{"id":1295272,"date":"2022-02-13T23:52:27","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T04:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1295272"},"modified":"2022-02-13T23:52:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T04:52:32","slug":"muslim-mob-stones-mentally-unstable-man-to-death-for-blasphemy-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/muslim-mob-stones-mentally-unstable-man-to-death-for-blasphemy-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Mob Stones &#039;Mentally Unstable&#039; Man to Death for Blasphemy in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmuslim-mob-stones-mentally-unstable-man-to-death-for-blasphemy-in-pakistan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1295272&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">A Muslim mob stoned to death a 41-year-old man accused of blasphemy in Pakistan Saturday evening, before hanging his body from a tree.<\/p>\n<p>Mushtaq Ahmed was reportedly seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/pakistan-mob-stones-man-to-death-for-alleged-quran-burning\/a-60761020\">burning<\/a> the Qur\u2019an inside a mosque in the Punjab province of eastern Pakistan.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Mian Mohammad Ramzan, the custodian of the village mosque in the Khanewal district, told police he saw smoke inside the mosque, and upon investigating discovered Ahmed had burned one copy of the Qur\u2019an and was attempting to burn another.<\/p>\n<p>He said he tried to make the man stop but an angry mob of some 300 men soon formed. Police officer Mohammad Iqbal and two subordinates arrived at the mosque and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/13\/man-stoned-to-death-in-pakistan-after-desecrating-quran\">reportedly<\/a> tried to take custody of the man before he could be harmed, but the group began throwing stones at them as well, seriously injuring Iqbal and slightly wounding the other two officers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19864914\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238442106.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19864914\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238442106-683x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Relatives, locals and Police stand near a coffin containing the body of a man during his funeral at Khanewal district on February 13, 2022, who was killed after allegedly an angry mob stoned him to death. (SHAHID SAEED MIRZA\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>After stoning Ahmed, the mob then hanged his body from a tree.<\/p>\n<p>Tulamba police chief Munawar Gujjar identified the victim as Mushtaq Ahmed, a mentally unstable man from a nearby village.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ill-fated man has been mentally unstable for the last 15 years and according to his family often went missing from home for days begging and eating whatever he could find,\u201d Gujjar said.<\/p>\n<p>Gujjar said police were scanning surveillance videos to try to identify the assailants and so far 36 have been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has condemned the violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have zero tolerance for anyone taking the law into their own hands &amp; mob lynchings will be dealt with full severity of the law,\u201d Khan said in a Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImranKhanPTI\/status\/1492753832920576001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1492753832920576001%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dw.com%2Fen%2Fpakistan-mob-stones-man-to-death-for-alleged-quran-burning%2Fa-60761020\">post<\/a>. \u201cHave asked Punjab IG for report on action taken against perpetrators of the lynching in MIan Channu &amp; against the police who failed in their duty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Allama Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi, an aide to Khan on religious affairs, pledged to bring the perpetrators to justice, noting that no one had the right to take the law into his own hands, even if a suspect was involved in an offence such as blasphemy.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Muslim mob stoned to death a 41-year-old man accused of blasphemy in Pakistan Saturday evening, before hanging his body from a tree. 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