Juxtaposition of two events that offers a unique telescope to understand the religious undercurrents in today’s Pakistan
Source/Credit: The News on Sunday
By Mushtaq Bilal | December 3, 2017
Let’s, for a moment or two, forget about contemporary Pakistan. It is 1924 and India is under the British Raj.
Mahashe Rajpal, an Aray Samaj activist, publishes a blasphemous pamphlet in Urdu, written by an anonymous author. Indian Muslims are offended by it. A long legal battle ensues and Justice Dalip Singh of the Lahore High Court acquits Rajpal because the law does not stipulate any punishment for blasphemy.
But Indian Muslims are not to be consoled for the honour of their Prophet (PBUH) has been defiled. A few weeks after Rajpal’s acquittal, a Muslim cleric lambasts the judge for acquitting Rajpal and declares that Rajpal will have to pay the price for blasphemy. He declares that if the British government is unable to take any action, the Indian Muslims will take the law in their own hands. Mullahs declare that Rajpal is to be killed for blasphemy.
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