.... This is a phenomenon that ought to worry us all – not so much the persistence of anti-Semitism, as the mainstreaming of unthinking bigotry. You can see it in Pakistan, where a Christian teenager, Rimsha Masih, is still rotting in jail as she faced trial for blasphemy – a capital crime.
She stands accused of burning pages from the Koran, despite the fact that she has learning difficulties and/or Down's Syndrome, and that the imam who provided the evidence has been arrested for attempting to frame her. [telegraph.co.uk] Read more
