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Spreading-fear-of-Islam Press TV has interviewed Liaquat Ali Khan, author and Professor of Law at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, to discuss the ongoing hostilities against Muslims across the Western countries. The political commentator maintains that some Western media outlets such as the right-wing Fox News Channel have launched smear campaign of fueling Islamophobia and are spreading hatred against Muslims. He adds some Western groups are also exacerbating the situation by waging constant attacks on Islamic symbols, the Muslim holy book and the prophet. The analyst suggests that theses hostile moves must be countered by other news channels and alternative media.   JR/KA

| Print |  E-mail Sunday, 11 January 2015 12:56 By  Liaquat Ali Khan  Share Link:                        Comments N ations do inane things under panic. Pakistan has chosen to amend its constitution to empower the armed forces to execute “religious terrorists” without due process and fundamental rights otherwise available under the criminal justice system in civilian courts. This extreme constitutional measure is taken in reaction to the December 16 attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar where more than  a hundred students were brutally massacred . Within hours of the school attack, the civilian government, on the urging of military officials, removed the ban on executions and  revived the death penalty  held in abeyance since 2008. Three days later, five persons involved in an assassination attempt in 2003 on General Pervez Musharraf were  executed . (The armed forces have already been pressuring the government not to vigorously pursue the treason case