The government followed through on their proclamation they would find the people responsible for the mob murder of two Christians on false charges of blasphemy.
However, the local officials tried to deny that Muslims were behind the attack.
“We have arrested 44 people, it was a local issue incited by the mullah of a local mosque,” said Jawad Qamar, a regional police chief from Kot Radha Kishan, Punjab province, according to The Guardian. “No particular sectarian group or religious outfit was behind the attack.”
A Muslim mob attacked Shahzad Masih, 28, and Shama Bibi, 25, because someone found a burned Koran and claimed the Christian couple had burned it in a brick kiln before throwing it away.
The mob then beat the couple and threw them alive into the brick kiln to cremate the bodies.
“The Pakistani state has to act proactively to protect its minorities from violence and injustice,” Pakistan Prime Minster Nawaz Sharif said.
In the latest round of Christian persecution in Pakistan, a Christian couple was falsely accused of desecrating a Koran and then murdered.
The murder took place in Kot Radha Kirshan, a village about 40 miles from the city of Lahore according to the BBC.
The married couple, identified only as Shama and Shehzad, had worked at a brick kiln. A desecrated Koran was found in the area of the kiln earlier in the day and a Muslim mob decided it had to be the Christian couple. So they killed them and stuffed their bodies into the brick kiln.
The chief minister of the region has said he will investigate the killings.
The American Center for Law and Justice, who has been raising the alarm about Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death on false accusations of blaspheming Mohammed, is calling for the U.S. to end foreign aid to Pakistan until they take steps to stop the killing of Christians.
A British woman has been revealed to have killed her disabled 12 year old daughter by stopping hydration and nutrition.
Nancy Fitzmaurice died in August after officials at London’s Great Ormand Street Hospital stopped her support. The child suffered from hydrocephalus, meningitis and septicemia at the time of her death.
Her mother had petitioned a judge to allow her to kill her child via a slow death from lack of hydration. The mother, Charlotte Fitzmaurice Wise, said that she felt her daughter had suffered enough.
The death in August was kept secret until the parents came forward to advocate for the parents of other special needs children to be able to kill their children without court approval.
Disability advocates around the world immediately condemned the family for their killing and said that approval of such actions sets a dangerous precedent.
“Euthanasia of people with disabilities is an extremely dangerous and wholly inappropriate solution to inadequate pain management. In cases where painkillers are insufficient, a number of alternatives for pain management exist. A policy of euthanasia targets vulnerable people, particularly when it is applied to children. People with disabilities who experience chronic pain should have same access as others to life-sustaining medical treatment,” the Autism Self Advocacy Network said in a statement.
Mexican authorities have admitted finding a mass grave in their search for 43 students who went missing last month after a clash with police.
Mexico’s attorney general told reporters the grave was discovered after information was obtained from two arrested gang members.
Police in the region had admitted to investigators that they had taken the students and turned them over to local drug gangs so the gangs could “take care of” the students for the police.
The incident has shocked Mexican residents to the point that 56 people have been arrested in the disappearance and local officials have been forced to resign. The governor of the state has also stepped down because of the mass corruption of the police department.
The mayor of Iguala, where the children were taken, is on the run along with his wife and the police chief. The mayor reportedly ordered the students to be intercepted so that his wife would not be interrupted during a speech.
They don’t believe the gunman acted alone.
The parents of New Jersey college student who was gunned down by a man who claims to be a homegrown jihadist spoke out to Fox News about the death of their son and the conditions under which he died.
Alison and Michael Tevlin’s son Brendan was shot eight times while sitting in his Jeep at a red light in West Orange, New Jersey on June 25th. The gunman, Ali Muhammed Brown, causally walked up to the vehicle and just started shooting.
Brown claims that he shot and killed Tevlin because of the U.S. military action in Iraq and Afghanistan. He said that he was a “jihadist” and that has led many to call it a case of domestic terror.
“I don’t think it makes that much of a difference at this time,” Allison Tevlin said on Fox News’ “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren.” “I think he murdered Brendan and he murdered several others and he is an American. He did what he did. And like I said, he didn’t act alone, so I don’t know if I — we have all the information or enough information to make that kind of judgment; it’s not really for us to make that judgment.”
Brown reportedly killed three other men in the Seattle area earlier in the summer before the murder of Tevlin. He’s currently held in the Essex County Jail on $5 million bail. If extradited to Washington
A Muslim man has admitted committing multiple murders in two states because they were revenge against America.
Ali Muhamed Brown told police “My mission is vengeance for the lives, millions of lives [that] are lost every day,” Ali Muhamad Brown stated, according to reports. “Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan—all these places where innocent lives are being taken every single day … All these lives are taken every single day by America, by this government. So a life for a life.”
Brown is jailed in the Essex County Jail in Newark, New Jersey related to the killing of 19-year-old Brendan Tevlin on July 25th. Brown walked up to Tevlin’s car at a stop light, gunned him down in the front seat and then moved the body into the backseat so he could drive the car to an apartment complex and abandon it.
Brown also committed three murders in Washington State before he moved to New Jersey.
Brown said he was doing “my small part” in the war against America by Islamic extremists.
The Islamic extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has posted a video online showing the brutal beheading of an American journalist.
James Foley, a reporter working for Agence France-Presse and Boston media company GlobalPost, was taken captive while reporting in Syria November 2012. He was passing through a zone that had been a focal point of Sunni rebel forces when four terrorists stopped his car.
The death of Foley is the first American to have been killed as a result of the Syrian conflict that began in March 2011.
A British man who had joined the terrorist group who spoke in the video using English conducted the killing. The group showed video of a second captured American journalist and said they would kill him if the U.S. continued to make airstrikes against their forces in Iraq.
Foley’s family released a statement saying they were proud of him.
“He gave his life trying to expose the world to the suffering of the Syrian people,” said the statement, which was attributed to Foley’s mother, Diane Foley. She implored the militants to spare the lives of other hostages. “Like Jim, they are innocents. They have no control over American government policy in Iraq, Syria or anywhere in the world.”
The Islamic extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has committed a horrific war atrocity that was caught on video: the cutting in half of a 5-year-old Christian boy.
The boy, named Andrew, was the child of a founding member of St. George’s Anglican Church in Baghdad. He was slaughtered in an attack on the Christian town of Qaraqosh.
“I’m almost in tears because I’ve just had somebody in my room whose little child was cut in half,” Anglican Canon Andrew White of St. George’s Church told the Anglican Communion News Service Friday. “I baptized his child in my church in Baghdad. This little boy, they named him after me — he was called Andrew.”
The family had fled to Qaraqosh, which had been under the protection of Kurdish fighters. However, the Islamic State overran the Kurdish fighters and slaughtered as many Christians as they could capture as the believers fled the city.
The dead boy’s parents and brother were able to make it to the city of Arbil, which President Obama said would be under the protection of the U.S. military because of the U.S. consulate being located in the town.
The Christian Post reports that Iraqi church leaders have asked for the world to pray for them and to send money so they can purchase supplies, food and clothing for the tens of thousands of Christians fleeing the terrorists.
The Islamic extremist group Boko Haram has killed as many Christians in Nigeria since the start of the 2014 than they did during the entire year of 2013.
The Jubilee Campaign reports that the total number of Christians killed are in proportion to a rising number of overall deaths caused by the Islamic extremist group. The death toll of close to 4,100 is already higher than all the total deaths of last year.
The increase in the death toll is reportedly due to an increase in weapon capability and training because of connections to other al-Qaeda related terror cells in Africa including al-Shabaab in Somalia and the terror groups in Mali fighting French troops for control of the northern regions.
“The pattern therefore is that if you do not do what they demand, even if you are Muslim, you become an ‘apostate’ deserving of death,” Emmanuel Ogebe of Jubilee Campaign said. “Therefore the difference between Boko Haram’s approach to Christian ‘infidels’ and Muslim apostates is you are killed as a Christian ‘just because’ your name is Christian – you go to church, etc. – whereas Muslims are generally killed ‘for cause,’ for example working for the government or refusing to pay extortion taxes to Boko Haram.”
Human Rights Watch reported over 2,000 deaths during the same time period but acknowledged they only covered a part of the country and that their information is likely a very conservative estimate.
An Islamic extremist who attacked a Jewish museum in Brussels, Belgium has been charged with “murder in a terrorist context” by Belgian authorities.
29-year-old Medhi Nemmouche was arrested in France on May 30th and extradited to Belgium to stand trial. He had fought the extradition claiming that because two of the victims of the shooting were Israeli, Belgium would give him to the Israeli authorities rather than trying him.
Nemmouche entered a Jewish museum on May 24th with an AK-47 assault rifle and a handgun. He killed two Israeli tourists and two museum staffers while wounding multiple others. He then fled before police could arrive on the scene.
The gunman had tried to film the attack but the camera malfunctioned during the assault. However, a voice on the video prior to the malfunction was definitively tied to Nemmouche.
Nemmouche had flown to Syria in 2012 to fight with Islamic extremists against the Syrian government before returning to Europe.