Re: Salman Taseer call him what he is: Shaheed!
Then why cloak in religious fervor? The simple point with wording him as a Shaheed is to denote his stature as reflected in faith not in a cultural or social sense. It is a religious distinction that is being applied of one of great stature who died for a great cause that supported in Islam. Objectively that is no were near the truth.
He died expressing his views. He died for his freedom of speech nothing more.