Pakistan: laughable
Muslims
in Pakistan filed a blasphemy
charge on 30 December against a Christian
in retaliation for refusing their demand that
he and others cede church land to them.
Babu Shahbaz was accused of desecrating the
pages of the Qur’an and taken into custody on
the
same day. Although
illiterate, he was
accused of writing his name across 100 pages of
the Qur’an, strewing them across the road and
partially destroying 150 other pages. The
accusers said Babu had ‘unknown accomplices’
helping him. There have been no eyewitnesses
identifying anyone involved in the case.