There need not be arrests or court proceedings. All too often in Pakistan, mob violence follows “blasphemy” allegations.
Just another day for religious minorities in Pakistan.
An Islamist mob attacks a Hindu temple in a village in Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan.
These terrorisers may get arrested after outrage by a section of Pakistani society only to be let go without any consequences days later. pic.twitter.com/gmbM4nB82q
— Sonam Mahajan (@AsYouNotWish) August 4, 2021
“Muslim mob attacks Hindu temple in Pakistan after eight-year-old boy allegedly urinates on library floor,” by Kabir Jhala, The Art Newspaper, August 6, 2021:
A Muslim crowd in the eastern Pakistani province of Punjab attacked a Hindu temple on Wednesday, burning down parts of it and destroying a number of religious statues and other works of art. After local police failed to intervene, Pakistan deployed paramilitary forces to the area yesterday.
Wednesday’s attack took place in the town of Bhong in Rahim Yar Khan district after a court granted bail to an eight-year-old Hindu boy who allegedly desecrated an Islamic seminary. The boy was arrested on charges of blasphemy for intentionally urinating on a carpet within the seminary’s library, which houses religious books. Blasphemy is punishable by death in Pakistan, and accusations of the offence have incited deadly riots in the past.
Videos of the attack were posted to Twitter on Wednesday by the leading Pakistani politician Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, who criticised the “negligence” of local police as “very shameful”. They show a group of men with sticks and iron rods smashing the temple’s glass doors, windows and lights as well as tearing down religious idols and paintings.
Responding to Wednesday’s incident, India’s foreign ministry immediately summoned the senior Pakistani diplomat Aftab Hasan Khan, stationed in Delhi, to issue a formal condemnation of the attack and call for further steps to be taken to protect minorities in the Muslim-majority country.
Pakistan’s prime minister Imran Khan issued a statement yesterday via Twitter saying that he “strongly condemns” the attack and will ensure all culprits are arrested. He adds that the government will restore the temple.
A Punjabi police official, Asif Raza, told AP News that troops are now guarding the temple and providing security to members of the town’s Hindu community. A list of 50 suspects has been drawn up and arrests are expected to be made swiftly, he says….
Infidel says
From what I heard on this story, the 8 year old boy accidentally trespassed and entered that seminary library, and was severely scolded by the librarian/imam who was managing the place. It was the shock of the scolding that caused him to urinate, and then the blasphemy accusations followed
I suppose that the Pakistani court deserves to be congratulated for recognizing that he was a minor. I shudder to think of what might have happened had he been 9
gravenimage says
Thanks for that background, Infidel.
I’m sure that if this Hindu child had accidentally wandered into a Sikh Gurdwara or Christian Church that he would not have been so terrified. That he was so scared to walk into a Mosque does not surprise–lucky he was not murdered outright. This has happened to adult Hindus just walking by a Mosque.
Infidel says
Yeah, I was just watching another YouTube about a funeral procession in Bangladesh passing by a mosque while chanting funeral slogans used by Hindus being the subject of another jihad riot. Another day in dar ul islam
Mike says
thus the poster child of Islamophobia
don’t like what one says Islam says kill them so why is there Islamophobia
Islam claims blasphemy against anyone and I mean ANYONE so why is there Islamophobia
burn down my religious temples so why is there Islamophobia
rap our woman and both children boys and girls so why is there Islamophobia
Ha Muslims get the message
you need to fix your selves first or guess what there will always be Islamophobia for eternity the balls in your court
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Muslim mob attacks Hindu temple, destroys statues over ‘blasphemy’ rumor
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Collective punishment–and as always it doesn’t even matter if the rumor is true.
Mae~mae says
Just an excuse to justify jihad (Persecution of infidels). How insidious of them.
Infidel says
Frankly speaking, they don’t need any excuses. Particularly when they’re so good at manufacturing them