Blasphemy and persecution
By Ishtiaq Ahmed
01 Apr 2008
Anyone who follows
the news from Pakistan and reads the reports published regularly by the Human
Rights Commission of Pakistan would find that violence and brutality against
non-Muslims increased exponentially after the blasphemy law was imposed in 1982
and reformulated in 1986. The connection between law and social behaviour is a
well-established fact and, quite simply, bad, intolerant and violence-inducing
laws produce malevolent behaviour among members of society. Let me quote both
the relevant texts on blasphemy in Pakistan:
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