Pakistan supercharging its blasphemy laws is likely to increase false accusations, as blaspheming Muhammad is set to become as easy as insulting those who lived in Muhammad’s orbit.
Pakistan’s National Assembly (Lower House) voted on January 17, unanimously passing the Criminal Laws (Amendment) Act amendment, giving support to expanding the country’s current laws prohibiting politically incorrect speech.
Criticizing the warlord, religious icon, militant expansionist, and/or his borrowed theology, already comes with the death penalty, if not a hefty gaol term.
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Caldron Pool
