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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (5344)	10/2/2005 9:29:23 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 9838

The All Pakistan Minorities Alliance reported to the Center that Younis Masih, a 27-year-old Christian, was brutalized and arrested in the Sidhu province of Lahore, Pakistan on September 10, 2005. A day after he asked a neighbor to turn down some loud religious music, he was beaten unconscious by a stick-wielding mob. When his wife Meena tried to intervene, she was also beaten and her clothes torn. After he tried to file a complaint with the police, some local mosques claimed he had blasphemed against the Prophet, inciting several hundred Muslims to attack and loot Christian homes and forcing over 100 Christian families to flee. The mob then surrounded the police station, refusing to leave until the police eventually charged Younis Masih with blasphemy. He is currently held in Kot Lakhpat jail and has reportedly been tortured. On September 16, Islamic extremist organizations at a conference in Lahore, urged Muslims to wage jihad on non-Muslims and declared, specifically naming Younis Masih, that “the blasphemers should be killed on the spot.” This follows a mob attack on and subsequent arrest of a Hindu couple on September 2, 2005 in the North West Frontier Province for allegedly desecrating the Koran. In July, the Center raised the case of Pakistani Christian Yousaf Masih, who was also arrested for blasphemy and is awaiting trial; Yousaf Masih was released on bail after receiving death threats in prison. Pakistan’s blasphemy laws can carry the death penalty. Under the country’s sharia law code, the testimony of a Muslim can equal the testimony of two non-Muslims, thus non-Muslims, or disfavored groups such as the Ahmadis, can be convicted on the testimony of a single Muslim. Currently some 80 Christians are imprisoned on blasphemy and over six hundred - Muslim and non-Muslim - have been arrested under blasphemy laws since 1988. Some have been killed while awaiting trial or following acquittal. freedomhouse.org