Neelam Hashim
Mashal Khan, a student of journalism at the Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan.Who was brutally lynched and killed by a mob of fellow students on April 13, after being accused of spreading ‘blasphemous content’ online. The trend started after Khan’s December 23 status telling his Facebook friends that someone had made a fake profile in his name and to malign him was widely circulated. Mashal’s status, which has so far been shared on the social media site more than 400 times, reads: “Somebody has made a fake account with my name. And the person seems to be amongst our friends who is trying to send fake texts from the id with my name to His another fake id which is on a girl’s name and is trying to blackmail me with that. Watch out friends. Someone is trying to show my image negative.” Some panicked social media users have taken to Facebook to inform friends to keep a lookout for fake profiles in their name – just as Khan had done in December. K-P Chief Minister Pervez Khattak told the lawmakers in the house on Friday that: “We have yet not found any blasphemous material in the case”.A K-P senior security official told That, they had scoured through Khan’s cell phone communication and his social media pages and did not find any offensive content.The cyber crime unit could not be reached for comment.There was no charge filed against him with the police nor any proof he did commit blasphemy, all this was done on wild rumours circulating in the university. He was beaten up by his fellow students, who used wooden planks and kept kicking him after he had died. There is nothing in the Quran or the authentic teachings of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) justifying the killing of people for opposing, criticizing, humiliating or showing irreverence toward holy personages, religious artifacts, customs and beliefs of Islam. If blasphemy was punishable by death in Islam, then the Prophet (SAW) would have been the first one to order the killing of hundreds of his foes who later became his closest companions. With the exception of a very few earlier Arabs who accepted the Prophet as the Messenger of Allah , the majority of people of Makkah opposed him, humiliated him, cursed or blasphemed him or even tried to kill him, yet he preferred to practice forgiveness and to seek the divine mercy for them. Everyone who hit him should be tried in court for Murder. Everyone who incited his beating should be tried in court for incitement to murder. People shouldn’t take the laws in their own hands.If state will not take any action against Mashal Khan’s murder.These incidents will happen again and again.
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