Blasphemy law
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Blasphemy Laws and Blasphemy Killings in Pakistan
Omar Ali reposts his 2015 essay, revised in 2021, on Pakistan’s blasphemy laws after two recent cases in which police killed accused blasphemers in custody, and argues that the state…
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Blasphemy in Pakistan; NOT a Colonial Era Problem
Omar Ali reposts his overview of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws to rebut the claim that they are a colonial legacy, arguing that the 1860 Indian Penal Code provision was mild and…
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Blasphemy and blasphemy laws in Pakistan
Reposting a 2015 piece revised in 2021, the author argues that blasphemy cases in Pakistan have reached a new level, with police now killing accused men in custody, and questions…
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Why I Repeated Aasia Bibi’s Alleged Words
The author defends repeating the words Aasia Bibi was accused of saying, arguing that sanitising the allegation sanitises the cruelty, and that freedom of expression means little unless it protects…
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Why Pakistani liberals will always fail
After deleting a longer post on Aasia Bibi, the author argues Pakistani liberals are toothless because they will not challenge Islam itself, says Muslims must be free to criticise the…
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Pakistan’s Hybrid Government and the Aasia Bibi Fiasco..
A detailed account of the Aasia Bibi case, from her 2009 arrest after a village dispute to Salmaan Taseer’s assassination and the court rulings, arguing it exposes Pakistan’s harsh blasphemy…
