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A BLIND seven-year-old student at an Islamic school in eastern Pakistan has died after his teacher punished him for not learning the Koran, police said today.
Muhammad Atif was hung upside down from a ceiling fan and severely beaten by his teacher, Qari Ziauddin, at the seminary or madrassa in Vihari, near Lahore on Thursday.Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani had ordered in inquiry into the death, an official statement said.
“The Prime Minister has expressed his deep sorrow and concern over the tragic death of Muhammad Atif, who reportedly died as a result of corporal punishment by his teacher”.
Police said the teacher had been arrested on charges of torturing and murdering the boy.
“Qari Ziauddin, who teaches Koran to boys in Qari Latif Islamic school, hanged Atif upside down with a ceiling fan in the school after beating him with sticks, which caused his death,” local police official Akram Niazi said.
The teacher also failed to take the boy to hospital after he fell ill and his condition deteriorated.
Police said a postmortem examination report also confirmed physical torture as the cause of death.
Sad isn’t it. I guess Dawkins wasn’t speaking metaphorically when he called religion child abuse.
Makes me want to keep a copy of the Koran in the bathroom – the edition with soft, absorbent, 2-ply pages.
But things like this have happened in the name of all religions of course.
I don’t think it had anything to do with religion really. There are some sad twisted sadists out there.
I just ran out of hamsters, lend me a couple of pages, I promise to wash them and give them back 8)
not sure about that…. I heard that you can eat 20 bananas in one sitting.
You must be a legend at your local supermarket taking all their supply once a week. How do you do it ? Hang them up to avoid bruising and let the starch turn to sugar ? It’s an interesting diet and you would do well in those competitive eating fingies they have in Japan. It must help that you like bananas too.
Dawkins also said that evolution means that one day the whole world will be one giant set for the Jerry Springer show…….or was it Lulu ?
………yeah that’s it, he said the whole world would turn into Lulu.
If the world turns into Lulu, it won’t be such a bad place for its age.
As for bananas, I am banned from the majority of supermarkets here for buying up all their bananas. I am now reduced to begging on street corners, and am having to fight for pitches with big tissue sellers. I therefore can’t ask them for spare 2 ply. As all my hamsters have taken up residence in PB’s home and have all decided to call themselves Gwen and dress up as mice, and you won’t lend me a few pages of the Koran, I guess I’ll have to swallow my home pride instead and use the Financial Times.
I was gonna fetch “Man Who Sold the World” but stumbled upon this instead
Back on topic…… corporal punishment seems to be used here in a very loose way if the final part of the article says it was physical torture that killed the poor lad.
@toybulldog wrote:
I was gonna fetch “Man Who Sold the World” but stumbled upon this instead
bless, she is lovely isn’t she.
back on topic, I find it too upsetting to talk about the topic ,and prefer my brand of madness. Every culture has its nut-jobs.
back to eating – do you ever get the sense that some are very proud of the word ‘raw’……”I only ever eat raw fruits”.
unlike my ignorant neighbours who always bake their strawberries.
I heard that someone tried to bake Alaska.
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