Watching the NZ vs Pakistan cricket match in the World Cup, at Edgbaston Oval last night, I couldn't help but note the similarities in the crowd behaviour at the game and that in demos in Islamabad calling for beheading of those who insult Islam. Not fair! Of course not. This crowd was very friendly, Keen, vocal, but surely friendly.
But still. The flashbacks to previous Pakistan triumphs in the World Cup showed us their then captain, Imran Khan. Handsome, charismatic, talented, oh so talented, with ball and bat. He was the cricketer's cricketer. The game of gentlemen.
And now he's Prime Minister of Pakistan. And he's calling world wide blasphemy laws. Especially for Islam. Criticise Islam and you should go to jail. His compatriots say you should be killed.
So that's Imran Khan. One minute playing cricket then next calling for laws to ban our free speech world wide.
Do we think those at Edgebaston are any different? Why no, they are not. And we know this from many polls in the UK that show a chasm between the views of an average UK Pakistani, even UK-born and non-Pakistani Brits. They believe homosexuality should be outlawed, apostasy should be punished and blasphemy a criminal offence.
Some in the UK are pre-emptively doing this for them. ASDA recently fired a disabled employee a grandfather, because he'd posted an old Billy Connoly YouTube which was critical of Islam. Critical too of Christianity, mostly Christianity, but it also criticised the Religion of Peace and that was too much for those tolerant votaries of Islam.
And Twitter implements Pakistani blasphemy laws. (also in the article).
And WordPress suppresses the Jesus and Mo cartoon published by leftist blogger, the evolutionary biologist Gerry Coyne.
And voter fraud has become an important Pakistani import along with Kabuli Pulao
This is scary stuff and must be resisted. And so much coming from Pakistan. Other big culprits: Saudi Arabia (funds Wahabbi schools throughout the world) and Iran (funds Hizbollah).
I went to the Facebook page of ASDA to complain to them about firing of the grandpa, but found the article had been posted and *liked* by hundreds! How depressing. People complicit in their own enslavement of their speech.
