Pakistan: Human Rights leader calls for the end of anti-blasphemy law

Islam is the official religion in Pakistan. A religion that greatly influences the life of every citizen in the nation.

In 1986 an anti-blasphemy law was proclaimed. In theory this law is designed to defend the honor of Islam. But in practice it punishes by imprisonment or even death those who disrespect the Koran or the name of the Prophet Muhammad.

The law brutally discriminates minority religions and its known to be used by extremists in order to attack Christians in the country.

The director of the National Commission for Justice and Peace in Pakistan, Emmanuel Muni, has come to Rome to seek help from the international community. He wants to put an end to this law.

Fr. Emmanuel Y. Muni
Dir. National Justice & Peace (Pakistán)
So we would like that the international community help us to bring about the change because the change will come together when we are breaking down the Muslims also which we are trying

Father Muni says Since July, more than 200 Christians have been accused of breaking the blasphemy law. Theyve reportedly been attacked and some have been burned to death. Muni says many times the accusations are launched by mosque leaders.

Fr. Emmanuele Y. Mani
Dir. Nacional Justicia y Paz (Pakistán)
The mullah, the priest, makes an announcement on the loudspeaker of the mosque that one supposed person has committed blasphemy, so the whole village and the related villages come together and attack the other community, they attack the Churches, the houses, they destroy the houses

When the pope received Pakistans president in October, he talked about the treatment of Christians in the region and urged for the end of laws like these that violate human rights.

Thats why Emmanuel Muni from the National Justice and Peace Commission of Pakistan is asking for collaboration to overturn these laws. Collaboration that will help make Pakistan a free and pluralistic state.

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[blueray1969]

@Khanzafar8 is it ok to burn Hindus then? Is that how muslim minds work?

[QuranVsHadith]

@drahmad93 ...

these HADITH are the ISSUE in PAKISTAN.. No one reads the QURAN... and goes to corrupt hadith.. no wonder these people commit murder (like they do) and then point to one hadith or another to justify their criminal acts!!..

Why do you quote hadith.. and not the QURAN?

[QuranVsHadith]

@cuteamyn ..

come join us then... support the end of the support of Haditherim.. the corruption of Islam..

Peace

[guineatells]

@cuteamyn people like you are the hope of future. Why don't you try uniting against such barbarism, as we from here cannot do much

[CobinRain]

What can you say about a country that hangs illiterate women as well as university lelcturers for saying things about a camel merchant who loved 1400 years ago?

Evil and religion are natural bedfellows. Pakistanis reading this: walk away from Islam(but do it quietly...remember apostasy is also punishable by death) and never mind what it says in the Koran; look instead at the reality of Islam in 2011

[Gulfporter]

It is time for all the people of the world to demand that ALL religions come to an end. They are all the same, they call come from the same place: ignorance, fantasy, and oppression. Today Islam is the chief offender, but if you could kill Islam today, tomorrow a new religion would replace it as long as the world keeps putting up with this bullshit. And that is what it all is: total bullshit.

[cuteamyn]

pakistan is not evil. many paksitanis including me wants this law to end

[drahmad93]

Hazrat Ali narrates that the Holy Prophet (swa) said:

" A time will come when nothing will remain of Islam except its Name, and nothing will remain of the Quran except its Script.

Mosques will be full of woreshippers but as far as righteousness is concerned they will be emty.

Their Ulemas (religious scholars) will be the worst creatur...es under the Sky.

Evil will plot from them and to them it will return."

refrence al-Baihaqi -Kanzul ‘Ummal, chapter 6, p. 43See More

[xamot27]

humanity needs tol be saved from ALL religion.

[Khanzafar8]

I cannot believe this. People being burned due to Religous intolerance. What is Pakistan ignorant. Don't they know that Muhammad, the founder of Islam said to PROTECT THE CHRISTIANS AND THEIR CHURCHES INSTEAD OF BURNING CHRISTIANS??????