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Pakistan: Muslims accuse Christian nurses of blasphemy, enraged Muslim mob gathers, one of the nurses is stabbed
What kind of person thinks Christians in Pakistan, as embattled as they are, would commit blasphemy in Pakistan? Pakistan’s blasphemy laws are routinely abused to persecute Christians, settle personal scores, seize the accused’s property, etc. Yet the world yawns. This doesn’t fit the establishment media narrative, in which Christians are always white oppressors and Muslims are always victims.
“Two Christian Nurses in Pakistan Accused of Blasphemy,” by Ayaz Gul, VOA News, April 10, 2021:
Police in eastern Pakistan have registered blasphemy accusations against two female Christian nurses and launched an investigation into a crime that carries the death penalty in the majority-Muslim nation.
The accusation against members of the minority community is the latest in a series of controversial blasphemy cases in Pakistan, where critics say such charges often are motivated by personal vendettas, or religious hatred.
Police said that Muslim coworkers at a government hospital in the city of Faisalabad accused the nurses Friday of insulting Islam by removing and desecrating a wall-hanging that contained verses from the Quran.
The allegations quickly spread around the building and provoked scores of staffers to stage a demonstration to demand legal action against their Christian colleagues. An enraged Muslim mob, largely activists of an Islamist party from a nearby locality, later also joined the crowd.
Witnesses said an angry protester assaulted one of the nurses, Mariyum Lal, with a knife and injured her before riot police arrived at the facility to take both the women into “protective custody” and get them out of the hospital building.
Lal reportedly told police she had been asked to clean up the cupboard of the hospital’s female head nurse, who is Muslim. Lal said that while doing the job, she removed the adhesive wall-hanging and gave it to the head nurse before finishing the night shift along with the other accused Christian colleague and returning home.
Lal said the next morning the head nurse in the presence of other Muslim staffers accused her of desecrating the holy inscription….
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