Pakistan’s blasphemy vigilantes kill exonerated man
By Nick Paton Walsh
Posted: April 14, 2011.
Posted: April 14, 2011.
Print: CNN
excerpt:
Mohamed Imran had been accused, jailed, tried and cleared: if anything, society owed him a debt as a man wrongfully accused.
But his crime was blasphemy. He was meant to have said something derogatory about the prophet Mohammed, so in Pakistan justice worked a little differently.
Two weeks after he returned to his small patch of farmland on the rustic outskirts of Islamabad, his alleged crime caught up with him.
Two gunmen burst into the shoe shop where he was sat talking to a friend…
Tragedy again. And I assume as long as religion prevails…it will be
posted on April 18, 2011again and
again. And
again and
again.
When is enough….
enough?
How do we stop men from fighting?
Even if religion were to be gone one day…I think the need to “combat” would still be in our human (Y) nature.
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