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

I hope you're being ironic.

I thought that was obvious.

same reason as why america and britain continue to support saudi arabia (land of wahabbism - brand of islam which spreads extremism and hatred) . . .

Someone should make a meme out of that

Just note - the place is named 'Islamabad'. Delete the 'a' and...

Just note - the place is named 'Islamabad'. Delete the 'a' and...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/04/pakistanis-kill-man-accus_0_n_1648970.html

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-05/pakistan/32550373_1_police-station-qurans-mob

ISLAMABAD — Thousands of people dragged a Pakistani man accused of desecrating Islam's holy book from a police station in central Pakistan, beat him to death and then set his body on fire, a police official said Wednesday.

The incident highlighted the highly charged nature of Pakistan's blasphemy laws, under which anyone found guilty of insulting Islam's Prophet or the Quran can be sentenced to death.

Sometimes, however, people take the matter into their own hands.

A senior police officer, Mohammed Azhar Gujar, said in the incident Tuesday in Bahawalpur, a city in a deeply conservative part of central Pakistan, attackers stormed a police station where the man was being interrogated.

Gujar said the victim seemed to be mentally unstable. He was arrested after residents said he threw pages of the Quran into the street.

While the man was being questioned, some people started making announcements over mosque loudspeakers, urging residents to go to the police station and punish him.

Within hours, thousands gathered outside and demanded the man be handed over to them. Gujar said police tried to protect him, but the mob turned violent.

They burned several police vehicles and wounded seven officers before grabbing the man and dragging him into the street, where he was beaten to death and his body set on fire.

Gujar said the mob also attacked the house of an area police chief and burned his furniture and possessions.

It was unclear whether the man was Muslim, a member of Pakistan's Christian minority or belonged to another religion. His name was not released.

Pakistani Christians live in fear of being arrested under the blasphemy laws, which critics say are often misused to settle personal scores or family feuds.

Efforts to change the laws have made little headway. Last year, two prominent Pakistani political figures who spoke out against the blasphemy laws were killed in attacks that raised concerns about the rise of religious extremism in Pakistan.

During a visit to Pakistan in May, Gabriela Knaul, the U.N.'s Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, said lawyers are often reluctant to defend clients accused under the blasphemy laws because of intimidation, and judges are often pressured to convict.

Yet another case of a pakistani mob this time killing someone for insulting the Quran. The second in less than a week, if I am informed correctly. This, of course, comes as no surprise to people like me, however there are still people out there who would like to deny that these increasing attacks by gangs of muslims are anything to do with Islam. Now, can you imagine someone in the UK insulting Jesus or the Bible and in turn being murdered by people in the street and set on fire? Would this even happen on the Bible belt in the US? And not just 1, 2, no, not even 100 or 200, THOUSANDS of angry muslims committed murder and then brutally set this man alight, this kind of proves the survey that one third of muslims agree with killing for religon. Brutal, i must say. What are your views, is Pakistan a safe place to be, is it democratic and is one able to practice freedom of speech there?

Pakistan is a corrupt place. Islam has got nothing to do with this, so please keep the prejudiced opinions to yourself because thats where they should stay, Islam does not preach violence or harm to anyone in any way its actually written in the quran,
"if you kill one person its as if you have killed the whole of humanity and if you save one person its as if you have saved the whole of humanity"
Now explain to me how that is preaching violence.

Islamabd?

No, silly - "Islamabad".