Apostasy should be made a crime in Pakistan

[Zakk]

Re: Apostasy should be made a crime in Pakistan

@Seminole

Yes, communists were targeted (wrongly) by the US during the cold war, but they were seen as a threat to national security. And they were not put to death. .

The principle is the same..discriminate or terminate..I use the US as one example…but other states guided by ideology have been far more brutal ..communist and fascist states have an infinite examples of what was done to people who were even suspected of holding “subversive” beliefs

@Seminole

Does a non-Muslim citizen of a majority-Muslim country pose a threat? .

Again thats a wrong comparison ..while some individuals may believe Islam is threatened by the presence of non Muslims..it is the same way conversely some non Muslims believe Muslims pose a threat to the state.

Practically things have been quite different, using a more recent example of the Ottoman Empire they used to employ a simple approach to non Muslims, they were judged by their own laws (this agreement of “millet” was referred to as the Capitulations) and Muslims were judged by Shariah law. The logic is similar to one that would be employed in a state treason act. Who gets punished for treason a US citizen or a non US citizen?

@Seminole

Since state or republics did not exist until then, you are right. But treason in a broad sense relates to betraying the governing authority of any entity. .

Yes attacking what it stands for and opposing what it believes …many Americans believe that people who don’t believe in what the US stands for as a nation are either traitors or should be expelled.

@Seminole

No matter the name of the Church of England, they do not require citizens to follow it. It is not mandated by any stretch.

That depends, on at what age of history you look at..Cromwell was puritan ..and institutional discrimination against Catholics was one of the foundation stones of the Protestant state.