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I am an atheist living in Pakistan, and incidents like these send a shiver down my spine. If this woman had not been sheltered by shopkeepers and the police had not acted quickly, she would definitely have been lynched and murdered.
The mob of zealots that had gathered around her was chanting "“Gustakh-e-Rasool ki ek hi saza, sar tan se juda, sar tan se juda”, which roughly translates to "what do blasphemers deserve? decapitation! decapitation!"
This country is fucked.
And then Europeans come and say we need more "democracy", how democracy could work in countries like that? You will always descent to things like Modi in India without educating ppl properly.
And cracker Jack top tier analysis like this always leaves out some key relevant details, such as the active role "democratic" nations play in crafting these exact set of circumstances, especially in a country like Pakistan.
I dont know how my point disagrees with yours