Indian Ex Muslim arrested in Dubai over Blasphemy charges. #UAE #Dubai #Blasphemy #HumanRights #FreedomOfConscience

I don't know the nature of this guys' case but I am of the opinion that there is no blasphemy in Islam or any penalty whatsoever but later day falsification in the name of Prophet (PBUH) and his companions for political objectives which are still going on. 

When Salman Rushdie had created a Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II, there was a lot of hue and cry from Pakistan. I, myself while addressing a conference in Conway Hall, London, two guys in the conference who been sent there in my observation by the Pakistani Embassy, objected during my speech saying that "what kind of a Muslim I am defending a blasphemer (Salman Rushdie)." It was surprising and shocking for me because I was purely defending him from the Islamic point of view. It was not the place for a detailed reply.

When I came home, I wrote a reply of 4 pages, first I had challenged the fatawa of Imam Khomeni on the basis of the doctrine of fatwa among Shia Imamiya and to prove that how Imam Khomeni was wrong from his own theological basis and he did it just for the political millage, not because of theological demand. Then I had challenged the whole theological basis of blasphemy law as the traditions of anti-Prophets rather than traditions of Prophets by citing evidence from Qur'an, Hadith, and Prophetic history and emailed to all newspapers. There were no social media such as FB, YouTube, Twitter, etc. 

To the best of my knowledge, it was not published by any newspaper but the hue and cry which was going on in Pakistan, displaying banners even on the walls of Pakistani Parliament, "cut the head, cut the head of Salman Rushdie" and so many more but all of a sudden everything had died down. I had asked some of my friends who had close contacts in Pakistan. They told me that after my article went to the newspapers, Pakistan was told by the International media that they are going to open a debate on the subject. This was the reason, it went dead to avoid a proper debate. 

In my experience, it is not the public sentiments but the political objectives to benefit authoritarian regimes by using ideologies of religious dictatorship to strengthen their unpopular authority by using religious extremism and violence - to suppress public demands for justice in the name of divine order an ancient political tool.