I sometimes post blasphemous pictures or news links or remarks on Facebook. Probably more than sometimes. You could probably say I do that quite often. It’s possible that I do it several times a day. I don’t keep track, but that’s possible.
It’s a good thing for me that I don’t live in Lahore.
The New York Times reports on what happens to people who do when there’s a whisper about “blasphemy” somewhere in the neighborhood.
A woman and two of her young granddaughters were burned to death Sunday night in the eastern city of Gujranwala after a member of their Ahmadi minority sect was accused of posting a blasphemous picture to Facebook, the police said.
The mob of roughly 1,000 people began rampaging through an Ahmadi neighborhood after being alerted to the photograph, setting houses on fire and injuring at least eight other people, according to the police.
A picture on Facebook.
A fucking picture on Facebook.
So a woman and two little girls were burned to death.
Whoever that god is supposed to be? It’s a mistake to worship it.
[Insert droll comment about recent hyperbolic statements by a certain some one about “witch burnings” and such.]
They were likely just waiting for a convenient excuse to do violence to the Ahmadis, as some Muslims think their version of Islam is blasphemous. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmadiyya
So the children weren’t actually ‘accused’ at all. Just BEING Ahmadis was enough, when the ritual of social ‘offendedness’ required a blood sacrifice…