We can never know what she may or may not have said because repeating blasphemy is also blasphemy, and writing it down may be even greater blasphemy.
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ON THE BLASPHEMY LAW Khan campaigned openly promising to support and defend Pakistan&aposs blasphemy laws.
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Blasphemy The accusations of blasphemy surround Ahok's quoting of a Quranic verse in a stump speech.
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Blasphemy accusations leveled Demonstrators accuse the government of blasphemy based on a proposed changed that they say would soften electoral laws.
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He was assassinated by one of his police bodyguards who believed the governor had committed blasphemy by questioning the country's blasphemy laws.
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Murdered for opposition to blasphemy laws Qadri was the governor's security guard and allegedly killed him because he spoke out against the country's controversial blasphemy law.
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No executions for blasphemy have been carried out in Pakistan but merely an allegation at times is enough for a mob to lynch someone accused of blasphemy.
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The constitution also lays out harsh punishments for blasphemy, and the government under current President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has prosecuted several high-profile blasphemy cases, according to Brookings.
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Blasphemy is a sensitive issue in Pakistan, where at least 74 people have been killed in attacks motivated by blasphemy accusations since 1990, according to an Al Jazeera tally.
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The country's strict blasphemy laws are a topic of great sensitivity in Pakistan; accusations of blasphemy have seen a surge in mob violence and lynchings in pockets of the country.
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In September, when the case of alleged blasphemy first surfaced, FPI leaders ratcheted up their rhetoric against the governor, calling for his arrest and preaching in mosques that "blasphemy is non-negotiable".
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Dozens of people convicted of blasphemy are currently on death row and at least 65 Pakistanis have been murdered over blasphemy allegations since 1990, according to the Center for Research and Security Studies.
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He hasn't been charged with animal abuse, but with blasphemy.
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Hundreds of Pakistanis are on death row for blasphemy convictions.
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Purnama denied the blasphemy allegation but apologised for the comments.
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It has also focused attention on the country's blasphemy laws.
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It was also the first blasphemy killing at a university.
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The Pakistani government has recently cracked down on blasphemy online.
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The original fatwa claimed that Pokémon encouraged blasphemy and gambling.
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Almost without exception, blasphemy cases in Indonesia end with conviction.
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Hocheiser has dementia is the movie's first and greatest blasphemy.
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To many people, this will sound like blasphemy or insanity.
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The blasphemy law itself has been criticized even by Islamic
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Think of the people who object to laws protecting blasphemy.
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Mere allegations of blasphemy can spark mass riots and violence.
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Other laws ban blasphemy and speech deemed insulting to religion.
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READ MORE: Pakistan's top court overturned a Christian's blasphemy conviction.
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Conviction under Pakistan's blasphemy law carries a sentence of death.
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Pakistan's blasphemy law was passed under the military dictator Gen.
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To many liberals, such a suggestion will sound like blasphemy.
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More recently, as with Ahok, it's been with blasphemy laws.
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A decision on his blasphemy case isn't expected until March.
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Almost all blasphemy cases in recent years have ended in conviction.
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The use of blasphemy laws is linked to rising religious intolerance.
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But more than 50 people accused of blasphemy have been murdered.
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In the 1980s blasphemy laws were dusted off and spruced up.
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PAKISTAN'S blasphemy laws have been a source of infamy for decades.
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Why doesn't Pakistan make its blasphemy laws less prone to abuse?
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In fact, Denmark's anti-blasphemy law has very rarely been used.
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READ MORE: Pakistan's top court acquitted a Christian woman of blasphemy.
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It deems the claim that Ms Asia committed blasphemy "concoction incarnate".
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Police last week named Purnama a suspect in the blasphemy probe.
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The blasphemy is the peak of the problem and our resistance.
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Taseer had also described the blasphemy ban as a "black law".
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Even rumors of blasphemy have sparked rampaging mobs and deadly riots.
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Many countries still have laws against blasphemy, including 14 in Europe.
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Because what is moral to one person is blasphemy to another.
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Allegations of blasphemy have incited violence in Pakistan in the past.
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GOP leadership should not allow this conservative blasphemy on their watch.
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It may be the last blasphemy available to the modern mind.
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The woman, Aasia Bibi, is still in jail facing blasphemy charges.
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Here's ESPN's Darren Rovell, savaging a pie with a knife. Blasphemy.
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Under Pakistan's blasphemy law, her alleged comment is punishable by death.
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Pakistan's blasphemy laws date back to the military dictatorship of Gen.
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Blasphemy has been another red line for extremist violence, with mere accusations of blasphemous speech frequently leading to vigilante attacks, even if the case had not been taken up in court under Pakistan's widely criticized blasphemy laws.
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In December Ahok appeared in court after prosecutors charged him with blasphemy.
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Because of those protests, he himself is in court on blasphemy charges.
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Dozens have been killed following blasphemy claims, sometimes by mobs of men.
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He chirrups hardline views on such issues as punishing blasphemy with death.
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In May he was sentenced to two years in jail for blasphemy.
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Purnama faces up to five years in jail if convicted of blasphemy.
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A lone reference to "angels" can merit a crackdown on blasphemy grounds.
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After huge protests he lost an election and was jailed for blasphemy.
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His suicidal blasphemy against "the money code" has "brought him only misery".
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Recently, fighting blasphemy has also become a rallying cry for the government.
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Now, political parties may be in danger of facing blasphemy accusations themselves.
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In Pakistan, conviction under the blasphemy laws can carry a death sentence.
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Those convicted of blasphemy can face the death penalty under Pakistani law.
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The blasphemy law also needs to be reformed or, even better, scrapped.
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Mr. Joarder was briefly jailed for blasphemy before the charges were withdrawn.
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Bibi spent eight years on death row after being convicted of blasphemy.
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So does Mr. Khan's recent support for the country's strict blasphemy laws.
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Religious leaders have accused him of blasphemy and of being an Ahmadi.
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Woods's alignment doesn't have any of West's folly, turmoil or historical blasphemy.
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However, scores of people have been killed by vigilantes for alleged blasphemy.
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She was dragged to a local police station and charged with blasphemy.
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"Some people see adding anything besides apples as blasphemy," Mr. Reynolds said.
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Taseer had also criticized Pakistan's harsh blasphemy laws and campaigned against them.
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A Christian governor of Jakarta was thrown in jail on blasphemy charges.
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Asia Bibi was convicted of blasphemy in 25 and sentenced to hang.
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He will be forced to pay dearly for his blasphemy any moment.
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The penal codes of Austria and India also prohibit blasphemy, for instance.
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A road sweeper in his late twenties, Sawan Masih told police after his arrest on blasphemy charges that the real reason for the blasphemy allegation was a property dispute between him and a friend who spread the rumour.
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Just seven months earlier, my father, Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab Province, had been shot dead by his guard for criticizing Pakistan's blasphemy laws, after a Christian woman, Asia Bibi, was sentenced to death for allegedly committing blasphemy.
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It has filed lawsuits against several authors and artists under Egypt's blasphemy laws.
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Khan has expressed support for blasphemy laws and has courted the religious right.
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In Pakistan, conviction under the blasphemy laws can carry a mandatory death sentence.
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You can listen to Mystifier, to Mayhem, to Master's Hammer, or even Blasphemy.
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Mr Khan's murder was the first mob blasphemy killing in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
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His interpretation of the text is what elicited protests and charges of blasphemy.
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As a result, he is now serving a two-year sentence for blasphemy.
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Soon after a court sentenced him to prison for two years for blasphemy.
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Others recall that laws banning blasphemy go right back to the British Raj.
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For the Church, to suggest that something fell from the sky was blasphemy.
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Gay men are frequently arrested and typically charged with debauchery, immorality or blasphemy.
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It's what I love about metal, and it's what I love about Blasphemy.
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Chief among these, many Barelvis want to preserve a draconian ban on blasphemy.
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Where laws against apostasy do not exist, blasphemy laws are often applied instead.
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Qadri had deplored Taseer's call for Pakistan's draconian blasphemy law to be repealed.
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Last year, Tehreek-e Labbaik organized so-called anti-blasphemy demonstrations across Pakistan.
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Iranian Instagram star Sahar Tabar has been arrested for blasphemy, reports BBC News.
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Muslim nations want blasphemy included, and Israel wants anti-Semitism to be criminalized.
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The mechanization of sacred writing bordered on blasphemy or at least cultural capitulation.
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Blasphemy remains highly contentious in Pakistan, often leading to violence and mob justice.
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This shift was illustrated by turning Bibi's quarrel over sharing water into blasphemy.
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This blasphemy brigade was egged on by the media and opposition political parties.
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Tales of gender blasphemy from deep within the land of princes and princesses.
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Draconian laws such as the blasphemy law and several misogynistic laws were enacted.
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Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim nation, and blasphemy is illegal there.
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Although the anti-blasphemy law was by world standards mild, and virtually unenforceable, liberal-minded people argued that its very existence offered moral support to the vastly harsher anti-blasphemy regimes that apply in places like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
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It is known that in the decade since then, hardline groups -- the Tehreek-e-Labbaik in particular -- have gunned down politicians and lawyers who have dared question the validity of the blasphemy law or championed the cause of blasphemy defendants.
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Blasphemy laws in Indonesia are applicable to any of its six officially recognized religions.
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Some White Walker blasphemy For now, we can only turn to legend for answers.
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As a result the legislature is expected soon to repeal Ireland's anti-blasphemy law.
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Earlier in the day a fellow journalism student had accused Mr Khan of blasphemy.
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This wasn't a blogger, accused of blasphemy and hacked to death by misguided fundamentalists.
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In Indonesia and Pakistan, anyone can file a claim of blasphemy against anyone else.
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He was sentenced to two years in prison after being found guilty of blasphemy.
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Nearly 1,400 people have been accused under the blasphemy laws between 20173 and 2014.
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Pakistan's blasphemy laws mandate the death penalty, although no sentence has been carried out.
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He apologised for the comments, but was later jailed for two years for blasphemy.
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But the blasphemy laws are not the only tool in the government's persecution kit.
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He could face up to five years in prison if found guilty of blasphemy.
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Religious minorities are also far more likely to be charged with blasphemy than Muslims.
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The blasphemy law is no joke; insulting the prophet Mohammad is a capital crime.
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Days after its premiere, prosecutors opened an investigation into whether anyone had committed blasphemy.
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Pakistan has strict blasphemy laws -- violators can be put to death for bashing Islam.
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Lawyers for blasphemy defendants have been attacked, as have judges presiding over such cases.
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The accusation of cultural appropriation is a secular version of the charge of blasphemy.
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The Islamists accused the magazine of blasphemy for printing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.
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But Danish prosecutors at the time refused to charge the newspaper's editors with blasphemy.
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The groups said that he should be prosecuted and jailed under Indonesia's blasphemy laws.
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The prime minister's opponents were outraged and equated Mr. Modi's cover photo with blasphemy.
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Worse still, once blasphemy is alleged, mob violence or targeted killing becomes a possibility.
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It's kind of generic, sure, and Camelot's greatest fans may consider the film blasphemy.
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But we would consider it blasphemy to do that to this kind of product.
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Blasphemy conviction overturned Bibi, a mother of five from Punjab province, was convicted of blasphemy in 2010 and sentenced to hang after she was accused of defiling the name of the Prophet Mohammed during an argument a year earlier with Muslim colleagues.
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I know that's blasphemy among This Is Us fans, but, I said what I said.
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Frenzied mobs have killed at the mere suggestion that an act of blasphemy was committed.
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The Center for Social Justice estimates 50% of those accused of blasphemy are non-Muslims.
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Celebration of straight sex, of porn, or of phallic images could be taken as blasphemy.
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The blasphemy conviction is a stunning downfall for the close ally of President Joko Widodo.
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Haider Shah, of the Rationalist Society of Pakistan, said the blasphemy allegations endangered the activists.
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Manipulated laws Pakistan's strict blasphemy laws have often been manipulated to persecute minorities, including Christians.
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The Vatican declared "Mistero Buffo" to be the greatest blasphemy in the history of television.
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Without changes to the laws, charges of blasphemy are being bandied around ever more loosely.
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He was charged with blasphemy, lost the election and has now been sentenced to jail.
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Before you cry blasphemy, hear me out, because I got this tea from the source.
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Under Pakistani law anyone suspected of blasphemy can be prosecuted and potentially sentenced to death.
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Spiro P.'s Yelp review of the Louvre, posted in 2010, seems like artistic blasphemy.
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To put said things on a plate, or, god forbid, use silverware, would be blasphemy.
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And lastly, the very nature of the internet has led to new forms of blasphemy.
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To belittle or assault God's creatures is thus to be guilty of blasphemy and sacrilege.
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At the Rome gathering, her husband Ashiq Masih said his wife was innocent of blasphemy.
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"Bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the American creed," Bush said.
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Purnama is standing trial on blasphemy charges after allegedly insulting the Koran during the campaign.
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To purists in the Country Establishment, repackaging Waylon's music in a rap song was blasphemy.
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Under Pakistan's penal code, the offense of blasphemy is punishable by death or life imprisonment.
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With religious scrupulosity, there are often concerns about devil worship, blasphemy, hell, or offending god.
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Charges included blasphemy, inciting violence, corrupting youth, and obtaining money through illegitimate means, Tasnim reported.
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Where Islamic states were established, left-wing politics was often associated with blasphemy, and outlawed.
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"Bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the American creed," he said.
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Irish voters were also asked to decide whether to remove a constitutional clause banning blasphemy.
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Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.
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Bibi probably didn't even know what blasphemy was when she was accused of committing it.
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In October, the nation voted overwhelmingly to remove a ban on blasphemy from the Constitution.
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Muslims who support such violent or oppressive responses to blasphemy are missing two important points.
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The law minister was forced to resign over the omission, which the protesters considered blasphemy.
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One of his ideas, a tikka masala taco with curry, sounds to Casimiro like blasphemy.
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Blasphemy is a crime in Indonesia, a secular democracy with the world's largest Muslim population.
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Conservative Muslim groups organized several rallies against him, demanding that he be jailed for blasphemy.
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Members of its small Hindu and Christian communities have also sometimes been accused of blasphemy.
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And Preacher is indeed all of that and more (add in heavy helpings of blasphemy).
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This month, the Pakistani Senate's human rights panel said it would debate how to prevent the country's blasphemy laws being applied unfairly, the first time in decades that any parliamentary body had considered a formal proposal to stop the abuse of the blasphemy laws.
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"Blasphemy is a serious crime -- the unusual thing about this case is that it's very clear now that Ahok did not commit blasphemy ... it was misportrayed in the video that was put online and transcribed as Ahok saying that the Quran was wrong," he said.
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Actually, some traditional winemakers have told us that Gïk is a blasphemy or a terrible invention.
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This secular version of blasphemy follows a sacred script, written by those who consider themselves liberals.
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Filled with blasphemy, guts, sex, and heartfelt emotion, The Boys is going to alienate some viewers.
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On the same day voters also opted to repeal Ireland's long-standing constitutional ban on blasphemy.
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Scotland and Northern Ireland are now among the few democratic jurisdictions where blasphemy is still punishable.
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Accusers often level false claims of blasphemy to settle land disputes, and other entirely worldly affairs.
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As Mr Brownback noted, half the people jailed for blasphemy in the world are in Pakistan.
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Suggesting otherwise was blasphemy — and look up Leviticus 24:16 to learn the consequences of that.
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Now Ahok is on trial for blasphemy and Islamic conservative groups are pushing hard against him.
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We'd just finished Infernal Storm, which was a low point, and Blasphemy was totally the opposite.
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Blasphemy is a criminal offence in Muslim-majority Pakistan that can result in the death penalty.
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Even being accused of blasphemy can provoke targeted acts of violence by religious right-wing vigilantes.
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And the country should repeal its vicious blasphemy laws, which are used to attack religious minorities.
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It means that bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the American creed.
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More than 1,200 people have been sentenced to death for blasphemy, but none has been executed.
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The reports document blasphemy and apostasy charges against LGBT advocates and allies in Greece and Sudan.
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Blasphemy is a criminal offence in the strictly Islamic country and can carry the death penalty.
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In the Wahhabi interpretation of sharia, religious crimes including blasphemy and apostasy incur the death penalty.
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Blasphemy is a particularly combustible issue in Pakistan, often leading to violent riots and vigilante justice.
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Ahmadis have been charged with blasphemy for printing a verse of the Quran on wedding invitations.
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The Quran has 6,236 verses, none of which tell the faithful to stifle blasphemy by force.
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"It's not the first time that an artist is accused of blasphemy (in Lebanon)," said Saghieh.
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Worse than that, medieval Muslim jurists invented severe blasphemy laws to punish anyone who insulted Islam.
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"Late last year, Ahok was dead in the water over the blasphemy claim," Mr. Evans said.
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Dozens have been murdered over blasphemy allegations, according to the Center for Research and Security Studies.
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Mr. Taseer had campaigned for changes in the country's blasphemy laws, saying they were used to persecute religious minorities, but to many in Pakistan, the idea of altering the country's blasphemy laws is itself criminal, and Mr. Qadri has become a revered figure to his supporters.
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He was released without charge, but rearrested later and accused of blasphemy and illicit relationships with women.
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You see people no longer talking about the blasphemy case but about wanting to topple the government.
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Pakistan has never executed a person for blasphemy, although alleged blasphemers have been killed by angry mobs.
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In Saudi Arabia and Pakistan anti-blasphemy laws are used to terrorise minorities and settle private scores.
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" He celebrates the idea of "Truth U," a place where "there is no such thing as blasphemy.
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Removing traces of that theocracy, in the form of blasphemy laws, doesn't mean that liberty is safe.
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It is risky even to call for the harsher punishment of people who make false blasphemy allegations.
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The quashing of Ms Bibi's blasphemy sentence by the supreme court had prompted protests from Islamic hardliners.
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The American move, it was explained, reflected the dreadful number of criminal blasphemy cases in that country.
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She had been living on death row since 2010 after being convicted under Pakistan's tough blasphemy laws.
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In the end, the judges went for a jail term under the more serious charge of blasphemy.
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Pakistan has asked Facebook and Twitter to help identify users in violation of its strict blasphemy laws.
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In January, five online activists went missing and were publicly accused of blasphemy while they were absent.
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Then in 1991 a federal religious court ruled that death was the only appropriate punishment for blasphemy.
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It was not a blasphemy law before us—actually, they made this law because of us [laughs].
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Protesters chanted "jail Ahok," and called for him to be detained while the blasphemy case is ongoing.
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At least 67 people have been killed over unproven blasphemy allegations since 1990, according human rights groups.
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The cybercrime wing did not provide data on how many of these were complaints pertain to blasphemy.
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" She continued: "Sometimes I think I will study law and fight for those wrongly accused of blasphemy.
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Ahok's loss at the polls has partly been attributed to blasphemy charges brought against him last year.
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That action even led to calls for him to face the death penalty for blasphemy, Abeid says.
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There is an exuberance to the play of insults, a delight in mockery, a joy in blasphemy.
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Perhaps, yet it creeps equally close to blasphemy; omniscience, after all, is the purview of the divine.
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In Pakistan, Asia Bibi, a Christian woman, is languishing in jail under a death sentence for blasphemy.
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Blasphemy laws were enforced against those who insulted God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, or the Bible.
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Mr. Taseer had angered Islamists by calling for reform of Pakistan's blasphemy laws against insult to Islam.
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Documenting feelings is not blasphemous, and especially not when what constitutes as "blasphemy" is open to interpretation.
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Purnama eventually lost the next election for governorship, was jailed for blasphemy and released earlier this year.
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The blasphemy law prescribes a death sentence for anyone convicted of insulting Islam or the Prophet Muhammad.
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It was twice banned in Jordan after facing accusations of blasphemy and not respecting the country's traditions.
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The court upheld the blasphemy law, but said there was not enough evidence to convict Ms. Bibi.
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That is how blasphemy, apostasy and drunkenness, none of which is penalized in the Quran, became crimes.
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Most notably, throughout all of its 6,236 verses, it never tells Muslims to silence blasphemy with force.
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Asia Bibi, a Christian woman acquitted last week of blasphemy charges and ordered freed, remains in Pakistan.
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Sustained by our history and traditions, we must save ourselves, at whatever risk of heresy or blasphemy.
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The killing prompted nationwide outrage and renewed criticism from human rights groups about the country's blasphemy law.
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Then this week he was handed an especially harsh prison sentence for a dubious charge of blasphemy.
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The National Police have opened a preliminary investigation into the blasphemy allegations and have questioned Mr. Basuki.
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It might seem like impertinence, not to say blasphemy, to suggest that Shakespeare could ever be bettered.
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Widodo, at risk of appearing anti-Islam, distanced himself from Purnama, who was eventually jailed for blasphemy.
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But his poll numbers were substantially higher before October, when his political opponents accused him of blasphemy.
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Then, after a series of what the Scripture calls "false witnesses" testified, he was accused of blasphemy.
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It's surprising that any democratic country currently has a blasphemy law, but Italy isn't the only one.
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They can press blasphemy laws into service, as those of Indonesia, Pakistan and dozens of other countries do.
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Although Mr. Fayadh was released without charge, he was arrested again later and hit with the blasphemy charges.
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Taseer's killer, Mumtaz Qadri, was executed for the assassination, and has become a martyr for the blasphemy hardliners.
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The crime of blasphemy can carry the death penalty, although a death sentence has never been carried out.
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Ahok, an ally of President Joko Widodo, now faces blasphemy charges, with a trial verdict due in March.
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Police investigating complaints of blasphemy against Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, the governor of Jakarta, formally declared him a suspect.
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The governor had spoken out against the blasphemy law that makes insulting Islam a crime punishable by death.
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But Russia is not France, and blasphemy laws under Putin couldn't be more different from those in Paris.
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Mr Rizvi had led demonstrations demanding that Asia Bibi, a Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy, be hanged anyway.
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Shortly after their disappearances, blasphemy allegations against them appeared on social media and in a complaint to police.
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It was unclear exactly what online posting had prompted the blasphemy accusation against Khan, who was studying journalism.
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In 2011, a bodyguard assassinated Punjab provincial governor Salman Taseer after the governor called for reforming blasphemy laws.
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Both ancient rulers Blasphemy and Spanish gore pioneers Wormed were really good, but that's about all I remember.
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Police arrested 57 people accused in the attack and said they had found no evidence Khan committed blasphemy.
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Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, also known as Ahok, has faced demonstrations calling for his ouster amid allegations of blasphemy.
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What follows are ten more in no particular order because ranking Smash Mouth remixes is tantamount to blasphemy.
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Blasphemy is such an effective wedge issue in Pakistan because there is almost no defense against an accusation.
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Lower courts are known to be harsh with those accused of blasphemy, despite inconsistencies in the prosecution's narrative.
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In one post, a teacher wrote about his efforts to discuss the blasphemy law with his journalism students.
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" An angry screed on Canadian site CitizenGo says that the "totally offensive and revolting" shop "[serves] up blasphemy.
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Metaphysics was far from the safe activity it is today, and was often condemned as blasphemy or heresy.
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The Islamists had executed his friend Abdullah by pushing him from a tall building, accusing him of blasphemy.
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His attack on a Gold Star mother was a moral blasphemy that cannot be defended, explained or forgiven.
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"He (Hamid) has insulted the blasphemy laws, the punishment for which is death," said one of the lawyers.
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It also led the government to back down and accept the resignation of a minister accused of blasphemy.
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She was dragged to a local police station and charged with blasphemy, and until Wednesday remained in jail.
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Members of Poland's government accused the theater of insulting the Catholic Church, and prosecutors opened a blasphemy investigation.
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At least 75 people were killed over that period in cases involving accusations of blasphemy, the group said.
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Neither of Mr. Basuki's rivals publicly questioned the blasphemy accusation, instead forging alliances of convenience with the radicals.
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"Bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the American creed," Bush said in his remarks.
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At one point it was so blatant, I actually said to myself, I was like, 'Is this blasphemy?
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A civil court found the Christian governor of the capital, Jakarta, guilty of blasphemy against Islam in May.
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But if you're not sensitive about language and blasphemy, you might want to look into this fabulous comedy.
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Mr. Basuki, known as Ahok, is charged with violating blasphemy laws during a speech to fishermen in September.
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He supports the blasphemy law and has defended the justice system adopted by the Taliban from Pashtun tribes.
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Blasphemy is a highly combustible issue in Pakistan, where mere allegations can set off violence and mass riots.
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On Sunday, Santander Cultural unilaterally shut down Queermuseum after conservative critics accused it of promoting blasphemy and pedophilia.
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Pakistan A Christian woman in Pakistan is free after spending eight years on death row on blasphemy charges.
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Now that the prime minister himself is in the righteous's sight — protecting a blasphemer may be even graver blasphemy — and a man even more powerful than him, Bajwa, has been declared kafir, an infidel, one can only hope their respective institutions won't use the blasphemy card against their perceived enemies.
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" To quote a 2016 Amnesty International report, "As Good as Dead: The impact of blasphemy laws in Pakistan," once an individual is accused of blasphemy, "they become ensnared in a system that offers them few protections, presumes them guilty, and fails to safeguard them against people willing to use violence.
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He has denied wrongdoing, but is on trial for blasphemy in a case that some view as politically motivated.
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Despite apologizing, the politician is being investigated by police and now faces potential charges of blasphemy amid national unrest.
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Ahok is currently on trial for blasphemy after referencing a verse from the Koran while on the campaign trail.
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But we kept on, because we understood that skipping out on good Beyoncé tickets was a form of blasphemy.
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A resolution to exempt blasphemy from free-speech protections was fended off against the wishes of the Like-Minded.
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Already, they are calling for schools to be segregated by sex and for a blasphemy law to be adopted.
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The Irish government has approved preparing a bill to remove blasphemy as part of a commitment to constitutional reforms.
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Khan came under fire this month for defending the country's draconian blasphemy laws, which can warrant the death penalty.
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Critics of Pakistan's blasphemy laws say they have long been used by individuals and religious groups to settle disputes.
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A 30-year-old man in Pakistan has been sentenced to death for blasphemy in comments made on Facebook.
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I mean, the specific differences between Islam, its doctrine of jihad, its doctrines around apostasy and blasphemy and martyrdom.
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A couple of days earlier, however, Austria's remarkably restrictive blasphemy law was reinforced by a verdict from the ECHR.
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On October 31st the Supreme Court overturned the verdict of the lower courts and acquitted Ms Asia of blasphemy.
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In May, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority sent millions of citizens a text message warning them against sharing blasphemy online.
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There were 91 blasphemy cases concerning the Prophet or his companions registered between 2011 and 2015, the report said.
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The group blames the minister, Zahid Hamid, for changes to an electoral oath that it says amounts to blasphemy.
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Shortly after the activists' disappearances, blasphemy allegations against them appeared on social media and in a complaint to police.
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In the scientific world and in the world of international liberal groupthink (but I repeat myself), this is blasphemy.
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And I know that made you want to toss your laptop into the ocean in response to my blasphemy.
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Pakistan's three-judge Supreme Court ruled that it could not find "very strict proofs of blasphemy," the AP reported.
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Purnama faces trial on a charge of blasphemy that is expected to begin next week, a court official said.
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The government had stated that the issue was a misunderstanding and they never planned to change the blasphemy laws.
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Are you sick of reading about religion, blasphemy, kafir, and Flat Earth Theories every time you log on Facebook?
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Attacked by clerics for blasphemy, he died after his right, working arm was amputated and his tongue cut off.
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They said they would not be mollified until Pakistan institutes Shariah law and executes all people charged with blasphemy.
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Blasphemy against Islam is punishable by death in Pakistan, and the mere rumor has caused lynchings in the past.
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Blasphemy is a highly combustible subject in Pakistan, with emotions flaring over mere rumors that Islam has been insulted.
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And without being outraged or quick to accuse me of "blasphemy," know, too, that I am a hopeful monotheist.
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It was the first time anyone has been given the death penalty for blasphemy on social media in Pakistan.
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Critics contend that the country's blasphemy law has been used to settle personal disputes and has worsened interfaith relations.
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A subsequent investigation concluded that the blasphemy allegations against Mr. Khan were baseless and that his murder was premeditated.
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If there's one constant in post-Departure world of "The Leftovers," it's that orthodoxy and blasphemy are outmoded concepts.
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Bibi was acquitted of the blasphemy conviction last year and has since been living with her family in Canada.
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The amendment sought to replace a religious oath with a simple declaration, which Tehreek-e-Labaik said was blasphemy.
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Denmark is one of only five countries in the European Union that has a blasphemy law on the books.
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Under pressure, the police charged Mr. Basuki with blasphemy; his trial opened in December, even as he was campaigning.
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No executions for blasphemy have been carried out in Pakistan but enraged mobs sometimes kill people accused of it.
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Mr. Basuki was later sentenced to two years in prison for blasphemy after making comments deemed insulting to Islam.
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People have accused the artwork of being offensive as well as harmful to children, citing blasphemy, pedophilia, and bestiality.
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To suggest that "N----- in Paris" is second to "HAM" in any way is simply blasphemy at the highest level.
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Purnama is on trial for blasphemy over comments he made about his opponents' use of the Koran in political campaigning.
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Bibi's plight had drawn support worldwide from Christians, human rights groups, atheists and critics of Islam and blasphemy laws alike.
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Two prominent liberal politicians in Pakistan were assassinated for defending her and calling for reform of the country's blasphemy laws.
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He had ignited a series of highly charged protests for purportedly insulting Islam and was later found guilty of blasphemy.
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In 2011, a Pakistani governor, Salman Taseer, was assassinated by his bodyguard after calling for reform of the blasphemy laws.
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There will be few practical consequences—no-one has been prosecuted for blasphemy in Ireland's history as an independent state.
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Then came blasphemy charges that the police, under public pressure, eventually lodged against Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, usually known as Ahok.
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But when they said they wanted to do it to stop blasphemy against our beloved prophet, the masses supported them.
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I arrive and find out that the laundromat has raised the price of washing and drying by a dollar. Blasphemy!
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It also cites reports from human rights groups that 40 people are on death row in Pakistan for committing blasphemy.
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Pakistan and Egypt were among the countries found to be using blasphemy laws as a form of anti-minority oppression.
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Authorities in Pakistan have already identified 11 people suspected of blasphemy and would seek the extradition of anyone living abroad.
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Or, to put it in a slightly more idiosyncratic way, would it be botanical blasphemy to gene-edit an heirloom?
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The blasphemy that this group and its supporters have perpetrated is so horrendous that it will take years to fix.
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Others' families said right-wing and Islamist parties had filed blasphemy accusations against them to punish them for critical writings.
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This was the other, more tenuous link between them: They had all been accused of committing blasphemy on the internet.
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Social media platforms were also unlikely to cooperate, invoking privacy and free speech laws when it comes to blasphemy cases.
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"Regimes change but (the) blasphemy law has always been used by majority groups to discriminate or criminalize others," Afrianty said.
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Qadri said he had killed the liberal-minded Taseer because of the governor's stance against the country's harsh blasphemy laws.
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After running for 26 days, it was prematurely shut down when conservatives accused the exhibit of promoting blasphemy and pedophilia.
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The ensuing outcry led to blasphemy charges against the owner of Geo TV and the show's male and female hosts.
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Last week, Khan warned he would close social media sites that fail to prevent online blasphemy, but gave no details.
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In 2011, a bodyguard assassinated Punjab provincial governor Salman Taseer after he called for the blasphemy laws to be reformed.
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A mob beat a Pakistani university student to death Thursday after he was accused of spreading blasphemy on social media.
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In a separate ballot, about 65 percent of voters, or 951,650 people, chose to abolish a constitutional ban on blasphemy.
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Indian law prohibits blasphemy only in certain conditions, Ms. Arun said, such as when the speaker intends to inflame violence.
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There's a literature professor, Junaid Hafeez, who has been in jail for the last five years facing bogus blasphemy charges.
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As a lawyer, he represented the conservative Christian activist Mary Whitehouse when she accused the magazine Gay News of blasphemy.
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In October, Irish citizens will vote in a referendum on whether the blasphemy clause should be stripped from the Constitution.
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In 2010 she was convicted and sentenced to death, the first woman ever sent to Pakistan's death row for blasphemy.
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A curse implies damning or punishing someone, while a swear word suggests blasphemy — invoking a deity to empower your words.
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Insulting the Prophet Mohammad is punishable by death in Pakistan and even a rumor of blasphemy can spark mob violence.
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"The conservative Islamic vote is clearly with Anies, so those who believe Ahok has committed blasphemy are clearly with Anies."
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Rights groups say the blasphemy law is often exploited by religious hardliners as well as ordinary Pakistanis to settle scores.
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When a group of five liberal activists went missing earlier this year, they were accused by religious hardliners of blasphemy.
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"Bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the American creed," Bush said in his remarks on Thursday.
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The violence stifled debate on Pakistan's draconian blasphemy law, which critics say is often abused and unfairly targets religious minorities.
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Now, a far-right group that accuses the comedians of "blasphemy" says it has firebombed the Porta dos Fundos offices.
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Another provision expands the current blasphemy law and maintains the maximum five-year prison term, according to Human Rights Watch.
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Religious minorities comprise only 3 percent of Pakistan's population, but they account for more than half the country's alleged blasphemy cases.
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In the dozens of blasphemy cases to go to trial since 2004 the defendant has always been convicted, Mr Harsono notes.
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In recent days, the missing activists have been accused of blasphemy in online posts and by at least three television commentators.
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Rights groups say the blasphemy law is increasingly exploited by religious extremists as well as ordinary Pakistanis to settle personal scores.
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The law does not define blasphemy and evidence might not be reproduced in court for fear of committing a fresh offence.
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In the eyes of Huma Yusuf, a columnist, blasphemy-related violence is now a more intractable problem in Pakistan than terrorism.
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A total of 22014 crimes can lead to a death sentence, ranging from murder, treason, kidnap and drug smuggling to blasphemy.
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Senior members of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the country's largest moderate Muslim organization, have said her remarks should not be considered blasphemy.
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Since childhood they have been told that the Greek monopoly on the word Macedonia is sacrosanct: watering it down is blasphemy.
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BLASPHEMY laws, in the sense of laws that penalise speech or acts that disrespect God or the sacred, are "astonishingly widespread".
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I'll give you a clue: she's been officially accused of blasphemy by the Vatican, so you know she's a real one.
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By comparison, the country's biggest moderate Muslim organisation, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), barely mentions the blasphemy case on its social media pages.
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But when faced with "provocation", the authorities prefer not to allege blasphemy but instead to stretch the meaning of hate speech.
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Rights activists in Pakistan are nearly unanimous in noting the chilling effect blasphemy has had on debate, both online and offline.
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She had been sentenced to death under Pakistan's infamous blasphemy law that bans disrespect towards the Prophet and other "holy personages".
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I had no idea Piss Christ would get the attention it did, since I meant neither blasphemy nor offense by it.
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The law does not define blasphemy and evidence might not be reproduced in court for fear of committing a fresh offense.
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But the most perverse judgments arise from an unholy hybrid of antiquated British rules and Islamic law: the law against blasphemy.
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Successful revivals usually have an element of blasphemy, as with Chanel, universally held up as a house that did it right.
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You gotta hear his comparison of the Mickey Mouse Club alums ... 'cause it's straight up blasphemy, if you're a JT fan.
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In the United States, six states still have old blasphemy laws, but no case would conceivably survive against the First Amendment.
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A Danish man, for example, was charged with blasphemy in February 2017 for posting a video showing him burning a Quran.
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It might be more useful to go after these blasphemy laws that seem to be turning all of us into blasphemers.
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While it was critically acclaimed onstage, it prompted protests and even a blasphemy lawsuit when it aired on BBC2 in 2005.
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In 2017, a former political protégé of his was jailed for what human rights activists considered trumped-up charges of blasphemy.
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"The forensic report of his mobile phone showed that he had committed blasphemy in at least 3,000 posts," Mr. Qureshi said.
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This year, the country's interior minister asked Facebook to identify people suspected of committing blasphemy so that they could be prosecuted.
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An earlier death sentence for blasphemy against the 61-year old Mr. Taheri was overturned in 2014 by an appeals court.
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Still, Imran Khan has also invoked the blasphemy controversy in campaign speeches, defending such language in a recent interview with Reuters.
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Qadri was convicted for the 2011 murder of governor Salman Taseer, who was defending a Christian woman jailed on blasphemy charges.
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The infiltration of the armed forces by Islamist militants has long been a dangerous topic; the country's blasphemy laws are another.
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That's what made Trump's marked-on map such a blasphemy: It attacked, on a fundamental level, truth, science and public trust.
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But it also has harsh punishments, including stoning and even burning to death, for crimes such as adultery, blasphemy and idolatry.
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But this summer it staged a drama involving accusations of blasphemy, threats of bloodshed and an intervention by the security services.
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Last year, Mr. Basuki was charged with blasphemy for speaking of that verse in a way that some viewed as disrespectful.
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Blasphemy carries the death penalty in Pakistan, and accusations often lead to lynching and other forms of violence against those accused.
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The principal had been taken into protective custody and police were investigating both the alleged blasphemy and the rioters, he added.
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Sharif's tough talk against blasphemy will appeal to his conservative voter base ahead of elections likely to take place next year.
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The groups claim that Governor Basuki Tjahja Purnama, popularly known as "Ahok", had insulted the Koran and was guilty of blasphemy.
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Blasphemy cases were rare during former strongman president Suharto's 32-year reign, when there was little tolerance for hardline religious groups.
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More than 0003 members have been convicted on blasphemy charges over the last decade, including 11 who spent time in prison.
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A Christian woman spent eight years on death row falsely charged with blasphemy before she was acquitted and left the country.
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The injustice of Pakistan's blasphemy laws, used frequently to persecute religious minorities, has been criticized by human rights advocates for decades.
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More than 100 people are charged with blasphemy each year in predominantly Muslim Pakistan, many of them Christians and other minorities.
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Organizations like UAAR and the International Humanist and Ethical Union are campaigning for governmental secularism and an end to blasphemy laws.
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Blasphemy convictions against those perceived to have offended Islam have increased since Sisi became president, and pervasive discrimination against Coptic Christians continues.
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After recently admitting he has never tried toasted marshmallows (blasphemy!), Prince Harry says he has sworn off another comfort food too (treachery!).
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Asia Bibi Asia Bibi -- the Pakistani Christian woman who was once on death row after a blasphemy conviction -- has relocated to Canada.
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He is also on trial over allegations of blasphemy after an edited video of his comments about the Quran triggered large demonstrations.
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And in 2011, in a highly publicized case, Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian mother of five, was sentenced to death for blasphemy.
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Blasphemy law protests erupt Protests erupted again Sunday, almost a month after a former bodyguard who assassinated a moderate politician was executed.
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"The United States unequivocally condemns the application of the death penalty for conduct such as homosexuality, blasphemy, adultery and apostasy," Nauert said.
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Asia Bibi, a mother of four, in 2010 became the first woman to be sentenced to death under Pakistan's draconian blasphemy laws.
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New Zealand also abolished its virtually dormant blasphemy law in March; it was the seventh democracy to take this step since 2015.
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After the blasphemy referendum, a vote on a controversial reference in the constitution to a "woman's life within the home" is likely.
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The writer was released on bail but charged with contempt of religion and inflaming religious tension under the country's strict blasphemy laws.
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Beginning April 3, those found guilty of same-sex relations, adultery, sodomy, rape, and blasphemy, will be whipped and stoned to death.
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Blasphemy claims Conservative Islamist opponents say that Ahok, who is a Christian of Chinese descent, should not administer a Muslim-majority city.
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Religious minorities comprise only about 3 percent of Pakistan's population, but they account for more than half the country's alleged blasphemy cases.
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The Indonesia Ulema Council (MUI), a circle of the religious elite, insists that he committed blasphemy by insulting the Muslim holy book.
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That comment triggered mass demonstrations, which were spearheaded by the FPI, and the blasphemy case against the ethnic Chinese and Christian governor.
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Frenzied mobs have gone on rampages and killed people at the mere suggestion that at an act of blasphemy has been committed.
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The old British bans on blasphemy, later inherited by independent Pakistan, were also introduced in a pragmatic spirit, designed to keep order.
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Blasphemy convictions in Indonesia can carry a jail term of up to five years and such charges nearly always result in conviction.
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For that reason, say critics, blasphemy laws are often invoked to settle personal scores and to intimidate liberal journalists, lawyers and politicians.
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The thought of darting from person to person with conversation-starters suddenly feels like blasphemy, when everyone is frozen in silent introspection.
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A blasphemy case was registered against the show hosts and the television network, Geo, and Mr. Sabri was named in the complaint.
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Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama is in on trial for blasphemy, but remains one of the frontrunners in next month's governor election.
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She's accused of blasphemy, inciting violence, and corrupting youth on social media as well as obtaining money through illegitimate means, Tasnim said.
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It brought hundreds of thousands of protesters onto the streets in several mass demonstrations before Purnama was put on trial for blasphemy.
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Controversy over the blasphemy law has exposed the growing gap between hard-line religious conservatives and liberals in the South Asian country.
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At least 65 people have been murdered over blasphemy allegations since 1990, according to a Center for Research and Security Studies report.
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In the Qur'an, there is no explicit mention of a worldly punishment for blasphemy, as there is for offenses such as apostasy.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian authorities said on Wednesday they had banned Chinese video app Tik Tok for containing "pornography, inappropriate content and blasphemy".
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Pakistan's Supreme Court on Wednesday fully acquitted her and ordered her "released forthwith," in an exceptionally rare ruling against a blasphemy verdict.
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That the good guy was in fact one of the bad guys struck characters and even fans as a kind of blasphemy.
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The few instances when blasphemy laws have been enforced in the West have arisen from attempts to police hostilities between religious communities.
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One outspoken critic of the blasphemy law was Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab Province at the time of Ms. Bibi's conviction.
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Her high-profile case had thrown a global spotlight on concerns that the blasphemy law was being misused to persecute religious minorities.
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David Quinn, a spokesman for the Iona Institute, a conservative Christian policy group, said he had long favored removing the blasphemy clause.
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And among nations like Pakistan, Iran, Sudan and Saudi Arabia, Ms. Bibi is only one of the many victims of blasphemy laws.
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And all Muslims of good faith should stand up more forcefully for people like Asia Bibi, who is falsely accused of blasphemy.
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The woman, Asia Bibi, was convicted in 2010 on little evidence of violating Pakistan's law against blasphemy by insulting the Prophet Muhammad.
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If the Almighty had decided that someone would be smitten by smallpox, then any attempt to subvert this divine intention was blasphemy.
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Mr. Basuki was charged with blasphemy and lost the April 2017 runoff election to Anies Baswedan, a member of Mr. Prabowo's party.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — An antiterrorism court in Pakistan has sentenced a Shiite man to death for committing blasphemy in posts on social media.
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Additionally, it would have restricted free speech by making it a crime to insult the president and strengthening blasphemy and treason laws.
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On Tuesday, he had dropped his appeal of a conviction for blasphemy, for which he was sentenced to two years in prison.
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It also would restrict free speech by strengthening laws on blasphemy and treason and making it a crime to insult the president.
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"That's the problem with the blasphemy law," said Bivitri Susanti, head of the Jakarta chapter of Indonesia's Association of Constitutional Law Lecturers.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Saturday sentenced a liberal scholar and former university lecturer to death on blasphemy charges.
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Then he singled out a number of Pakistani journalists who had spoken out for the missing, and accused them, too, of blasphemy.
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Never mind that when one journalist accuses another of blasphemy, he only exposes himself more to being targeted for the same thing.
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Even a rumor of blasphemy can spark mob violence, as in the case of a university student beaten to death in April.
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The account prompted a flurry of criticism on social media in the country, with some accusing the artist of pornography or blasphemy.
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Everyone around him is horrified at this "one real blasphemy — the refusal of joy," even as one of his friends is dying.
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While Basuki later apologized for his remarks, he's been charged with violating blasphemy laws, and has prompted mass protests in November and December.
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In Myanmar, journalists are under attack for "violating the Official Secrets Act", and in Pakistan, blasphemy laws have motivated mob violence against artists.
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A clear message must now go out that the blasphemy laws will no longer be used to persecute Pakistan's long-suffering religious minorities.
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In 2014, Jamshed was investigated for blasphemy after he was caught on camera allegedly insulting one of Prophet Mohammed's wives, the BBC reported.
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Inside, a panel of five judges had just handed Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, the governor of Jakarta, a two-year prison sentence for blasphemy.
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They often wield the threat of a blasphemy allegation in order to browbeat university departments into scrapping courses in music or comparative religion.
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Arya, who became an assassin and saved the entire world from ice monsters, doesn't even have "the best story," according to Tyrion. Blasphemy!
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More than 100 people are charged with blasphemy and jailed each year in predominantly Muslim Pakistan, many of them Christians and other minorities.
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Basuki Tjahaja Purnama was later jailed for two years for blasphemy, a sentence rights groups and international bodies condemned as unfair and politicized.
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When they saw that blasphemy in print, they took to Ayyadurai's Wikipedia page, wrote letters of complaint, and debated as only geeks can.
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Homosexuality isn't illegal in Egypt so authorities in the conservative country instead arrest gay people for crimes such as debauchery, immorality, and blasphemy.
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But some pumpkin spice sticklers think it's blasphemy to drink a PSL while it's still warm outside, no matter what day it is.
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When a close political ally, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok), the governor of Jakarta, was maliciously accused of blasphemy, Jokowi did not defend him.
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At the other extreme came Ireland, which introduced a new blasphemy law in 2009 on the grounds that the constitution required such legislation.
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Many European states have blasphemy laws on the statute book, designed to protect established or privileged churches, but they are hardly ever invoked.
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Although having a state religion was permitted in international law, the research showed a correlation between such regimes and harshly enforced blasphemy laws.
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Ahmadis are not allowed to call themselves Muslim or use Islamic symbols in their religious practices, a crime punishable under Pakistan's blasphemy laws.
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Rights activists objected: The state, they said, was using the tinderbox issue of blasphemy as a means of quashing all sorts of dissent.
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Salman Taseer, was assassinated in January 2011 after speaking out against a blasphemy law that makes insulting Islam a crime punishable by death.
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Questions surround the future of Indonesia's reputation for tolerance after the conviction of the Christian Chinese governor of Jakarta on blasphemy charges yesterday.
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Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, popularly known as Ahok, was sentenced to two years in prison after courts found the him guilty of blasphemy yesterday.
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The government convicted and imprisoned people on charges of apostasy, blasphemy, violating Islamic values and moral standards, insulting Islam, black magic and sorcery.
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Islamic State militants have claimed responsibility for Mr. Joarder's killing, citing the tailor's blasphemy, according to SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist websites.
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A spokesman for the hardline Islamist movement Sunni Tehreek said it was demanding police in Lahore charge Shaan Taseer with blasphemy against Islam.
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If he wins the election but is convicted of blasphemy, Purnama can assume office as long as an appeals process is going on.
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Qadri allegedly killed Taseer because the governor spoke out against the country's blasphemy law, which makes insulting Islam a crime punishable by death.
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It essentially began as blasphemy — it depicted a battle between Santa Claus and Jesus — and it has offended pretty much every major religion.
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They can press blasphemy laws into service… they can twist the media to their will… or they can simply ban speech they dislike.
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The changes prompted accusations of blasphemy from religious parties and the government retreated, apologizing in parliament for what it called a "clerical" mistake.
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It was a landmark decision for Pakistan, where the law is frequently unkind to religious minorities, and particularly to those accused of blasphemy.
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The government in June announced plans to hold a referendum to remove the offense of blasphemy from its constitution on the same day.
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He confessed to the authorities immediately and proudly, suggesting that he had killed Mr. Taseer specifically because of the governor's stance on blasphemy.
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Religious minorities are especially vulnerable to such accusations, and people who have advocated for changes in the blasphemy law have met with violence.
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The embattled law minister, Zahid Hamid, whom protesters had accused of blasphemy, resigned as part of negotiations overseen by Pakistan's military, officials said.
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The country's embattled law minister will step down to satisfy the protesters' accusations that his rewording of an oath of office constituted blasphemy.
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But for this very reason they continue to haunt the present in disavowed ways that include the charge of blasphemy against Ms. Bibi.
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Bibi was convicted of blasphemy in 2010 and, after what her lawyers called a forced confession, was sentenced to death by one court.
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As their disappearance lasted, some people on social media and TV anchors close to the army started accusing them of having committed blasphemy.
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Insulting the Prophet Mohammed is punishable with death under Pakistani law, although no one has ever been executed in the country for blasphemy.
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Hindus and Muslims have lived relatively peacefully for centuries in Mirpur Khas, officials said, and they described the alleged blasphemy as an aberration.
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And internationally, he said, the wording of Ireland's law has been taken up by Islamic states seeking to justify their own blasphemy laws.
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Today, Pakistan's liberals, most of whom are faithful Muslims, are referring to such sources in the Islamic tradition to argue against blasphemy laws.
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On the other hand, my own reaction, walking through the show, is that you have to seek out the blasphemy to find it.
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Blasphemy remains a highly contentious issue in Pakistan, where mere allegations of the offense can lead to violence and killings by vigilante mobs.
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The city's current mayor won re-election despite an unflattering photo of himself doing blasphemy to pizza by eating it with a fork.
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Ahok, who is ethnic Chinese and Christian, wasn't re-elected in April and then was sentenced to two years in prison for blasphemy.
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Mr. Basuki apologized publicly months ago for any offense caused, but he has steadfastly denied that he insulted the Quran or committed blasphemy.
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"We can only hope that (the Asia Bibi case) becomes a watershed moment when it comes to blasphemy laws in Pakistan," Mehmood said.
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The activists, one of whom claimed to have been tortured by a state institution linked to the military, denied the accusations of blasphemy.
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The group has had a history of vigilante attacks and raising complaints of blasphemy against religious minorities since it was formed in 1999.
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He now expresses sympathy for the Taliban and for Pakistan's harsh blasphemy laws, which include the death penalty, positions that play well domestically.
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Insulting Islam's prophet is punishable by death under Pakistani law, and blasphemy accusations stir such emotions that they are difficult to defend against.
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The government repeatedly prosecuted Grosz, his publisher, and the galleries that exhibited his work for insulting the army, for obscenity, and for blasphemy.
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They said they were held by the ISI, tortured and threatened with blasphemy charges, which are punishable by death and can incite mob violence.
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Ahmadis are members of a sect which regards itself as Islamic but who are not allowed to call themselves Muslim under Pakistan's blasphemy laws.
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Indonesia's blasphemy law is worryingly woolly, allowing courts to punish words or actions deemed "hostile" to religion by up to five years in prison.
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More than ten thousand protestors camped in front of Pakistan's parliament demanding the execution of Asia Bibi and no changes in the blasphemy laws.
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Insulting Islam's prophet is punishable by death under Pakistani law, and blasphemy accusations stir such emotions that they are almost impossible to defend against.
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In November, TLP staged a crippling blockade of the capital after a tweak to a religious oath, which it claims was tantamount to blasphemy.
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Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered the release of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who has spent nine years in prison on flimsy charges of blasphemy.
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On the other hand, the case may yet turn out to be a last gasp for the application of blasphemy laws in western Europe.
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After all, it seriously appeared USA Network's sleeper summer hit The Sinner would wrap after a single, dazzling, eight-episode season in 2017. Blasphemy.
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He has made a start by standing up to demagogues baying for the death of Asia Bibi, a Christian labourer falsely accused of blasphemy.
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It identified 71 countries that punished blasphemy—two of which, Denmark and Malta, repealed their laws very recently—and ranked them according to severity.
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He denies blasphemy, but has apologized for comments made during a speech in September about his opponents' use of the Koran in political campaigning.
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The laws, which carry an automatic death sentence, sometimes have incited mobs against entire neighborhoods at the merest suggestion that blasphemy has been committed.
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But the idea of honouring individuals who take it upon themselves to liquidate blasphemers, or those who are soft on blasphemy, is nothing new.
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Things only became worse: Pamphlets appeared outside their mosque, calling for Ahmed's head to be chopped off as punishment for his father's alleged blasphemy.
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Salman Taseer in January 2011 after the governor had spoken out against the blasphemy law that makes insulting Islam a crime punishable by death.
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Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab, who defended Ms Bibi and railed against the blasphemy laws, was murdered by his own bodyguard in 2011.
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Blasphemy. Season 6, episode six of Game of Thrones introduced television viewers to Randyll Tarly, fat-shamer, Wildling-hater and father to Samwell Tarly.
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At least 65 others have been murdered over blasphemy allegations since 1990, figures from the Center for Research and Security Studies and media show.
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The hardliners have called for mass protests if police do not charge activist Shaan Taseer with blasphemy against Islam - a crime punishable by death.
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It's been 10 days since Asia Bibi, a Catholic woman, was acquitted on charges of blasphemy by Pakistan's Supreme Court on the October 31.
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According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, at least forty other people are reportedly on death row or serving life sentences for blasphemy.
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Tabar was arrested October 5 on several charges including blasphemy, corrupting the youth and obtaining money through illegitimate means, according to Tasnim news agency.
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I performed rituals of blasphemy like renouncing the Holy Trinity, some of them drawn from LaVey and some from the world of traditional witchcraft.
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" Mr. Waraich added, "The message must go out that the blasphemy laws will no longer be used to persecute the country's most vulnerable minorities.
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I learned from another recent headline that a district court near Lahore, in eastern Pakistan, had sentenced three Ahmadi men to death for blasphemy.
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It also decriminalized apostasy and penalized blasphemy, or "interference with religious privileges," with only "imprisonment of from one week to three months" (Article 132).
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The Saudis, jealous of their claim as guardians of Islam, caught wind of the allegations of blasphemy in the novel soon after its publication.
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Labaik supporters have spread their hardline message, including the notion that those who commit blasphemy against Islam should be killed, through mosques and seminaries.
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Mr. Basuki remains popular with middle-class Jakartans of all ethnicities and has rebounded in the polls since being charged with blasphemy in November.
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Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN)Pakistan's Supreme Court has acquitted a Christian woman who has been on death row for almost eight years on blasphemy charges.
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Muslim groups have accused Purnama of blasphemy after he said his opponents had deceived voters by attacking him using a verse from the Koran.
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Once accused of blasphemy you can't really ward that off: How do you defend yourself against a charge that can't be repeated in public?
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In 2014, gunmen barged into the office of Rashid Rehman, a human rights lawyer who had been representing another blasphemy suspect, and killed him.
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It may be blasphemy to say this, but it's true: on Wretch, Simon et al have managed to out-Saint Vitus Saint Vitus themselves.
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Assertion by a Muslim witness that blasphemy was committed is sufficient for filing of charges and arrest of a suspect -- even without corroborating evidence.
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The governor was a vocal critic of Pakistan's harsh blasphemy laws, which stipulate a mandatory death sentence for anyone who insults the Prophet Muhammad.
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Blasphemy, "Brave New World" and "The Boys from Brazil", a story about efforts to clone Adolf Hitler, all added to the brew—and the backlash.
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Clashes between Islamic hardliners and police have been reported after Pakistan's Supreme Court quashed the conviction of a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy.
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For nearly six months Ahok has spent every Tuesday in court, with conviction a genuine threat: very few of those charged with blasphemy are acquitted.
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A liberal lecturer at Bahauddin Zakariya University in the city of Multan was accused of blasphemy in 2013 by Islamist undergraduates; he remains in jail.
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And according to Human Rights Watch, police have conducted arbitrary and unlawful raids on private LGBT gatherings, while people continue to be imprisoned for blasphemy.
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If you're the first type, then you definitely care about things like lag and frame rates, and this post will read as blasphemy to you.
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The fact that her country maintained a blasphemy law, however soft and little-used, weakened Europe's hand in dialogue with other parts of the world.
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Those who dare to advocate for the full legal equality of non-Muslims, women and disfavored Muslim sects are vulnerable to criminal punishment for blasphemy.
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The magazine ran the contest to protest against what it described as Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's abuse of blasphemy laws to block criticism of himself.
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Pakistan Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said in March "nothing can be greater than our religion to us" in stopping blasphemy on the internet.
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Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN)A Pakistani teenager cut off his hand after a Muslim cleric wrongly accused him of blasphemy, a local police chief told CNN.
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The alterations prompted accusations of blasphemy from the religious right and the government quickly retreated, terming the change a "clerical" mistake and apologizing in parliament.
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The next month, Mashal Khan was accused of online blasphemy and beaten to death by fellow students and religious activists as onlookers filmed the scene.
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Learning of the Labaik party's gains a few days later only made him more pessimistic about the government's ability to stop abuse of blasphemy accusations.
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It was not until a local newspaper, Ummat, began publishing articles about the case that Asma first understood her husband had been accused of blasphemy.
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When he was buffeted by the blasphemy allegations and Jakarta convulsed by mass protests, his poll ratings plummeted and Agus Yudhoyono emerged as the frontrunner.
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The reason I like Blasphemy the best is that at the time, death metal was at a low—power and symphonic black metal was popular.
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In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris in January 2015, Iceland's Pirate Party successfully proposed a repeal of the country's blasphemy laws.
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Pakistan's religious and political elites almost universally keep clear of debating blasphemy laws in a country where criticism of Islam is a highly sensitive subject.
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The ruling PML-N party's tough talk against blasphemy will appeal to its conservative voter base ahead of elections likely to take place next year.
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"The aim of the blasphemy laws is crush people who believe differently," Archbishop Nunzio Galantino, secretary-general of the Italian bishops conference, told the gathering.
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The police report did reference the Christmas message and opened an investigation the blasphemy laws' Section 295-A, which bans hate speech against any religion.
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However, Sunni Tehreek has threatened mass street protests unless the younger Taseer is charged under Section 295-C - blasphemy against Islam or the Prophet Mohammad.
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The party, made up of a group including artists and computer hackers, supports a 35-hour workweek, relaxed drug regulations and the legalization of blasphemy.
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Accusations of blasphemy For more than two weeks, the protesters had focused their ire on a proposed legislative change they claimed would soften electoral laws.
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Thrash took the grandiosity of metal, replaced chivalry and bad-boy posturing with punk's societal dread and in-your-face blasphemy, and kicked everyone's ass.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia — Tens of thousands of Indonesians marched in Jakarta on Friday, demanding that the city's first Christian governor in decades be jailed for blasphemy.
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The law minister denied the blasphemy charge, even releasing a video in which he emphatically stated that he believed that Muhammad was God's final prophet.
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Later, an incorrectly subtitled video of the comments went viral, eventually leading to his defeat at the polls and his imprisonment on charges of blasphemy.
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But the charge of blasphemy was soon being leveled by even the most acceptable of Muslims against one another, often for petty and personal reasons.
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Rights groups have called for Ms. Bibi's release and criticized the blasphemy law, saying it has been used to settle scores or abuse religious minorities.
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Although nobody has actually been hanged by the state for blasphemy so far, the mere accusation can be an open invitation to kill the accused.
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The original verdict convicting Ms. Bibi drew worldwide condemnation and calls for overturning Pakistan's contentious blasphemy law, which was passed under the military dictator Gen.
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But Ms. Grande's attitude is post-Madonna; it's not a matter of blasphemy and taboo-breaking anymore, just an announcement of what she's entitled to.
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They proclaimed that Saudi religious courts should have been the ones to try and sentence Rushdie for blasphemy in absentia — not some upstart Persian pretender.
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Today such imprecations cause barely a batted eyelash (even if high-profile cases of perceived blasphemy still rile the devout in places such as Russia).
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But even as the group argues that anti-blasphemy laws undercut free speech, it wants to stop imams from advocating Shariah law, among other things.
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Mr. Basuki was accused of blasphemy after he lightheartedly cited a Quran verse in September that warns Muslims against taking Christians and Jews as friends.
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The violence erupted in the southern province of Sindh after a student accused the Hindu principal of blasphemy in comments about the Muslim Prophet Mohammad.
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The Center for Social Justice, a rights group, says at least 1,549 people have faced blasphemy charges since 1987 and 75 of them were murdered.
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Encroaching death gives some of Seidel's blasphemy a kind of ballsy élan, as he puts his mortal money where his outrageous mouth has always been.
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Mr. Basuki wasn't just defeated in the election; Mr. Anies's supporters also succeeded in sending Mr. Basuki to prison on charges of blasphemy against Islam.
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The new sentence, made public on Tuesday, reversed the one handed down in November when Mr. Fayadh was convicted of blasphemy and illicit relationships with women.
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Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN)Indonesian police have confirmed that they are investigating the Christian governor of Jakarta for blasphemy in a case that previously triggered mass protests.
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One fake news story has even led to a politician facing charges of blasphemy as a result of an incorrectly subtitled video going viral on Facebook.
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Her cause has rallied opponents of blasphemy laws worldwide, and proved a flashpoint in Pakistan, where two politicians have been killed for expressing support for Bibi.
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The governor, popularly known as Ahok, was accused of blasphemy last year after referencing a verse from the Koran while campaigning and a trial is pending.
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However, experts say Indonesia is becoming increasingly conservative, with large anti-LGBT protests in Jakarta and passionate reactions to allegations of blasphemy commonplace in recent years.
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Essentially, Mortuary Drape pulled a Blasphemy here (except, unlike their Canadian peers, the Italian outfit has actually released a significant amount of new music since 1993).
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UK-based rights group Amnesty International on Monday said the killing "was a deplorable attack on freedom of expression", saying strict blasphemy laws should be revoked.
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"The problem [arises] when Europeans criticise the abusive blasphemy or apostasy laws in countries such as Indonesia, Pakistan, Sudan or a host of others," she said.
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Pakistani online activists believe blasphemy-related crack downs on social media are veiled attempts by the country's powerful military to limit dissent on human rights violations.
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The governor is on trial over blasphemy charges after an edited version of comments he made at a November rally went viral on Indonesian social media.
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Capital punishment was mandatory under blasphemy laws, which often led to false accusations and "mob vengeance", the committee said, calling for those laws to be repealed.
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In April, a young man was brutally beaten to death by his fellow students at a university in Mardan, after being accused of blasphemy on campus.
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However, experts say Indonesia is becoming increasingly conservative, with large anti-LGBT protests in Jakarta and passionate reactions to allegations of blasphemy commonplace in recent years.
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Recent years have seen large anti-LGBT protests in Jakarta in early 2016, a push to criminalize homosexual sex and passionate reactions to allegations of blasphemy.
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The incumbent, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (known by his nickname, Ahok), was charged with blasphemy in November and has faced large-scale protests organised by Islamic groups.
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It is often invoked against religious minorities on the flimsiest of grounds; evidence can rarely be challenged in court for fear of repeating the alleged blasphemy.
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In 2011, the governor of Punjab province, Salman Taseer, was assassinated by one of his bodyguards after he called for reform of the country's blasphemy laws.
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Human rights groups such as Amnesty International say the blasphemy law is increasingly exploited by religious extremists as well as ordinary Pakistanis to settle personal scores.
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We should remember the rights of Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman who has been imprisoned under threat of capital punishment for violating Pakistan's blasphemy laws.
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The ensuing scandal, and a conspiracy involving the abduction of children, sends Lyra on a hero's quest to the frozen north, chased by the blasphemy police.
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Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for the killing, citing the accusations of blasphemy against the tailor, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist websites.
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The Supreme Court of Pakistan rejected a petition calling for a review of its earlier decision to acquit Asia Bibi, a Christian woman accused of blasphemy.
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Intolerant and illiberal doctrines related to martyrdom, blasphemy, honor and apostasy reliably lead to oppression and violence against women, homosexuals, freethinkers, liberals and even other Muslims.
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Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, or Ahok as he is known, has been embroiled in a blasphemy trial in which he stands accused of insulting the Koran.
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Piggybacking on that apparent free-market blasphemy, Intel in early March released a white paper calling for a comprehensive national strategy to bolster U.S. AI capabilities.
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She had been on death row for almost eight years on blasphemy charges after an argument with a group of women over a glass of water.
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In a country run by a strict Islamic regime, anyone found guilty of "blasphemy" or "devil worship" can face a long prison sentence—or even execution.
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His comments circulated on social media, and hard-liners accused him of blasphemy, which is a criminal offense in Indonesia, and pressured the police to investigate.
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The debate about blasphemy is also tied to cultural issues assuming unprecedented importance with the emergence of a technologically mediated global arena after the Cold War.
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On Thursday, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, a former governor of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, was released from prison after serving nearly two years for blasphemy against Islam.
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Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian woman who spent eight years on death row for blasphemy before being acquitted last week, was released from jail Wednesday night.
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Cover image: Pakistani protesters shout slogans against Asia Bibi, a Christian woman facing death sentence for blasphemy, at a protest in Karachi on October 13, 2016.
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Instead, rights groups say, it has increased fissures within society and led to acts of deadly violence, because those accused of blasphemy often face vigilante justice.
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Mr. Nugent said he was aware of cases in which news organizations had "self-censored" to avoid the potential cost of a blasphemy complaint, however vexatious.
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And I think the show demonstrates the extent to which blasphemy only works when it's parasitic on something that has a greater richness, a real belief.
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The female stars felt totally comfortable with the theme — again, to the point of blasphemy in some cases — and the men were mostly just in suits.
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Pakistan disclosed in September that it had blocked more than 900,000 web pages for various reasons, including pornography, blasphemy and sentiments against the state and military.
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Mr. Basuki was charged with blasphemy, mass rallies were mobilized against him and despite a tearful apology, he was trounced in a runoff election last month.
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With the new parties routinely accusing opponents of blasphemy or treason, mainstream parties have echoed their language in attacking Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
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For them, the idea of awarding a base to a hitter without a pitch even being thrown is at a minimum blasphemy, and at worst apocalyptic.
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The Islamic legal code also proscribes crimes like apostasy, blasphemy and extramarital sex — none of which can be a crime at all in any liberal society.
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It would also have curtailed free expression by strengthening blasphemy and treason laws and prohibiting insulting the president, the vice president, the government or state agencies.
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Mr. Basuki was charged with blasphemy after lightheartedly citing a verse in the Quran last September that warns Muslims against taking Christians and Jews as friends.
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One of its top anchors, Aamir Liaquat Hussain, came under fire for accusing some bloggers and rights activists critical of the country's powerful military of blasphemy.
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Mr. Basuki, known as Ahok, was charged with violating Indonesia's anti-blasphemy law during a speech to fishermen in September, before the start of the campaign.
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Blasphemy laws protect religious dogma from ridicule, and therefore the feelings of believers, Mr. Mchangama argues, while hate speech laws protect religious groups from degrading expressions.
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In 2011, senior politician Salman Taseer was shot dead by his own bodyguard for voicing support for Asia Bibi and condemning the country's stringent blasphemy laws.
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Sharif also called for punishment for those who used the country's blasphemy laws to settle private disputes, which critics of the religious law say happens frequently.
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In March 2011, Pakistan's Federal Minister of Minority Affairs, a Christian man named Shahbaz Bhatti, was gunned down after calling for reform of Pakistan's blasphemy law.
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"Saying the volume of the call to prayer is too loud, in my opinion, is not blasphemy," said Robikin Emhas, head of the NU's legal division.
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If he wins the Jakarta election but is convicted of blasphemy, he is legally allowed to assume office as long as an appeals process is going on.
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Blasphemy is a highly sensitive topic in Muslim-majority Pakistan, where insulting the Prophet Mohammad is a capital crime for which dozens are sitting on death row.
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The Council argued that the mutations of the creatures in the game, who are given specific powers, amounted to blasphemy by promoting the theory of natural evolution.
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"Good for God," from the former, is a fun bit of blasphemy (the album itself was supposed to be titled God's Greatest Hits, but the label refused).
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Rallies against Jakarta's governor in 2016 had cast serious doubt on Widodo's religious credentials after his ally, Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama, was imprisoned on charges of blasphemy.
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Many moderate Muslim leaders defend blasphemy laws on the grounds that they prevent violence by allowing religious disputes to be settled by the courts rather than vigilantes.
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The government of Pakistan gave in to mass protests by Islamist agitators and barred Asia Bibi, a Christian woman recently acquitted of blasphemy, from leaving the country.
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Campaigning before the election in July that brought him to power, Imran Khan and his party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, had voiced support for the blasphemy laws.
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The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan told the publication that Raza was one of 15 arrested by the government counterterrorism department last year on accusations of blasphemy.
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According to a Human Rights Watch report released last month, the government sent a text message to millions recently asking them to report blasphemy on social media.
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They are also making more use of laws against blasphemy—notably in the trial against the governor of Jakarta, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, a Christian of Chinese descent.
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Why it matters: The high-profile case set off an international debate about blasphemy laws in the Islamic world, particularly their application in cases involving religious minorities.
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As many libertarians have pointed out, no blasphemy charge was brought in 1997 when an artist burned a copy of the Bible on a state broadcasting channel.
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In either case, though, the blasphemy comes across as bitterly sincere; if the show were higher-profile, it's hard to imagine it wouldn't spark some Christian protests.
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The highest-profile case has been that of Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman who spent years on death row because of a flimsy charge of blasphemy.
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In September, a far-right group in Brazil successfully petitioned to shut down an exhibition called Queermuseum, after conservative critics accused it of promoting blasphemy and pedophilia.
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" He added that "Saudi Arabia penalizes blasphemy with lengthy prison sentences and lashings, often after detention without trial, or so-called protective custody, according to legal experts.
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Blasphemy is a highly sensitive topic in Muslim-majority Pakistan, where insulting the Prophet Mohammad is a capital crime for which dozens are sitting on death row.
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She was recently accused of blasphemy for reciting a poem that implies that traditional Indonesian hairstyles and songs are preferable to headscarves and the call to prayer.
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At least 65 people have been murdered over blasphemy allegations since 1990, according to figures from a Center for Research and Security Studies report and local media.
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"Most victims of evictions are Muslim and they're already resisting that, quite apart from the blasphemy," Novel Chaidir Bamukmin, head of the FPI's Jakarta chapter, told Reuters.
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The number of blasphemy cases began soaring in the 1980s; between 1929 and 1982 there had been only nine, according to the Jinnah Institute, a think-tank.
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For my birthday, she thought it would be quite funny to give me a DVD full of horrible medieval gore scenes of blasphemy and all of that.
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The governor of Jakarta is on trial for blasphemy in a case based on controversial religious freedom laws in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country.
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No one has ever been executed under the law, but in the past year violent public responses to accusations of blasphemy have raised further concerns from activists.
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Ahmed accused him of blasphemy, and the teen responded by going home, cutting off his hand and presenting it to the cleric on a plate, Ali said.
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"Why is the Catholic Philippines the favorite venue for blasphemy against God and the Holy Mother?" asked Ramon Arguelles, archbishop of Lipa City, south of the capital.
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Indonesia's reputation for tolerance is already under scrutiny after Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, a Christian, was sentenced this month to two years in prison for blasphemy.
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He had blamed several prominent Pakistanis for an anti-state agenda and being either sympathetic to, or directly involved in, blasphemy against Islam's founder, the Prophet Mohammad.
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Pakistan's top court Tuesday upheld the acquittal of a Christian woman who had spent eight years on death row on blasphemy charges, according to The Associated Press.
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The rumor mill is working overtime because peace in Pakistan depends on the whereabouts of the Christian woman, acquitted of blasphemy charges after nine years in prison.
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Many of the blasphemy victims, like Asia, are just too poor to go all the way up to the Supreme Court and languish for years in prison.
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In Pakistan, a blasphemy accusation is a public instance of being tossed beyond that boundary; if one escapes alive, one is still likely to lose one's voice.
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Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, the Chinese Indonesian former governor of Jakarta known as Ahok, left prison Thursday, two years after the erstwhile Jokowi ally was jailed for blasphemy.
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In 913, Jakarta's Chinese Christian governor (a Joko ally) Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, better known as Ahok, was accused of insulting the Quran and jailed on blasphemy charges.
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In the cases that I saw, yes, it was from the mainstream leaders of mainstream churches who would attack them, because of course, to them, it's blasphemy.
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There have been at least 67 murders over unproven allegations of blasphemy since 1990, according to figures from a research center and independent records kept by Reuters.
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" Further, "you don't know what religious people are talking about, you don't understand the springs of their behavior — the importance of scripture or the symbolism of blasphemy.
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Critics and rights groups say the blasphemy laws are used to persecute religious minorities, especially the Ahmadis, who are considered non-Muslims, according to the country's Constitution.
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Mr. Rizvi, a virtual unknown few years ago, belongs to the Barelvi sect and has built his reputation as a staunch defender of the country's blasphemy laws.
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It is always prudent not to ask what blasphemous act is said to have been committed, because under the law, repeating something blasphemous can itself constitute blasphemy.
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After Ms. Bibi was convicted in 2010, two senior officials who spoke out for her or in favor of changing the blasphemy laws were shot and killed.
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She championed the rights of religious minorities — especially those who were charged under the country's blasphemy laws — and women and men killed in the name of honor.
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It is good news that Pakistan's Supreme Court has acquitted and freed a Pakistani Christian woman who had already spent eight years on death row for blasphemy.
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There were about a dozen reported cases of blasphemy between 1927 and 1986, but there have been more than 4,000 since then, when the laws were reinforced.
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Many of the cases of censorship in the United States stem from non-state actors, largely religious and minority groups who have claimed discrimination, blasphemy, or offense.
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It also criminalizes acts that shouldn't be crimes at all — such as consensual sex, loss of faith in Islam ("apostasy") and the right to criticize it ("blasphemy").
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Blasphemy is an incendiary subject in Pakistan, and the authorities have often been unable to control the violence and riots that have sometimes erupted over mere accusations.
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Right-wing Lebanese Christian activists, who accused the band of "blasphemy," vowed to stop the performance "with force," unleashing a virulent social media campaign against the group.
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Mr. Basuki was charged with blasphemy months after lightheartedly citing a verse in the Quran last September that warns Muslims against taking Christians and Jews as friends.
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However, he said, the number of people convicted of blasphemy skyrocketed to 106 from 2004 to 2014, during the presidency of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Mr. Joko's predecessor.
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Insulting Islam's Prophet Mohammad carries a mandatory death penalty in Pakistan, which is about 95 percent Muslim and has among the harshest blasphemy laws in the world.
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The Centre for Social Justice, a rights group, says at least 1,549 people have faced blasphemy charges in Pakistan since 1987 and 75 of them were murdered.
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In Pakistan, Ahmadi Muslims face institutionalized religious repression, including criminal prosecution and imprisonment under anti-blasphemy and anti-terrorism laws, police torture, voter disenfranchisement, and publication bans.
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Labaik, one of two new ultra-religious political movements to reach prominence in recent months, has made defending the blasphemy laws a campaign centerpiece with some success.
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He chose to stay silent when a woman in Medan, in northern Sumatra, was charged with blasphemy for complaining about the volume of the call to prayer.
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If you're in the mood for some Friday blasphemy and want to decide for yourself, play the "Divine or Benign" quiz, developed by developer Tobias Hermann in 2016.
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Whiskey and blasphemy is the name of the game here, wrapped up in an irresistible blend of howling thrash, primitive black metal, gnarly crust, and manic speed metal.
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By selecting tags to scrub out graphic violence, nudity, and even "blasphemy," viewers could watch a version of, say, Sausage Party or Bad Grandpa without offending their sensibilities.
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Kevin Durant committed blasphemy did what he wanted on Monday by signing with the Golden State Warriors, and the people he left behind in OKC were, uh, pissed.
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On November 16th police investigating complaints of blasphemy against the incumbent and front-runner, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, known as Ahok, said they were formally declaring him a suspect.
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The anonymous Urdu-language post displayed photos of Haider, Goraya and Saeed linking them with a Facebook group called Bhensa, which it said contained "blasphemy toward the Koran".
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The background: Last year, Islamist groups spearheaded a smear campaign and massive rallies to unseat Jakarta's Christian, ethnic Chinese governor, who eventually wound up in jail for blasphemy.
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On the same day, Ireland also voted to remove a ban on blasphemy from its constitution (changing the constitution can only be done by means of a referendum).
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You hadn't thought about God or blasphemy or what your mother would say; your mind, your being, had been elevated to a place where none of that mattered.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland will hold a referendum in October to remove the offense of blasphemy from its constitution, Minister for Justice and Equality Charlie Flanagan said on Tuesday.
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For critics, the case epitomised the cruelty of Pakistan's blasphemy laws, which make it easy for humdrum personal quarrels to be elevated into life-or-death court cases.
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In a culture that rewarded career longevity, pensions, and a retirement at the dacha the idea that you would eschew a cubicle at Citibank is akin to blasphemy.
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Pakistan's Supreme Court upheld the acquittal of a Christian woman on blasphemy charges Tuesday, clearing the way for her to flee Pakistan and seek asylum in the West.
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At the top of a long list of human rights concerns were Pakistan's renewed use of the death penalty, its blasphemy laws, and "enforced disappearances" and extrajudicial killings.
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Amid two rallies last year that drew hundreds of thousands of protesters, Purnama was charged with blasphemy, forcing him to make regular appearances in court during the campaign.
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The arrest and later conviction of former Jakarta governor Basuki 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama in April this year, on charges of blasphemy, followed huge protests instigated by conservative groups.
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Right groups say the law is frequently abused in a country where Islam is a highly sensitive subject, and where even rumours of blasphemy have sparked deadly riots.
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Around the shrine, on April 255, 2282, Dmitry Enteo and the members of God's Will, his Russian Orthodox activist group, shouted anti-blasphemy slogans and theatrically crossed themselves.
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ROME (Reuters) - Rome's ancient Colosseum was lit in red on Saturday in solidarity with persecuted Christians, particularly Asia Bibi, a woman condemned to death under Pakistan's blasphemy laws.
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The son of a liberal Pakistani politician, Salman Taseer, who was assassinated by his bodyguard for opposing harsh blasphemy laws, emerged near Quetta after five years of captivity.
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They believed the Uztari training of birds was blasphemy and that only the ancient Altari cults of reverence for the wild and untamed sky was the true faith.
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Ms. Bibi's case has drawn worldwide condemnation and calls for overturning Pakistan's blasphemy law, which in effect has been used by extremists as a bludgeon against religious minorities.
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DUBLIN — Ireland re-elected its leftist president, Michael D. Higgins, to a second term and voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to remove a ban on blasphemy from the Constitution.
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Blasphemy, broadly defined as speaking insultingly about God or religion, remains a capital crime in Pakistan and illegal in many other lands, in the East and the West.
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Damaging secrets are being broadcast from the minaret of a local mosque, accusations that can prove fatal in a city in which blasphemy has become a capital crime.
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At a victory celebration the day after the Jakarta election, Mr. Prabowo publicly thanked leaders of two hard-line Islamist groups that had organized the anti-blasphemy protests.
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Mr. Karnavian said at the news conference that despite strong disagreement among investigators that the governor had violated Indonesia's archaic blasphemy laws, the case would go to trial.
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Aside from the blasphemy allegations, that leadership style has grated some voters as arrogance, in particular poor and lower-class voters who analysts say may tip the election.
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The blasphemy accusations set off street protests in Jakarta in recent weeks that drew hundreds of thousands of conservative Islamists demanding that Mr. Basuki be jailed or killed.
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He denied the blasphemy charges but his trial affected his popularity and he was ousted as Jakarta governor in a run-off against a Muslim rival in April.
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Insulting Islam's Prophet Mohammad carries a mandatory death penalty in Pakistan, which is about 95 percent Muslim and has some of the harshest blasphemy laws in the world.
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ARY Network, a Pakistani TV station, recently lost a libel suit in London brought by a rival it had accused of committing blasphemy and being an Indian agent.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations human rights experts called on Pakistan's high court on Friday to clear liberal academic Junaid Hafeez of blasphemy charges and overturn his death sentence.
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The appointment marks a swift return to a public post for Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, who was released from jail in January after serving nearly two years for blasphemy.
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Buried amid days of blasphemy and bombast were quieter new details that collectively showed Trump and his aides discussed WikiLeaks with Stone months earlier than anyone has acknowledged.
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The party says the words "I believe", used to replace the clause "I solemnly swear" in a proclamation of Mohammad as the religion's last prophet, amount to blasphemy.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch government said on Thursday it had offered temporary shelter to the lawyer who helped free a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan.
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Police on Thursday handed a dossier on their investigation of his comments to prosecutors, who are expected to take the case of alleged blasphemy to court in coming weeks.
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Bibi was convicted of blasphemy in 2010 for allegedly making derogatory remarks about Islam after neighbours objected to her drinking water from their glass because she was not Muslim.
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Bibi was convicted of blasphemy in 2010 for allegedly making derogatory remarks about Islam after neighbors objected to her drinking water from their glass because she was not Muslim.
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Religious tensions have been an undercurrent in the campaign, with Purnama on trial for blasphemy over comments he made last year that many took to be insulting to Islam.
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"Such an act may be a violation of the blasphemy section of the Criminal Code which concerns public mockery or scorn with reference to a religion," a prosecutor said.
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Liberals today enjoy the benefits of the Enlightenment, which their predecessors brought about through great acts of blasphemy and rebellion, often at deadly cost to their lives and livelihoods.
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The country's highest court reaffirmed an earlier decision to acquit a Christian woman, Asia Bibi, of blasphemy charges which had led to her spending eight years on death row.
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Recent steps by some in Pakistan to bolster blasphemy laws -- limiting freedom of those who are not Muslims -- are contrary to the views of many in the Muslim world.
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However, Jaroslav Nilov, head of the State Duma's religious affairs committee, said that investigators have not proven that Sokolovsky violated Russia's anti-blasphemy law and called his detention unnecessary.
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The French-Canadian outfit showed serious promise with their 1994 debut Blasphemy Made Flesh, but in July of 1996, they unleashed an instant classic sophomore effort, None So Vile.
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Almost no one who has been charged under the blasphemy law has ever escaped conviction, associate professor of Indonesian politics at the Australian National University Greg Fealy told CNN.
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Pakistan's blasphemy law is a lightning rod for Islamists, especially since 2011 when the liberal governor of Punjab province, Salman Taseer, was murdered by a bodyguard for questioning it.
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"Imagine an internet run like many Middle Eastern countries, that punish what they deem to be blasphemy," Mr. Cruz warned in a Senate hearing he led earlier this week.
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Protesters are demanding Hamid's resignation for what they consider blasphemy after parliamentary bills were amended, weakening rules that require lawmakers to reference the Prophet Mohammed when taking their oaths.
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Mr. Taseer was the governor of Punjab who had criticized Pakistan's blasphemy law and spoke out against the conviction of a Christian woman named Asia Bibi for violating it.
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It's an obvious step up from their debut (which is saying a lot, considering how much Whiskey and Blasphemy ruled) and what's more, it's really fun to listen to.
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The perceived blasphemy, unintended by the author, led to international rioting, Mr. Rushdie's enforced seclusion, Mr. Igarashi's stabbing and the attempted murder of the book's Italian translator, Ettore Capriolo.
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The protesters, many of them supporters of the cleric, Khadim Hussain Rizvi, an outspoken Islamist, have demanded that the law minister resign for the omission, which they called blasphemy.
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Mr. Rizvi, who belongs to the Barelvi sect and built his reputation as a staunch defender of the country's blasphemy laws, was a virtual unknown a few years ago.
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Even isolated accusations of blasphemy have led to lynchings or mob violence, and Mr. Rizvi has often used the issue to whip up outrage at sermons and party rallies.
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The vote was more symbolic than practical: No one has ever been prosecuted for blasphemy in modern Ireland, and in practice the ban had never led to a prosecution.
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The death penalty will also be required for some other offenses, including rape and some forms of blasphemy or heresy, like ridiculing the Quran or insulting the Prophet Muhammad.
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But the accusations of blasphemy are also related to anxieties about the Muslim prophet's vulnerability to insult, which have emerged from profound shifts in the life of Muslim societies.
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Last year, a Buddhist woman named Meliana who had complained about the volume of a mosque loudspeaker near her home was sentenced to 18 months in prison for blasphemy.
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Everyone's behavior in this story is problematic: the man who burned the Quran, the prosecutor who charged him with blasphemy and the free-speech advocates railing against the charges.
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Reve was also prosecuted for blasphemy in 1966, because of an essay in which he expressed a wish to have sex with God, who was depicted as a donkey.
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Blasphemy is a highly charged issue in Pakistan where even being accused of insulting Islam or Prophet Mohammad can provoke targeted acts of violence by religious right-wing vigilantes.
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Religious parties have never gained more than a few seats in Pakistan's parliament because they tend to appeal to one particular sect or a single issue, such as blasphemy.
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At the same time, Mr. Khan has supported Pakistan's blasphemy laws and teamed up with hard-line religious groups that a few years ago rioted in Islamabad, the capital.
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Mr. Taseer, a secular politician, was an outspoken opponent of the blasphemy law, which he and other critics said had been used to persecute religious minorities in Muslim-majority Pakistan.
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Yet this month police formally declared the country's most prominent Christian politician, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, the governor (in effect, mayor) of Jakarta, to be a suspect in a blasphemy case.
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The army denied any involvement, but pro-military social media sites were quick to label the abductees blasphemers, apostates and traitors—in a country where blasphemy remains punishable by death.
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Yet as of this week, it looks as though Denmark may be one of the very few countries in the Western world where a blasphemy law is in active use.
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It's a striking fact the editors of that irreverent newspaper were never prosecuted with blasphemy, despite the massive international pressure, even though the legal basis to bring a charge existed.
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Jacob Mchangama, a Danish lawyer who founded Justitia, a civil-liberties group that monitors freedom of expression across Europe, called the blasphemy charge a giant step backwards for his country.
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The comment provoked a tremendous public outcry, and on December 2, more than 200,000 Indonesian protesters called for Ahok to be tried for blasphemy under Indonesia's laws against insulting religion.
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Although Pakistan's blasphemy laws enjoy some support in the country's diaspora, including in Britain, several British imams urged the government to take Ms Bibi in and face down the extremists.
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It contains all the seeds that were to germinate in the two dozen novels that followed, not least Mr Roth's predilection for provocation and a kind of burnished, resplendent blasphemy.
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Now, I can hear the howls of outrage and blasphemy from this side of the keyboard but West himself has said he's totally okay with another player becoming the logo.
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There are strict laws against proselytizing by non-Muslims; blasphemy and converting from Islam are strictly prohibited and those who do so face harsh punishments, potentially including the death penalty.
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Specific blasphemy laws which punished perceived insults to Islam were introduced between 1980 and 1986, during a period of martial law under the military government of General Zia-ul-Haq.
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In April, prosecutors had called for the blasphemy counts to be dropped in exchange for a lesser charge of "spreading hate," but the judges appear to have ignored that recommendation.
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An Indonesian court has found Jakarta's Christian governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama guilty of blasphemy against Islam and sentenced him to two years in jail, a judge said on Tuesday.
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Purnama, a Christian, is in the extraordinary situation of campaigning while he is on trial for blasphemy, making weekly court appearances to defend himself against charges he insulted the Koran.
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They were among those calling for the imprisonment of Jakarta governor and Widodo ally Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, also known as Ahok, who was sentenced to two years prison for blasphemy.
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Islamic governments such as those of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, which punish blasphemy against Islam ferociously, are keen for a ban on insulting religion to be written into international law.
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Separately, in Islamabad thousands of protesters who overran the central government's security zone left after extracting assurances that the government had no plans to amend the country's draconian blasphemy law.
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While it may be blasphemy to classicists (remember that the tower itself met some pretty cruel criticism during its debut), it is making for some pretty sweet social media posts.
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That's in addition to $5 million earlier offered by the F.B.I. Iran's Revolutionary Court typically handles espionage cases and others involving smuggling, blasphemy and attempts to overthrow its Islamic government.
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In Pakistan, Ahmadi Muslims face state-sponsored and institutionalized religious oppression, including criminal prosecution and imprisonment under anti-blasphemy and anti-terrorism laws, police torture, voter disenfranchisement and publication bans.
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At least 65 people, including lawyers, defendants and judges, have been murdered by Islamist militants over blasphemy allegations in Pakistan since 1990, according to think-tank figures and local media.
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Restaurants included the "Eat Me" Diner and a fish-and-chips stall called The Cod Piece; a rock-focused tribute to a famous Michelangelo fresco led to accusations of blasphemy.
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In post-colonial India and Pakistan, religious offense among Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and Christians continues to deploy the secular language of hurt sentiments rather than the theological category of blasphemy.
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In the early years of Pakistan, a group called the Ahmadis, who are accused of not accepting Muhammad as the last prophet, were the first to be charged with blasphemy.
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The urine-bathed crucifix became a symbol of blasphemy for conservatives already determined to gut the National Endowment for the Arts, which had previously awarded the artist with a $143,000.
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In 2011, the governor of Punjab Province, Salman Taseer, who had campaigned for Ms. Bibi's release and for changes in the blasphemy laws, was shot and killed by his bodyguard.
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Ms. Bibi was freed not because the court found that the blasphemy law violated her rights or was in any other way inherently wrong, but because the trial was flawed.
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Pakistan: A Hindu man in the southern Sindh province was charged with blasphemy against Islam after a cleric said the man had delivered medicine wrapped in verses from the Quran.
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Last year, the English actor Stephen Fry was reported to the Irish police for blasphemy after he made comments disparaging God in an interview on a religious affairs television program.
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