A Muslim mob nearly killed a Shia scholar for offending Islam, but he was rescued. A day earlier, a middle-aged mentally challenged man was stoned to death, also in Pakistan’s Punjab province. The Shia scholar reportedly burned pages “of a religious book”; an enraged mob attacked his home with bricks, sticks and other objects around his house.

This is the normal face of Pakistan, where murder or death threats are routine in support of Sharia blasphemy laws. The death penalty for blasphemy (cf. Sunan Abu Dawud, book 38 no 4348) is accepted by far too many Muslims, and is being exported to Western countries.

Muslim advocacy groups are infamous for trying to impose a version of Islamic blasphemy laws on Western societies via the “Islamophobia” subterfuge.

There is also the threat of violent attacks for “blasphemy,” as seen in France in the case of Samuel Paty, who was beheaded in the street for insulting Islam, and whose murder was widely supported in the Islamic world.

“In the name of blasphemy in Pakistan, the mob again became uncontrollable, this time a Shia scholar was attacked,” Hindustan News Hub, February 14, 2022:

Lahore: An angry mob attacked and injured a Shia scholar over the alleged burning of pages of a religious book in Pakistan’s Punjab province, while a middle-aged man was earlier accused of blasphemy. And a mentally ill person was beaten to death with stones.

About a dozen people armed with sticks, sticks, bricks and other objects surrounded the scholar’s house for alleged blasphemy, police officer Mubashar Macan said at Tandlianwala in Faisalabad district, about 180 km from Lahore. However, the police who reached the spot saved them.

Police took the scholar to an unknown place.

After the incident, the police has taken the scholar to an unknown place and his family has also been shifted to another place due to security reasons. It is noteworthy that in the last two months, two people have been killed in mob violence in Punjab state.