You could not make it up. An 11-year old Christian girl in Pakistan with Down's Syndrome is in police custody, and could face the death penalty, for allegedly burning pages from the Quran.
The girl, who has been identified as Rifta Masih, was arrested on blasphemy charges and is being held in Islamabad pending a court appearance later this month. She was detained by police after an angry mob turned up at her family's single-roomed home in a poor district on the outskirts of the Pakistani capital.
[A COMMENT] Muslims in the West like the writer of this article are in denial. Every single time we hear of Muslims in places such as Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan etc acting in truly reprehensible ways to "defend" their religion against religious minorities their co-coreligionists' first reaction here in the West is to claim they aren't really following the Quran. [The Huffington Post] Read more
