“This is the house of a blasphemer,” reads a sign on his house.
“Pakistan: Doctor Jailed On “˜Blasphemy” Charges,” from Compass Direct News, May 16 (thanks to Cindy):
ISTANBUL, May 16 (Compass Direct News) — Pakistani police have jailed a Christian doctor after “blasphemy” charges incited a mob attack on his home last week in Punjab province.
Officials said Dr. Robin Sardar is being held in Punjab’s Gujranwala Central Jail. His wife and six children have left their home in the town of Chak Chatta, 200 miles southeast of Islamabad.
“This is the house of a blasphemer,” reads a sign on the gates of Sardar’s now empty home where a crowd of angry villagers gathered on May 5, Union of Catholic Asia News (UCAN) reported. The group bore sticks and kerosene and chanted death threats against the doctor, family members told Sharing Life Ministries Pakistan (SLMP), a Christian prison ministry.
“A huge number of Muslims wearing green turbans surrounded our house, most of them armed with weapons and wooden sticks,” Sardar’s wife told SLMP. “They were shouting “˜The punishment of the blasphemer is death.–
She said that police arrived at the house after several hours and used a ladder to climb the property wall and transport Sardar to safety.
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Local Christians said that the incident began when a Muslim vendor filed a blasphemy complaint with police on May 4 against the Christian doctor. Sardar and the vendor had reportedly clashed over whether the merchant could set up shop in front of the doctor’s clinic.
But a May 4 First Information Report (FIR) filed by the vendor, Muhammad Rafique, claimed that Sardar had insulted Islam’s prophet Muhammad during a friendly visit between the two men two days prior.
“[Sardar] began preaching about Christianity, saying bad words against the prophet Muhammad,” Rafique said in the written testimony given to police. “He also compared the prophet Muhammad’s beard with the beard of a Sikh.”
At this, Rafique and several friends came to blows with Sardar and attempted to force him to apologize, the FIR stated.
But Sardar denied having said anything against Muhammad….
Pakistani’s blasphemy law is so often used for score-settling. But once again, the indifference of the human rights establishment will allow this sort of thing to go on, and on, and on.