Source: ET
Deceased Shama’s father with her three children. PHOTO: SHAFIQ MALIK/EXPRESS
ROME: A top Vatican official has described the lynching of a Christian couple in Pakistan as a humiliation for all of humanity.
Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, the chair of the Roman Catholic church’s council for interfaith dialogue, said he had been profoundly shocked by accounts of the horrific death of Shehzad Masih and Shama Bibi.
“How can we remain impassive before such crimes, justified in the name of religion?,” Tauran said on Vatican Radio, urging Muslim leaders in Pakistan to vigorously condemn the killings.
“It is all of humanity that is humiliated,” he said, adding: “The first victims are in fact Muslims because these misdeeds give an image of Islam that is terrible.”
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Correct analysis.
Let some “reformist” religious leader of Islam say something about it. Let the Law Minister of the province resign. Let a politician make a public speech about this atrocity. Let the government of Pakistan make this a priority and repeal the blasphemy law. Let the lawyers of Pakistan launch a protest in the streets. Let the Pakistanis make so much noise that the people of the world will say that there are still few good people in Pakistan. Otherwise the entire nation, each one of them, man, woman and child, is responsible for these murders. And I hope and pray that all of them will face God’s punishment.