| Islamic Sharia Laws | |
| 05 Oct 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Pakistan's Blasphemy Laws have Left even Judges in Fear of Their Lives | |
By Declan Walsh |
http://newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamIslamicShariaLaws_1.aspx?ArticleID=5630 | ||
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
So he's going to swing – perhaps. On Saturday a Pakistani judge sentenced Mumtaz Qadri, the police bodyguard who assassinated the Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer, to death by hanging. The young policeman smiled and thanked God. "My dream has come true," he reportedly said. Devotion to the prophet Muhammad is central to the faith of the Barelvi Sunnis, who make up the majority of Pakistani Muslims. Even a whiff of insult to the prophet can whip up feverish anger. The core problem, in fact, is that the blasphemy furore exposes the fragility of the Pakistani state – ideological, legal and security-wise. The mixing of religion and politics has long troubled Pakistan, but over the past 30 years that dangerous cocktail has been spiked by the army's policy of nurturing extremists – hence men like Qadri who believe they have a right to kill in the name of God. -- 
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