British Pakistani Christians protest against blasphemy law

by Amy Shank
Monday, July 4, 2011


The Pakistani Christian community in Britain has led a protest against Pakistan’s blasphemy laws.

The blasphemy laws have been blamed for much of the persecution against Christians in Pakistan and for increasing inter-religious tensions.

Human rights groups say that the blasphemy laws are frequently misused by extremists to level false charges against Christians in order to settle personal scores or seize property or businesses from them.

The protest in central London on Saturday was joined by Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, a Pakistani Christian, and Dr Martin Stern, a Jewish Holocaust survivor and former medical student at Peshawar University. the rest