Hundreds mistakenly accused the woman of wearing a dress adorned with Quran verses.

An angry mob in Pakistan accused a woman who wore a dress adorned with Arabic calligraphy of blasphemy, after mistaking them for Quran verses.

She was saved by police who escorted her to safety after hundreds gathered. She later gave a public apology.

The dress has the word “Halwa” printed in Arabic letters on it, meaning beautiful in Arabic.

Blasphemy is punishable by death in Pakistan. Some people have been lynched even before their cases go on trial.

  • aadil@merv.newsEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    True but it also suggested that democracy cannot work in these countries at all.

    how democracy could work in countries like that? You will always descend to things like Modi

    To which I replied that it is not trying to institute democracy that causes this, but rather supporting dictatorships and anti-democratic actors, which is what western powers have been doing.

    But good to know there is little we disagree about on this topic besides phrasing and perhaps our degree of optimism about the democratic process, or lack thereof.

    • angrymouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      You are right, I was trying to say that I think democracy in the western way would not work in the current institutional situation, not that would not work at all. I phrased it badly.