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Why did Mumtaz Qadri Kill Governor Salman Taseer?
News source Express Tribune The anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Islamabad, on
January 10, listened to a confessional statement of Mumtaz Qadri, the policeman
who killed Governor Salmaan Taseer. He said he had acted "alone" and that he
had planned the murder over three days before manoeuvring to get himself posted
in the special police squad which protects the Punjab governor.
The killer also revealed that he was persuaded to carry out the murder after
listening to the 'rousing sermons' delivered by Maulvi Hanif Qureshi and Ishtiaq
Shah at a religious gathering, on December 31 near his residence in Rawalpindi.
He said in his statement: "These sermons not only moved me to act against the
man who spoke against the sanctity of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) but
compelled me to stand up against those who were demanding changes in the
blasphemy laws."
Mr Qadri also exonerated "any political or religious group" of involvement in the
governor's assassination. Several religious groups have of late been protesting
against what they claim is a conspiracy to change a law considered sacred.
In this context, it is also claimed that the aim of this alleged conspiracy is to
change the blasphemy law, an act which will encourage people to commit acts
of blasphemy against the Holy Prophet (pbuh). This, of course, is not true and
nothing can substantiate such a serious allegation, which is made with much
impunity by the clerics.
Following Taseer's murder, a debate has arisen with protagonists arguing that
Qadri and the governor represented two extremes. This is where the Pakistani
mind needs to be concentrated.
It is entirely wrong and self-serving on the part of those who lean on
extremism to say that 'religious extremism' and 'liberal extremism' are
equally bad. Regrettably, the country has for some time regarded liberalism
as a borrowed or imported value, serving the interest of 'foreign powers'
hostile to Pakistan.
The hidden message is: put an end to liberalism and you will see Pakistan
moving away from 'religious extremism'. Liberalism, alas, will always remain
a minority reaction among those who fear some kind of endgame in 'religious
extremism'. Equating the two is not a wise thing to do because no one will
ever say that Pakistan is threatened by 'liberal extremism' or that liberal
extremist suicide bombers are roaming the streets killing innocent people.
The religious speakers who affected the thinking of Governor Taseer's killer say
they are not to blame for what happened. According to their statements, they
simply said that a blasphemer had to be dealt with in accordance with the law
and that "Sherry Rehman should not bring an amendment bill to parliament but
should take recourse to the court of law". The statements betray a lack of knowledge
of the country's institutional working. But Mr Qadri could not have stood up to say
that the courts in Pakistan adjudicate in accordance with the laws as framed or
amended first by parliament.
What the religious parties are getting wrong is the difference between the law
itself and its abuse. Any law, divine or human, can be abused and this can be set
right not by removing the law but reformulating it in such a way through
procedural readjustment that the aspects of its abuse are minimised.
Was not the Hudood Law misused on a daily basis by the police which took
money to book the accused under Hudood, rather than the normal law, to make
the process more punishing? What Maulvi Hanif Qureshi and Ishtiaq Shah should
have noted is that poor, illiterate and unprotected persons belonging to minority
communities are often trapped under the blasphemy law.
It takes long years for them to be exonerated by the higher courts and the
wrongful accusers are never called to account. What happened to Mumtaz
Qadri is happening to most of us falling under the influence of the campaign
of misplaced outrage led by clerical parties.
The court may not find them directly guilty of having plotted to kill Governor
Taseer through him, but any rational person will agree that the atmosphere
of extreme reaction deliberately created in the streets and mosques of
Pakistan is responsible for Mr Qadri's actions.
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