Pakistani Lawyer Petitions For Facebook CEO's Death

theregister.co.uk:

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is being investigated by Pakistani police under a section of the penal code that makes blasphemy against Muhammad punishable by death.

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Comments

[StJames]

08:42 AM on 06/22/2010

I like to think of myself as a reasonable person but this story makes me feel very unreasonable. My gut reaction is to say something about Muhammad that is neither politically correct nor rational. Of course that remark would be scrubbed here...so I think I'll go to Facebook and say it. ;-)

[SamanthaBee]

04:06 AM on 06/22/2010

I think it's high time the world helps India Neuter P-Stan. Without those tin pot nukes they keep blackmailing civilized societies around them with, they aren't such a big threat.

[doneit]

01:44 AM on 06/22/2010

When will the craziness in these countries stop? Their minds are being held hostage to misleading information. We stopped believing a very long time ago that the sun and the rocks are gods. http://www.digitalundivide.com

[Samuel Perry]

11:29 PM on 06/21/2010

Remind me never to rear end a Pakistani lawyer, should I ever be driving a car in Pakistan.

[J McLemore]

11:23 PM on 06/21/2010

Using this way of thinking...one could found a religion...write a set of rules or bylines that say they have religious right to rob, pillage, and steal...and then proceed to do so. (If murder is a viable legal action for making someone of a certain faith angry why not other crimes) Sorry religulous people of the world, but you have no right to police anyone's personal life...

[TXfemmom]

09:49 PM on 06/21/2010

Tell me again exactly why we try to deal on a rational basis with Pakistan?

[poster1122]

11:38 PM on 06/21/2010

They have nukes.

[TruEngineHearing]

09:23 AM on 06/22/2010

we have more...

[SillyWalks]

04:07 PM on 06/21/2010

Zukerberg has nothing to worry about. After all a US company killed 15,000 people when gas leaked from its factory in Bhopal India and the US has resisted extraditing the CEO (Warren Anderson of Union Carbide) to India to face justice for 26 years. So what has Zukerberg to worry about?

Now if Zukerberg was, say, a British CEO spilling oil in the Gulf that would be a different story, would it not? Altogether different.

[TXfemmom]

09:53 PM on 06/21/2010

Part of the reason they will not extradict the CEO is BECAUSE AN INDIAN EMPLOYEE OF THE PLANT IN BHOPAL INTENTIONALLY SABOTAGED THE PLANT, resulting in the leak. It wasn't an accident based upon Carbide's negligence, the incident happened because ANOTHER INDIAN intentionally killed and harmed the Indians who were harmed because he was upset.

Had the company done something negligent, or not kept up the facility and it had leaked because of that, yes, extradict the person who was most responsible, but it is difficult to blame Carbide when it was intentional sabotage. Doing so would be like holding the airlines responsible because Muslim terrorists hijacked them and flew them into the Twin Towers.

As for Zukerberg, he should be able to have a contest such as that on Facebook BECAUSE THIS IS A FREE COUNTRY.

[KSS530]

08:50 AM on 06/22/2010

Wow, your post has no basis in fact at all. I would love to know where you got this sabotage theory from? Same place where Bush/ Israel were responsible for 9/11?

[gymmy]

03:24 PM on 06/21/2010

Facebook needs to remove it's CEO........... even if he was the one that, -borrowed- the idea into fruition.

[kevwells]

02:15 PM on 06/21/2010

There is a passage in the bible (I'll paraphrase) that is relevant here--"Remove the 2 x 4 from your own eye before giving me sh*t about the splinter in mine" or something to that effect. It would really interesting if in the service of "saving" Islam and all images, etc of dear old M, they would actually examine the myriad ways that they themselves are some of the worst, most unfaithful "believers" out there. What a crock--as usual. "Law" in Pakistan is just another word for extremest thinking that gets innocent bystanders killed. "Live and Let Live" is not a concept that makes sense to these as*h*oles.

[Crappol]

01:11 PM on 06/21/2010

How else can we know if a society is imploding? See, hear and watch Pakistan - a nation failing.. Before it was ISI, Taliban and now lawyers in Pakistan. A failed nation.

[TXfemmom]

09:59 PM on 06/21/2010

Absolutely. I am sick of their fatwahs and threats against anyone who exercises free speech.

Remember, just a few weeks ago, one of their chief mullahs in Saudi Arabia ruled that if women were going to work in an environment with male co-workers, she should be required to feed the males with her own breast milk for three meals, so they would be considered "relatives" and she could be around them without risk of sexual affairs. Give me a break. Expecting a female to breast feed her co-workers with her own breast milk? The leading "Islamic scholars" come up with this crap?

A very similar ruling came out of Egypt, and then there was argument among the mullahs in regards to whether the breast milk could be pumped and delivered to the co-workers via a storage receptable or whether the woman had to permit the co-workers to suckle at her breast. FOR GOD'S SAKE, I know we have a bunch of cretons within the far right wing Evangelical and other puritanical Christian churches and faiths, but I cannot imagine Pat Robertson suggesting that women breast feed anyone other than their child.

[Crappol]

11:25 PM on 06/21/2010

Actually, these mullahs have a plan! They found a way to satisfy the urges men have by allowing 4 wives. (or more). Now, this way men can enjoy things legally. Sick people.

[HorseChowda]

01:01 PM on 06/21/2010

*a billboard of Mohammed

[HorseChowda]

01:00 PM on 06/21/2010

If I were Zuckerberg, I'd pay for a billboard so big that it's visible from space, and just float it above Pakistan.

[kevwells]

02:16 PM on 06/21/2010

I like this. A lot.

[Sarah Moore]

11:15 AM on 06/21/2010

"According to Pro Paskistani, petitioner Muhammad Azhar Sidiqque said he's waiting for the police to contact Interpol about making arrangements for the arrest of Facebook's owners and "Andy". The site also says that the Deputy Attorney General told the High Court that Pakistan’s United Nations representative has asked to escalate the issue in the UN General Assembly."

This has got to be a joke, right? Right?

[sb250guy]

10:48 AM on 06/21/2010

OK. That's too much. I'd like to see Mark Zuckerberg get punched in the face a few dozen times, but that's it. I wouldn't want to see anything that wasn't justified.

[Aldyth]

10:23 AM on 06/21/2010

Twenty-first century society meets the religious equivalent of the Middle Ages.

[Bleaker]

01:51 PM on 06/21/2010

Now with nuclear-weapons action!

[Aldyth]

02:08 PM on 06/21/2010

Now, there's a comforting thought.

*searches anxiously for bomb shelter"