A DISABLED Christian girl, said to be aged between 10 and 13, and to have Down’s Syndrome, a condition characterised by, I believe, occasional outbursts of rage, has been taken into custody amid claims she burned religious papers.
Anyone found guilty in Pakistan of insulting Islam’s ‘prophet’ Muhammed, or the ‘holy book’, the Quran, can be sentenced to death.
We refused to play cricket for many years against South Africa because of its apartheid regime.
But we seem to have no scruples about taking part in this sport against these creatures representing the Muslim nation, a few of whom have been discovered cheating, I mention in passing.
Talk about double standards.
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