Pakistan on strike against bill to amend blasphemy law
Jill McGivering
Posted: December 31, 2010.
Posted: December 31, 2010.
Print: BBC News
excerpt:
[The bill to amend the blasphemy law] seeks to amend the law by abolishing the death sentence and by strengthening clauses which prevent any chance of a miscarriage of justice.
The bill has been drafted by a member of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party and by a former Information Minister, Sherry Rehman.
This led religious groups, who are demanding that Ms Rehman quit, to conclude the government was behind it.
On Wednesday, Pakistan’s religious affairs minister told parliament the bill did not reflect government policy.
“I state with full responsibility that the government has no intention to repeal the blasphemy law,” Syed Khurshid Shah said.
This is evidence that moral relativism needs to die a swift death. Anyone who could say that Pakistan has the right to uphold a law that gives people the right to murder someone deemed anti-Islam and that no one outside of the culture has a right to judge them harshly is only doing so out of a misguided and dangerously flawed concept of tolerance. It is this kind of tolerance that creates a bubble of protection around those who commit such atrocities.
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