Sentences with phrase «critics of the blasphemy»
(Critics of blasphemy laws like Pakistan's argue the laws are primarily used for petty vendettas and persecuting minority groups.)
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Mumtaz Qadri (below) was the bodyguard of the governor of Punjab Province Salman Taseer, but he murdered him in 2011 because he was an outspoken critic of the country's blasphemy laws - which are often used to target Christians and other minorities.
In related news, Pakistani Catholics have begun collecting testimony to declare Shahbaz Bhatti, a Christian politician and outspoken critic of the country's blasphemy laws, a martyr.
Therefore, from a scriptural perspective, such criticism of Obama is evidence of blasphemy and of rebellion against Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit on the part of his critics.
The strange, self - interested, hermetically - sealed national debate we have been having - one in which the interests of other countries are treated as meaningless and the concerns of critics are treated like blasphemy - seems to extend to the formal economic documents the government is publishing.