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Sharoon Masih, the lone Christian student in his year, had only attended the school in South Punjab for three days. After complaining to his parents of bullying, he was set upon by pupils after drinking from the same glass as a Muslim, according to other students at the MC Model Boys Government School Burewala who witnessed the attack.
Although anti-Christian violence is common in the Muslim nation, the youthfulness of the mob in this case marks an ugly first for the country.
Mr Masihs teacher, Nazir Mol, originally claimed that he had not noticed any disturbance in the classroom as he had been reading a newspaper at the time. Autopsy reports confirm that Mr Masih died as the result of repeated blows to his head and body.
Mr Masih was sent by his parents to MC Model Boys Government School after topping his class in the village school. His father, who worked at a brick kiln factory, had to save for years to afford even the nominal attendance fee. Unable to pay for the school uniform, Sharoon turned up on his first day in casual clothes. He told his mother that his teacher slapped him twice on the face, and forced him to stand outside all day in the sun. Mr Mol also called him chuhra, he said a highly-offensive caste-based insult and other boys tried to force him to convert to Islam.
https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/world/pakistani-student-beaten-death-classmates/
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)If the school isn't helping matters (making a child stand in the sun of Pakistan all fucking day), what is the answer?
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)have to do with punishing a kid for drinking out of the same cup as a Muslim? Not that I disagree that blasphemy laws are ridiculous but this situation goes beyond that.
FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)Alas, we seem to be stuck with barbaric belief systems.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)I'm sure there are intelligent, rational atheists in Pakistan who don't hold to violent superstitious beliefs.
Alas, they are probably too frightened to voice that and have to pretend to believe in garbage to live peacefully.
get the red out
(13,466 posts)License to murder, turning children into executioners.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)The Spanish Inquisition.
The Crusades.
The Salem Witch Trials.
Jihads and Fatwas.
Misogyny.
Hatred and bigotry.
TV Evangelists.
Jehovah's Witnesses at your front door.
Religious people should be ashamed to admit they still believe in such destructive mythologies.
Runningdawg
(4,516 posts)If you are Christian don't move to a Muslim nation and if you live in one now GTFO.