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Politics

Brickbat: Which One Is Crazy?

Charles Oliver | 2.3.2014 6:00 AM

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A Pakistani court has sentenced Mohammed Asghar to death for blasphemy. Asghar, who friends say has been treated in the past for schizophrenia, allegedly claimed in letters to be Mohammad, the founder of Islam.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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