Can modern Islam emerge in Europe? Yes, it can. And the story of Aneeqa Ateeq shows what it would look like. A twenty-six year old woman was playing PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds on her computer (that’s the modern thing), met a guy in the setting of that game, flirted with him for a while, but then made it clear that as a married woman she would not provide sex (that’s also behavior pretty typical of a modern woman). Only because she somehow mentioned Muhammad in the titillating communication, the rejected suitor denounced her for blasphemy (that’s traditional). What followed was a police raid, confiscation of the computer and memory card, a technical analysis (there’s that modern thing again) and Aneeq was sentenced to death under the early medieval code – “to be hanged by the neck until dead” (there’s that traditional thing again).
Quite possibly, in a few years’ time, young women in British prisons will be similarly awaiting execution.
She is now in a Pakistani prison awaiting execution. Quite possibly, in a few years’ time, young women in British prisons will be similarly awaiting execution.
