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Related: About this forumPakistan vet charged with blasphemy over medicine 'wrapped in religious text'
Source: BBC
Pakistan vet charged with blasphemy over medicine 'wrapped in religious text'
28 May 2019
A Hindu veterinary doctor in south-east Pakistan has been charged under the country's strict blasphemy laws after allegedly selling medicine wrapped in paper bearing Islamic religious text.
An angry crowd set fire to his clinic near Mirpur Khas, Sindh province, and other Hindu-owned shops were looted.
The vet said his use of the paper, apparently torn from an Islamic studies school textbook, was a mistake.
If he is convicted he could be sentenced to life in prison.
Pakistan's blasphemy laws carry harsh penalties for anyone who insults Islam. Critics say they target a disproportionate number of people from religious minorities.
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28 May 2019
A Hindu veterinary doctor in south-east Pakistan has been charged under the country's strict blasphemy laws after allegedly selling medicine wrapped in paper bearing Islamic religious text.
An angry crowd set fire to his clinic near Mirpur Khas, Sindh province, and other Hindu-owned shops were looted.
The vet said his use of the paper, apparently torn from an Islamic studies school textbook, was a mistake.
If he is convicted he could be sentenced to life in prison.
Pakistan's blasphemy laws carry harsh penalties for anyone who insults Islam. Critics say they target a disproportionate number of people from religious minorities.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48438333
The clinic and other Hindu-owned shops were targeted by the mob, witnesses said
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Pakistan vet charged with blasphemy over medicine 'wrapped in religious text' (Original Post)
Eugene
May 2019
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AJT
(5,240 posts)1. If the GOP has its way we will have blasphemy laws of our own.
The current batch of supposed religious freedom laws are inching us closer to the Christian version of Sharia law.
Major Nikon
(36,900 posts)2. We always have
Blue laws never went away.
The Genealogist
(4,736 posts)4. Make no mistake...
there are plenty of fundamentalists and evangelicals who would love to have laws like this in order to gain dominance over this country.
Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)3. The Religion of Peace strikes against nt