Sentences with phrase «blasphemy laws in»

We campaigned for an end to the blasphemy laws in the UK for over century and warmly welcomed their abolition.

Christians and Muslims protested yesterday in Lahore against the blasphemy laws in Pakistan.

[CT interviewed Anne Isabelle Tollet, Bibi's ghostwriter, about the blasphemy law in Pakistan, Christian - Muslim relationships in the country, and Bibi's plight in 2013.]

Freelance reporter Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra spoke with Tollet (before the weekend's bombing) about the blasphemy law in Pakistan, relationships between the country's Christians and Muslims, and the dimming hopes that Bibi will escape a martyr's death.

Not exact matches

Per the Gospels, Jesus of Nazareth was brought up on charges of Sedition and Blasphemy by the Sanhedrin, led by Ciaphas and his father -LRB-- in - law) Annas.

The same goes for teaching on jihad, apostasy, blasphemy laws, and the place of non-Muslim citizens in an Islamic society.

In Pakistan, the report cited the government for using a blasphemy law that to prosecute religious minorities and, in some cases, Muslims who promote tolerance or to settle personal vendettaIn Pakistan, the report cited the government for using a blasphemy law that to prosecute religious minorities and, in some cases, Muslims who promote tolerance or to settle personal vendettain some cases, Muslims who promote tolerance or to settle personal vendettas.

While blasphemy laws claim to seek religious harmony through uniformity, in practice they provide cover for the pursuit of personal vendettas and crush fundamental freedoms for Pakistan's religious minorities.

ICC's Regional Manager for South Asia, William Stark, said: «Blasphemy laws continue to be one of the greatest threats to Christianity in Pakistan.

Mumtaz Qadri (below) was the bodyguard of the governor of Punjab Province Salman Taseer, but he murdered him in 2011 because he was an outspoken critic of the country's blasphemy laws - which are often used to target Christians and other minorities.

Most xtians are very jealous that they can't do that, and would love to have blasphemy laws like they have over in the Middle East so they could stone us to death for being non believers.

As the prime minister of Pakistan visited the scene of the Muslim nation's worst Christian persecution in recent memory Thursday, observers wondered if the violence will finally prompt the repeal of the country's notorious blasphemy laws.

In 2011, Salmaan Taseer, the governor of the Punjab, and Shahbaz Bhatti, the national minorities» minister, were shot dead because of their support for Noreen and criticism of what Clarke calls «Pakistan's barbaric blasphemy laws.»

Bibi's death sentence was upheld by the Muslim - majority nation's Supreme Court in October 2014, reigniting international disapproval of Pakistan's blasphemy law.

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN)- A Christian girl accused of violating Pakistani blasphemy laws by allegedly burning pages containing texts from the Quran will have to wait at least another two weeks to learn her fate after a court ordered a stay of proceedings in her case Monday.

Noreen, 50, was the first woman to be sentenced to death under Pakistan's blasphemy laws when she received the punishment in November 2010, after allegedly making derogatory comments about the Prophet Muhammad during an argument with a Muslim woman.

Shahbaz was assassinated in 2011; a letter left at the scene said those who try to change Pakistan's blasphemy laws would be killed.»

CNN: Setback for Pakistani teen facing blasphemy charges A Christian girl accused of violating Pakistani blasphemy laws by allegedly burning pages containing texts from the Quran will have to wait at least another two weeks to learn her fate after a court ordered a stay of proceedings in her case Monday.

In related news, Pakistani Catholics have begun collecting testimony to declare Shahbaz Bhatti, a Christian politician and outspoken critic of the country's blasphemy laws, a martyr.

was convicted in a Pakistani court earlier this month of breaking the country's controversial blasphemy law, a crime punishable with death or life imprisonment, according to Pakistan's penal code.

Reuters: Pakistani mob burns alive a man accused of desecrating the Koran A mob broke into a Pakistani police station and burnt a man accused of desecrating the Koran alive, police said Saturday, in the latest violence focusing attention on the country's blasphemy laws.

Those guys get everything the fundie wants; Unlimited oil money, guns, blasphemy laws, a herem of woman, the right to kill anyone who is different, the right to kill and subjugate woman, and force others to believe in your god the way you say they should.

When Jesus was accused of blasphemy because he claimed to be the Son of God, he answered the Jews: «Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?

They want the UN to impose a blasphemy law if anything negative is said about Islam, that in it's self should have all sorts of red blinking lights going off and on... all across America.

He claimed things that were considered to be Blasphemy according to Jewish law when he said the Father and I are One and before Abraham was «I Am» He was claiming that He was the «Great I AM» of the Old testament, now come in the flesh and came to pay the price of sin for man, the only acceptable perfect sacrifice, the lamb wihtout blemish, that God would accept because he was indeed God in flesh.

The court unanimously concurred, and the Prisoner was convicted of blasphemy, a capital offense in Jewish law.

Khalid Latif's veiled threats of violence in a letter to NYU's President if he were to allow a student organization to display Danish cartoons of Muhammad is evidence that he is no fan of freedom of speech and believes in defending sharia law's blasphemy statute (for lack of a better word).

After reviewing the apparent collapse of the freethinking movement after 1900, Schmidt turns to the post-war shift in Supreme Court jurisprudence: the rejection of blasphemy laws, limits on the school - supported study of religion, and the overturning of theistic requirements for public office or jury service.

«Pakistan has set the standard for intolerance when it comes to misusing blasphemy laws, but sending a schoolboy to jail for something he scribbled on an exam paper is truly appalling,» Bede Sheppard, senior children's rights researcher at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement Wednesday.

A Christian charity has expressed concern for two boys in Pakistan that have been arrested under the blasphemy law for allegedly burning swept papers containing Quranic verses.

«Decades of misuse of the blasphemy laws have resulted in a situation where even voicing disagreement with these laws can lead to violence.»

A court in Pakistan has sentenced a Christian man to life imprisonment under the country's blasphemy law for allegedly sending «blasphemous» text messages about Prophet Muhammad from his mobile phone.

So far no one has been executed under the blasphemy law, but others have languished in prison for up to 14 years without a trial.

In November Asia Bibi, a 45 - year - old Christian mother of five, became the first woman ever sentenced to death under Pakistan's blasphemy law.

Mr Bhatti was charged in July 2012 under blasphemy laws, amid allegations he had insulted the Prophet Muhammad in text messages.

Finally, though they are not as numerous, but still quite important in their influence, there are Reconstructionists, who aspire to replace civil codes with biblical laws, even to the point, among hard - liners, of making homosexuality, adultery, blasphemy, propagation of false doctrine, and incorrigible behavior by children punishable by death.

Atheists can be convicted under Indonesia's blasphemy law, and punished with up to five years in jail.

The US State Department flagged anti-conversion and blasphemy laws as one of its biggest concerns for religious freedom globally, stating in 2012 that «such laws often violate freedoms of religion and expression and often are applied in a discriminatory manner.»

The move is «ridiculous» and highlights the need for blasphemy laws across the world to be scrapped, the BHA said in a statement released online.

Blasphemy is punishable by a fine of 25,000 euro under the Defamation Act in the Republic of Ireland; however the law has never been used.

It was not immediately clear why Bhatti was killed, but in the past officials have been targeted for opposing Pakistan's blasphemy law.

But there is a reason we can not see God directly in our present existence because the Law of Blasphemy exists (this takes the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ to understand, which again is an answer too big for mankind alone to fathom).

Now we've got Allahs minions rioting in Bangladesh to try to force Islamic blasphemy laws on all who live there.

The United Nations is in danger of creating a global blasphemy law that would make religious criticism a crime, charges a new report from the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU).

BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson commented, «This completely ridiculous ruling represents a further encroachment on free speech in our society, tantamount to a reintroduction of blasphemy laws by the back door.

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In part responding to popular pressure, a court convicted Ahok under the country's blasphemy laws and sent him to prison for two years.

Whether the accused intended to engage in blasphemy is an issue that the current law does not cover.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) today welcomes the abolition of the blasphemy laws, and hails this change in legislation as a victory for equality and freedom of expression.

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