The punishment for a blasphemer - 'It's difficult to get past the murder of Salman Taseer today. As Amjad Khan argues at Harry's Place, the killer Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, smug in the certainty that he's acted in accordance with the doctrines of Islam, is no extremist. He's a straightforward traditionalist who happens to believe that blasphemers and apostates should be killed. To judge from his massive Facebook support, and the views of the man-in-the-street, this is what most Pakistanis believe: Mohammad Hanif, a leading novelist, said colleagues at the BBC in Karachi had randomly polled people on the street about the shooting. "Everyone approves," he said on Twitter. That's what they believe the message of Islam to be. The secularists, the reformers, those like Salman Taseer trying to accommodate Islam to a modern democratic society, are in a tiny minority - and if they speak out, they're killed. To general approval...'