The views expressed by Ashrafi while talking to leaders of Qaumi Masalehati Council (National Reconciliation Council)" here on Thursday are in a stark contrast to the 'moderate' image the cleric seeks to build for himself.
Source/Credit: Associated Press of Pakistan
By Staff report | March 26, 2014
LAHORE: Politics on blasphemy law is deplorable and no body can dare to abolish this law, writes Associated Press of Pakistan (APP).
Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC) central chairman Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi says, according to APP, mosques and seminaries are here to stay until the day of judgement and there was no prospect for changes to the blasphemy laws in the country.
The views expressed by Ashrafi while talking to leaders of Qaumi Masalehati Council (National Reconciliation Council) here on Thursday are in a stark contrast to the 'moderate' image the cleric seeks to build for himself.
He did claim however, according to APP, that all schools of thought were against the misuse of the blasphemy law and asserted that it was a responsibility of all schools of thought to condemn its wrong use.
Ashrafi further claimed his organization was struggling for the rights of Muslims as well as non-Muslims but it wanted to transform the country [Pakistan] "like the state of Madina," a city in Saudi Arabia.
Once transformed, Ashrafi claimed, the rights of everyone would be protected.
On the other hand, Ashrafi is on record for threatening physical violence against those who are attempting to bring about changes in the current blasphemy laws of Pakistan
In one video recording of his lecture at a madrasa (seminary), Ashrafi had particularly singled out late Christian leader Shahbaz Bhatti with threats of physical harm. Bhatti was later murdered.
Bhatti, like Salmaan Taseer, late governor of the Punjab, was advocating changes in blasphemy laws of Pakistan. They both were killed for advocating blasphemy law changes.
-- Pakistan: Nobody can dare to abolish blasphemy law, asserts clerics council chair Tahir Ashrafi
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