Tag: Imam
After Taseer Assassination: Some Muslims Refuse to Mourn
Ayesha Nasir January 5, 2011.
Print: Time
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.







