Posted on 01/17/2011 6:51:21 AM PST by markomalley
Mr Musharraf said rather than amend the legislation punishing those convicted of insulting Islam, Pakistan needed to ensure the laws were not abused.
The laws have come under scrutiny after a Christian mother-of-five, Asia Bibi, was sentenced to death for defaming the Prophet Mohammed in her Punjab village.
Salman Taseer, governor of the state, was then killed by one of his own bodyguards for backing reform of the law, in an assassination exposing deep division between liberal and conservative Pakistan.
Mr Musharraf said blasphemy was deeply sensitive in the country and doing away with it was not possible. He did say however that Mumtaz Qadri, the bodyguard, must face trial.
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These “blasphemy laws” are nothing more than the [wannabe] World Government establishing Islam as the world religion.
(Sorry, that’s not going to happen while I’m on the planet)
Islam is an insane murder cult, from Mad Mo in the bat cave until now.
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