[DAWN] A top Vatican official has described the lynching of a Christian couple in Pakistain as a humiliation for all of humanity....by adherents of the "religion of peace."
Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, the chair of the Roman Catholic church's council for interfaith dialogue, said he had been profoundly shocked by accounts of the horrific death of Shehzad Masih and Shama Bibi.
But really, it had nothing to do with religion...
"How can we remain impassive before such crimes, justified in the name of religion?," Tauran said on Vatican Radio, urging Moslem leaders in Pakistain to vigorously condemn the killings.
Oh, tut tut. Islam's not the only religion that does such things. Look at the Aztecs!
"It is all of humanity that is humiliated," he said, adding: "The first victims are in fact Moslems because these misdeeds give an image of Islam that is terrible."
Probably the bastards with foreign spies who only did it to give Islam a bad name.
The incident took place at the town of Kot Radha Kishan, some 60 kilometres southwest of Lahore. On Wednesday, police placed in durance vile
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
50 villagers who were believed to be part of the mob that beat the couple to death.
... while screaming "Death to the Infidels" and "Allahu Akbar!" Not that it had anything to do with religion, of course...
The arrests included the owner of the brick kiln where 25-year-old Shama, who was pregnant at the time of the incident, and her husband Shahzad Masih worked as bonded labourers.
Like serfs? Or slaves. You can kill slaves. They don't have any rights. Not much more than animals, are they? The owner of the brick kiln will be out in no time. So will the other 49 people. Not nearly enough evidence, y'know.
According to reports, more than a thousand charged people from three nearby villages tortured the couple before putting them into the kiln's furnace on Tuesday. Police said a local religious leader had fanned the issue.