MOB RULE IN PAKISTAN! Christian couple murdered by frenzied Muslims

Two Christians were murdered in Pakistan, beaten to death by an angry crowd after they were accused of desecrating a Koran.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The bodies of people whom the police only identified as Shama and Shehzad were burned in a brick kiln in the town of Kot Radha Kishan in Punjab province, where they worked.

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Blasphemy is a very sensitive issue in Pakistan, as it is in most Muslim majority nations, and critics often argue that anti-blasphemy laws are misused to unfairly target religious minorities and settle personal vendettas.

"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," Bin Yameen, a local police station official said.

One officer reported to the BBC that local police did try to intervene to save the couple, but they were outnumbered by an enraged crowd and were themselves attacked.

Several senior police officials and government ministers are now on the scene to investigate these killings.

This is not the first instance of violence resulting from blasphemy charges in Pakistan. In May, gunmen in the city of Multan, killed Rashid Rehman, a lawyer who was defending a university lecturer accused of blasphemy.

In October, a Pakistani court upheld a death sentence for Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who was convicted of blasphemy in 2010.

Since the 1990s, numerous Christians have been found guilty of desecrating the Koran or being blasphemous. Most were sentenced to death by lower courts, though higher courts overturned many of these sentences because of lack of evidence.

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