Posts Tagged: blasphemy laws
Egyptian Islamic Reformers Still Face Prison Sentences
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi promises to launch "a new republic" this year, led by a development boom and a new commitment to democracy and...
Pakistan Struggles to Contain the Radicalism It Fostered
As a state that was founded in 1947 on the basis of its majority religion, outbursts and protests for religious causes are a common scene...
30 Years Later, the Rushdie Fatwa Is Still Chilling Speech
Thirty years ago, on February 14, 1989, the Iranian cleric and politician Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini formulated his famous fatwa against British author Salman Rushdie. Khomeini sentenced...
Dutch Help Victim of Pakistan’s Radical Islamic Blasphemy Law
When courts overturned Asia Bibi's blasphemy conviction in her native Pakistan last week, rioters swarmed the streets calling for her to be hung. Pakistani law demands the...
How Quiet Islamization Threatens Secular States
While all eyes have focused on the obvious problem of Islamist violence in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, the Congo, and Muslim communities in Western European cities,...
Pakistani Law Makes Ramadan a Dangerous Time for Religious Minorities
The unconscious man was covered in filth, and being rushed to a hospital. Irfan Masih was a sewer cleaner, and had been stricken by poisonous gases...
How Pakistani Law Enshrines Extremism and Emboldens Terror
Pakistani extremists have killed nearly 50,000 people since 9/11. But government ineffectiveness in Islamabad has stymied all efforts to contain terrorist violence. The Pakistani government and military...
Maryland Mosque Lauds Pakistani Assassin
On Sunday, an American mosque glorified a terrorist responsible for killing a Pakistani governor who was critical of Pakistan's blasphemy laws, the Rabwah Times reported. Salman Taseer, the...
Selling Books ‘Offensive’ to Muslims Lands 3 Bangladeshis in Jail
The arrest of three people during a book fair in Bangladesh on Monday may be an indication that Islamist violence and intimidation, sadly, can work. Publisher Shamsuzzoha Manik...
