am sick at heart. this madness must stop.
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Tazeen Jay: Mashal Khan, a journalism student in Mardan University was lynched and then murdered earlier today. He was accused of committing blasphemy. It must be pointed out that incidents like Mashal’s lynching do not take place in a vacuum, in 2012, a mob burned a church in Mardan for alleged blasphemy and no one was apprehended, a few months back, Jamiat goons attacked students when they celebrated tribal dances at the same university, they were also not punished. TV pundits like Orya Maqbool Jan asked students to keep an eye on their fellow students for supposed blasphemous acts on prime time TV and no one bothered to check or condemn this vigilantism, then Islamabad High Court judge warned all the alleged or imagined blasphemers of dire consequences a month ago … and last but not the least when we make heroes out of murderers like Mumtaz Qadri …. Mashal Khan’s death happened because we let all that happen unchecked and unchallenged.