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Dr. Younis Sheikh, a medical lecturer, has been waiting in a Pakistani prison for two years for a death sentence<\/a> against him to be carried out. His crime? Stating his opinion<\/a> in front of his class that the parents of the Prophet (saw) could not have been Muslim since they died before Islam was revealed \u2013 a remark labeled by the courts as \u201cblasphemous\u201d and deserving of the death penalty. Even though human rights activists and Islamic scholars around the world have rallied behind Dr. Younis<\/a>, and religious minorities in Pakistan charge that the law has been used to oppress them, it appears that President Musharraf doesn\u2019t want to invite the wrath of the powerful right-wing of Pakistani politics. Meanwhile, a man waits to die for the crime of having a religious opinion. <\/p>\n

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Shahed Amanullah is editor-in-chief of altmuslim.com.\n<\/p>\n

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