Within hours of the slaying of Punjab Gov. Salmaan Taseer by Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, people who supported it had built a social-media shrine to the assassin, lavishing praise on him on Facebook. “Those who dare to insult our prophet Muhammad MUST be killed … All he [Qadri] did was in good faith,” read one post. The comment was hardly shocking given the fury Taseer had aroused in Pakistan by daring to advocate reform of the Muslim republic’s strict blasphemy law, which punishes such insults with death.
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