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August 30, 2012

Pakistan's Blasphemy Law Is Not Islamic

Haroon Siddiqui, Toronto Star

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Muslim tradition has it that in ushering in Islam 1,400 yeas ago, the Prophet Muhammad ended an era of jahiliyah, ignorance, in Arabia. He not only introduced new theology but also revolutionary social reforms — detailed codes of conduct for individual and collective behaviour. Yet today we are witnessing a new jahiliyah in parts of the Muslim world.

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