Sec 295-C of the Pakistan penal code prescribes the death penalty for this crime. On 18 August 2001 , Dr Younis Shaikh, was sentenced to death for blasphemy. His crime was to tell students that the Prophet Muhammad was not a Muslim before he invented the religion at the age of forty. Eleven of his students reported him to the authorities for this offence . Pakistani law does not allow a Muslim woman to marry a non Muslim man , such as Augustine Ashiq Kingri Masih was sentenced to death in Faisalabad in 2000. In 2006, Abdul Rahman in Afghanistan was sentenced to death for converting to Christianity. And this remember is not the Afghan of the Taliban but the liberated Afghanistan of Hamid Karzai. It is still an article in the liberated Afghanistan that the penalty for apostasy is death. It is pure thoughtcrime , to use George Orwells 1984 terminology, and the official punishment for it under Islamic law is death.
Posted on: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 17:08:58 +0000
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