Christian boy, 16, facing DEATH PENALTY for offending Muslims in Facebook post
A 16-YEAR-OLD Christian boy faces the death penalty after he was accused of insulting Islam in a Facebook post.
By KATIE MANSFIELD
Express.co.uk
Thu, Sep 29, 2016
The boy has been arrested and charged with blasphemy after a photo of the Kaaba in Mecca, one of the holiest sites in Islam, appeared on his profile.
A Muslim man told police the image, which was part of an alleged derogatory post against Islam on the boy’s profile, was insulting and sacrilegious.
The black cube-shape is built around an ancient stone at the centre of Islam’s most sacred mosque Al-Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Locals reportedly claimed the image showed the Kaaba with a pig’s head on top.
Shahbaz Ahmed, a police official, said the informant contacted officers over a post “hurting religious sentiments of Muslims and desecrating the religious place”.
He said the boy “had done a great injustice to us by badly hurting our religious feelings”.
Police did not release details of the contents of the post, other than it included a photo of the Kaaba.
It is unclear if the boy posted the image, was tagged in the post or liked the post.
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