Pakistan mob kills Christian couple over 'blasphemy'

[DrLeftover]

4 Nov

A Christian couple in Pakistan have been beaten to death by an angry crowd after being accused of desecrating a Koran, police say.

Their bodies were burned at the brick kiln where they worked in the town of Kot Radha Kishan in Punjab province.

Police identified the victims only as Shama and Shehzad, AFP reports.

Blasphemy is a highly sensitive issue and critics argue the laws are often misused to settle personal scores and that minorities are unfairly targeted.

"Yesterday an incident of desecration of the holy Koran took place in the area and today the mob first beat the couple and later set their bodies on fire at a brick kiln," local police station official Bin Yameen told the AFP news agency.

A security official told the BBC that local police had tried to save the couple, but they were outnumbered and attacked by the angry crowd.

Senior police officials and government ministers have now arrived there to investigate the killings.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-29893809

 

[Webster]

*reads news article* I never thought I'd say this...but can we just wall up that part of the world and say, 'to hell with them'.

 

[DrLeftover]

I thought that after Mister Obama extended the hand of friendship to the Muslim world that they would want to join with us and sing the old camp songs.....

oh well

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

*reads news article* I never thought I'd say this...but can we just wall up that part of the world and say, 'to hell with them'.

Just have America stop sending any of those countries anymore money and that would be the next best thing.

 

[Webster]

*reads news article* I never thought I'd say this...but can we just wall up that part of the world and say, 'to hell with them'.

Just have America stop sending any of those countries anymore money and that would be the next best thing.

That might work...then again, we'd have to stop sending Israel any money as well and I doubt that's about to happen anytime soon.