“Debates about blasphemy and apostasy laws among Muslims are naturally influenced by international affairs. Across the globe, Muslim minorities – including the Palestinians, Chechens of Russia, Kashmiris of India, Rohingya of Myanmar and Uighurs of China – have experienced severe persecution. No other religion is so widely targeted in so many different countries.
Alongside persecution are those Western policies that discriminate against Muslims, such as laws prohibiting headscarves in schools.”
Two Muslims identify with each other regardless of their nationality or ethnicity. That is their ‘imagined community’.
In addition, many Muslims regarded the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq as a ‘wars on Islam’. It is a socio-psychological question when we see them support executing an apostate or wanting the implementation of shari’s laws. Thus authoritarian regimes in alliance of Muslim scholars find support among many when it comes to blasphemy and apostasy, for example.
Why blasphemy is an offence in some Muslim-majority countries
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“Kuru contradicts the view – widespread among enemies of Islam – that the religion is the root of all the problems in Islamic countries. How can that be when, between the 8th and 12th centuries, the very same religion brought forth a civilisation without equal? During this epoch, the Islamic world rose to become a centre of enlightenment, science, research, art and culture.”
“Why did over 90 percent of religious scholars insist on a virtual separation of state and religion during the first five centuries of Islamic history?”
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