It felt like blasphemy. Or at the very least, horribly irreverent.
In January 2009, in a village in Punjab province, five Ahmadis, a labourer and four children, were charged with blasphemy.
"Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy".
Many now question whether they can remain safe in a country that has long neglected them, and continues to have blasphemy laws that have been repeatedly exploited by violent extremists.
Pakistan's blasphemy laws date back to the colonial era.
Transfusion was regarded as a form of blasphemy, to be avoided at all costs.
And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
Murder and blasphemy are mortal sins.
The alleged blasphemy may neither be stated in the charges nor repeated in court, since that would in itself be an act of blasphemy.
"They can muster 40, 000," she said of the rallies against reform of the blasphemy law and in support of Mumtaz Qadri.
Their conversation was full of blasphemy.
In theory, blasphemy is punishable by death-a penalty that has been handed down but never carried out.
Impiety need not be the same thing as atheism although Meletus confuses the two but it does suggest irreverence even blasphemy toward the things that a society? CARES most deeply about. Yes?
The unrest, Estonia says, was orchestrated by Russia, which termed the relocation “blasphemy” and called for the government's resignation.
Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye?
Once blasphemy against God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and therewith also those blasphemers.
For her, wearing make up at home is tantamount to blasphemy.
And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
He had called for her to be pardoned, and also for the law, under which death for blasphemy against the prophet is mandatory, to be changed.
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