Just when facebook got banned, EU Parliament woke up from dead. Is this right timing or just spanking the monkey again? Why is that so that they have issue over blasphemy law but they don't have issue over the misuse of so-called 'freedom of speech'?
According to our blasphemy law, its illegal to talk against our religion out in the open and in the closet. Don't you think EU should have respected our laws? Should have respected the religion of ours if not their own. I know ours might have issue but justifying no-blasphemy law for censorship isn't the right thing to do, I guess!!
According to our blasphemy law, its illegal to talk against our religion out in the open and in the closet. Don't you think EU should have respected our laws? Should have respected the religion of ours if not their own. I know ours might have issue but justifying no-blasphemy law for censorship isn't the right thing to do, I guess!!
The EU parliament Thursday called on Pakistan to guarantee minority rights, claiming that its blasphemy laws could be used to “murder” members of political, racial and religious minorities.
In a resolution adopted in Strasbourg, the assembled Euro MPs expressed “deep concern” at the Pakistani blasphemy laws, calling for a “thorough review” of the legislation, which is “open to misuse”.
The laws can carry the death sentence and are “often used to justify censorship, criminalisation, persecution and, in certain cases, the murder of members of political, racial and religious minorities,” the parliament said in a strongly-worded statement. The texts in question “are misused by extremist groups and those wishing to settle personal scores,” the EU deputies said. They had also “led to an increase of violence against members of religious minorities, particularly Ahmadis, but also Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Parsis, Bahais and citizens who dare to raise their voice against injustice,” they added.
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