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Salmaan Taseer was butchered for protecting Pakistan’s religious minorities from its own blasphemy law.

Unless Pakistan finds a way to turn its back on Islam in the public sphere, the memory of the late governor of Punjab will fade.

“Get on Target for Victory in November. Help remove Gabrielle Giffords from office. Shoot a fully automatic M16 with Jesse Kelly.”

Now it’s happening here.

Words can do harm, just as surely as hormones can.

CNN video and transcript.

Whether they are organized, cohesive or disgruntled, the unaffiliated are the fastest-growing religious category in America.

By using words like “ghazi” (warrior) and “shaheed” (martyr) for cold-blooded killers, are we trying to placate the jihadi within?

With extra added homage to Anderson Cooper.

Pakistan is a country where fundamentalism is becoming mainstream, leaving even less room for dissent, difference, and equality.

A lawyer said “the law that says that Mr Qadri is a murderer was not drawn in accordance with Islam.”

Something that works every bit as well as a lucky charm.

 The modus operandi was essentially the same: the dishonest representation of pre-assembled artifacts.

These latest two articles will grind to dust any remaining “scientific resepctability” Wakefield might have enjoyed.

Brian Deer exposes bogus data behind claims that launched global MMR scare, and how the appearance of a link with autism was manufactured at a London medical school.

Both the large religious political parties declared that he had deserved to be killed for his views.

Yousuf Qureshi has never met or seen Aasiya Bibi. Yet his heart is so full of hatred that he is willing to give anyone Rs. 500,000 to kill her.

“But you see these are sensitive matters. He should have watched his words. He shouldn’t have spoken so carelessly.”

Many religious leaders, even those from so-called moderate groups, were angered by Mr. Taseer’s support in recent months of Asia Bibi.

Not this way.