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So this bunch of fuckwits who don't even know their own religious verses well enough to tell them apart from the word "beautiful" repeatedly written on a bit of clothing get dangerous at an innocent person, and she's the one apologising?
Yeah, that tracks.
Part of that is so to a language gap, most people in Pakistan speak/write in Urdu not Aramaic.
So they may understand the scripture when it's spoken to them via a translating imam, but probably wouldn't be able to read it.
It's pretty similar to how Christians would react to Latin prior to the reformation. They're only real exposure to it would have been during church so Latin = God stuff.
And linguists call Urdu and Hindi different registers of Hindustani. Essentially, it's Hindi with a lot of Persian and Arabic loanwords.
So it's even more specifically like British people seeing Latin before the reformation.