Anastasia Colosimo is a doctor in political theory. Winner of the Elina and Louis Pauwels Prize for her essay Les Bûchers de la liberté published by Stock in January 2016 .
LE FIGARO. - The Christian Asia Bibi requests the right of asylum in France. Some defend it by invoking the "right to blasphemy". But is not talking about blasphemy already taking up the categories of political Islam?
Anastasia COLOSIMO. - The Asia Bibi affair is unfortunately part of a long series of “blasphemy” cases in Pakistan, where a law prohibiting blasphemy against Islam and the Prophet Muhammad was introduced in 1986 to mark a form of irreversible Islamization of society, desired by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq. Since its promulgation, tens of people have been condemned and thrown in prison each year, when they are not lynched by the population before any form of trial. The victims are not only Christian, there are also
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