Another Christian Prosecuted
Nov 25, 2010
Around 250 hard-line Muslims staged a demonstration in the central Pakistani city of Lahore on Wednesday, warning the president not to pardon a Christian woman sentenced to death for insulting Islam.
Population of Pakistan: 171 million.
Number of Pakistanis who're demonstrating for her release: 0.
The rally was organized by the Movement for Protection of the Prophet’s Honor, a group of hard-line Sunni Muslims that was formed in 2001 to oppose changes in the blasphemy law.
Bibi, a 45-year-old mother of five, has said she was falsely accused by a group of Muslim women angry at a dispute over whether they could share the same water bowl. She has been jailed in the eastern province of Punjab since her initial arrest 1 1/2 years ago.
Muslim consider non-muslims to be spiritually and physically filthy; coming in contact with fecal matter and a non-muslim is equivalent for a Muslim.
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