Jail for Blasphemy
By Nour Abuzant
A Doha court has handed down a Lebanese man three-year imprisonment and subsequent deportation for uttering blasphemous words.
During the trial, the court heard how the accused, a foreman, made the offending comment to one of his workers at a worksite, on May 1, 2007.
The prosecution said the man uttered the blasphemous words after a worker failed to carry out his instruction. He also fired the worker.
Two other workers who were present at the site at the time of the incident testified against their boss.
The accused denied the charge and said he sacked the worker because he did not follow the orders.
Delivering the judgement, the court said that based on the witnesses’ testimony it was convinced that the accused uttered the “blasphemous remark.”
The crime was particularly serious as the accused was a Muslim, the court said.
The convict has appealed against the ruling.
***** and yet the woman who tortured and murdered her maid got 3 years as well......
black and white (under Qatari law), no transparency
....I don't know whether is this blasphemy?
I agree that for me, the sentence in the maid murder case was far too lenient.
Is it a crime? Who knows, things that previously weren't crimes seem to become crimes and vice versa here pretty easily.
My beef however is that once again this person is receiving a harsher sentence then the woman who tortured and killed her maid! It's the values of Qatar's courts that confuse me!
They'll be judged, by God, as hard as they have judged others here.
Only God Can Judge Me
الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي
I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer
أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ
YES THIS IS BIG MISTAKES......
Is blasphemy a crime in Qatar ?
if so, then the sentence is correct .. Isn't it ?
Ngourlay: Couldn't agree more, just a peatty that they consider blaphesmy when they judge in His name.
Only God Can Judge Me
الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي
I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer
أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ
A victimless 'crime'
:)
"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."
It always amuses me that God needs protecting from name-calling.
lol @ zayd, my thoughts exactly
required to understand the case properly.
Anyways we have certain email ID's and can be tracked through IP address and put them behind bar for blasphemy (just kidding)
So I can get together with two other people and send someone to jail?, or maybe even get sent to jail myself!
I found a good joke according Mr. Birdie.
We better control our anger and nevr talk against any religons.
I think he is in the right path....
What are those Blasphemous words?
No clue. Funnily enough they didn't repeat them in the paper.
I request people not to involve with any blasphemic words , espeically dealing with a religious bigot.
Some time the junior workers does some conspiracy agianst the boss, givng false allegation that the boss talked something against the Religion.
I remember an incident a Philipine Nurse was falsely convicted, by the "witness report" of her colleagues, only because of professional jealosy !!!
We better control our anger and nevr talk against any religons
well i guess god won't have to punish him when he dies cause qatar is doing god's work now.