The Pakistan killings are not about blasphemy

by Nick Cohen
Guardian
March 8, 2011

https://www.legal-project.org/1181/the-pakistan-killings-are-not-about-blasphemy

Excerpt:

After Salman Rushdie published The Satanic Verses, religious "scholars" doubted whether the Ayatollah Khomeini had the right to order his murder. They had no liberal qualms about executing a writer for subjecting religion to imaginative scrutiny. They believed that blasphemers and apostates must die as their religion insisted. But only if they were citizens of an Islamic state. As Rushdie was living in London in 1989, a free man in a free country, the clerics concluded that religious law did not apply to him.

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