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Pakistan: Christian Girl Accused Of Blasphemy Over Spelling Error
The Express Tribune ^ | 9/25/2011 | Muhammad Sadaqat

Posted on 09/25/2011 7:13:32 PM PDT by Just4Him

ABBOTTABAD: It may have been a mere misplaced dot that led to accusations of blasphemy against a Christian eighth-grader, whose miniscule error led to her expulsion from school and uproar amongst local religious leaders.

Faryal Bhatti, a student at the Sir Syed Girls High School in Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) colony Havelian, erroneously misspelt a word in an Urdu exam while answering a question on a poem written in praise of the Holy Prophet (PBUH). The word in question was ‘laanat’ instead of ‘naat’ – an easy error for a child to make, as the written versions of the words are similar.

According to the school administration and religious leaders who took great exception to the hapless student’s mistake, the error is ‘serious’ enough to fall within the realm of blasphemy, Saturday.

Spelling out her punishment

On Thursday, Faryal’s Urdu teacher was collecting the answer sheets from her students when she noticed the apparently offensive word on her pupil’s sheet. The teacher, Fareeda Bibi, reportedly summoned the Christian girl, scolded her and beat her. Her punishment, however, did not end here. When Faryal’s class fellows learnt of the alleged blasphemy, the teacher brought the principal’s notice to the matter, who further informed the school management.

(Excerpt) Read more at tribune.com.pk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: christian; christiangirl; grammarnazi; mohammedan; mohammedans; moslem; moslems; pakistan; pakitrash; religiouspersecution; spellingerror
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To: SoftwareEngineer

You gave accurate facts — THAT is worth praising.


41 posted on 09/26/2011 7:01:28 AM PDT by Cronos (www.forfiter.com)
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To: airedale
the punishment for blasphemy in Pakiland is death.

but since this is a Christian little girl they'll just rap e her and then sell her as a slave -- the tolerant Izlamic scum

42 posted on 09/26/2011 7:03:06 AM PDT by Cronos (www.forfiter.com)
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To: Eleutheria5
thanks for that EleutheriA! What is Russofarsi? And by Buchara do you mean the Jews from Uzbekistan?

Those are ancient Israelites -- descended from Naphtali, right?

43 posted on 09/26/2011 7:06:31 AM PDT by Cronos (www.forfiter.com)
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To: SoftwareEngineer
Pakistan had long wanted to become an Arab speaking country and kill any historical ethnic identity.

I find it funny that they are clubbed with the Middle East, and of course the Arabs laugh at them

The only place out of their five constituent countries they have succeeded is West Panjab. -- really? the Punjabis have given up their culture -- what sad folk Mozlems are...

44 posted on 09/26/2011 7:11:16 AM PDT by Cronos (www.forfiter.com)
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To: Sherman Logan
well, not quite -- Urdu was not the language of the ruling classes until quite late.

under the Tughlaks etc. the language of government was Persian or Turkic (Chagatai)

The Mughals too used Farsi like Akbar

Urdu/Hindi only came into being around 1800 and was the official language of British Indian only from the 1830s as Hindustani

45 posted on 09/26/2011 7:15:58 AM PDT by Cronos (www.forfiter.com)
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To: Cronos
Urdu/Hindi only came into being around 1800

Most of what you say is accurate but not this part.

Farsi was indeed the official language of government for most of Mogul rule. But Hindustani (Urdu/Hindi) was the vernacular language of most of North India for this whole period.

The British simply "officialized" the vernacular, much as when Europe switched from Latin to the various vernacular languages during the Renaissance and Reformation. Or when the English dropped French as the language of government for English.

46 posted on 09/26/2011 8:08:22 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Cronos

that was kind of my point. She’ll be lucky to even survive.


47 posted on 09/26/2011 8:39:50 AM PDT by airedale
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To: Cronos

I don’t know if they’re from Naftali, but they generally come from around Uzbekistan. My chavruta in yeshiva was a Buchara born in Uzbekistan, and he never mentioned any claim of descent from a lost tribe.


48 posted on 09/26/2011 12:00:49 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Eleutheria5

From what I had read, the Bukharan jews date back over 2000+ years and some traditional accounts are that they are descended from Naphtali


49 posted on 09/27/2011 12:49:46 AM PDT by Cronos (www.forfiter.com)
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To: Cronos

Well, live and learn. I never knew. So that makes three known lost tribes. The Bnei Menashe are now in Israel from Northeastern India. The Bnei Dan are here from Ethiopia, and now we have Bnei Naftali from Uzbekistan and Samarkand.


50 posted on 09/27/2011 1:13:34 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Eleutheria5

I wonder about the Bnei Menashe — wasn’t there some controversy that they don’t have the Israeli gene?


51 posted on 09/27/2011 2:12:49 AM PDT by Cronos (www.forfiter.com)
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To: Cronos

Never heard of it. Do provide a link, please.

They were living in rural isolation in India, keeping the laws of family purity, praying three times a day, having a Cohen offer the Passover sacrifice of a lamb on an altar, and observing many other of the minutiae of Jewish religious life, and with a history of their exile 2,700 years ago.

Even so, they and the Ethiopians were required to convert before becoming citizens. That is SOP for highly isolated, though ancient, communities, and actually is a favor, so that the tangled question of mamzerut (children born to adulterous relationships, such as where a divorce was not really valid, but the spouse remarried anyway) is completely preempted.


52 posted on 09/27/2011 2:25:35 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Eleutheria5
I don't have any off-hand unfortunately.

But before becoming Pentecostalist they were headhunters, animists.

53 posted on 09/27/2011 5:36:29 AM PDT by Cronos (www.forfiter.com)
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