Tag: Pakistan
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Woman wearing a ‘blasphemous’ dress in Pakistan rescued by a brave female police officer

Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. AN unnamed woman in Lahore, Pakistan, had to be rescued from a vicious, ignorant mob who wrongly claimed that that a dress she was wearing bore words from the Koran and was therefore “blasphemous.“ The terrified woman might well have…
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Pakistani pastor shot himself then claimed he was the victim of an Islamic terrorist attack

LAST month it widely reported in Pakistan that Protestant pastor Eleazar Sidhu, 35, had been hospitalised with a gunshot wound after being attacked by a “bearded person” after Sunday prayers, and police were called in to investigate. According to this report, Sidhu, pastor of a Presbyterian church in Kukranwala village in the Khanuwana area of…
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Pakistan lawmakers vote to impose life imprisoment on those who insult Mohammed’s wives and companions

DESPITE opposition voiced by Pakistan’s Human Rights Minister Riaz Hussain Pirzada, above, the Senate this month passed a bill to raise levels of punishment meted out to anyone found guilty of insulting anyone closely connected to the “prophet” Mohammed. As things stand the punishment for those who make “derogatory” remarks about Mo’s family, wives and…

