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Sunday, November 28, 2010

AFP: Pakistan Muslims warn of anarchy over Christian

AFP: Pakistan Muslims warn of anarchy over Christian: "LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistani Muslims threatened protests and anarchy if the government pardons a Christian mother sentenced to death for blasphemy, calling hundreds of demonstrators onto the streets on Friday.

Demonstrators marched in the eastern city of Lahore after the most influential Sunni Muslim alliance in Pakistan urged the government not to grant mother-of-five Aasia Bibi clemency.
A crowd of several hundred called for 'Jihad' and pledged to sacrifice their lives to protect the honour of the Prophet Mohammad, an AFP reporter said.

The rally was organised by a subsidiary of banned charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), which the United Nations has blacklisted as a terrorist organisation.

'We will hold nationwide protests if the government pardons the Christian woman,' the subsidiary's chief coordinator, Qari Yaqub, told participants.

Politicians and conservative clerics have been at loggerheads over whether President Asif Ali Zardari should pardon Bibi, who was sentenced on November 8 to hang under controversial blasphemy laws for defaming the Prophet Mohammed.

'The pardon would lead to anarchy in the country,' the head of the Sunni Ittehad Council, Sahibzada Fazal Kareem, told AFP.
'Our stand is very clear that this punishment cannot be waived.'"

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