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Pakistan's only Christian minister assassinated over blasphemy row
Telegraph UK ^ | March 2, 2011 | Telegraph UK

Posted on 03/02/2011 5:24:33 AM PST by opentalk

Pakistan's only Christian minister Shahbaz Bhatti was shot dead today after pushing for the reform of harsh blasphemy laws that impose the death penalty for insulting Islam.

The assassination comes just a fortnight after Mr Bhatti, Minister for Minorities, said he was prepared to die for his beliefs following a series of death threats.

...Earlier this year, Punjab province Gov. Salman Taseer was killed by a bodyguard who said he was angry that the politician opposed the blasphemy laws.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: islam; killingchristians; murder; muslimworld; nosharia; pakistanichristians; pakitrash; persecution; sharia; ustaxmoney; violentislam; wot

1 posted on 03/02/2011 5:24:35 AM PST by opentalk
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To: opentalk

We, the US, the West should continue to give the thugs obsequious bribes of billion of dollars every year.

/s

( Religions have consequences. )


2 posted on 03/02/2011 5:27:09 AM PST by Leisler (Our debts are someone's profit. Follow the money, the vig.....)
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To: opentalk

I wonder how many union thugs will be “demonstrating” with the moslems tomorrow in DC?

You have to know this is coming, that is, the two groups finding common ground. Anarchy is anarchy, and both groups want it.


3 posted on 03/02/2011 5:31:45 AM PST by mark3681
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To: opentalk
OK, so now they'll kill you if you insult mohammed and they'll kill you if you oppose killing people for insulting mohammed

what a wonderful world this would be, if we were all mohammedans?

4 posted on 03/02/2011 5:32:11 AM PST by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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To: opentalk

There are many more Christian ministers in Pakistan, as a simple google search reveals.

http://www.google.com/m?hl=en&q=pakistan+bishop


5 posted on 03/02/2011 5:38:57 AM PST by Notwithstanding
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To: Notwithstanding
There are many more Christian ministers in Pakistan

Mr Bhatti was a minister in the sense of being a government official (Minister for Minorities), rather than in the sense of religious cleric.

6 posted on 03/02/2011 5:42:49 AM PST by PapaBear3625 ("It is only when we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything" -- Fight Club)
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To: Notwithstanding

Government minister. Not religious minister.


7 posted on 03/02/2011 5:47:19 AM PST by vladimir998 (Copts, Nazis, Franks and Beans - what a public school education puts in your head.)
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To: Notwithstanding

He was the only professed Christian who held a position as a minister in the current Pakistani parliamentary government.


8 posted on 03/02/2011 5:48:15 AM PST by wideawake
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To: opentalk

Another “Islam is a peaceful religion” alert.

Thank you George and Obama!!!

And THIS is what we can anticipate HERE once more of these maniacs immigrate to America!!!


9 posted on 03/02/2011 6:00:18 AM PST by ZULU (No nation which ever attempted to tolerate Islam, escaped total Islamization.)
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To: opentalk

Another “Islam is a peaceful religion” alert.

Thank you George and Obama!!!

And THIS is what we can anticipate HERE once more of these maniacs immigrate to America!!!


10 posted on 03/02/2011 6:00:18 AM PST by ZULU (No nation which ever attempted to tolerate Islam, escaped total Islamization.)
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2nd assassination in two months of an official speaking out against Sharia Blasphemy laws.

There is a march tomorrow for Sharia in America, in front of the White House. Seems to have Obama's blessings because it is not being stopped.

The "Shariah4America" march was planned by radical Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary who said last October that “the flag of Islam will one day fly over the White House.”

Choudary’s group, Islam4UK, has been banned from Britain for being too extreme.

11 posted on 03/02/2011 8:00:03 AM PST by opentalk
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From Sharia4America web page regarding march tomorrow in DC. They are calling for a new constitution.

On 3rd March 2011 From 1 pm to 4 pm (local time), at Pennsylvania Avenue, outside the White House, the Muslims will let the tyrant Barack Obama and the American people know that a new constitution beckons the US called the Shari’ah and that this worldwide revolution will see it implemented inshaa’allah (God willing) very very soon.

12 posted on 03/02/2011 8:05:29 AM PST by opentalk
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