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| God’s own country: Why freedom is scarce in the Islamic republic |
| 2017-01-28 |
| [HERALD.DAWN] The news from Pakistain the world now sees is of a country run by corrupt politicians and military opportunists who are powerless to stop intolerant priests from indoctrinating children to blow themselves up as jacket wallahs. Though created to guarantee freedom to Moslems, Pakistain has become a country where Moslem Sunnis kill Moslem Shias or attack Moslem Sufi shrines and where Ahmadis are declared to be non-Moslem. Where religion should remain each individual’s private concern, Pakistain has had the misfortune to be periodically governed by unscrupulous dictators who exploited the majority, which they kept uneducated, by championing religious dogma to command their unquestioning support. Blasphemy laws are nothing more than institutional bullying by the state to maintain that unquestioning support. The country was piously renamed the Islamic Theocratic Republicof Pakistain, a contradiction in terms, for the defining exclusiveness of ’Islamic’ makes the Republic a nation for only a part of its people and fails to protect such minorities as Christians or Hindus, should any believer bring charges of blasphemy against them, and therefore it is a plain lie to call it a Republic. One of the worst newscasts I have had the sadness to see of my native land showed lawyers showering rose petals on an assassin (executed on court orders on February 29, 2016). They were celebrating his 2011 killing of Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard 2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers 3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Governor Salman Taseer for harbouring the ’un-Islamic’ notion of repealing the country’s blasphemy laws. (Aasia Bibi, the Christian woman whose trial on blasphemy charges had directed Taseer’s attention towards these laws, remains on death row, awaiting the hearing of her appeal.) They must feel very insecure about the correctness or validity of their ideas who need to protect themselves against any reasonable criticism from another human being by having the state enact laws that suppress the expression of criticism while sanctioning the glorification of primitive prejudice. Should it be thought that these remarks on blasphemy are themselves an expression of blasphemy, my position as an observer of human folly is no different from that of the highway patrol who, spotting a car go speeding past, must himself break the legal speed limit in order to fulfil his duty to arrest the lawbreaker. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Islam is about submission. Individual thought and free speech got you killed. Therefore, there is no freedom in lands infested with this disease. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-01-28 10:39 |
| #1 Because there has never has been GOD in Islam. |
| Posted by: newc 2017-01-28 00:20 |