Religious persecution
Saturday, August 8, 2009
The issue of religious persecution is certainly one of morality and justice. But at the end of the day it also has to do with our survival and prosperity as a nation. Whatever the basis, if a large number of citizens begin to feel vulnerable and persecuted it is not too difficult to imagine the eventual outcome
In the wake of atrocities against the Christian community in Gojra, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has announced that the government may review the country’s blasphemy laws and that a committee will soon be constituted for this purpose. This is encouraging but committees are also a way of cold-storaging issues so we will have to see if the laws introduced by a military dictator, who relentlessly invoked Islam for the purpose of prolonging his own rule, will finally be amended.
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In the wake of atrocities against the Christian community in Gojra, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has announced that the government may review the country’s blasphemy laws and that a committee will soon be constituted for this purpose. This is encouraging but committees are also a way of cold-storaging issues so we will have to see if the laws introduced by a military dictator, who relentlessly invoked Islam for the purpose of prolonging his own rule, will finally be amended.
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Labels: Blasphemy Law, Government, Human Rights, Persecutiion, Rights of Minorities
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