Asia Bibi: Pakistan court overturns blasphemy death sentence

[MineralMan]

1. Extremism in the defense of religion is no virtue.

However, it is as common as the dirt under your feet.

There are those in the United States who would quickly institute blasphemy laws here if they gained power. The religious right would relish the idea of extreme punishment for those who reject their teachings.

This is not an issue that is limited to one religion. Christianity has punished blasphemy and even heresy with death many times. It is prominent part of that religion's history, as it is in the history of other religions. It is one of the flaws of religious belief that holds that only one religion, or even one sect of a religion, has the right answers. That has led to countless violent deaths of those who disagree.