by
Les May
ACCORDING
to 'Pakistan Today
(PT)',
Imran Khan, the
Prime Minister of Pakistan, said at a
conference a few days
ago, “Moses got
some mention, but Jesus Christ has no mention in history”,
which may not be the most
tactful thing to say in a
country where mobs wander the streets demanding that Asia
Bibi, who is a
Christian, should be hanged for blasphemy even though the countrie’s
Supreme Court has declared her innocent.
Perhaps
a little ‘tongue in cheek’ PT
went on to say:
‘It
merits a mention here that the two-day conference titled, "Finality
of Prophethood and responsibilities of Muslims in light of the
teachings of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)", is the 43rd conference
aimed at promoting religious harmony, tolerance, brotherhood and
equality, respect for humanity, non-violence, unity, reconciliation
and culture of dialogue’
What
PT
did not mention was that according
to the 'Times of Israel', Imran
Khan has also
called for an
international convention banning speech deemed insulting to Muslims.
There
is a direct translation of the relevant parts of
his speech here;
What
Khan is saying here is
that the price for civil peace in Pakistan is our
freedom of speech. The
people who have rioted and are demanding that Asia
Bibi be hanged are by
any reasonable measure on the extreme right wing politically. They
make Tommy Robinson and his ilk look like babes in arms. Yet
the Asia Bibi
case has been largely ignored by the Left which seems more interested
in building up Robinson’s profile.
One
blog which claims to be ‘of
liberal stance and independent mind’
has
had a story about Robinson ever day this week, but has not found time
to campaign on behalf of a woman who spent eight years in a cell with
a death sentence hanging over her.
So
far Robinson has not spotted the political capital to be made out of
the Bibi case. If he ever does he’ll find that the Left has been
too busy burnishing its anti-racist credentials to make any credible
response to why it has not taken up the case for Asia
Bibi and her family
being offered asylum in the UK.
There
is an alternative perspective on the Bibi story here;
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