{"id":1391,"date":"2005-04-21T09:24:54","date_gmt":"2005-04-21T14:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1391"},"modified":"2005-04-21T07:55:19","modified_gmt":"2005-04-21T12:55:19","slug":"funny_if_it_wer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/21\/funny_if_it_wer\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost funny if it weren&#8217;t true"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=573&#038;ncid=757&#038;e=5&#038;u=\/nm\/20050420\/od_nm\/religion_pakistan_blasphemy_dc\">This <\/a>almost feels like it should be a scene from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonyclassics.com\/kungfuhustle\/\">Kung Fu Hustle<\/a> except for<\/p>\n\n<p>1) the unhappy ending and \n2) it&#8217;s sadly all too true &#8211;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>ISLAMABAD (Reuters) &#8211; A Pakistani man accused of desecrating the Koran was shot dead Wednesday after being chased by an angry crowd.\n\nAshiq Nabi, in his thirties, was accused of being disrespectful to Islam&#8217;s holy book and had been in hiding since Monday, a senior police official said.\n\n&#8230;Witnesses said the man was chased through fields and climbed a tree to get away from an angry crowd of up to 500 men. When he refused to come down, someone shot him dead, they said. <\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Although the article doesn&#8217;t really tell us how he desecrated the Koran, one of the mob&#8217;s motives here was apparently a type of vigilante justice.   It appears that relative at least to this little slice of society, Pakistani courts almost come across as bastions of liberal due process. &#8211;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>Blasphemy, including desecrating the Koran, is a capital offence in deeply Islamic Pakistan and carries the death sentence, but <b>convictions have always been turned down by high courts<\/b> because of a lack of evidence.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I guess in conjunction with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001342.html\">tragic death in India<\/a> tab, we&#8217;ll start a count of the ones in Pakistan too.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This almost feels like it should be a scene from Kung Fu Hustle except for 1) the unhappy ending and 2) it&#8217;s sadly all too true &#8211; ISLAMABAD (Reuters) &#8211; A Pakistani man accused of desecrating the Koran was shot &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/21\/funny_if_it_wer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}