Where Are The Sane Muslims? (Express Tribune)
Posted in Letters to Editors on Jan 30th, 2011
Saleha Riaz asks a profound question in her gut wrenching piece (Where are the sane Muslims?): “Where are those who know that belief in one God is all it takes to be a Muslim, that everything else is secondary?”
This reminds me of the famous Munir Commission Report of 1953 in which no two clergy could agree on the definition of “who is a Muslim”. Justice Munir and Justice Kiyani valiantly protected Pakistan’s body from this cancer like two skilled doctors. Two decades later, Bhutto succumbed to political pressure and created the first mutated cell of this cancer by declaring Ahmadis as...
Preventing a Blasphemy Pandemic (AOL News)
Posted in Op-Eds on Jan 12th, 2011
Pandemics have two key components: a novel and infectious agent and an oblivious populace.
This week’s rally in which more than 40,000 Pakistani citizens declared their support for blasphemy laws makes one wonder: Do Pakistan’s blasphemy laws have the potential to turn into a pandemic for the Islamic world?
These laws sprung into the limelight in November 2010 when Asia Bibi, a Christian mother of five, was sentenced to death after she was accused of blaspheming Prophet Muhammad.
The stakes were raised when Salman Taseer, the governor of Pakistan’s largest province, Punjab,...
Pakistani Muslims must honor prophet Muhammad (Christian Science Monitor)
Posted in Op-Eds on Jan 6th, 2011
Remember the 1992 courtroom film drama, “A Few Good Men”? The blasphemy laws of Pakistan (which condemn to death anyone who blasphemes the Prophet Muhammad) are to millions of its minority citizens what “code red” was to the marines in that iconic movie: a euphemism for the use of force to garner unconditional obedience from the masses. And the Jan. 3 assassination of Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab – Pakistan’s largest province – is a message to every moderate Muslim in the country to dare not challenge the vitriolic blasphemy laws, or they could be next.
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