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So now we're arresting children for blasphemy

Peter Grant's Avatar By PETER GRANT
Added: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 06:40:10 UTC

A 15-year-old girl has been arrested for burning a Qur'an as well as a 14 year old boy just for threatening to do so:

Can't say I'm surprised by this but I am sickened by it. Like PZ Myers says, "It's just a frackin' book!"

How can people feel so threatened by children? More importantly, how can they expect children to exercise this kind of self-control when many adults are unable to?

TAGGED: HUMAN RIGHTS, ISLAM, LAW

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