Commentary: How blasphemy laws are used to serve political ends
by Ahmet T. Kuru, Los Angeles Times
Feb 15, 2023
2 minutes
On Jan. 17, Pakistan’s National Assembly unanimously voted to expand the country’s laws on blasphemy, which already carried the death penalty for insulting the prophet Muhammad. Now anyone in Pakistan deemed to have insulted the prophet’s companions, which could include thousands of early Muslims, can face life imprisonment.
Across cultures and across centuries, I’ve found, blasphemy laws have emerged to
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