Blasphemy Against Artifacts
Individuals have been accused of blasphemy or of insulting Islam for:
- touching a Qur'an or touching something that has touched a Qur'an because the individuals were not Muslim (Nigeria).
- damaging a Qur'an or other books of importance to Islam, for example, hadith (Pakistan).
- spitting at the wall of a mosque (Pakistan).
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Famous quotes containing the words blasphemy against and/or blasphemy:
“All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.”
—Bible: New Testament Matthew 12:31.
“Long as I have lived, and many blasphemers as I have heard and seen, I have never yet heard or witnessed any direct and conscious blasphemy or irreverence; but of indirect and habitual, enough. Where is the man who is guilty of direct and personal insolence to Him that made him?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)