Blasphemy vendetta: Pakistan 1990-2009
Contributing to the discussion on the lynching deaths of two boys in Sialkot, Nafees Muhammad has put together some of the reported instances of religious intolerance and bigotry that took place in...
View Article‘PAKISTAN: Barbarity in the name of religion is at its height’ by Baseer Naweed
Pakistan is known in the international community and declared in the country’s Constitution as an Islamic nation where Islam is glorified as the superb religion and its followers are pious Muslims....
View Article‘The Clowns of Blasphemy’ by Fauzia Rafique
Dedicated to the unidentified mentally challenged man accused of desecrating the Quran who was taken from Chanighot police station, tortured and burnt alive by a mob of 1500-2000 religious zealots in...
View Article‘Blasphemy and the Governor of Punjab’ a BBC Radio 4 Presentation
DURATION: 1 HOUR On 4th January 2011, self-made millionaire businessman and governor of Punjab, Salmaan Taseer, was gunned down in the car park of a popular Islamabad market. He had been leading a...
View Article‘Countering intolerance’ by Shandana Khan Mohmand
From Dawn.com A FEW years before the Nazi government arrested him in 1937 and sent him to a concentration camp, Martin Niemoller, a German theologian, spoke the powerful words that have come to...
View ArticleU.S. official killed in Libya protest over anti-Islam film – CBC
CBC.ca Sept 11, 2012 Protesters angered over a film that ridiculed Islam’s Prophet Muhammad fired gunshots and burned down the U.S. consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, killing one...
View Article‘Libya: The Questions We Should Be Asking’ by Barry Lando
This article provides some context to the violence now erupting against USA in the Muslim world, where the actual film on YouTube is an opportunity for the Extreme Right to drum up mass hysteria....
View ArticleBlasphemy: Another ‘Honour Killing’ Platform – Don’t Support It This Friday
Blasphemy is another ‘Honour Killing’ Platform. Please Don’t Support It This Friday ‘Honour Killings’ Description Where women, and some men, are harassed and killed by the male members of their...
View ArticlePak man shot dead after being acquitted of blasphemy
Another blasphemy killing in the Punjab. Sajjad Hussain’s murderers surrendered to the police, but will they be tried and punished for their crime? . Lahore: A Pakistani man who was acquitted of a...
View Article‘Yes, I’m a blasphemer. Get over it.’ by Maikel Nabil Sanad
We support our right to freedom of expression and thought, if it is called ‘blasphemy’, so be it. . On October 7, 2012, the office of the Egyptian General Prosecutor decided to start an official...
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