Posted on 01/08/2011 1:13:42 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
....My father, because his country was founded in faith, and blood – a million people had died so that it could be made–could not say that the sentence was wrong; the sentence stood; all he sought for Aasia Bibi was clemency on humanitarian grounds. But it was enough to demand his head.
What my father could never say was what I suspect he really felt: "The very idea of a blasphemy law is primitive; no woman, in any humane society, should die for what she says and thinks."
And when finally my father sought the repeal of the laws that had condemned her, the laws that had become an instrument of oppression in the hands of a majority against its minority, he could not say that the source of the laws, the faith, had no place in a modern society; he had to find a way to make people believe that the religion had been distorted, even though the religion – in the way that only these Books can be – was clear as day about what was meant.
Already, even before his body is cold, those same men of faith in Pakistan have banned good Muslims from mourning my father; clerics refused to perform his last rites; and the armoured vehicle conveying his assassin to the courthouse was mobbed with cheering crowds and showered with rose petals.
I should say too that on Friday every mosque in the country condoned the killer's actions; 2,500 lawyers came forward to take on his defence for free; ...
And so, though I believe, as deeply as I have ever believed anything, that my father joins that sad procession of martyrs – every day a thinner line – standing between him and his country's descent into fear and nihilism, .....
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Taseer sounds like he was an interesting guy, but an article posted here the other day say that he refused to have anything to do with one of his children (the author of this piece) because public knowledge that the mother was Indian would have ruined his political career.
Taseer sounds like he was an interesting guy, but an article posted here the other day said that he refused to have anything to do with one of his children (the author of this piece) because public knowledge that the mother was Indian would have ruined his political career.
Yes. I had to edit the article to post it but the entire piece (which is linked) is very interesting.
Could we at least put our billions into stopping the Saudi sponsored MADrassas?
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