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Re:Why doesn’t Pakistan reform its blasphemy laws? by politicalthrow on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @06:48PM (#14198894)
I got curious about whether these were mainstream beliefs with muslims. Muslim culture is so varied as it's very large.

Here's a breakdown:

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/27/muslims-and-...

The parent is correct in that most muslims, broken down by country, do support sharia law when surveyed.

Edited because I was wrong about numbers.

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Re:Why doesn’t Pakistan reform its blasphemy laws? by duncan_bayne on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @03:08AM (#14201052)
The only caveat to that I'd add is that the numbers are probably a bit inflated, given they're being often being polled in countries where apostasy is punishable by death. I'd be a mite careful how I answered polls on religious beliefs in those places.
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Re:Why doesn’t Pakistan reform its blasphemy laws? by mythrwy on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @06:50PM (#14198912)
What do you mean #1?

Christianity has a lot more adherents (numbers wise) than Islam.

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Re:Why doesn’t Pakistan reform its blasphemy laws? by politicalthrow on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @06:56PM (#14198956)
My mistake - it's just the fastest growing and the #2 religion.
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