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Subject: satan or saviour ?
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urvoice1 19.03.13 - 10:55pm
Imran Khan says Pakistans blasphemy law is necessary. He says it is a British law and thinks that in its absence, people would be lynched and there would be anarchy. The stern law, therefore, also helps those accused of blasphemy. ...Is he right? Let us consider the law. * +

urvoice1 19.03.13 - 10:55pm
Only seven cases of blasphemy were registered in undivided India and Pakistan from 1927 to 1986, according to a group of Pakistani Christians. The National Commission for Justice and Peace says that in the last 25 years, 1,058 cases of blasphemy were registered. Of the accused, 456 were Ahmadis, 449 were Muslims, 132 were Christians and 21 were Hindus. * +

urvoice1 19.03.13 - 10:56pm
Non-Muslims, who are four per cent of Pakistans population, are 57 per cent of those charged with blasphemy. The other aspect is that, by far, the majority of cases are filed in Punjab. * +

urvoice1 19.03.13 - 10:57pm
Under prime minister Muhammad Khan Junejo, another addition to the blasphemy law was legislated in 1986. Section 295-C reads: Whoever by words, either spoken or written, or by visible representation or by any imputation, innuendo, or insinuation, directly or indirectly, defiles the sacred name of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) shall be punished with death, or imprisonment for life, and shall also be liable to fine. * +

urvoice1 19.03.13 - 10:58pm
http://tribune.com.pk/story/426498/pakistans-blasphemy-law/ * +

urvoice1 19.03.13 - 11:01pm
Christians are under constant religious persecution in Pakistan. On March 9, a mob of more than 3,000 people vandalized Joseph Colony -- a dilapidated Christian neighborhood in my birthplace of Lahore, Pakistan -- when a Christian man was accused of blaspheming Prophet Muhammad. More than 150 houses were ransacked; two churches and many Bibles were set ablaze. * +

urvoice1 19.03.13 - 11:02pm
Don't blame me. Harassing minorities on the pretense of blasphemy accusations is not my version of Islam. Maybe that's why Pakistan's constitution does not consider Ahmadi Muslims to be real Muslims. But Scripture tells us that it's not Prophet Muhammad's version of Islam either. So the question becomes: whose Islam is it anyway? * +

urvoice1 19.03.13 - 11:02pm
I don't know, but this cannot be the Islam of Prophet Muhammad, who actually warned us to repel such mobs through the message, If Allah did not repel some men by means of others, there would surely have been pulled down cloisters and churches and synagogues (22:41). When the self-appointed custodians of Islam were actually burning two small churches, where were the real Muslims? * +

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