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Just Trust Us. It's Bad.

Charles Oliver | 2.12.2011 1:58 AM

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Police in Pakistan have arrested Muhammad Samiulla, 17, for blasphemy. He allegedly wrote derogatory remarks about Muhammad, the founder of Islam, during a school exam. But police refuse to say what Samiulla wrote, because to repeat it would be blasphemy.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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