(BP) Christian Pakistani girl, 11, remains jailed

Posted by Kendall Harmon

Controversy continues to swirl around Pakistan's blasphemy law after the arrest of a young Christian girl for defiling words from the Quran.

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has asked the country's Interior Ministry for a report about the Aug. 16 arrest of Rimshah Masih, described as an 11-year-old with Down syndrome in various media reports.

Even so, Nina Shea, director of the Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom and a former member of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, suggested an ominous fate for the girl, in a National Review Online blog Aug. 21.

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Posted August 23, 2012 at 5:30 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]



1. upnorfjoel wrote:

Islam….“The Religion of Peace”....
Yup.

August 23, 8:39 pm | [comment link]
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