(Reuters) As Muslims rage, Pakistan scrutinised by churches

Posted by Kendall Harmon

With Muslim leaders in many countries calling for a global law barring what they call insults to Islam, the main non-Catholic world Christian grouping on Monday said just such a law in Pakistan is used to persecute other religions.

Pakistan's "Blasphemy Law" has driven the country's religious minorities - Christians, Hindus and Ahmadis, a dissenting Islamic group - into "a state of fear and terror", said the World Council of Churches (WCC), organisers of a 3-day conference on the law.

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Posted September 19, 2012 at 5:30 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]



1. Cennydd13 wrote:

Those Muslim leaders are dreaming if they think there’ll ever be a “global law’ banning discrimination against Islam.  How would it be enforced?  By arms?

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