Source: Daily Times
Another barbaric incident has once again revealed this nation’s dysfunctional relationship with the country’s blasphemy laws and a social psyche so cruel that one cannot help but hang one’s head in shame. A man, accused of burning a copy of the holy Quran when staying overnight at a mosque in Seeta village in Sindh, has been lynched and burnt alive by a mob out to seek vigilante justice. The traveller was handed over to the police by the imam (cleric) of the mosque and was detained in police custody. A few hours later a mob about 200 strong stormed the station and dragged the man out where they beat him within an inch of his life. It was then that they set him on fire and gleefully watched him burn to death. If this is not savage, one really does not know what is. Onlookers made videos of this cruel crime and it is through these one gets to see the utter barbarity of the act. What is worse is that police officials made no effort to rescue the victim, truly proving that the police is no more than a tamashbeen (spectator). It is also being reported that the victim may have been mentally challenged.