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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...

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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