Allah’s defenders murder ‘mentally unstable’ man for burning pages of book

Pakistani defenders of the helpless, all-powerful Allah joined together in a mob of over 2,000 people to overrun a police station and abduct a mentally-unsound man so they could beat him to death and burn his body.

His crime? He was observed burning pages of the Qur’an.

Local police station chief Ghulam Mohiuddin said Ghulam Abbas, in his early 40s, was taken into custody after people said they caught him burning pages of the Muslim holy book.

"After some time, more than 2,000 people surrounded the police station and asked the police to hand over the man to them, and upon refusal they ransacked the police station and took the accused with them," Mohiuddin told AFP.

"The protesters also set fire to several motorcycles and vehicles parked in the police station and damaged the quarters of police officials.

"Later they took away Ghulam Abbas to a main crossing, beat him to death and set his body on fire."

He said the accused man was mentally unstable and "was not aware of even the location of his residence".

Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari expressed “profound grief and shock” over the incident, demanding an inquiry and requiring that “justice be dispensed according to law”.

At no point, apparently, did Zardari decry blasphemy laws, nor did he say that his all-powerful deity could readily defend himself, without the assistance of angry mobs. Why do you suppose that is?

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