Various news outlets are reporting two vigilante killings in the last couple of days over blasphemy, both in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The first was a triple murder on Tuesday (November 4) â?? a young Christian couple and their unborn child were burned alive in a brick furnace by a mob who first beat the couple and broke their legs to prevent them from trying to escape.
Their crime? Throwing out a dead relativeâ??s Quran. The garbage collector found it and told the local cleric, who stirred up other clerics in nearby villages. After they all announced the coupleâ??s â??blasphemyâ? over their mosque loudspeakers, between 500 and 1,500 people showed up to attack the couple. 50 have been arrested so far.
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