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kiwiqpr said:
look how much better the place is these days

Pakistanis rally to demand death for Christian woman facing execution for blasphemy (PHOTOS)
Published time: 13 Oct, 2018 20:47 Edited time: 15 Oct, 2018 09:47
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Protesters are pictured in Lahore, Pakistan, on October 12, 2018. © AFP / Arif Ali
Several thousand protesters hit the streets of Pakistan calling for the Christian woman accused of insulting Islam be put to death. Asia Bibi would become the first person executed for blasphemy if her appeal fails.
The Pakistani city of Lahore was the center of Friday’s protests, which were organized by the anti-blasphemy party Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP). Demonstrations also took place in a number of other cities across the country, including Karachi and Rawalpindi.
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Protesters are pictured in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on October 12, 2018. © AFP / Aamir Qureshi
The rallies came after Pakistan's Supreme Court heard the final appeal of Bibi, a Christian laborer accused of blasphemy against the Prophet Mohammed in 2009 by Muslim women she was working with in a field.
According to Bibi's autobiography ‘Blasphemy: A Memoir: Sentenced to Death Over a Cup of Water’ the incident began when she went to retrieve a cup of water from a well during a hot day of fruit picking.
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Protesters are pictured in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. © AFP / Aamir Qureshi
When a Muslim woman nearby saw her doing so she shouted, “Don't drink that water, it's haram (forbidden)!” She then turned to the other women in the field, telling them that Bibi had dirtied the water in the well by drinking from their cup.
“Now the water is unclear and we can't drink it! Because of her!” the woman said. Several women called Bibi a “filthy Christian” and told her to convert to Islam.
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Protesters are pictured in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on October 12, 2018. © AFP / Aamir Qureshi
“I’m not going to convert. I believe in my religion and in Jesus Christ, who died on the cross for the sins of mankind. What did your Prophet Mohammed ever do to save mankind? And why should it be me that converts instead of you?” Bibi said.
At that point, one woman spat on her while another shoved her. Days later, she was accused of blasphemy.
Friday’s protests came despite the court saying it had reached a judgment at a hearing on Monday, but that it would not be released immediately for “reasons to be recorded later.” It also said that it had ruled on a petition that would put Bibi on the no-fly list if released, but did not publish that judgment either.
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Supporters of the Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) party surround the party's leader during the protest in Lahore. © AFP / Arif Ali
Bibi's case has prompted international calls for her release, with Pope Benedict XVI joining in the calls in 2010. Pope Francis met with Bibi's daughter in 2015.
Although Pakistan's law takes the accusation of blasphemy very seriously and people have been sentenced to death, no one has ever actually been executed.
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A right ****hole......wouldn’t go there if you paid me.
 
colognehornet said:
Anything usefull to contribute to the debate ? These are open boards where I do not have to ask your permission before coming on them. There is also no 'winding up' on my side, just giving of opinions and trying to counter arguments, just the same as anyone else does. I have also never seen you on the Watford forum and so you are not in a position to judge my postings there - Ok ?
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Wrong. When you last came on here I didn't realise you were a Twatford fan (<doh> I know). I then went on to your board and saw a post from someone saying you talked a load of old 2222. So really I am in a position to judge.
 
ELLERS said:
Wrong. When you last came on here I didn't realise you were a Twatford fan (<doh> I know). I then went on to your board and saw a post from someone saying you talked a load of old 2222. So really I am in a position to judge.
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tbf to cologne, when i was on the watford board, they loved cologne but mainly because it was 1 right wing poster, a couple of centrists and a whole hoard of pretty left wing posters <laugh>
 
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ELLERS said:
Wrong. When you last came on here I didn't realise you were a Twatford fan (<doh> I know). I then went on to your board and saw a post from someone saying you talked a load of old 2222. So really I am in a position to judge.
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One fan who didn't like his post. Is that it? Which part of the name Hornet did you miss? Your powers of observation and research skills aren't up to much.<doh>
 
BobbyD said:
tbf to cologne, when i was on the watford board, they loved cologne but mainly because it was 1 right wing poster, a couple of centrists and a whole hoard of pretty left wing posters <laugh>
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Not entirely true. Sure most of us voted remain but on the whole we are centrists. And I actually think Superhorns is a commie on the wind up!
 
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YorkshireHoopster said:
One fan who didn't like his post. Is that it? Which part of the name Hornet did you miss? Your powers of observation and research skills aren't up to much.<doh>
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Which bit of (I know <doh>) did you miss? We are hardly the most fashionable club so someone not knowing we are called the hornets is hardly a hanging offence. Wish he'd stop using Twatford though :-)
 
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YorkshireHoopster said:
One fan who didn't like his post. Is that it? Which part of the name Hornet did you miss? Your powers of observation and research skills aren't up to much.<doh>
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Oh look 'boomerang boy' has seen a post to come back and start having a pop at me with...bless. You really need to move on fella, I made you look stupid ages ago, get over it. If you like him so much go over to the Watford board and stop boring me.
 
Dan Starkey 2 said:
Not entirely true. Sure most of us voted remain but on the whole we are centrists. And I actually think Superhorns is a commie on the wind up!
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Nah most of you boys were left wing i very much remember lol. You are pretty centrist and so was leo.

Saying that it was very sporadic activity. Or maybe thats the impression i got cause superhorns was very right wing and you just ridiculed him <laugh>
 
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BobbyD said:
Nah most of you boys were left wing i very much remember lol. You are pretty centrist and so was leo.

Saying that it was very sporadic activity. Or maybe thats the impression i got cause superhorns was very right wing and you just ridiculed him <laugh>
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Honestly Bobby I don't think he is that right wing. The majority of hid posts are just to wind everyone up into a frenzy. On three occasions he's offered a free ticket up on there and on another we were all asked to bring a scarf to a Graham Taylor day - he said he had three spare ones and would gladly meet people outside to lend them one rather than buy one. He's an enigma wrapped in a mystery....
 
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British lorry driver tells migrant stowaways ‘you gonna learn today’ as they beg him to stop
Richard Hartley-ParkinsonWednesday 10 Oct 2018 6:46 am
A British lorry driver has filmed himself taunting migrants who were on his truck when they realised he wasn’t going in the direction they wanted. He said that he was giving them a ‘lesson’ after warning them not to get on board the transporter. They can be seen waving at the driver to slow down so that they could jump off. British lorry driver teaches motorway 'lesson' to migrant stowaways
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He told them: ‘I told you I wasn’t stopping. You’re going to Holland.’ Writing on Facebook, Ryan Ledgister said: ‘I told these motherf**kers I’m not stupid enough to stop here on my way home, don’t waste your time, and they didn’t listen. ‘Boy you going to learn today’. Three clips, two of them filmed from behind the steering wheel, show the immigrants jumping on board at a petrol station. The driver can be heard speaking to the camera saying: ‘I told these two boys that I’m going to Holland. So when they get on they best hold on tight because I’m not stopping motherf**ker’. The second clip shows the driver filming his wing mirror whilst driving on a motorway jeering at the immigrants who wave at him to slow down. The migrant could be seen trying to flag the driver down so that he could get off (Picture: Deadline News) He continued driving towards Holland despite the migrant’s protests (Picture: Deadline News)The migrants are hunkered down between the load, which seems to be a yellow bulldozer.
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The driver can be heard singing: ‘Oh I told you I wasn’t stopping! You’re coming to Holland, you’re coming to Holland!’. A third clip shows the driver filming the immigrants through his wing mirror as they clamber forward towards him. The video is captioned: ‘I got options but stopping isn’t one’. The lorry can be seen driving passed a sign saying ‘Veurne 1500m’, a city in Belgium. The videos show the extent to which immigrants will go to try and reach developed countries in Western Europe. Last week footage emerged of a man trying to evade customs at a port in Morocco by hiding on the roof of an HGV. The man lay flat on his front as the lorry loaded onto a ferry believed to be heading for Western Europe.

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was the nhs really a dirty bastard tory idea

The NHS wasnt created by socialists, it was a policy produced by a Churchill led government. Tory MP for Croydon North, Henry Willink, produced the white paper a full year before Labour were elected, most of Aneurin Bevan’s work was handed to him by Tories
 
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It's looking more and more like May has painted herself into a corner with her own red lines. She plainly can't deliver on all of her own Brexit promises, but can't bring herself to admit it to the ERG or the DUP. Unlike Cameron (who used to portray it as a positive thing), she's incapable of performing a U-turn, and will end up driving us off the cliff.
 
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Stroller said:
It's looking more and more like May has painted herself into a corner with her own red lines. She plainly can't deliver on all of her own Brexit promises, but can't bring herself to admit it to the ERG or the DUP. Unlike Cameron (who used to portray it as a positive thing), she's incapable of performing a U-turn, and will end up driving us off the cliff.
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Will it be a white cliff
 
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ELLERS said:
Oh look 'boomerang boy' has seen a post to come back and start having a pop at me with...bless. You really need to move on fella, I made you look stupid ages ago, get over it. If you like him so much go over to the Watford board and stop boring me.
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Stop bullying me. Stop trolling me. Stop boring the rest of us. You wait for one post from me to explode. Boomerang boy. I like that one. Not up to your usual level of insult but on a par with your usual cretinous, yoghurt-knitting self-importance. Just go back to the soundbites. Haven't heard 'Operation Fear' for a while now. Here is a simple question for you. Is there more than one poster who disliked Cologne's posts whose posts you read at the time (no cheating now) which made up your mind up for you about him. You keep telling us how widely you read.
 
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kiwiqpr said:
was the nhs really a dirty bastard tory idea

The NHS wasnt created by socialists, it was a policy produced by a Churchill led government. Tory MP for Croydon North, Henry Willink, produced the white paper a full year before Labour were elected, most of Aneurin Bevan’s work was handed to him by Tories
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I imagine Stroller's head will explode if he reads that!
 
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