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Young Pakistani man in lose-lose situation
Friday, April 23, 2021 |
Charlie Butts (OneNewsNow.com)
Spanish
The U.S. is being asked to intervene in the case of a Pakistani who stands falsely accused of blasphemy.
Yaqoob Bashir Masih, a young man who is mentally handicapped, was charged with blasphemy and falsely accused of burning the Koran in Pakistan. Muslims surrounded him, doused him with kerosene, and threatened to set him on fire if he did not confess his guilt, so he did and was sentenced to life in prison. The poor young man doesn t have the mental capacity to understand what he was doing or what he was dealing with and essentially was put into an impossible situation where he didn t understand what was happening, reports Matias Perttula of International Christian Concern (ICC). But the court deemed that irrelevant in Pakistan and gave him life in prison anyway.
It’s important to note that the “generals” this time around especially Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault understand that what’s at stake this time is clearly unlike any threat that news media, and the millions of Canadians who rely on it, have ever faced before. In his public pronouncements, he has indicated that you can’t call in the cavalry to fight a high-tech war, especially when the other side has nukes. But not everyone sees it that way. Some are tempted to look at a new problem through an old lens. Over the last half century in particular, successive Canadian governments have effectively responded to threats to the Canadian cultural sector including to news media with innovative and comprehensive policies of special funds and Canadian content and production requirements. Purists have sometimes chafed at these policies, but they’ve been instrumental in nurturing and sustaining a vibrant cultural sector in the face of constant bombardment from the worl