On July 9, 2026, Pakistan’s Supreme Court acquitted three death-row convicts in the 2014 lynching of Christian couple Shama Bibi and Shahzad Masih by a frenzied 100-member Muslim mob. With this verdict, the top court also wiped out the last remaining convictions in the case, leaving no one convicted in one of Pakistan’s most notorious […]
Pakistan: 5 Muslims sentenced to death for murdering Christian couple
A Pakistani anti-terror court has sentenced five people to death over the killing of a Christian couple who were lynched and burned in a kiln after being falsely accused of blasphemy. This sentencing represents good news in a country where abusive and easily manipulated blasphemy laws have been long criticized as tools for a witch […]
Pakistan: Muslim mob murders Christian couple for allegedly burning Qur’an
In Pakistan, if you are considered to have insulted Islam in some way, you may be beaten to death and your body burned in a brick kiln. In the U.S., if you say that this kind of thing is wrong and should not be done, you will be excoriated as a “bigot,” a “racist,” and […]