Source: The Washington Post
People from a Pakistani Christian community near Lahore pray for the recovery of Sajid Massih, who suffered serious injuries after jumping off a federal building. (K.M. Chaudary/AP)
DHAIR, Pakistan — It was a quiet February morning when the mob of men in green turbans came surging through the alleys of a run-down Christian neighborhood in this town outside Lahore. Some carried cans of fuel. They were hunting for a young man named Patras Massih, and they were in a state of frenzy.
“They were shouting and breaking things. They said to hand him over, or we will burn the whole community down,” recounted Sana, 28, a neighbor whose front door was kicked in and whose TV and washing machine were smashed.
By then, most other residents had fled, warned by police to evacuate the area that day. They were coming to arrest the illiterate janitor, 20, on charges of blasphemy, accompanied by a group of Islamist activists. He was away at work, so the police detained several of his relatives as insurance and departed, along with the vigilantes.
Categories: Asia, Blasphemy, Christianity, Minorities, Pakistan, The Muslim Times
The ‘funny’ thing (if we can call it that) is that the revival of the blasphemy law in Pakistan was actually just directed against the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. When Christians started to be ‘caught up’ in it the judges were surprised and did not know how to handle it. Well, they still do not know.