Pakistan regularly claims to the world that it wants to partner with the West to fight jihad terrorism, while all too many of its citizens keep on demonstrating a propensity for violence against innocent Christians, manipulating the nation’s harsh and unjust blasphemy law with official sanction. In this case, Pakistani officials released 115 Muslims who were accused of burning down 150 homes of Christians “over alleged blasphemy of the Prophet Muhammad.”

The March 8, 2013, attack was seen as the largest anti-Christian violence since the attacks in 2009 that killed nine Christians in the town of Gojra in the same province of Punjab.

Regarding Pakistan’s barbarous blasphemy law:

The Pakistani government…. even after hundreds of innocent citizens have been murdered and hundreds of others are languishing in prisons, has yet to make any amendments to provide safeguards against their misuse.

In Pakistan, it is routine for Muslims to falsely accuse Christians for blaspheming Islam, sometimes as revenge in a dispute. Such a case made headlines when Christian mother Asia Bibi, who has been jailed and awaiting execution since 2009, got into an argument with a group of Muslim women because she dared to drink out of the same cup while working in a field. The women then accused her of blasphemy after she stood up to them. Pakistani Muslims have threatened riots if Bibi is released, and 150 Muslim clerics have demanded her death.

“Pakistan Acquits All 115 Suspects in Burning of Christians’ Homes”, by Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post, January 29, 2017: