11 year old arrested for burning koran

[neo-x]

Guys,

please pray for this pakistani girl, she was arrested on blasphemy charges for burning the Koran. she is only 11 and she is illiterate, she never knew what pages she was burning.

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/2 ... my-charge/

[Ivellious]

Wow...Honestly, I don't care what religion she is, where she came from, what her circumstances are...that's just horrible, people threatening/wanting to burn her home down to teach her a lesson. She'll certainly be in my thoughts and prayers tonight.

[neo-x]

I appreciate it Ivel...same here. Just to confirm what you have said, for me it might have been a Buddhist or Muslim girl or an atheist girl burning the Bible/Quran and I would have supported her, because its wrong.

[RickD]

Wow Neo, that's horrible! Do you know her? I hope cooler heads prevail in this. We in America just don't get it sometimes. Praying.

[Byblos]

That's the self-proclaimed religion of peace for ya!

Prayers for the little girl.

[Danieltwotwenty]

It's a sick sad world.

[neo-x]

This the latest, the girl who is covered with the white cloth, is the 11 year old, child laborer, Rimsha Masih (Masih is urdu word means the word Messiah/Christ) accused of burning the Koran. This is an unjust world. Keep praying for her, many like her face persecution on account of being a Christian.

[neo-x]

This is the latest, http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/07/world ... index.html

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A Pakistani judge on Friday granted bail to Rimsha, a 14-year-old Christian girl detained over accusations she burned pages of the Quran in a case that has heightened religious tensions in the volatile country.

The All Pakistan Minorities Alliance, which represents religious minorities in the country, will pay the sum of roughly $10,000 to secure Rimsha's release from jail, said Tahir Naveed Chaudhry, one of her lawyers and a leading member of the alliance.

Judge Muhammad Azam Khan said written details of his decision on the bail application would be released Saturday. It was not immediately clear when Rimsha would be released.
The judge's decision came after a lengthy argument Friday between Rimsha's lawyer speaking in court, Pervez Khan, and lawyers representing the accuser.
Khan argued Rimsha should be granted bail because she was essentially an innocent girl with a lower than average IQ who was framed by a local cleric who planted evidence against her.

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The accuser's lawyer argued Rimsha committed blasphemy and should be punished no matter how old she is.
Rimsha's family has left their home on the outskirts of Islamabad as a result of the tensions caused by the accusations against her.
Police: Muslim cleric framed girl in Pakistan blasphemy case. The case took a dramatic twist over the weekend when the police said a Muslim cleric had planted evidence in order to link her to the blasphemy allegations.

The imam, Khalid Jadoon Chishti, will himself face blasphemy charges for tearing pages out of a Quran to use as evidence against the girl, police said.
Authorities arrested Rimsha last month after a neighbor accused her of burning pages containing texts from the Muslim holy book.
Rimsha had two shopping bags with her: one containing ashes and the other, the partially burned pages, police said. She had gathered the paper as fuel for cooking, authorities said.
Even though Rimsha's lawyer said no one actually saw the girl burning the papers, the neighbor went to Chishti -- the neighborhood cleric -- with the bags for safekeeping as evidence.
Chishti wasn't certain that simply burning pages with texts from the Quran would be enough to convict Rimsha on blasphemy charges, the police said.
So, the imam added two pages from the holy book itself to the bag to bolster the case, according to the police
Chishti was arrested on Saturday after three witnesses told a judge about the imam's actions.
He was sent to jail for 14 days, accused of evidence tampering.
Chishti has denied the allegation, authorities said.

Thank God the wheels are turning, hopefully for the best.

[Ivellious]

This is indeed a pretty good example of the insanity taking place in the Middle East. No matter where you turn, there are serious problems, many pertaining to religious conflicts and most of them are having a major impact on the people who aren't involved in all the political machinations behind it all. The sad part is that there is really no great "good guy" in that area to root for or support. All the powers that be in the Middle East have serious problems and those problems trickle down to screw over the individuals, who by and large want nothing to do with the power struggle taking place around them.

That's how I see all this anyway. Sad, sad stuff.