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ROSE PETALS FOR A KILLER: ?My father, Salmaan Taseer, governor of the Pakistani province of Punjab,?

By Glenn Reynolds

ROSE PETALS FOR A KILLER: “My father, Salmaan Taseer, governor of the Pakistani province of Punjab, was murdered on Jan. 4, shot dead in broad daylight by the policeman tasked to protect him. Acting out of a twisted piety, the man?Malik Mumtaz Qadri?shot my father because of my father’s belief that Pakistan?s blasphemy laws have been misused to persecute religious minorities. . . . The biggest danger faced by Islam comes from those who claim to serve it. Its first victims are its own adherents.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 17, 2011 (boomark / email).