Or is this sort of judicial murder sanctioned by Islamic law and teaching?

A Christian was sentenced to death for allegedly insulting Islam's Prophet Muhammed, and a human rights activist Friday urged Pakistan's president to spare his life.

Younis Masih, 29, was arrested in September 2005 on the outskirts of the eastern city of Lahore after residents told police he made derogatory remarks against Islam and Muhammad.

On Wednesday, a court sentenced Masih to death under Pakistan's harsh blasphemy laws, which rights groups say have been misused against Christians since former President Gen. Zia ul-Haq enacted them in 1980s to win the support of hard-line religious groups.

So, my Muslim readers -- is this acceptable? And if it is, would you find it equally acceptable for a majority Christian country to create a similar law that punished blasphemy against Christianity and Jesus Christ -- say by denying that Jesus is the Son of God and declaring him to be a mere prophet inferior to Muhammad -- with death?

Somehow I didn't think so.

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