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Islamic blasphemy laws
Islamists up in arms as Jharkhand Police seeks warrants against 39 accused for 2022 Ranchi ‘blasphemy’ violence
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The Jharkhand Police have initiated actions against those who were allegedly involved in the clashes that erupted on June 10, 2022, after an unruly...
Pakistan: Man compares Imran Khan to Islam’s Prophet during a PTI rally, lynched to death for ‘blasphemy’
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“Pakistan: Man compares Imran Khan to the Prophet during a PTI rally, lynched to death for blasphemy”, Organiser, May 7, 2023:
“A man was lynched by...
How NY Times negates persecution of Hindus, even in its coverage of Pakistan’s draconian blasphemy laws
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How Hindu persecution is negated at the “paper of record”! New York Times quite correctly raises alarm at Pakistan strengthening its blasphemy laws which...
Islamists try to enforce ‘blasphemy’ laws at American liberal arts college
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Activists associated with the Muslim Student Association (MSA) tried to isolate and punish an art history professor who displayed pictures of Muhammad to students...
Pakistan’s tryst with blasphemy laws
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Blasphemy is a speech crime and religious crime usually defined as an utterance that shows contempt, disrespect, or insult of a deity, an object...
Blasphemy madness: Mob tries to kill young woman accused of ‘desecrating’ Quran in Pakistan
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A young married woman was arrested from the New Karachi area on charges of blasphemy after she allegedly desecrated the Quran, media reports said.
The...
Hindu teacher Kakali Rani falsely accused of blasphemy: Barisal, Bangladesh
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Incidents of targeting Hindu teachers for insulting Islam continue in Bangladesh. This time the victim is Kakali Rani, a Hindu teacher at Kamarkathi Girls Secondary School...
The road less travelled: Blasphemy, and how exactly the issue should be decided in a Bharatiya court
With the ghastly violent attack on Salman Rushdie in New York – where he was, ironically, about to speak how Uncle Sam’s embrace is...
Stripping women and burning non-Muslims: horrors in Pakistan
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In October 2007, the cover of Newsweek magazine described Pakistan as the Most Dangerous Nation in the World. Five years later, TIME magazine followed...
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