Questions to ask

Some Questions to Ask Those who Claim that Pakistan's Blapshemy Laws Are for Equal Protection of ALL Religions!


1). Often Campaigners against Blasphemy law are told that the law is actually a Colonial
law and that all religions are protected under the blasphemy law. This is not accurate. The 1860 law has been modified in 1926 and then in 1986 when criminal law was Islamicised. The blasphemy law is an anachronism in the Western countries, it remains on the statute books but is not severe or barbaric in the way Islamic blasphemy laws are today. Moreover, the Blasphemy law  in Pakistan provides different and less severe punishments to Blasphemy of other 
religions in the country. Equal 'protection'?

2). The blasphemy law in European countries distinguishes between outrageous attack on Christ and Christianity and reasoned criticism. Why is that the blasphemy law in Pakistan makes no such distinction and does not even clearly define the 'crime' it seeks to punish by death?
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3). Why does Pakistan have the harshest blasphemy law in the world?

4). How does Blasphemy law and similar 'offending religious sentiments law' square with freedom of statement?

5).Has this indescribably harsh law made Pakistan a better place?

6). Why is it that Pakistan seems to have become a land of blasphemers? Why wasn't it the case in the first 40 years of its existence?

7). Why no action is taken against those Pakistanis those who say  insulting things about other religions? - Ameer Hamza of Lashkar-i-Taiba has written an extremely derogatory book
about Hinduism? Why wasn't any action taken against him?

8). A few years ago, Prof. Tahirul Qadiri, a Lahore-based Islamic scholar, was declared a blasphemer by so many ulema (Islamic scholars) and Khabrain newspaper published all these statements prominently.  But no case was registered against him and no trial took place? Why? (This is a question for mullahs as well.)

9). Brelvis and Deobandis are the most numerous Muslim sects in Pakistan. Brelvis say that Deobandis are blasphemers against the prophet of Islam. Syed Sabir Hussain Shah Bukhari wrote in Islamabad-based Urdu daily  newspaper called Ausaf ( Sept 15, 2000) that the Deobandi elders in their books such as Tahzeerun Naas, Baraheen-i-Qataya and Hifzul Eeman have committed flagrant blasphemies against Allah and his prophet. Why is it that no action is taken against Deobandis? 
(The mullahs who got the case registered against Yunis Shaikh are Deobandis.)  (This too is a question for the mullahs.)

10). The supporters of this law say that this law has been enacted to make sure that the people don't take lynch the blasphemy accused. If that is the case then why was Hafez Sajjad, a pious Muslim, lynched in Gujranwala in 1994? He was taken out of police station and literally lynched.

11). According to Karachi-based Urdu weekly Takbeer (January 15, 1998), Aga Khanis have nothing to do with Islam. They are outside the pale of Islam. In fact, they are blasphemers against the prophet and they have committed this offense on the Internet. Why is it that no action has been taken against them?

12). The Muslims call the prophet of Islam rehmatul lil aalameen (mercy for the this world and the hereafter) but even an unintentional misstatement about him does not leave room for mercy and forgiveness. Why? 13). On April 21, 2000 General Musharraf amid fanfare announced a procedural change to the blasphemy law. From now on, the no blasphemy case will be registered unless the deputy commissioner investigates the matter. The mullahs protested against this change and the general capitulated. On May 16, 2000 he announced to restore the old procedure. "As it was the unanimous demand of the ulema, mashaikh and the people, therefore, I have decided to do away with the procedural change inthe registration of the FIR under the blasphemy law," said the general at the PAF base upon his return from Turkmenistan. How many  ordinary people had protested against the change?