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In Pakistan’s huge port city of Karachi, religious scholars united to forbid mourning. They urged pious Muslims not to offer funeral prayers for the outspoken governor of the Punhjab, Salmaan Taseer, who had most recently made headlines by championing the rights of Aasia Bibi, a Christian convert facing execution because of the country’s blasphemy laws.
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Not sure how one would generate so much spiteful bile without religion. It is not enough that they got the guy killed, now they want to spit on his memory as well. Can there be any doubt that Islam stands in the way of civility in the Middle East?
Imams seem to have no problem banding together and presenting a united front when it comes to issuing cheap attacks on dead men. Yet when we ask why Muslim scholars don’t condemn atrocities commited in the name of Islam, we are told that Islam is not a monolith and there is too much diversity of opinion to blame the religion itself for the actions of its members.
I think maybe Islam is associated with common set of beliefs and that many of those beliefs are quite unpleasent.
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