Blasphemy Continues to Fuel Extremism in Pakistan & Europe

October 26, 2024 Article

About six weeks ago, a 32 year old doctor in the Sindh province in Pakistan was shot by police. Shah Nawaz was killed by police who suggested that he was resisting arrest after being accused of insulting the Prophet Muhammad. The blasphemy charge was that he had shared ‘blasphemous’ content on social media. Nawaz’s family […]

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Churches in Pakistan attacked after Christian man accused of desecrating Koran

August 16, 2023 Article

Muslims in eastern Pakistan went on a rampage over allegations that a Christian man had desecrated the Koran, demolishing the man’s house, burning churches and damaging several other homes, police and local Christians have said. The scale of the violence prompted the government to deploy additional police forces and send in the army to help […]

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Churches in Pakistan attacked after Christian man accused of desecrating Koran

August 16, 2023 Article

Muslims in eastern Pakistan went on a rampage over allegations that a Christian man had desecrated the Koran, demolishing the man’s house, burning churches and damaging several other homes, police and local Christians have said. The scale of the violence prompted the government to deploy additional police forces and send in the army to help […]

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Man accused of blasphemy stoned to death by mob in Pakistan

February 14, 2022 Article

A 41-year-old man has been stoned to death by a mob for allegedly desecrating the Koran inside a mosque in a village in eastern Pakistan, police have said. Three police officers also were injured, and more than 80 men have been detained after the incident on Saturday evening in the Khanewal district of Punjab province. […]

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Teacher suspended after students shown ‘offensive’ image of Prophet Mohammed

March 25, 2021 Article

A West Yorkshire teacher has been suspended after reportedly showing an “offensive” caricature of the Prophet Mohammed during a religious studies lesson, sparking a protest outside the school. Protesters had gathered outside Batley Grammar School, near Bradford, on Thursday, following claims a member of staff had shown students a cartoon deemed offensive to the Islamic […]

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Two Christians sought by police in Pakistan on ‘blasphemy’ charges

February 17, 2021 Article

Pakistan’s police said they were seeking arrest of two Christian men in the eastern city of Lahore on charges they allegedly used insulting remarks against Islam’s holy book and its Prophet Mohammed. The case against the two men was registered last Saturday on the complaint of a Muslim local resident Haroon Ahmed, said Muratab Ali, […]

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Network of Khatme Nabuwat Supporters Involved in Anti-Macron Protests

November 5, 2020 Article

On the 30th of October, a rally of about a hundred protestors rounded on the French Embassy in Central London and conducted a ‘sit-in’ around the bounds of the Embassy. The demonstrators, it seems, had traveled to London to shower the Embassy with chants and raised fists in the air. It was a show of […]

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