Justice Served: 13 Convicted for Burning Christian Family to Death in Pakistan
https://aclj.org/persecuted-church/...burning-christian-family-to-death-in-pakistan
We have received news from our office in Pakistan that an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has convicted and sentenced thirteen extremist Muslims for horrifically burning a Christian family to death. This is a major victory and a rare instance where Pakistani Muslims are brought to justice for the atrocious persecution of Christians.
About two years ago, in November 2014, a Muslim mob burned to death Shahzad (husband) and Shama (wife) after accusing them of desecrating Quranic text. Shama was pregnant with their fourth child at the time.
As we reported in 2014, Shahzad, his wife, and parents worked at the brick kiln of Yousaf Gujjar for about thirteen years. On November 3, 2014, while cleaning her house, Shama found some papers that belonged to her father-in-law who had died a week prior to the incident. She gathered all those papers; some of the papers were printed in Arabic. Shama was illiterate and did not know whether those papers contained anything of religious nature. She burnt all of them together (a common way of disposing of papers).
Her Muslim neighbors saw her burning the papers. They informed the brick kiln owner’s son that Shama had burnt the Quran. The owner’s son called Shama and Shahzad to his office, locked them inside, and beat them.
A local fruit vendor found out about this and told the Imam of the mosque. The Imam then sent out a message to the adjacent villages’ mosques and announced at his own mosque that a Christian had burnt the Quran. About six or seven villages received the news and the call to attack the couple.
On November 4, 2014, at about 6:30 a.m., an enraged mob of about four thousand Muslims gathered. They attacked the office where the couple was detained. The mob beat the couple and then threw them in the burning kiln........(SNIP)
