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December 27, 2010

LA Times: Pakistan's blasphemy law seen as tool of oppression

by Alex Rodriguez
Los Angeles Times

Reporting from Nankana Sahib, Pakistan — Muslim cleric Muhammad Salim isn't worried that a court or Pakistan's president might spare a Christian woman from this village who has been sentenced to death on blasphemy charges.

After all, if Asia Bibi, a mother of two, escapes the hangman's noose, he's confident someone else will kill her.

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