Wednesday, January 5, 2011

The Followers of the Way of Peace Are At It Again

So in Pakistan a fanatic Moslem killed an official because that person advocated reform of repressive blasphemy laws.  These laws are not traditional at all--they were put in place in the 80s to allow dictator Zia al-Haq an easy way to prosecute opponents.  If one "insults" Mohammed or the Koran, apparently including not acknowledging that they are "holy", one is guilty.  This means that if one is not Moslem and demurs from referring to Mohammed as a prophet, or as "The Prophet", one is guilty and subject to death.  Now, not even Zia actually killed anyone under these laws, but currently a Christian lady is under sentence of death because she responded in kind when she was told by co-workers that just by touching a water can, she had "defiled" it.  A provincial governor spoke out against these evil laws and the threat to the lady's life.  A bodyguard supplied by another province which he was visiting killed him.  It is hard to think of Islam as "The Way of Peace" when one contemplates this kind of thing.  Let me affirm here that the religion looks bad in the face of by such actions, and these kind of occurrences prove to me that the Umma--the Islamic Caliphate that fanatics belief they have a holy mission to impose on the world--must never be restored.  Just in case anyone wonders.

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