Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Snippet from the Hindustan Times, Islamabad. September 26, 2011

"Pak girl's fate uncertain after blasphemous spelling"

"A teenage Pakistani Christian girl who misspelt a word while answering a question on a poem written in praise of Prophet Mohammed was accused of blasphemy and expelled from school, according to a media report on Sunday.

"Faryal Bhatti, an eighth - grade student at Sir Syed Girls' High School in the Pakistan Ordinance Factories colony in Havelian near Abbottabad, misspelt the word in an Urdu examination on Thursday.

"Bhatti misspelt the word naat (hymn) as lanaat (curse).

"This was an easy error for a child to make as the written versions of the words are similar, The Express Tribune daily reported ...

"The error led to accusations of blasphemy against Bhatti and uproar among religious leaders..."

Folks, stories like this one make me glad as "heck" I live in Brackettville, Texas 78832 U.S.A.! :)

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