Pakistan: mob torches police station after someone torched a Quran

Charsadda, Pakistan -- About 5,000 highly charged up Muslims went berserk outside a police station in lovely downtown Peshawar. They set fire to a police station and nearby check-posts when police refused to hand the man over who burned a book titled "Holy Quran." In other words, the physical book, an object that can be replaced, is more valuable than a human life in the minds of fanatics.

The crowd surrounded the police station in Charsadda town in northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province Sunday evening, and also set fire to over 30 innocent cars because the crowd was on a roll.

The following morning, about 2,000 fervent religious folks were still hanging around near the police station, some roasting halal marshmallows, others looking for something to destroy, so they burned uniforms of police officers because they're easier to light than a building.

"The mob stormed the police station asking to hand over the man to them so they could burn him alive like he burnt the Holy Quran," district police chief, Asif Bahadur told the Associated Foreign Press.

The identity and religion of the accused has not been disclosed by police, Bahadur said. 

"The motive behind burning the copy of the Holy Quran is still unknown but we are investigating." 

It is entirely possible the man who burned the book didn't like some of the things written within it such as advocating for the killing of non believers, killing gays, killing Jews and Christians, killing atheists, blasphemy, killing apostates, having slaves and allowing to have sex with them, marrying child brides, forcing non Muslims to pay a tax known as jizya, and little stuff like that. 

This guy wouldn't last an hour in Pakistan

And then again, the behavior of the crowd kind of demonstrates that kind of thinking, doesn't it?

Blasphemy has become a tool in the Muslim-majority Pakistan and other countries where Islam rules. A person can accuse another of blasphemy without proof, and the victim will be summarily punished, sometimes with death by stoning. The motivation for such accusations can be for personal vendettas, particularly targeting minorities.

In Pakistan, stones make a great stocking stuffer.

A former Punjab governor Salman Taseer was gunned down by his bodyguard, Mumtaz Qadri, in Islamabad in 2011 over his call for blasphemy law reform. 

The brazen killing got Qadri a bunch of "attaboys"  as a hero by Islamist extremists.

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Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman and a laborer from Punjab province, is another example of how accusations are usually taken at face value and not challenged by the bloodthirsty mobs. 

Bibi was convicted of blasphemy in 2010, and denied the accusation completely. She was on death row until finally acquitted in 2018. Following the acquittal were violent rioting because it gives Islamists something to do with their hands and wasn't a time waster like social media.

Bibi and her family fled the country for Canada, eh.

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