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Related: About this forumBollywood star Veena Malik handed 26 year sentence for 'blasphemous' wedding scene
The actor Veena Malik has expressed anger at a 26-year jail term handed down by a Pakistani court after she acted in a scene loosely based on the marriage of the prophet Muhammads daughter.
The same sentence was extended to her husband, and to Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, owner of the Jang-Geo media group which broadcast the TV show. All three were ordered to surrender their passports and fined 3m rupees (£8,000).
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On 26 May, the senior vice president of the Gilgit-Baltistan chapter of Muslim religious organisation Jamaat Ahle Sunnat, lodged an official complaint alleging the show had defiled Ahl al-Bayt the family of the prophet Muhammad in playing a contemptuous Qawwali.
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The order was enforced in Gilgit, whose control is shared between Pakistan and the India-claimed Kashmir region, and verdicts delivered by its courts tend not apply to the rest of Pakistan.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/nov/27/bollywood-veena-malik-sentenced-26-years-jail-religious-blasphemy-wedding
The same sentence was extended to her husband, and to Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, owner of the Jang-Geo media group which broadcast the TV show. All three were ordered to surrender their passports and fined 3m rupees (£8,000).
...
On 26 May, the senior vice president of the Gilgit-Baltistan chapter of Muslim religious organisation Jamaat Ahle Sunnat, lodged an official complaint alleging the show had defiled Ahl al-Bayt the family of the prophet Muhammad in playing a contemptuous Qawwali.
...
The order was enforced in Gilgit, whose control is shared between Pakistan and the India-claimed Kashmir region, and verdicts delivered by its courts tend not apply to the rest of Pakistan.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/nov/27/bollywood-veena-malik-sentenced-26-years-jail-religious-blasphemy-wedding
All of the accused currently seem to be outside Pakistan. http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/veena-malik-first-reaction-pakistan-blasphmey-charges-geo-tv/1/403840.html
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Bollywood star Veena Malik handed 26 year sentence for 'blasphemous' wedding scene (Original Post)
muriel_volestrangler
Nov 2014
OP
Rural backwards religious lower traditional court, in a small local area, like those in Texas.
Fred Sanders
Nov 2014
#3
Seems to me that some Muslims make fundamentalist Christians seem almost rational. nt
mr blur
Nov 2014
#10
At least she's not there to be put in prison; but will have to stay away until her country reverts
LeftishBrit
Nov 2014
#12
still_one
(92,492 posts)1. I suggest if they are outside of Pakistan they stay there.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)2. Decades in prison for insulting a character in a fairy tale.
Sounds reasonable to me. After all we can't "know" that this scene did not insult a deity. On the off chance it did, rather than risk the wrath of a vengeful god it probably is safest to punish people.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)4. Mohammed was a real person, not a fairy tale....like Jesus.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)7. Agreed
But the stories involving him still are fairy tales.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)9. The historicity of Mohammad is just about
As unfounded as Jesus. The Koran is a bunch of fairy tales.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)11. Possible, but not a certainty.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)3. Rural backwards religious lower traditional court, in a small local area, like those in Texas.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)5. :(
on point
(2,506 posts)6. If there are laws against blasphemy, then blasphemy is required.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)8. Great slogan and I agree.
Hopefully they will sin on appeal in a higher court.
on point
(2,506 posts)13. Thanks CB. Basic principle of honest investigation
mr blur
(7,753 posts)10. Seems to me that some Muslims make fundamentalist Christians seem almost rational. nt
LeftishBrit
(41,212 posts)12. At least she's not there to be put in prison; but will have to stay away until her country reverts
to some semblance of sanity.
I never understand the logic of blasphemy laws. Why should God/ Allah need human laws to protect him; if he's that offended, he could just send down a thunderbolt.
edhopper
(33,651 posts)14. Remember this isn't all Muslims
just the majority of am democratic country of almost 200 million.