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@Yassine
in which year and place?
What the actual fuck are you talking about?
The cultures you just stated are among the single most open to immigrants maintaining their culture and religious outlooks
, as well as developing a more secular approach within their own nation in the first place.
Are you talking about something 1920s and before?
Can you give me actual examples of these accusations?
So, you should beat the crap out of somebody for making a joke?- You mean this:
You have typed things without giving examples...
Are you referring to what the Chinese government did to the Uyghur people recently?
Can you please give sources backing up what you're saying has happened?
What the West does every day to Muslims in their own countries is far worse than what the Chinese are doing to the Uyghur (if we believe western reports about this anyways).
It would've taken you two seconds to Google the examples I mentioned... Regardless, The Indian Child Welfare Act in 1978 gave, for the first time, Native American parents the right to refuse their children's abduction into boarding or public schools.
. In Canada, Native children enslavement continued until late 1990s. Beyond the systematic removal of their culture culture, language & history, they were also subject to abuse, torture, rape, forced labor, starvation, & often used as lab rats.
Can you please give examples of this
and compare?
Okay, and do you think this is a bad thing?
If we read your link, the school operated in 1901 and around that time, not past the 1990s, please provide evidence of this.
Can you explain how abused children are protected from their abusive parents in Islamic cultures?
You are calling any intervention 'abduction' is this correct?
It is indeed bad that child labour happened in Switzerland until the 1960s, not 1980s.
I am confused why you are referring to that as what is still happening in the West.
Would you like me to give you examples of how workers are treated in Islamic Arab nations?
As in, general workers not even just extreme cases. The working class is often specifically imported foreignors from India, Pakistan, Philippenes etc and they are underpaid, in terrible conditions and such.
- She wasn't sentenced to death. Nothing happened yet. She was sentenced to 20 years in prison, yet to be ratified by the court.
Which is about the same sentence you will get if you blaspheme in Europe or the US, or less.
Like that White couple who got 15 years in prison for insulting a Black family, -
which is what anti-semitic slurs & Holocaust denying gets you in France or Germany. – It mustn't feel great when you're no better than a third world country like Pakistan.
Yes, she has been sentenced to death.
She will sit in prison until she is released or until the sentence is carried out. The 20 years of prison was in addition to the death penalty.
Not in a European country, you won't.
Nor in Australia.
Blasphemy is still a charge in many Western Countries - but no one is ever charged with it. And many jurisdictions are discussing removing it from their books.
I am not sure what you are talking about - do you have a link? But insulting a black family is not blasphemy.
It seems unlikely in a Western Court that some one would get 15 years just for insulting someone - even if it is done with racist intent. Still, I am happy to be shown wrong. Where is the link to this case?
Anti-semitic slurs and holocaust denial is racist. In places like Germany and France or even Israel these charges would be more aggravating than in most Western nations. 15 years would also be the maximum penalty - not the minimium.
For the record, I think blasphemy is a serious matter. Nevertheless, it depends on what country you are in and how the general public perceives it that ought to considered. I would think in a country like Pakistan - that it would aggravating to blaspheme against their predominant religion. If Pakistan was promoting itself as a tolerant country or a multi-cultural nation - it would be silly to have such a law - but it is not its policy or its intent.
Most of the country - 98% according to this article are Muslim. Other people in the nation - ought to respect to some degree the majority view. They don't have to agree. But to get frustrated because it applies its own law is a bit precious.
In Australia we have blasphemy laws - never used.
Our country might still have a majority of Christians - yet the nation is not promoted as a Christian nation - but as a secular and multi-cultural one.
In fact - Christianity is pretty much the only religion or worldview that is permitted to be criticized without repercussion - with the justification that they are the majority or have been pretty horrible in the past and that they deserve any ridicule they receive now.
If someone criticized the Muslim religion here or the Hindu religion they may well be canceled for being intolerant. Yet Christians if they suggest we want to have a nativity scene at Christmas time - get told to shut up and stop being tiring. Of course the law is still the case that if someone came into a church and disrupted it - it is a criminal offence. I am not sure that anyone would really care- - but it is a criminal offence.
For someone to be sentenced to death in a Muslim Country for disrespecting Muslim ideals is to be expected. Pakistan is not pretending to be a democracy.
It is not pretending to be a safe haven for the woke left. It is not pretending to agree with free speech. It is very clear on its laws.
They are not the same as Western Laws - so for Western People to be upset is simply intolerant and inconsistent.
It seems to me that those in the West want to be considered tolerant of everyone - but this only really consists of those that agree with them.
Personally, despite the fact that I disagree totally with the legal system in Pakistan and its Sharia law - I think that as a sovereign nation it has the prerogative to determine for itself how it legislates morality, the law and regulates its people. I also think it is petty for the West to criticize it by measuring its own self against Pakistan.
There is a place to compare and contrast legal systems and to analyze the same - but it is necessary to provide your basis for the criticism that arises when it arises against a culture. The death penalty for instance is neither good nor bad. It is a punishment that a country - may impose and EVERY country does in some form or another - even those opposed to it. Yet - why is it ok in America to put someone to death for theft or murder and not ok to do it in Pakistan for blasphemy. Each country has laws that reflect its personality. There is nothing intrinsically wrong or incorrect about sentencing someone to death for blasphemy. Of course for an atheist culture -it seems superstitious and dumb. Of course for a culture that values free speech above respect for religion - it will seem nonsensical and even undemocratic.
Yet there is nothing intrinsically wrong about making such a law that reflects where the majority of people in a culture stand. Nor is there anything intrinsically wrong with such a law reflecting ONE dictator in a country. For it to be intrinsically wrong - one would need to provide a basis for determining right and wrong - perhaps that everyone agrees with - not just democratically minded woke Lefties.
Can you explain how abused children are protected from their abusive parents in Islamic cultures?- LOL! Yeah, that's not going to work. Nice red-herring. Why don't you start by addressing these crimes your countries perpetrated against their own children instead of evading the issue at every turn.
You are making things up about France etc.
At this point I don't even know what to argue. I also can't believe that you are defending what China did to the Uyghurs.
Your stance is just bitterness and anger leading to lies.
This is not a red herring whatsoever. You are calling social services 'abduction and indoctrination'.
Yes, she has been sentenced to death.- No.
She will sit in prison until she is released or until the sentence is carried out. The 20 years of prison was in addition to the death penalty.- No. Lmao! That doesn't even make sense.
Blasphemy is still a charge in many Western Countries - but no one is ever charged with it. And many jurisdictions are discussing removing it from their books.- You just love saying things don't you! Not because things came out of your mouth does that make them true...
I am not sure what you are talking about - do you have a link? But insulting a black family is not blasphemy.- You seem to want to say racial derogation is not under the category of blasphemy, because it's not designated as such in some countries. That's a fallacy. The merit is not in the label, it's in the content itself. Not because you chose to give it a different name, does that absolve you from the charge. LOL!
Anti-semitic slurs and holocaust denial is racist. In places like Germany and France or even Israel these charges would be more aggravating than in most Western nations. 15 years would also be the maximum penalty - not the minimium.- You're all over the place. Which is it?
For the record, I think blasphemy is a serious matter. Nevertheless, it depends on what country you are in and how the general public perceives it that ought to considered. I would think in a country like Pakistan - that it would aggravating to blaspheme against their predominant religion. If Pakistan was promoting itself as a tolerant country or a multi-cultural nation - it would be silly to have such a law - but it is not its policy or its intent.- How you ever been there? Pakistan is in effect much more tolerant & hospitable than most Western countries, if not all. Derogating others & denigrating their sanctities, such is the case in the West, is the opposite of tolerance.
In Australia we have blasphemy laws - never used.- Contrary to your wishful thinking, any profanity against sacred or sensitive things for a people is blasphemy. It doesn't have to be profanity against the Christian faith. What is sacred or sensitive to Pakistanis is not the same as such in Germany, or Australia. Each nation has its own cultural & historical conditions from which such boundaries are set.
Our country might still have a majority of Christians - yet the nation is not promoted as a Christian nation - but as a secular and multi-cultural one.- No. It's not multicultural at all. It's Liberal Secular, unless you mean by 'multi-cultural' superficial diversity, such as skin color & attire & rites & such, as long as said diversity does not affect any systemic institution of the country; namely, law, administration, justice, education, academia...etc.
In fact - Christianity is pretty much the only religion or worldview that is permitted to be criticized without repercussion - with the justification that they are the majority or have been pretty horrible in the past and that they deserve any ridicule they receive now.- This is total BS, especially in Australia. I don't think I've seen a more Islamophobic country in the Anglosphere than Australia. Christianity in the West is not really criticized as Islam is, for the former is the default cultural religion, while the later is the time-immemorial enemy religion. The Christian faith is pretty well understood & the overwhelming sentiment about its founder -Christ- & its ideals are very positive -never vilified or demonized at any noticeable degree. The opposite is the case for public sentiment about Islam, even if in truth the contrary is the case. – In fact, & in the same way, Islam is constantly criticized by all sorts of modernist groups in the Arab & Muslim world, by secularist, liberals, nationalists, atheists, even christians...
If someone criticized the Muslim religion here or the Hindu religion they may well be canceled for being intolerant. Yet Christians if they suggest we want to have a nativity scene at Christmas time - get told to shut up and stop being tiring. Of course the law is still the case that if someone came into a church and disrupted it - it is a criminal offence. I am not sure that anyone would really care- - but it is a criminal offence.- I'm more familiar with Australian news than you might've hoped. Australia is the country with the most anti-Islamic in the anglophone world.
For someone to be sentenced to death in a Muslim Country for disrespecting Muslim ideals is to be expected. Pakistan is not pretending to be a democracy.- Despite my vehement dislike of the tribal system that is democracy, Pakistan is actually a democracy, sadly!
- There is fare more free speech in Pakistan for a Muslim than in any western country. I could say a 100 things which would get me in serious trouble in western countries, yet nobody would care about in Pakistan. Drop this "free speech" nonsense. No state allows speech which undermines it, by design, else self-destruction. I can't understand why westerners don't get that this type of propaganda does not work with the rest of the World.
They are not the same as Western Laws - so for Western People to be upset is simply intolerant and inconsistent.- The West will always be upset about how others conduct their business if doesn't fit with their current feelings, which they think are absolute universals. That, since the time when they had virtually no rights & all violence. The 19th century Ottomans had religious freedom, legal pluralism, rights of property, divorce, education for women, animal rights, of which Europe had none, yet that didn't stop them from being upset & critical. This is part of the very Western mentality & thought paradigm, that's how they justify themselves, & hence their crimes instigated against "evil" & "lesser" others . This mentality is sick & needs to disappear.
There is a place to compare and contrast legal systems and to analyze the same - but it is necessary to provide your basis for the criticism that arises when it arises against a culture. The death penalty for instance is neither good nor bad. It is a punishment that a country - may impose and EVERY country does in some form or another - even those opposed to it. Yet - why is it ok in America to put someone to death for theft or murder and not ok to do it in Pakistan for blasphemy. Each country has laws that reflect its personality. There is nothing intrinsically wrong or incorrect about sentencing someone to death for blasphemy. Of course for an atheist culture -it seems superstitious and dumb. Of course for a culture that values free speech above respect for religion - it will seem nonsensical and even undemocratic.- Care to compare & contrast legal systems? Without the indoctrination & propaganda, & the "I'm strong therefore I'm right".
Yes she has been. Sentenced is not the same as having been carried out. She is still in the waiting position - all the different appeals etc and confirmation from the courts have to be conducted first.
Of course it makes sense. She is in prison right now - awaiting for her sentence to be completed. That is how it works in every legal system around the world. Even if the death penalty is determined to scare her - it is still the case.
Yes - maximum penalties but not death.
If someone were charged the likely penalty would be a good behavior bond without conviction
Blasphemy is not the same thing as insulting others. It is quite a different law - although somewhat related.
On the other hand you want to say it is under that category because it is the way you see it. Same fallacy.
I don't consider blasphemy to be simply a racist or insult. It has to be directed towards a religion or religious deity or something that is meant to insult either one.
Not at all. I have distinguished between blasphemy and insults and racist comments.
I have distinguished between maximum and minimum penalties. You should really think more about this before you simply post another comment.
Never been to Pakistan - I have to Bangladesh. Perhaps I have been misled by the newspapers. Yet I have had missionary friends in Pakistan who testify to much intolerance.
I understand this - I never said it was only to Christian faith. Australia historically has been a Christian nation. Yet we have turned secular at least in policy and practice.
It is multicultural. And it is liberal secular. It is not polytheistic. Interestingly, only Western nations are multicultural.
Sorry - you are incorrect. In Australia - there may be some Islamphobic people - but not generally. We are quite tolerant of Islam and actively promote it - especially the Greens - and the Woke left who are trying to promote what they call tolerance - against the Christian religions. Come out to the country towns - they are very happy to set up a Mosque or a Hindu temple - but if a church wants to plant a new church - large hurdles and finally not approved. No one wants to offend the other faiths and risk getting canceled. We have a law that says no knives at school. A hindu wore a ceremonial knife to school attacked another child. He was allowed to keep his knife and was not prosecuted. But a christian boy prayed with another christian child at school- he was sent home and then expelled.
nonsense. You seem to be totally lost in your own little world. None of my Muslim acquaintances would agree with you.
I'm no fan of pure democracy. But what is the alternative?
Forgive me for not agreeing with you. My point is Pakistan is not pretending to be a Western nation with Western Values.
I also think you have a different view of free speech than I do.
And the non west will always be envious of the West. Not of their value systems but of their wealth and prosperity. And of their authority and power in the world.
And of their authority and power in the world.
The non-west may well not desire the wealth or prosperity
- but it does cause them to question their own faith. And even if it does not cause the oldies to question their faith - the youngsters are influenced and are attracted to the West and its attractions.
For the record, this applies to many Christian families as well. Many Christian Family despise the materialism and value system of the West and have reverted to home-schooling and separating themselves from the mass media of the West.
It is not a matter of indoctrination or no indoctrination - but rather whose indoctrination. The West indoctrinates the non-west and the non-west indoctrinates the West - we all do it. We would not call it this. We would prefer to say we are educating our people or other people with the truth. But whose truth?
202 days later
Muslim woman, 26, is sentenced to death by hanging for blasphemy in Pakistan after sending caricatures of Prophet Mohammed over WhatsApp
- A Muslim woman, 26, has been sentenced to death in Pakistan for blasphemy
- She was convicted of sending caricatures of Prophet Muhammad via WhatsApp
- Blasphemy is punishable by the death sentence in Muslim-majority Pakistan
- But an execution has never been carried out as courts have overruled sentence
Not the first person that gets the death penalty for insulting the prophet of islam the worst person to ever walk the earthThe trial court in the northern Pakistani city of Rawalpindi on Wednesday sentenced Aneeqa Ateeq under the country’s strict blasphemy laws, which impose a mandatory death penalty for insulting the Prophet Muhammad.===============================================================================A blind man had a slave-mother who used to abuse the Prophet (ﷺ) and disparage him. He forbade her but she did not stop. He rebuked her but she did not give up her habit. One night she began to slander the Prophet (ﷺ) and abuse him. So he took a dagger, placed it on her belly, pressed it, and killed her. A child who came between her legs was smeared with the blood that was there. When the morning came, the Prophet (ﷺ) was informed about it.He assembled the people and said: I adjure by Allah the man who has done this action and I adjure him by my right to him that he should stand up. Jumping over the necks of the people and trembling the man stood up.He sat before the Prophet (ﷺ) and said: Messenger of Allah! I am her master; she used to abuse you and disparage you. I forbade her, but she did not stop, and I rebuked her, but she did not abandon her habit. I have two sons like pearls from her, and she was my companion. Last night she began to abuse and disparage you. So I took a dagger, put it on her belly and pressed it till I killed her.Thereupon the Prophet (ﷺ) said: Oh be witness, no retaliation is payable for her blood.Grade:Sahih (Al-Albani)-authentic-Reference: Sunan Abi Dawud 4361In-book reference: Book 40, Hadith 11English translation: Book 39, Hadith 4348Not the first time someone is killed for insulting muhammad===================================islam have been killing people for insulting the benevolent or should I say malevolent prophet of islam since the beginning of islamin the hadith mentioned before muhammad stated that " no retaliation is payable for her blood " sounds extremely benevolent