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| Church burned down in Pakistan, no casualties |
| 2006-02-20 |
| Hundreds of angry Muslims set a church on fire in southern Pakistan on Sunday during a protest over the burning of pages from the Muslim holy book the Koran, but no casualties were reported, police said. They said that around 400 people also attacked and damaged a school run by a local convent in the city of Sukkur in the southern Sindh province, some 480 km (300 miles) north of Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city. "Some pages of the Koran were burnt by a man named Arif, who had converted to Islam from Christianity a few years back," local police chief Akbar Arain told Reuters, adding the police had already arrested the accused after registering a case. "The issue seemed resolved, but some groups of angry youth first came to the police station demanding the custody of Irfan and later attacked and burnt a church," he told Reuters. Some of the protestors were arrested but Arain did not say how many. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #5 How do you report on a "Church burned down" story without ever mentioning the religious affiliation of the church? Was it Catholic (convent reference) or what? How utterly PC. |
| Posted by: capsu78 2006-02-20 16:55 |
| #4 Hundreds of angry Muslims set a church on fire in southern Pakistan on Sunday during a protest over the burning of pages from the Muslim holy book the Koran, but no casualties were reported, police said. Oh, there's casualties all right, just not the kind that involves the counting of dead bodies. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2006-02-20 14:39 |
| #3 You like to do what you do well and you do well what you like to do. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-02-20 10:40 |
| #2 Bird gotta fly, muslim gotta kill people and burn things. |
| Posted by: BH 2006-02-20 10:25 |
| #1 Boys will be boys will be vicious animals. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-02-20 07:59 |