.... Today, Asia Bibi still sits in prison awaiting hanging. Numerous Islamic clerics have declared that if the government will not follow through on her death sentence, they themselves will finish the job. As for Salman Taseer, he died under a hail of 27 bullets, fired by his own bodyguard. Shahbaz Bhatti was leaving his mother's home in Lahore only months after Taseer's death, when a drive-by shooting claimed his life as well.
The topic of blasphemy codes, found in numerous Muslim-majority countries around the world, including Pakistan, is the subject of Paul Marshall and Nina Shea's recently-released 448-page book, Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes Are Choking Freedom Worldwide. [Crosswalk.com] Read more [via National Secular Society]
