Taseer had recently announced his support for pardoning Asia Noreen, a Punjab Christian who defended her faith after offering water to thirsty Muslims--who turned down her generosity because she was" unclean."
Which drove Qadri to fire 26 rounds into the governor. The Arab News reports one guest on a television show declared, "It was a glorious act that Qadri did for Islam."
In an op-ed for the paper, Tariq A. al-Maeena, while not calling for the repeal of Pakistan's blasphemy laws, manages to criticize them in the Saudi-based publication.
"These laws are used to victimize Christians and other groups," Taseer told reporters back in November. "They are a foul leftover from the military regime of General Zia-ul Haq which lasted from 1977 till his death in a plane crash in 1988."Technorati tags:
Others have called the blasphemy law "wide open to abuse, through and by the miscreant mullahs for political, repressive and vindictive purposes...It is part of a rising wave of aggressive ignorance, incivility and intolerance as well as the medieval theocratic darkness."
In a statement, the Jamaat-e-Ahl-e-Sunnat Pakistan said, "No Muslim should attend the funeral or even try to pray for Salman Taseer or even express any kind of regret or sympathy over the incident." The group also added that anyone who expressed sympathy for the death of the Punjab governor was also committing blasphemy.
What right does this Jamaat have to demand that Muslims not pray for the souls of the dead? Who allowed these bands of misfits to hijack Islam, a religion of peace, to spread their brand of terror on people of other faiths or beliefs? And what gives them the right to encourage further violence against those minorities of differing faiths. Muslims must wrest their religion back from these wretched terrorists.
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