Muslim mobs burn Pakistan churches in ‘blasphemy’ protest
August 17, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: Mobs of Muslim zealots burned Christian churches and homes outside Faisalabard on August 16, in a violent protest sparked by reports of desecration of the Qu’ran.
The mob violence came as legislators approved a measure to increase the severity of legal penalties for blasphemy. (See today’s separate CWN story.) Human-rights activists, who have cited the use of blasphemy accusations as a weapon against the country’s Christian minority, warned that the legislation could “inflame the situation further.”
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