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The 90% Minority

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The BBC reports that yesterday, in the Punjab province in Pakistan, a couple was killed by an angry mob for blasphemy.

“Yesterday an incident of desecration of the holy Koran took place in the area and today the mob first beat the couple and later set their bodies on fire at a brick kiln,” local police station official Bin Yameen told the AFP news agency.

A security official told the BBC that local police had tried to save the couple, but they were outnumbered and attacked by the angry crowd.

The majority of these people believe that it perfectly all right to barbarically beat two people to death because they may have done something unsavory to a religious book.

I would love to hear Ben Affleck explain why that isn’t a bad idea – or how this local-police-overwhelming mob is a minority.

The persecution of Christians

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It was inevitable. As we all know, Christians are persecuted – just like UK’s ‘Voice of Justice’ Lynda Rose lamented after her miserable appearance on BBC’s ‘Big Question’. That statement raised some eyebrows, so here are some concrete examples from the past three months:

  • In Greece, a man was sentenced to 10 month in prison for Blasphemy after poking fun at a priest on Facebook
  • Students wearing T-Shirts adorned with a page from the ‘Jesus and Mo’ cartoon were threatened to be expelled from campus if they didn’t cover their T-shirts
  • A picture showing the ‘Flying Spaghetti Monster’ superimposed on the ‘Creation of Adam’ painting was forcibly removed from a booth at a student fair
  • A student group was kicked off-campus for naming a pineapple ‘Mohammed’

Oh, wait. That’s the Christians persecuting atheists.