HJS Comments: Let’s see now, you are visiting Pakistan for business, sightseeing, or perhaps you just want to see things for yourself. After all, you have heard and read so many bizarre stories about seventh-century thinking, you decided to put all of these stories to rest. Ha! You’ll show them!
Upon arriving, many people want to get your attention for taxis, rental cars, hotels, restaurants, clothing shops, and of course souvenirs. People you do not know just slip their business cards into your jacket pocket. While awaiting check-in at the hotel, you come across the business cards, are not at all interested in them, so drop them into a nearby trash can. A local trouble-maker catches the action and retrieves the cards.
Aha! One of the cards is a local merchant, but
his given name is Muhammad! The trouble-maker screams out that you have blasphemed by throwing a card with that name into the trash! Whistles go off,
crowds begin to form; you are quickly arrested for a capital crime, violating the Quran 33:21, insulting the prophet.
You have not even checked in and are in jail, awaiting trial for a capital crime, and mobs are trying to rush the jail to get at you. You now wonder what happened. Welcome to the Middle East.
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Now, doc held in Pak over blasphemy
AGENCIES, Dec 13, 2010, 06.07am IST
KARACHI: Police said a Pakistani doctor has been arrested on suspicion of blasphemy after he threw away a business card of a man who shared the name of Islam's prophet, Muhammad. It is the latest case involving the country's contentious law on blasphemy against Islam. Police official Mushtaq Shah says the Muslim doctor, Naushad Walyani, was detained on Friday in Hyderabad after a complaint was lodged alleging his actions had insulted the Prophet. Pakistan's blasphemy law has received widespread attention following the case of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death last month for insulting Islam. The doctor was later shifted from the police station to a more secure facility due to security concerns, officials said. Representatives of some religious parties and hardline groups too have complained to the police against him.
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