Beaten with planks until his skull caved in
And in Pakistan:
A mob beat a Pakistani student to death at his university campus on Thursday after he was accused of sharing blasphemous content on social media, university and police officials said.
A group of about 10 students shouted “Allahu Akbar” during the attack on fellow student Mashal Khan, who was stripped naked and beaten with planks until his skull caved in as other students looked on, video obtained by Reuters showed.
If god is so great why does it need humans killing other humans for not groveling to it enough? If god is so great why can’t it just let us come to our own conclusions?
In recent months, Pakistan’s government has been vocal about the issue, with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif issuing an order last month for removal of blasphemous content online and saying anyone who posted such content should face “strict punishment under the law”.
Ten students have been arrested after Thursday’s attack the grounds of a university in the northern city of Mardan, local police chief Mohammad Alam Shinwari said.
Pakistan is eating itself alive with this shit.
One of Khan’s teachers recalled that he was a passionate and critical student.
“He was brilliant and inquisitive, always complaining about the political system of the country, but I never heard him saying anything controversial against the religion,” said the teacher.
And what if he had? A religion is a belief system, with implications for human beings; we should be allowed to say things about it, even “controversial” things.
Recently, fighting blasphemy has also become a rallying cry for the government.
Pakistani online activists believe blasphemy-related crack downs on social media are veiled attempts by the country’s powerful military to limit dissent on human rights violations.
Not all that veiled, really.
Damn. Concussions from getting on airplanes, death for thinking…this world is rapidly becoming a cesspoool.
“Becoming”?
Or even, If god is so great, why can’t he handle the blasphemers on his own?
Why can’t they leave it to Allah to handle it? Because Islam, like Christianity and so many other religions, is a tool of control. The leaders know that there isn’t really an almighty god who can be angered by blasphemy – but they certainly don’t want their ‘flock’ to realise that. There have to be real-world consequences for insubordination, or they’ll lose control. So they whip up their more gullible followers into a frenzy and tell them that they are being guided by their god, doing their god’s holy work, and that they’ll be rewarded – not in the here-and-now, you understand, but after they die.
A secular despot has to pay for a private army to protect his interests; religious despots not only get theirs for free, the foot soldiers happily hand over their income to be part of the con.