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ROBERT SIEGEL
All Things Considered (NPR)
06-22-2004
Analysis: Human rights activists try to reform Pakistan's blasphemy law

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Human rights activists in Pakistan are trying to reform that country's blasphemy law. The vaguely worded statute is intended to prevent citizens from defiling the name of the prophet Muhammad. Activists says it inflames religious sentiments and sanctions hate crimes. Pakistan's influential religious parties call the law essential to Pakistan's Islamic identity. Miranda Kennedy went to Islamabad and she ...

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