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| Pakistan clerics persecute 'non Muslims' |
| 2007-12-27 |
| Hardline clerics are using Pakistan's blasphemy laws to persecute members of a small Islamic splinter group they say are not proper Muslims. The two million-strong Ahmadiyya community, based in Rabwah in the Punjab, risks charges of "impersonating Muslims" under the country's controversial religious laws. Shameen Ahmad Khalid, a community leader, said: "We have people serving long jail sentences for blasphemy or for 'posing as Muslims'." The laws mandate three years' imprisonment for Ahmadis who dare to call themselves Muslims, call their places of worship mosques, recite the Koran or announce the azan, the call to prayer. Twenty years ago, the people of Rabwah were charged with impersonating Muslims. Since the charges are still outstanding, the town's 50,000 inhabitants have to hide their Islamic habits, keep their beards trimmed and avoid using Muslim invocations. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Gawd dun care. Tho that blue flower elephant is nice. |
| Posted by: Kittuah 2007-12-27 15:45 |
| #2 Idol worship means YOU make GOD in YOUR Image. Not the other way around. Very good, newc, very good. That is probaby the most concise and substantial way I've ever seen that idea expreseed. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-12-27 14:01 |
| #1 Yep, I always record what these deem as "not proper moslem" and I always tend to find out, it is better to not have lived in the first place. Kind of like the guy who killed Christ. "Also not a not "proper Moslem" as He actively rejects Islam on an HOURLY basis" Cain offering what he WANTS to GOD. Yup, it is always up to a man under the guise as a "moslem" to persecute anyone he wants for any reason that is "unislamic" May as well not start living because one day you will be deemed "unislamic" because some man walks up to you and tells you you are. Such a peaceful feeling to know that God is such a petty, immature, unknowing, and approving of the daily carnage and death and destruction. Yeah, that is the kind of God I sign up for, every morning in fact. SARCASM. Idol worship means YOU make GOD in YOUR Image. Not the other way around. Islam is doomed. |
| Posted by: newc 2007-12-27 01:08 |