LAHORE: Police in Pakistan
arrested dozens of people
on Wednesday after a
mob beat a Christian
couple to death and
burned their bodies for
allegedly desecrating the
Quran.
Blasphemy is a serious
offence in conservative
Pakistan where those
accused are sometimes
lynched on the spot.
The latest incident took
place in a village in Punjab
province on Tuesday when
a local cleric told his
community through the
loudspeakers of his
mosque to punish the
couple for burning a few
pages of the Quran, a
police source said.
A mob then gathered
outside the house of
Shehzad Masih, 32, and his
wife Shama, in her 20s,
dragged them out and
beat them to death, police
said.
Their bodies were then set
on fire in a brick kiln
where they worked.
"We have arrested 44
people, it was a local issue
incited by the mullah of a
local mosque," Jawad
Qamar, a regional police
chief, told Reuters.
"No particular sectarian
group or religious outfit
was behind the attack."
Blasphemy charges, even
when they go to court, are
punishable by death in
Muslim-majority 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.
Christians make up about
four percent of Pakistan's
population and tend to
keep a low profile in a
country where Sunni
Muslim militants
frequently bomb targets
they see as heretical,
including Christians, and
Sufi and Shia Muslims.
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.
All of Pakistan's minorities
feel that the state fails to
protect them, and even
tolerates violence against
them.
A local journalist, who
spoke on condition of
anonymity for security
reasons, said police were
too slow to act to protect
the couple.
"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."
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.
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The prophecies are indeed coming to pass in our generation, yet some Nigerian MOGs continue to counter with their own prophecies instead of warning the flock on living by example like Jesus did

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Islam: preaching peace since eternity past.

Their counterparts are doing similar evils in NE Nigeria.

Whoever underestimates Islam at this era does so at their own peril.

The Christians will go to heaven. They died just like their Savior. It is good to follow Jesus. A slaughter for the sheep, an oven for the lamb.

The religion of peace never dissapoints. The mohammedan mobs are only following the instruction of the prophet (peace be upon me) as contained in the quran, hadith and the sunnah of the prophet.

I will still get a response that these killers do not understand the quran, or they dont understand arabic, or they read the quran out of context and other mechanical altaqiya defensive response.

This 'religion of peace' can never be separated from evil and wickedness, it is their trade-mark.