Compulsion in Speech: Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan and Beyond

In the recently published No Compulsion in Religion—No Exceptions: Islamic Arguments for Religious Freedom , Cato senior fellow Mustafa Akyol collaborated with a team of international Muslim scholars to articulate a noncoercive vision of Islam. Among the issues addressed in the book are blasphemy laws that restrict free speech in dozens of countries—with Pakistan often regarded as home to some of…