KARACHI: A 16-year-old Christian boy from Karachi was charged with blasphemy, BBC reported on Thursday.
According to the report, Ryan Stanten was accused of forwarding a text message on October 9 which contained offensive material.
Stanten’s house was ransacked by an angry crowd and burnt their belongings on the street, the report stated.
Earlier, Rimsha Masih was arrested in a poor suburb of Islamabad on August 16 after a neighbour accused her of burning papers containing verses from the Quran, in breach of Pakistan’s strict blasphemy laws.
The incident garnered criticism from across the globe.
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Totally sickening. This has become so commonplace in Pakistan it is not even making international headlines. I'm pretty sure this kid and his family will be murdered soon in or out of prison. What a shameful place the land of my birth that I still love has become.
@Arif Khan: If you look closely, most of the hate is coming from middle and upper middle class people. You won't see daily wage laborers shouting and burning Christian or Ahmedi properties!
" ... According to the report, Ryan Stanten was accused of forwarding a text message on October 9 which contained offensive material. ... "
Does this person own a prime plot of land ?
This happened in a government residential colony.Nobody from outside came and burnt down the house of the christians,it was burnt down by their own neighbours.This was a colony with well-educated,middle class people with govt jobs,this can't be blamed on illiterate people,this was done by educated,middle class people against one of their own neighbours. It's time to stop living in denial and call a spade a spade.The monsters aren't at the gates,they're already amongst us.