Pakistani man on trial for claiming to be a prophet, shot dead in court

You can't legally commit blasphemy in most Islamic countries. If you say, for example, that the prophet of Islam, a guy named Mohammad, was a pedophile because he married a 6-year-old baby girl named Aisha, or that Islam is not a religion of peace and the Koran's take on science could have been written by a seventh grader, you might be given a peaceful death sentence. In Saudi Arabia, for example, they remove one's head from their body to cut off the flow of blood and oxygen supply to the brain as a way to get them to think differently.

But while the death penalty can be used for blasphemy in Pakistan [aka Pahkeestaahn, as Obama calls it], people are not normally beheaded or hung or thrown from high places like gay folks are to have as their fate, because Pakistan consider itself civilized. However, they still will not tolerate blasphemy and will put you in prison, a place where a guy named Bubbagee will kill you anyway.

Tahir Ahmad Naseem, a Pakistani man who was on trial for blasphemy after claiming to be a prophet, was shot dead Wednesday in a courtroom in the northern city of Peshawar. The man who killed him before opening fire shouted that Naseem was an "enemy of Islam," which is a confusing claim since Islam is a religious ideology and you cannot be an enemy of ideas, only people who hold them.

Video shared on social media of the grisly scene shows Naseem's body slumped over the court's seats. It will not be shown here, not because it is grisly, but because Brain Flushings was unable to obtain the video.

The person who killed Naseem has only been identified as Khalid. Nobody knows how Khalid was able to get a loaded firearm into the court, but chances are the entrance scanner was momentarily on the fritz. 

Naseem was first accused of blasphemy by a teenager named Awais Malik whose future goal was to be a martyr for Islam and to rat out anyone who 

Naseem and Malik became virtual online friends while Naseem was in the United States.

Malik told the BBC that he and the "not for prophet" Naseem met in person at a shopping mall in Pakistan to discuss his views on religion. Malik became upset when he heard Naseem talk about his views and he went to the moral police to get him killed.

Naseem was born into the Ahmadi sect, a branch of Islam that has its own leader and who believe that they are Allah's chosen. Unfortunately for Naseem, he left the sect possibly because he felt they were too weird, and then he claimed to be the real prophet, which turned out to be the wrong thing to tell his good friend Malik.

There are about 500,000 Ahmadis in Pakistan and they're a persecuted minority and victims of the country's severely harsh laws, according to a study by Human Rights Watch.

The Ahmadi community leader suggested to the BBC that Naseem was mentally ill and had uploaded videos on social media claiming to be a messiah without proof.

It's really kind of sad that another mentally ill person went and killed him.

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