Blasphemy, Islam & Prime Minister Khan.

Corruption, radicalisation, illiteracy & poverty werejust a few of the problems of Pakistan that Imran Khan promised to tackle and “solve”and the promises that he got elected into the office as Prime minister of Pakistan, on.
Yet in typical fashion of most the world’s politicians heseems to have back slid and made it a “priority” that blasphemy laws will be enforced.
In his maiden speech Khan said he intended to raise the blasphemy issue in the United Nations and wouldwork to achieve a common stand within the 57-nation Organization of IslamicCooperation (OIC).
 
Pakistan, asmany may know, is one of the worst countries in the world if one happens to be Christianand to oppose blasphemy laws is without doubt a death sentence and findingevidence for this one doesn’t have to look no further the case of Asiabibi  and Salmaan Taseer who was  murdered.
 Asia Bibi blasphemy case involves a Pakistani Christian woman, AasiyaNoreen better known as Asia Bibi, convicted of blasphemy by a Pakistani court, receiving a sentence of death by hanging in 2010. InJune 2009, Noreen was involved in an argument with a group of Muslim women withwhom she had been harvesting berries after the other women grew angry with herfor drinking the same water as them. She was subsequently accused of insultingthe Islamic prophet Muhammad, a charge shedenies, and was arrested and imprisoned where eventually a Sheikhupura judge sentenced her to death.
Salmaan Tasseer was a Pakistani businessman and a liberalpolitician who simply asked the court to show mercy to this young girland he was murdered by his own bodyguard for having the audacity to ask such athing for someone who was convicted of “insulting the prophet”.
 
Some Pakistanis had believed they were getting change whenthey elected Khan, but it seems to be a case of – if nothing changes, thingswill remain the same.  His decision to enforce blasphemy laws has been hailed  widely hailed across Pakistan and encouraged in Saudi Arabia. When will these barbaric uneducated backward Muslimssimply grow up and realise that killing someone for being or thinking differentisn’t peaceful or benevolent?  

It should be noted, blasphemy laws are not exclusive to Islamic countries.

I'd say its disappointing, but a lot depends on political realities.   This seems to be a reaction to a deliberately provocative stunt by Geert Wilders to organise a competition of cartoons of Mohammed. 

Words: FREE SPEECH!

Actions: You're free to speak (and think) as you like...so long as it doesn't challenge our religious beliefs.

But you haven't condemned Khan's decision to attempt to make blasphemy a crime around the world in the 21st century!. This is odd coming from someone who doesn't even believe in a god. 

 And you haven't even tried to explain the over the top reaction to a cartoon competition in your link that hasn't even taken place.. at all. 

Are you saying that if it wasn't for the idea of a cartoon competition Prime Minister Imran Khan wouldn't have even mentioned blasphemy laws in his maiden speech? 

Say something!? You have obviously found the first clip you could find that goes some way to excusing this "disappointing" decision by Imran Khan. What you have glided over and ignored is the fact that he wants to ban blasphemy of islam and muhammad world wide.

So if that be the  case, we are free to mock, criticize and ridicule any other ideology and or religion as long as it isn't islam.

Do you not realise the implications here or are you just defending and apologising for khan and islam?

There is no prospect of anything coming of Khan's approach to the UN and there is nothing new about it.

Pakistan's blasphemy laws are something Khan cannot ignore - they are an incrediably incendiary topic that has led to several high profile murders and assassinations, particularly of critics of those laws.   Pakistan is religiously conservative and I don't think he would have come to power if he has explicitly repudiated the blasphemy laws.   How sincere his support for them will be revealed by his actions over the next months and years.

 

As I said, his remarks were disappointing. But given the context of Pakistani politics perhaps they are not surprising.

Oh please, stop trying to play down the seriousness of these statements. They weren't  just "remarks" said off the cuff as you seem to be suggesting. These were statements made in his maiden speech as Prime Minister of Pakistan, he has also repeated them to the UN and islamic countries and councils around the world;  he wants a blasphemy law world wide.