Christian couple killed for 'desecrating Holy Quran' near Lahore: police

[Solomon2]

Need to get rid of this stupid blasphemy law asap. Anyone can accuse without any evidence and morons will still hurt people just because they can. Beat the murderers to death in return, or better yet hand them to the victim's relatives and let them decide their fate.

If you have the key to the vault why satisfy yourself with just the display case?

 

[pak-marine]

Yep. And as near as I can tell it all goes back to, and is a consequence of, rejecting the right of Jews to re-settle and establish their own government in the land of Israel. Because the hypocrisy, the denial of rights, the rejection of truth and justice, all can be traced to that point, because that's what was needed to demean the Zionists, who have excellent cause and case for their motives and deeds and justice over the past century.
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Karma is a biaaatchhhhhhhhhhhh ...

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

another brutal murder of minorities pakistani civil society has decided to keep its volume low over religiously sensitive issues this hypocracy is soon to reach their back yard ... do some thing or get ready to be fckd

definitely.... its the height of hypocrisy but also either indifference or lack of priorities

that whack-job Qadri must be laughing

If you have the key to the vault why satisfy yourself with just the display case?

rather than focus on our affairs - why not do something about the militant settlers in your beloved israel?

one of the holiest Churches attacked in Jerusalem by extremist settlers - Christian tourists harassed, intimidated

Photostory: Israeli extremists' attack on Nazareth's most famous Christian church goes virtually unreported | The Electronic Intifada

Christians in Israel and Palestine fear rise in violence ahead of pope's visit | World news | The Guardian

 

[Sam Manekshaw]

Then what are Indians doing here? The topic has got nothing to do with them.

same can be said to the topic u discuss in Indian Defence forum.

 

[Arya Desa]

RIP. Such is the condition of nonmuslims in pakistan.

 

[samv]

What is the actual % of Christians in the Pakistani population? I've read that they are mainly from poorer sections of society and are considered to be 'unclean' by some?

 

[xyxmt]

just like in Africa you get accused of being a Witch you'll have a mob beat you then set you on fire.

total hysteria.

I think its more to do with bonded labor in my opinion. but then you have quranic verses written on every news paper which gets used as wrappers and get desecrated everyday, anyone can see a non muslim throwing a piece of news paper with quranic verses or see a non muslim stepping on a paper with verses and now you have chance to pump up and mob of illitrates who cant even read quran but willing to kill any human like animals.

I know a muslim mill owner in Lahore who went thru this with a laborer who have had some issues with him accused him of throwing a calander with quranic verses on the ground and everyone ganged up on him, the guy barely survived but his factory was burned.

In my opinion this incident, like many others, have nothing to do with desecration

 

[GreenFoe]

In twitter their is news that copies of Quran found in sewage system ,no hullabaloo on that? Arab slaves?

 

[GreenFoe]

Copies of Holy Quran found in street drains of Taif, Saudi Arabia

 

[Solomon2]

Christian couple lynching incited by mullah of local mosque: police
Reuters
Updated about 4 hours ago

— AFP/File
ISLAMABAD: Police arrested dozens of people on Wednesday after a mob beat a Christian couple to death and burned their bodies for allegedly desecrating the Holy Quran.

Local media reported the couple was accused of burning a copy of the Holy Quran and throwing it in a rubbish bin in the province of Punjab on Tuesday. Police said their bodies were set on fire in a brick kiln.

“We have arrested 44 people, it was a local issue incited by the mullah of a local mosque,” Jawad Qamar, a regional police chief said. “No particular sectarian group or religious outfit was behind the attack.”

Read: 'No mercy' for those behind murder of Christian couple, says PM Nawaz

The incident took place in the town of Kot Radha Kishan, some 60 kilometres of Lahore, and was the latest example of mob violence against minorities accused of blasphemy.

The victims were only identified by their first names, Shama and Shehzad, and were a married couple.

Police ‘too slow to act’
Punjab police spokeswoman Nabila Ghazanfar said the couple, like many other poor Christians in the area, worked in a brick kiln owned by a local man who has also been arrested.

“Three days ago, a co-worker alleged that they had burnt pages of the Holy Quran. On Tuesday morning, a mob gathered outside their house, dragged them out, beat and burnt them in the same kiln where they worked,” she said.

A local journalist, who spoke on condition of anonymity for security reasons, said police were too slow to act to protect the couple.

Read: Christian couple beaten to death for 'desecrating Quran', says police

“Police did not take it seriously. Later they sent five officers to the spot,” the journalist said. “The couple was thrashed and burnt in their presence.”

Pakistan's brick kiln workers are often subject to harsh practices, with a study by the Bonded Labour Liberation Front Pakistan estimating that 4.5 million are indentured labourers.

Three-member committee to investigate killings
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has constituted a three-member committee to fast track the investigation of the killings and ordered police to beef up security at Christian neighbourhoods in the province, an official from his media office said.

Blasphemy charges, even when they go to court, are punishable by death in Pakistan. They are hard to fight because the law does not define clearly what is blasphemous. Presenting the evidence can sometimes itself be considered a fresh infringement.

Blasphemy is a serious offense in Pakistan where those accused are sometimes lynched on the spot.

Rights group demands justice for couple
Pakistani authorities must bring to justice those responsible for the vicious mob killing of the Christian couple, human rights groups Amnesty International said in a press release Tuesday.

“This vicious mob killing is just the latest manifestation of the threat of vigilante violence which anyone can face in Pakistan after a blasphemy accusation – although religious minorities are disproportionately vulnerable. Those responsible must be brought to justice and the Pakistani authorities have to ensure at-risk communities are proactively given the protection they need,” said David Griffiths, Amnesty International’s Deputy Asia Pacific Director.

Read: Salman Taseer's killer incited shooting of elderly blasphemy inmate

Christians make up about two per cent of the country's total population and tend to keep a low profile where militants frequently bomb targets they see as heretical, including Christians, Sufi and Shia Muslims.

All of Pakistan's minorities feel that the state fails to protect them, and even tolerates violence against them.

Last month a British man with a history of mental health illness, sentenced to death for blasphemy earlier this year, was shot by a prison guard in his cell.

Also in October, a Pakistani court upheld the death penalty against a Christian woman, Asia Bibi, who is also accused of blasphemy, in a case that drew global headlines after two prominent politicians who tried to help her were assassinated.

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

RIP. Such is the condition of nonmuslims in pakistan.

it was a financial/money dispute -- which took on a religious angle b/c a few idiots abused a law which should have been repealed

and dont get us started on the condition of non-hindus in india....be it Christians or Muslims; hell - even "low caste" hindus

 

[Arya Desa]

it was a financial/money dispute -- which took on a religious angle b/c a few idiots abused a law which should have been repealed

and dont get us started on the condition of non-hindus in india....be it Christians or Muslims; hell - even "low caste" hindus

Please come up with more excuses to justify this savage murder.