I don't read the Herald Tribune very often (frankly, I don't know what its stance is on many issues), but it ran a very strange article.
A young Christian girl who was attending a school in Abbottabad, Pakistan, accidentally misspelled the word for "Poetry in Praise of Muhammad" as the word for "Denounce". This made the more zealous Muslims accuse her of blasphemy and call for her demise. She was expelled from the school to calm the accusers. They applauded the move. The girl apologized for her error, but why should people start yelling cruel threats against her for a mere typo?
That's the issue I have with Islam; it calls for those who blaspheme Muhammad to be killed. This was an accident. The girl didn't mean to screw up, and this particular Arabic word is easy to misspell. Why should this molehill become a mountain?
If anyone has any answers, please let me know.
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