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Can’t Shahid Afridi be arrested for blasphemy?

Can’t Shahid Afridi be arrested for blasphemy?

By Fri, Jan 14, 2011 12:36PM UTC View Comments Can’t Shahid Afridi be arrested for blasphemy?

If a poor Christian woman can be convicted of blasphemy for saying her filthy Christian hands are clean enough to give someone else water, or a doctor can be arrested for blasphemy for throwing a business card with the name “Mohammed” in the trash, or an imam and his son can be arrested for blasphemy...

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Don’t call someone “conservative” if “murderous” is more appropriate

By Thu, Dec 23, 2010 4:38AM UTC View Comments A Pakistani Muslim recites from the Holy book 'Quran'. Pic: AP.

One of my pet-peeves is when people don’t call things what they actually are. I was reading this ExTrib editorial on the blasphemy laws stuff, and this bit popped out at me: The Lahore High Court has shown bias in favour of the law rather than correcting the abuses that happen because of it. The...

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