Nasir Saeed
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Pakistan: Death to the Blasphemer, Death to Human Rights
The issue of Pakistan's blasphemy laws has always been alive in the public discourse and an attraction for the media not only in Pakistan, but internationally, too. Now it will be reverberating even more around the corridors of power after the Federal Sharia Court of Pakistan ordered the Pakistani government to remove the option of life imprisonment for blasphemy. This means that crimes of blasphemy should be punished exclusively by the death sentence.
Pakistan Minorities Will Be Unsafe if Blasphemy Laws Are Amended
The Council of Islamic Ideology in Pakistan held a meeting on May 29, headed by Maulana Sherani, and warned that if the blasphemy laws are amended, the country's minorities will be unsafe, but how much worse could the situation get?
Burning Quran Not the Right Way to Confront Radical Islam
Terry Jones may not be aware of it, but his actions have done Christians no favors. Instead he has put Christians even more in harm’s way