In Pakistan, the Shooter Is the Hero
Posted: January 11, 2011.
Print: Slate
excerpts:
> Amid the swirling chaos on a frigid Sunday afternoon, everyone
> at the makeshift tent unanimously agrees: Mumtaz Qadri, the
> 26-year-old security officer who killed Punjab’s governor,
> Salman Taseer, is a hero.
>
> “It was the perfect action,” says Malik Khan as he flashes me
> a thumbs up, “any Muslim would do the same thing.” The
> bundled-up patrons clustered around us nod in agreement. And
> they aren’t the only ones; I’ve been hearing the same refrain
> all afternoon as I traversed the bustling market.
>
> ...Taseer’s assassination has illuminated the stark divide
> between liberals and religious extremists in Pakistan, and it
> has demonstrated who is winning. The response from politicians
> and the general public has shown the power religious
> extremists wield over the public discourse in this devout
> Muslim country of approximately 170 million. Almost everyone I
> speak to here agrees that extremism and polarization are on
> the rise.
>
> Taseer, the appointed governor of Pakistan’s largest and
> richest province, made headlines prior to his Jan. 4
> assassination when he took up the case of Asia Bibi, a
> Christian woman sitting on death row after being convicted of
> blasphemy. He called a law that sentences anyone who insults
> Islam to death a “black law.”
See similar article in the New York Times here.
The vigorous support by 500 clerics and scholars and thousands of ordinary Pakistani citizens for this assassin who murdered to uphold Islam’s prohibition of blasphemy should alone be enough to wake up the West to the perniciousness of this most dangerous, totalitarian, religion.
The nature of the beast should be clear now. This is not “radical” Islam motivating these supporters but just plain Islam as Muhammad would have it.
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