Re: Salman! or could it be anyone
I am going to quote my own post in another thread
Agreed both are essentially saying the same thing but you can also see the difference in class. Both called for a review of the law to ensure that it’s not misused and exploited by certain people but Imran Khan said it in a civilised manner. Taseer I am afraid did NOT. I hope you get my drift. It is not what you say but how you say these things in public that matters…still not a justification for killing someone. This was nothing but cold blooded murder, a QATL
Let’s not kid ourselves, Pakistan is a deeply conservative and intolerant society and in a country where 70% of the people are illiterate (and even the so-called ‘educated’ get all emotional by anything even remotely related to religion; case in point - The Rushdie affair, The Danish cartoon affair) and easily influenced by narrow-minded molvis, openly calling mullahs ‘jaahil (we all know the vast majority are), mein unhei jooton kee noke pe rakhta houn and referring to the blasphemy law as kaala qaanoon’ obviously was not going to go down too well with the masses or the conservative elements in media. Taseer should have chosen his words wisely and dealt with the nuisance (aka molvis) with tact