total inhumanity of the men who lodged the First Information Report in the police," a spokeswoman for the group told AFP.
But some police officials doubt reports that Rimsha burned parts of the Koran.
Qasim Niazi said when the girl was brought to the police station she had a shopping bag that contained various religious and Arabic-language papers that had been partly burned, but no Koran.
Another police officer said the matter would likely be dropped once the investigation is completed and the atmosphere is defused, saying there was "nothing much to the case." He did not want to be identified due to the sensitivity of the case.
There also are varying reports on Rimsha's age and whether she is mentally handicapped. Zabi Ullah, a Pakistan police officer, said she is 16, while other officials have said she is either 12 or 11. Niazi said that when the girl was brought to the police station she was scared and unable to speak normally, but he did not know whether she is mentally handicapped.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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[Mike in Virginia]

I don't reckon the people over there will ever change.  I'm afraid for their souls. 

[guzzijohn]

It is not all the same world. I bet however that this gets dropped.


"Officers added that the matter could be dropped once the investigation is completed and the atmosphere is defused, saying there was ‘nothing much to the case.’ He did not want to be identified due to the sensitivity of the case. Meanwhile, Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari said he had 'taken notice' of the reports of the arrest and asked Pakistan's interior ministry to present a report to him."
GuzziJohn

[yellowtail3]

Those people over there aren't evil; I would very much doubt this will go far. Hope I'm not wrong.

[powderman]

I hope the chgs are dropped. The girl did nothing wrong, that cult is just evil. POWDERMAN.   

[DDZ]

The fact is that the death penalty is the sentence for burning some pages of a book, and in this case the death penalty was given. She does have one big strike against her over there. She is a Christian. 
Please explain how these people are not evil when their culture and laws demand death for burning a book. Some of the same people that view the muslims as not being evil, view us as evil for wanting to put murderers to death, but the Muslims are not evil for killing homosexuals, rapists, Quran burning, or women committing adultery. Of coarse for a male rapist to be convicted, there has to be something like half a dozen witnesses. I figure that usually works out well for male rapists.
Then its how people are put to death. Its not a needle with a drug in it. They love to throw rocks at their tied up criminals until they die. Sounds barbaric or evil to me.

[Val]

Those people are culturally retarded and are living in the dark ages. Islam keeps them like that in order to control them.

[Dixie Dude]

I know of a Christian girl who was gang raped by 4 Muslim boys in Pakistan in daylight in an alley.  Judge said she wasn't supposed to be out alone without another woman or family member.  He threw it out.  She was 14, and was going from one family members house to another's a few blocks away.  Was grabbed and taken to an alley and gang raped.  I found this out through some missionaries.  This kind of stuff goes on all the time in Muslim majority countries to non-Muslims.  Get real, they are still in the dark ages, and have no respect for other religions.  I know an Indian motel owner, and he said almost all the trouble is with Muslims and can't stand them.  They have no respect for Hindus, Christians, or Sikhs, in India, and are always wanting to fight about something.  He is glad to be in America.   

[powderman]

Those people are culturally retarded and are living in the dark ages. Islam keeps them like that in order to control them.

 
VAL, yep, thats pretty much it. Keep em stupid and uneducated, they follow better.
DDZ, DIXIE DUDE. Good posts too. Evil is an apt description. POWDERMAN.