Hundreds of enraged Muslims killed a manager of a factory because of blasphemy charges and then took selfies with his burning body
A mob of hundreds of enraged Muslims descended on the factory in the district of Sialkot in Punjab province on Friday after the Sri Lankan manager was accused of blasphemy.
The mob grabbed Priyantha Kumara, lynched him and publicly burned the body, according to police. Factory workers accused him of desecrating posters bearing the name of Islam's Prophet Muhammad.
Punjab police chief Rao Sardar said on Saturday that investigators arrested prominent suspects after seeing video showing their role in inciting workers to violence, killing the manager and dragging his body outside, and taking selfies with his burning body and proudly admitting what they did.
Khurram Shahzad, a police official in Sialkot district, said 123 suspects were detained in raids.
In the conservative society of Pakistan mere allegations of blasphemy can provoke mob attacks. The country's blasphemy law carries the death penalty for anyone found guilty.
https://www.northweststar.com.au/story/7...-lynching/
On Friday (December 3), a Pakistani journalist revealed how hatred against Hindus is indoctrinated in educational institutes in the country. He made the remarks in the aftermath of the brutal lynching of a Sri Lankan factory manager on charges of blasphemy.
When my children return from school, they ask me bizarre questions. One day, my son asked whether we have Hindus in Pakistan. I told him about my Hindu friend. He then told me how his teacher encouraged him to kill Hindus in Sindh.
“If you have Hindus in Sindh, then, why don’t you guys kill them,” the son of the Pakistani journalist was taught at school. The journalist added, “The grooming of children in these schools is disturbing. We have to keep an eye on what they are being taught. This (educational) system that has been running for 40-50 years is responsible for the indoctrination.”
https://www.opindia.com/2021/12/pakistan...hools/amp/
A mob of hundreds of enraged Muslims descended on the factory in the district of Sialkot in Punjab province on Friday after the Sri Lankan manager was accused of blasphemy.
The mob grabbed Priyantha Kumara, lynched him and publicly burned the body, according to police. Factory workers accused him of desecrating posters bearing the name of Islam's Prophet Muhammad.
Punjab police chief Rao Sardar said on Saturday that investigators arrested prominent suspects after seeing video showing their role in inciting workers to violence, killing the manager and dragging his body outside, and taking selfies with his burning body and proudly admitting what they did.
Khurram Shahzad, a police official in Sialkot district, said 123 suspects were detained in raids.
In the conservative society of Pakistan mere allegations of blasphemy can provoke mob attacks. The country's blasphemy law carries the death penalty for anyone found guilty.
https://www.northweststar.com.au/story/7...-lynching/
On Friday (December 3), a Pakistani journalist revealed how hatred against Hindus is indoctrinated in educational institutes in the country. He made the remarks in the aftermath of the brutal lynching of a Sri Lankan factory manager on charges of blasphemy.
When my children return from school, they ask me bizarre questions. One day, my son asked whether we have Hindus in Pakistan. I told him about my Hindu friend. He then told me how his teacher encouraged him to kill Hindus in Sindh.
“If you have Hindus in Sindh, then, why don’t you guys kill them,” the son of the Pakistani journalist was taught at school. The journalist added, “The grooming of children in these schools is disturbing. We have to keep an eye on what they are being taught. This (educational) system that has been running for 40-50 years is responsible for the indoctrination.”
https://www.opindia.com/2021/12/pakistan...hools/amp/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"