“A man with an intellectual disability, who had earlier been sentenced under a blasphemy charge but later acquitted due to his condition, was killed in Tando Adam.” Atta Muhammad Buriro was executed by two village men.

According to Amnesty International:

Pakistan’s blasphemy laws are often used against religious minorities and others who are the target of false accusations, while emboldening vigilantes prepared to threaten or kill the accused, a new Amnesty International report says today.

Pakistan’s cruel blasphemy laws have been expanding to include social media; there is a global trend to impose the sharia principles of blasphemy upon all nations. Already, anyone who offends Islam in the West is subjected to punitive measures, ranging from threats and lawfare to full-blown jihadi attacks, such as the massacre of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists.

In March, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif “ordered that ‘blasphemous’ content on social media websites be removed or blocked and those posting such material be ‘strictly punished’.” By the end of that month, the Islamabad High court “issued a short order on a petition seeking elimination of blasphemous content from social media.” Then in May, a 13-year-old boy was killed in a Pakistani city when a major riot broke out as a mob hunted down a 35-year-old Hindu man who was arrested for allegedly sending blasphemous content over WhatsApp.

Meanwhile, Muslim nations have been pushing for international blasphemy laws “that would criminalize religious defamation.” Since 1999, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation “has sought to include the issue of religious defamation in UN Human Rights Council resolutions,” and has been driving an “anti-Islamophobia” agenda to that purpose.

“Tando Adam man with intellectual disability killed on accusation of blasphemy”, by Hanif Samoon”, Dawn (thanks to The Religion of Peace), August 11, 2017: