Islamabad: Man killed by mob and body set on fire for ripped out Quran pages

Good god, Afghanistan is the last place an atheist, or anyone for that matter, should be visiting

Are people actually allowed to visit for holidays at the moment? Cant be the safest of places what with it being 10 years down the line of war

What shocks me is not the Islamic belief which I dont have a problem with, but the brutal lengths muslims appear to go to day in day out, over a book

for my advanced western mind this is just to much to comprehend, how thousands of people can be so ferocious minded as to kill someone for this

The 'country' didn't allow it, it was an angry mob. Anyway I said it wouldn't have happened 40 years ago because people in pakistan traditionally have followed a non violent form of Islam - but in the last few decades Saudi Arabia have been funding thousands of mosques which preach a form of the religion called 'wahhabism'.. look it up.

Someone should make a meme out of that

Why the **** does Pakistan allow Saudi Arabia to fund these disgraceful mosques that allows the killing of innocent people?

'Advanced Western mind', yet doesn't even know how to use apostrophes.

SA give them lots of aid but as a condition they are allowed to set up and fund lots of wahhabi mosques. Read this something I found

I'm getting a bit confused here, so I hope you don't mind answering this - Are you trying to say that the mob who killed the man and set on fire did so not because they were Muslims, but because they were Pakistani?

They should reject the aid. No self-respecting country would take aid that is on the condition of building mosques that preach (and commit) murder.

No. Just no. It's cultural issue. South Asians, especially Pakistanis have a problem with integrating due to cultural differences. South Asians culture that are very family oriented, so it's rare you will see South Asians marrying outside their ethnic group sometimes marrying outside their family (Cousins are included in family) are pretty much impossible, this is reason why cousin marriage is so high. If they can't integrate with South Asians other than family, then how can they integrate with us? Not possible.

I'm not saying it doesn't happen to other ethnic groups, but I'm saying that, from my experience, pretty much any Muslims from ethnic group other than South Asian, will have very little problems with integrating if not at all, they are at roughly same level as any other non-Muslim majority ethnic groups in terms of integrating.

That's true, the Qur'an does say that there shouldn't be any compulsion in religion; there are some good teachings in the Qur'an, however, there are also some very controversial teachings in the Qur'an and the sharia.

Pakistan needs all the aid it can get. This means it will do whatever it needs to do to get the aid. Its like when you are in poor, they will do whatever they can to survive...

The blame lies on the culture. However mob shouldn't have reacted by killing the man, appropriate punishment should be laid on them according to Pakistani laws on murder.

These mob/people type who killed the man are very likely to be same as who are not so knowledgeable about Islam as they were fed to them by teacher without explaining them as to why, evidence, so and so. They do not read Qur'an and ahadith, they only follow Islam as told by their teacher and family which in my opinion is totally wrong. They taught them to have strong emotional attachment to Qur'an so anyone who does bad thing to it should be killed. Which then is part of their culture. It's rare in other cultures.

I've met quite a lot of Pakistanis who are like that I described above. Of course majority aren't.

The one thing i don't understand is who the **** created the sharia Law!! Like it actually contradicts nearly everything Islam is a about!!! I'am sorry for swearing but the problem about Islam itself is that it is divided. there are shias, whassabis, and sunnis... like what is the need!! I know I am a Sunni. But there is no need for it we should all just be muslims and that is it. and i would really want to make Islam the peaceful religion it I was. But i would need a lot of help and sources and stuff. because at the moment Islam is not seen as an amazing religion which I follow. But a religion that is violent, aggressive, really radicalized and more. and i would love to change that but what can a 16 year old girl still in school do!

Such as? Not trying to be a smartass but would like to know, i find religion interesting

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