
Or as it is known in Pakistan, “Wednesday.”
Via WaPo:
With the world still stunned by the massacre in Paris, Pakistan is living through yet another example of the brutal street justice that is meted out here when someone is accused of disrespecting the prophet Muhammad.
On Wednesday morning, masked gunmen kidnapped a 52-year-old man from his house in eastern Punjab province. A little later, Aabid Mehmood’s body was found riddled with bullets in a nearby village.
Police are investigating the case, but it appears that Mehmood may have been executed in connection with three-year-old allegations that he had disrespected the Islamic faith.
Mehmood, who is thought to suffer from mental illness, was accused of blasphemy in 2011 after he allegedly told someone that he was a prophet.
In Pakistan — officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan — there can be only one prophet. And the country’s strict blasphemy law states that anyone who insults Muhammad — even by “innuendo” — can be accused of the crime, which is punishable by death.
