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Blasphemy in Pakistan
by NINA SHEA and PAUL MARSHALL
Weekly Standard
January 15, 2011
https://www.legal-project.org/1071/blasphemy-in-pakistan
Excerpt:
Over the past 30 years, under Pakistan's laws criminalizing blasphemy against Islam, hundreds of Christians, Ahmadis, Hindus, Sikhs, and unorthodox and reformist Muslims have been tried and imprisoned by the state or killed by extremists. But even against this brutal background, the blasphemy-triggered January 4 assassination of Punjab governor Salman Taseer by one of his elite security detail may prove a defining moment.
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