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Men jailed 10 weeks for pamphlet
Advocates worry even police will be unable to protect Christians
Posted: April 21, 2009
10:29 pm Eastern

2009 WorldNetDaily

Two brothers have been released after spending more than two months in jail, and their advocates worry that even police won't be able to protect them after they were accused of blasphemy, a charge local Muslims believe is sufficient for the death penalty, according to an international Christian ministry.

International Christian Concern says the brothers only recently were released from police custody in Pakistan, and there are high levels of concern for their future.

"These two brothers will face intense social pressure from Muslims who see even the accusation of blasphemy as reason enough for execution," said Jeremy Sewall, ICC's advocacy director.

"Until Pakistan can address this societal pressure, even the best policing in the world will not be able to protect Pakistani Christians," he said.

ICC said the brothers were released after two and a half months in jail. The release followed work by the Center for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement, a Christian legal group that works to negotiate "settlements" between Muslim accusers and Christians in that part of the world.
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FAITH UNDER FIRE
U.N. to make ban on criticizing Islam mandatory?
Expected proposal would criminalize such comments in U.S.
Posted: March 04, 2009
11:40 pm Eastern

2009 WorldNetDaily

Muslim-dominated nations at the United Nations are once again pushing a religious "anti-defamation" plan that would bar worldwide all criticism of their founder Muhammad and his teaching.

According to a report by CNN's Lou Dobbs posted on YouTube (link below or in the original story), the proposal that has been repeatedly brought in recent years by the Organization of Islamic Conference states is expected to resurface as early as this spring.

This time, however, the resolution wouldn't allow nations to opt out.

"The United Nations has adopted what it calls a Resolution to Combat Defamation of Religion," Dobbs said in the report. "The U.N. now wants to make that anti-blasphemy resolution binding on member nations, including, of course, our own. That would make it a crime in the United States ... to criticize religion, in particular, Islam."

Constitutional lawyer Floyd Abrams said in the report, "What they would do would be to make it illegal to put out a movie or write a book or a poem that somebody could say was defamatory of Islam."
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