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Friday, June 15, 2012

Protests mount against Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, Islamic Sharia Laws, NewAgeIslam.com

Islamic Sharia Laws
Protests mount against Pakistan’s blasphemy laws
By Ali Ismail
1 Oct 2009

President Zardari and Punjab’s provincial government have offered paltry compensation to the victims’ survivors, amounting to just a few thousand dollars per family.

There were several other incidents of violence perpetrated against Christians in Pakistan in the months leading up to the Gojra atrocity. Last March, a Christian woman was killed when a church was attacked in Gujranwala. On June 30, dozens of Christian homes were attacked when Muslims plundered a village in the Kasur district.

Islamic militants and bigoted clerics have been able to foster animosity between Muslims and Christians by exploiting the disgust generated by the crimes of US imperialism in Afghanistan and Iraq and in Pakistan itself. The Bush administration funded and armed the dictator General Pervez Musharraf, who was only forced out as president in August 2008, and under Obama the US has declared Pakistan an integral part of the Afghan counter-insurgency war, mounted regular drone missile attacks inside Pakistan and prevailed upon the government to bloodily suppress Taliban-allied militia in the country’s northwest.

http://newageislam.com/protests-mount-against-pakistan%E2%80%99s-blasphemy-laws/islamic-sharia-laws/d/1853


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