On Sunday, March 10, 2013 CNN reported that a Muslim mob ransacked, pillaged and burned Christian properties in the city of Lahore, Pakitan. The report indicated that Muslims were outraged by a blasphemy charge against a Christian, Sawan Masih, in his early 20's. Masih is reputed to have been accused to have committed blasphemy after a drinking incident in which he was accused of blasphemy over an argument. His drinking companions then threatened to file such charges.
Pakistan is indeed not only a feudal, retrograde and brutal society, it is, for all intents and purposes, a medieval country in the 21st century. Anyone in Pakistan can be accused of blasphemy simply for disagreeing about something else which a Muslim finds disagreeable. Is this society even remotely humane? Blasphemy laws in Pakistan have been and are frequently used to harass minority religious believers. And for disagreeing, even for matters unrelated to religion, a non-Muslim or a Muslim for that matter who gets into an argument about somebody else who is a Muslim, most likely but not always a brute, can be potentially sentenced to death.
This reminds me of a video by Ayaan Hirsi Ali in which she asserted that Islam is a "philosophy of death," and that it values and gives premium on those who kill simply for not agreeing with what the Prophet Muhammad preached. Such is the violence inherent in a faith borne out of violence and war among largely desert, rural and illiterate Arab tribes. It reminds me of how Christopher Hitchens is so right about so many wrongs that religion seems to beget.
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