Thousands-strong mob attacks police station, burns man to death for alleged blasphemy

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Re: Thousands-strong mob attacks police station, burns man to death for alleged blasp

@Ali_Syed

I don’t agree with the notion that extremism has increased because of this law. How many qadiyanis specifically have been killed during the last 10 years and what’s their proportion in terms of the total number of Pakistanis killed during the past 10 years? Many more attacks have taken place in mosques of Sunnis and Shias. A war is going on in the country for the past 10 years and that has polarized and militarized the society. Having said that I don’t think that the state should discriminate against its people, but to label the problems that the minorities are facing these days on this law alone is not right.

No, its the culture of extremism that this law encourages. The state indulging in religion adds to the hyper religiosity of the nation as a whole, and this creates an environment under which extremists feels their actions are condoned by the state.

The country has been sliding towards extremism for decades. Its because the govt indulges in politics of religion.