All sane voices in this thread are asking only 1 thing to NOT take life out of another person, The man-made laws are not perfect, these are designed in a way that can induct even innocent people, especially minorities are easy target. See how other Muslim countries are dealing with such and have no such issues.
But radical minded folks, with a totally closed minds having no argument but insisting the blashphemy laws to be linked with islam. Oh bhai, no body is saying that islam is not official religion, nobody is denying that islam is official religion. It is quite obvious when you run out of arguments, you keep on repeating something which nobody is questioning, you resort to either saying sane voices as "munafiq", "kafir" or "fools". Abuses and violence is in your nature and thats exactly why you are supportive of such draconian man-made laws. The fact is you are never taught tolerance and value of human lives. You have seen religion as a cult for your group of people.
None of radicals have any clue or any idea to logical arguments made here by sane voices, such as how come All of Mecca were still alive if Blasphemy had a DEATH sentence, how come that lady, how come thousands of other people.
Any person with common-sense can see who are the people here, who are with the weak, the oppressed and with non-violence and who is the group with pure evil. If you think yourselves as religious, then I wonder how come so-called religious people can be evil in nature. If religion would have had fractions of positive impact on you, it would have taught you tolerance and above all value for human-life.
I'm paraphrasing here but,
Someone came into the presence of the Prophet (saw) and declared that the Prophet (saw) was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen.
The Prophet (saw) smiled and nodded in agreement.
Presently, another person came into the presence of the Prophet (saw) and declared that the Prophet (saw) was the ugliest thing that he had ever seen.
The Prophet (saw) again smiled and nodded in agreement.
The Sahaba who were present were amazed. They asked the Prophet (saw) how it could be that He (saw) could agree with both statements which were contradictory.
The Prophet (saw) replied by saying this, He said, I am like a mirror, I reflected whatever is inside the those two people. The first was a beautiful person so he saw me as beautiful, the second person was ugly inside so he saw me as ugly.
The thing to take away from this is that the Sahaaba or anyone else did not attack the second person for "blasphemy" , he was allowed to walk away with his opinion.
The second thing this tells you is that everyone projects their own personality, prejudice, ignorance or kindness upon Islam, the Prophet and Allah and passes it off as the teaching of Islam when what they are actually doing is indulging their own agendas, bigotry, ignorance and insecurities onto Islam.
Also, the forbearance, forgiveness, insight and understanding should be noted and emulated.
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