In the wake of a Christian couple being burned inside a brick kiln due to false accusations of blasphemy, three more cases of Christians being accused of blasphemy has emerged from Pakistan.

A Muslim north of Lahore claims he found burned pages of the Quran along with a page that listed a bunch of Christians.  He claimed that the Christians on the list must have burned the Quran or else they would have not been on the attached list.

“I don’t know who has done this heinous act, but I am sure that the perpetrator is very much against the Christian community,” Pastor Arif Masih, who is on the list, told World Watch Monitor.

In another incident, a 70-year-old Christian man was hired to whitewash a mosque including a signboard that contained writing from the Quran.  The Christian man was beaten by a mob of Muslims as he performed his work.

The Christian man, Bashir Masih, was accused of blasphemy by the Muslim mob that attacked him.

Local officials say that while the charges have been filed, they have confirmed he was hired to do the work and that the issue is really between two separate Muslim groups.

The Minority Rights Group International report says these incidents are becoming common.

“Since 2001, violence and discrimination against Christians has increased. Seen as connected to the ‘West’ due to their faith, Christians have at times been scapegoated for the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, as well as the immense human suffering seen as a consequence of interventions in other countries with large Muslim populations”.