The Horror-Comedy of Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws.

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It is outrageously easy to blaspheme in Pakistan. To be sure, a citizen may do so without even realising it; sometimes without having done so at all. The accusation is all that counts. As one journalist put it: “All you need to do to condemn someone for life is to switch on a mosque loudspeaker and make the allegation.”

Blasphemy laws in the Islamic Republic are now routinely used to settle disputes. A man whose car has been dented by the car parked in front (for example), need only inform the secret police that its owner has doubted the moral excellence of Mohammad, and his life will be ruined; a sentence of death placed on his head.

No-one is free or ‘above’ this suffocating atmosphere. A couple of months ago, a successful Pakistani actress (she had found fame in Bollywood) was declared guilty of blaspheming Islam. At the time of the accusation, the actress was in Dubai. Bewilderingly, she then declared a willingness to return to Pakistan to clear her name.

Politicians too can be brought down by this kind of mischief. As can lawyers, doctors and (of course) free-thinkers. What Pakistan appears to have perfected is a religious Stalinism, with the religious authorities replacing the KGB.

As Salman Hameed wrote in the Guardian: “(The) blasphemy law is devouring Pakistani society from within. It is an all-purpose tool in the service of intolerance. It has often been used against religious minorities, but Muslims are paying the price as well. The repeal of the law, unfortunately, is unlikely. Some voices critical of the law have already been silenced by intimidation and violence…”

If Saudi Arabia is the worst country in the world – as I have previously alleged – then Pakistan is working at breakneck pace to overtake it.

D, LDN.

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Pakistan’s Everyday Madness.

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When Taliban gunmen abbreviated the lives of 132 children in a Pakistani school last month, it became customary on social media to report a feeling of ‘shock’. Via facebook and twitter, Westerners lined up to report their disbelief and surprise at an event that seemed to defy understanding.

This wasn’t a bandwagon I could leap onto myself, I’m afraid. To do so would have been dishonest and almost pretentious. Knowing what I know about Islam, about Pakistan and about the abusive relationship between the two, I couldn’t be less surprised by a massacre of this kind. To be sure, I couldn’t really be shocked by any act of bestial violence occurring in that horrible, irredeemable country. If tomorrow, 300 new born babies were slaughtered in a Pakistani maternity ward, my heart would ache, but my mind would be unchanged.

Islam, you see, can only ever end in violence. Those Muslims who do not commit violence really are (as the extremists say) disobeying the spirit of the religion. That those children massacred in Peshawar were themselves Muslim means little. If Islam cannot fight those outside of its tent, it will turn on its own. Like the proverbial shark that must constantly move to survive, the pace of Islamic evil must be ceaselessly maintained. Noise must made (and what better noise than screaming) so that thought and conscience can be muffled and ignored. If the Muslims of the world could stand still and reflect without the presence of an (external or internal) enemy, even for a year, the culture would begin to crumble. Islam is total and permanent mobilisation of the lower instincts; a military-delusional complex.

Unlike Iran, Tunisia and other moderately infected nations, it is increasingly clear that Pakistan cannot be rescued. There is no cultural haloperidol we can airdrop to change the hearts and minds of that delusion-ravaged land. And when things like Peshawar occur, we should have the honesty not to feign surprise.

D, LDN.