In this op-ed published by Pakistan Today, Hashim bin
Rashid, a Muslim, looks at the hypocrisy of the Muslim attack, where a drunken
Muslim’s accusations of blasphemy against a Christian man was enough to
legitimize the mob’s vengeance against an entire Christian community.
The irony in the
ground reality was lost on most Muslim Pakistanis – but certainly not on the
city’s 500,000 strong Christian community. Protests began the same day and
lasted till Tuesday. But more reason for outrage should have been found. The
same police force that stood by and watched 3,000 people loot and plunder
Joseph Colony, fired over 500 tear gas canisters on Youhanabad, the largest
Christian settlement in the country, with over 4,000 households. Over a hundred
Christians were arrested at a point when no one had been arrested for the
Joseph Colony mob attack. Policemen in riot gear told a reporter in this
newspaper: “These are choorhas.”
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