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,...
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