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RE: Pakistan: Man accused of blasphemy killed by mob in Khanewal
February 13, 2022 at 3:07 pm
Must be a poor kind of religion that gets upset about burning some paper
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RE: Pakistan: Man accused of blasphemy killed by mob in Khanewal
February 13, 2022 at 3:55 pm
(February 13, 2022 at 2:50 pm)Lawz Wrote: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-60368498
Quote:A mob has killed a man for allegedly burning pages of the Koran in central Pakistan, police say, in the latest case of blasphemy-related violence in the country.
Police say more than 80 people have been arrested in connection with the killing on Saturday in the district of Khanewal in Punjab province. Reports said the man was in police custody before a crowd snatched him.
His body was handed over to his family and a funeral held on Sunday.
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said the case would be "dealt with the full severity of the law" and asked for a report on police officers accused of failing their duty to save the man.
His government, he said, had "zero tolerance for anyone taking the law into their own hands".
Partition was a bad idea IMO...maybe necessary in that time however.
It’ll be interesting to see how ‘dealt with the full severity of the law’ plays out, seeing as how Pakistan is a both a
de jure Islamic state and a
de facto military state.
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RE: Pakistan: Man accused of blasphemy killed by mob in Khanewal
February 13, 2022 at 3:57 pm
Islam = men being afraid their wives will be polygamous, as they/those men are. Open case, shut case.
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RE: Pakistan: Man accused of blasphemy killed by mob in Khanewal
February 13, 2022 at 4:14 pm
Blasphemy: the victimless "crime".
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RE: Pakistan: Man accused of blasphemy killed by mob in Khanewal
February 13, 2022 at 5:48 pm
(February 13, 2022 at 5:01 pm)Brian37 Wrote: (February 13, 2022 at 2:50 pm)Lawz Wrote: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-60368498
Partition was a bad idea IMO...maybe necessary in that time however.
Lets not forget women and girls in Salem Mass were murdered by Christian assholes. And look at what our right wing is doing today, burning books and trying to get them banned.
There’s a difference. The Salem ‘witches’ were actually given trials, the great majority of which resulted in acquittals. Whereas killing blasphemers via mob violence is part and parcel of Islamic culture.
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RE: Pakistan: Man accused of blasphemy killed by mob in Khanewal
February 13, 2022 at 6:05 pm
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RE: Pakistan: Man accused of blasphemy killed by mob in Khanewal
February 13, 2022 at 6:13 pm
‘If she weighs the same as a duck, she’s a witch!’
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RE: Pakistan: Man accused of blasphemy killed by mob in Khanewal
February 13, 2022 at 7:05 pm
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