Pakistan disabled girl arrested for blasphemy

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Re: Pakistan disabled girl arrested for blasphemy

@kakaballi

I would agree with you if Salman Taseer or Shahbaz Bhatti were convicted under that law. The law is absurd, I agree. Would repealing it make things better? I don’t think so. Why the killer of Salman Taseer hailed as a hero? Because of our mentality, not because of the law. It is the fear of retaliation from the extremists that our authorities are not willing to convict killers of either.

In my opinion, you guys are pointing at the wrong direction. We have much bigger elephant in the room to deal with. The hate propagating madrassas and their financiers. Law or now law, they would insist on imposing their own will on silent majority.

We aren’t saying that this laws repeal will change the situation over night. The point is to take the society back in the right direction one step at a time. Repealing this law will be just one step towards redefining Pakistan as a tolerant state. No one is naive enough to believe that this is the end all solution, but it is a start towards a long process of de radicalizing the society.

The reason people cite this law most often, is because its the most obvious, the most abused, and most repugnant example of the deterioration of society. Its an example of state sponsored religious extremism. People may still remain intolerant for the forseeable future, but the govt should not be seen to be promoting it in any way. Ultimately, if the fish rots from the head, then that is where the solution should come from and start from as well.