Pakistan’s Islamic blasphemy laws particularly target Christians, and Muslims often exploit them for personal revenge and even blackmail and profit. The so-called “far-reaching implications for human rights in Pakistan and for the country’s standing on the international stage” mean nothing to Pakistan. It’s Islam first. Christians are regarded as inferiors, as are Ahmadis, who are […]
Islamic Republic of Pakistan: Two Christian brothers sentenced to death for blasphemy
No one will take any particular notice of this. It isn’t as if something important such as “Islamophobia” was being committed. “Two Christian brothers sentenced to death for blasphemy in Punjab,” Asia News, December 14, 2018: Lahore (AsiaNews/Agencies) – Two Christian brothers have been sentenced to death in Pakistan on blasphemy charges, the Centre for […]
Two Pakistani Christian brothers arrested on blasphemy allegations
Pakistan’s blasphemy laws are the occasion of ongoing human rights violations against Christians and Muslims who aren’t deemed sufficiently Islamic — particularly if they own something that the complainant can obtain once the “blasphemers” are out of the way. But the global “human rights community” says and does little against these laws — perhaps any […]