By way of VLAD: Ladies and gentlemen this may be huge news. pprently this governor, (of the largest most important province of Pakistan) has spoken out against the y be huge news. pprently this governor, (of the largest most important province of Pakistan) has spoken out against the blasphemy laws and this is why he was guned down by his own security guards
UPDATE: Vlad says: More proof he was murdered due to his anti-Blasphemy positions:
STRATFOR: The governor of Pakistan’s core province of Punjab, Salman Taseer, was assassinated Jan. 4 by a member of his security detail in an upscale marketplace in the country’s capital of Islamabad. According to officials and witnesses, Taseer was shot nine times by a bodyguard as he was leaving his car to enter the Kohsar shopping center.
Pakistan: Punjab governor Salman Tasser killed by his guard
4 Jan, 2011 1714hrs IST AGENCIES
ISLAMABAD: The governor of Pakistan’s powerful Punjab province was shot dead Tuesday by one of his guards in the Pakistani capital, apparently because he had spoken out against the country’s controversial blasphemy laws, officials said.
The killing of Salman Taseer was the most high-profile assassination of a political figure in Pakistan since the slaying of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in December 2007, and it rattled a country already dealing with crises ranging from a potential collapse of the government to Islamist militancy.
The suspected killer was taken into custody, and there were conflicting reports as to whether he was wounded.
Taseer was a member of Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party and a close associate of President Asif Ali Zardari, Bhutto’s widower. The governor was vocal on a range of subjects, and frequently used Twitter to get across his views.
In recent days, as the People’s Party has faced the loss of its coalition partners, the 56-year-old Taseer has insisted that the government will survive. But it was his stance against the blasphemy laws that apparently led to his killing.
Interior minister Rahman Malik told reporters that the suspect in the case had surrendered to police and told them he killed Taseer because “the governor described the blasphemy laws as a black law.”
“He was the most courageous voice after Benazir Bhutto on the rights of women and religious minorities,” said a crying Farahnaz Ispahani, an aide to Zardari and friend of Taseer. “God, we will miss him.”
Pakistan’s blasphemy law has come under greater scrutiny in recent days after a Christian woman was sentenced to death for allegedly insulting Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.
Under pressure from Islamist parties, the People’s Party said recently it would not pursue changes to the law, which has long vexed human rights activists.
H/T: Zip, for the Times of India article
Spain’s 15th century ouster of Muslims stands as an exception, but the general rule is, Once Islamisized, always Islamisized. (And given the residual Islamic traces that still linger on in Spain, even to this day, one wonders if Isabella’s crowning achievement was really all that successful.)
Islam follows the pattern of all totalitarian systems. Freedom is promised, but slavery is delivered. The so-called “agrarian reformers” (e.g., Mao, Castro) say they will let the people rule, sometimes with an enticement of the vote – One Man, One Vote. When the people fall for the line (think Venezuela and Chavez for a recent example), they learn too late the full phrase – One Man, One Vote, One Time.
Once the coat of Islam is put on, it is impossible to get off, akin to the mythological Coat of Nessus which was the death of Hercules.
Western Europe is learning exactly what it has invited into its house. Yes, hard as it is to believe, but the countries of WE actually invited Muslims to live among them, obviously forgetting or ignoring Islam’s 1400 year history, no small part of it aimed directly at WE (732, 1529, 1683, plus the naval battles and countless acts of privacy.)
These western leaders should be hung.
Actually it should be: these western leaders should be hanged!