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Anything can be stretched and manipulated by opportunistic people. Most Pakistanis would agree that the blasphemy laws, while possibly well-intentioned, are grossly abused for personal vendettas. They have lost their legitimacy in that sense. However, I was making a wider point that most...

Almost all countries, including Western countries, have laws against racial and religious vilification. A blasphemy law by any other name... The issue is about offending sensibilities. Religious or not is an artificial distinction imposed by those who defend their sensibilities but not others'.

Like I wrote, I am not here to pamper your sensibilities: you can dismiss reality check as an anti-India conspiracy. It bothers me not in the least. Track record is evident to anyone who looks around them with an unbiased eye: which countries have a high per-capita GDP based on value added...

What kind of "thousand year history" does South Korea have? Australia? USA? Actually, your comment goes to the heart of why USA rules the day (and the morrow). It is a very common line of thought that ancient lineage bestows greatness, but the defining characteristic of a winner is that he...

We will never malign or backstab a fellow Muslim country, be it Turkey or Iran.

My comments are entirely on topic since they go to the question of who is more "civilized" in this conflict. Racist colonization -- as done by Afrikaners to the black Africans, and as done by Zionists to the Palestinians -- is uncivilized.

My point is that any sense of Pakistani national identity has been sacrificed to petty partisan politics and regionalism. It is the failure of the media, government and, ultimately, society to create a sense of national unity that transcends partisan politics. National issues of supreme...

An insight into what the "civilized" Brits were training to do, in case of a Nazi occupation... (edit: training 12 year old kids to do beheading, join terrorist squads etc, etc.) As expected, you missed the whole point. At issue is not the definition of anti-Semitism, but use of that word...

The irony of these racist colonialists portraying themselves as the 'victims' and the evicted Palestinians as 'animals' is beyond comment. Imagine the white Afrikaner colonialists complaining about the inhuman black hordes attacking them... "Zionism Has Nothing to do With Judaism" »...

Pakistani society is fractured along political lines, which makes it impossible for anyone to do anything meaningful. Any action in Pakistani government is viewed through the prism of political loyalties. If the army supports position (A), then the anti-army people will criticize it regardless...

I love the way you are doing the dance of evasion. The discussion is about the specific laws under discussion, not a general treatise on the legal system. The fact remains that the laws I mentioned are a manifestation of religious bigotry masquerading as "cultural" issues. There is a famous...

Buddy, I am not commenting. I am just enjoying the irony of so many posters posting sanctimoniously. The best one, by far, is one of the premier purveyers of religious and ethnic hatred on this forum, @Solomon2 lecturing others about hatred....

Locally, as opposed to globally or regionally. Hard to affect weather conditions around the globe or region, but local effects can be generated. The trivial case of seeding rainfall is decades old, but development of more advanced techniques is only a matter of time.

Sure, anyone can have intense debates and come to the desired conclusion. Pakistan also had "intense debates" about Ahmedis before coming to a conclusion. The fact remains that, contrary to your assertions, European countries have laws that discriminate for or against specific religions. They...

The "cultural" Trojan horse is a well-known tactic to impose religious discrimination. The Hindutva crowd in India is catching on fast and is working hard to impose Hinduism as a "cultural" construct on all Indians. Spare me. You wrote that religious tolerance in the West was due to their...

Utterly shameless case of blaming the victim. By your logic Nazi persecution of Jews was 'justified' by self-proclaimed rationalizations. The fact is that YOUR bombastic claim of no religious restrictions was shown to be false, so now you are dancing around trying to justify why your claim was...

Factually incorrect. Any number of European countries have laws which discriminate for or against one religion or another. France's hijab law; France's law against "conspicuous" religious symbols; Switzerland's law against minarets; speech laws in various European countries. It is also...

Your post is just a wordy rephrasing of the OP's claim that population implies domination. That is simply not true and hasn't been true for many, many centuries. I am not here to pamper to your fantasies or to soften the reality by agreeing to meaningless 'projections'. I offer my opinions...

We need to have a zero tolerance policy against anyone who incites violence against another Pakistani. It is not an 'Ahmedi' issue or a 'Shia' issue or a 'Sunni' issue. It is about maintaining a cohesive and inclusive society with respect for rule of law.

I believe that weather can be manipulated locally. I believe the US is working on technologies to implement the mechanisms. I believe that others are also working on it. Given the current technology gaps, the US will surely get there first and dominate for a while, but there is nothing says...