Lost Phone Leads to Mob Calling for the Beheading of 17-Year-Old Pak-Christian Boy in Shahdara, Lahore

A Christian teen, age 17, was accused of blasphemy by Muslims in Lahore after he lost his phone and somebody added content to it that was anti-Islam.

Police filed a report on the matter, registering it as a violation of Pakistani Penal Code.

In the meantime, though, Muslims became incensed and hundreds gathered outside the teen’s home to protest and demand his death.

BritishPakistanChristians.org has more:

[A] Christian teenager from Dhair a village in Shahdara town, Lahore has been accused of blasphemy by local Muslims after he lost his phone a few days back and an unknown person added blasphemous content to his FB, the 17 year old youth named Patras Masih alleges.

A local Muslim man named Muhammad Awais took matters to the police and demanded a First Information Report (FIR) and local police duly obliged, registering a crime of blasphemy under section 295c of the Pakistan Penal Code. After registering FIR 174/18 police initiated an investigation and began a search for Patras Masih, who could not be found at his property.

In the meanwhile news of the blasphemous images posted on Patras Masih’s FB page stirred up great anger amongst local Muslims and hundreds gathered outside Patras Masih’s home from 5pm (12pm GMT) on 19 February 2018, The demonstrators called for Patras to be lynched and threats were being made that Christian homes would be burnt down if Patras Masih was not given up to the authorities or the mob for retribution against his blasphemy.

Local police lost control of the situation as the numbers gathered in the mob grew beyond 3000. Slogans and chants shouted by the the mob began to increase in volume and pressed for the young man to be beheaded even though at that point no charges had been laid. One man held up a sign saying, “Wicked Christian Patras should be punished for committing blasphemy!”

Road blocks were secured by police as part of a wider cordon to prevent people entering into Shahdara town as police set about trying to calm the situation.

As threats that the Muslim mob were gathering petrol to burn all Christian homes in the area increased, many local Christians chose to flee Shahdara Town. Forced to leave their properties behind, the frightened families sought temporary shelter elsewhere and reports of looting of vacated properties have been received.

Traffic was blocked and our officer had to travel 2km on foot to get close to the site of the incident. We will update this story every hour. Please sign our petition calling for an end to the draconian blasphemy laws of Pakistan (click here)

Wilson Chowdhry, Chairman of the BPCA, said:

“This story illustrates the daily danger faced by Pak-Christians and the speed at which a lynch mob can precipitate even prior to charges being laid. Even the normal event of losing one’s mobile is cause for great fear among vulnerable minorities. It is hard to imagine how anyone could use the opportunity of a lost phone to do this to another human being – but this is Pakistan and crimes like this are all too common.

“We are making our way to the family of Patras Masih and hope to be able to provide them with shelter and legal assistance, but for now our search for the family is being thwarted by a huge police presence.

“The situation may yet get worse especially due to the growing number of incensed Muslims baying for the blood of Christians as they seek revenge for the presumed insult to their faith. At the moment all Christians in the area are under imminent threat of violence and many report they are hiding in their homes.

“Even a growing police presence does not seem to be restoring calm and every Christian across Pakistan is praying for an end to the madness.”

Close to 6pm (GMT) brave Patras Masih surrendered himself to local police in order to restore peace and save the lives of many of his Christian community that were increasingly coming under threat. News of the captivity of Patras Masih was shared by local police with the blood-seeking Muslim mob who had formed initially outside the home of Patras Masih. The news seemed to calm the situation down significantly and peace was restored in the evening, However non of the local Christians who had fled their home have returned yet as hatred still simmers.

BPCA will be offering any help they can to Patras Masih and his family. We have initiated an appeal to help the family please donate here if you would to help us serve this beleaguered family (click here)

Here is a video taken earlier today as the mob was forming slogans were calling for him to be lynched and the poster calls for him to be beheaded Taliban-style. The dominant sign in the footage displayed says, “Wicked Christian Patras must be punished for committing blasphemy!”

Morning Star News has the story as well:

Several hundred protestors blocked a main highway, burned tires and chanted slogans calling for Masih’s death, they said. Telling police they would burn down Christians’ homes if Masih were not arrested, the protestors dispersed only after the local police chief assured them that the accused had been arrested and charged with blasphemy, sources said.

The accused’s father, Indreyas Masih, told Morning Star News by phone from an undisclosed location that he was at his job as a driver with the Water and Sanitation Agency when he heard about the protests.

“I was on duty when I received a phone call from my family that announcements are being made from mosque loudspeakers that my son Patras has committed blasphemy and should be punished for his crime,” he said. “I was shocked to hear this news and immediately asked my family members to leave the village.”

Indreyas Masih said he was unable to connect with other village Christians as most of them had turned off their phones and fled, fearing an attack by the protestors.

“We handed Patras to the police late on Monday after a provincial Christian lawmaker, Tariq Gill, told us that the protestors won’t back down until we surrender my son,” he said, adding that he has not seen his son since.

Patras Masih was accused of posting a blasphemous image on a group Facebook page from his phone on Jan. 16, but his father said his son’s cell phone has been in a repair shop since December.

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Mahou Shoujo

6 years ago

Stop all contact with pakistan, it is becoming more subhuman every day. Build a fence around it, or better yet, a mine field, they can either solve their problems or kill each other. Enough is enough of this pakistani bigoted muslim stupidity.

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Peter WF

6 years ago

Possibly stolen for the purpose.
West should stop funding these s***holes. What percentage of the money actually gets to its target people? I think I am quoting a British ex PM – “fabulously corrupt”. Therefore where is the money actually going? Why continue to pay it? And typically the payee is running in deficit.

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IzlamDownpressesHumanity

6 years ago

IF the kid doesn’t get out of Pakistain he’ll be dead and he better not be stupid enough to count all the all muslum police force and judiciary to protect him.

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Mahou Shoujo

6 years ago

This is how islam is practiced by muslims today. Criminally insane violence demanding death of anyone who violates their hate of everything. This is the world that democrats want to bring to America.

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Alleged-Comment

6 years ago

Nearly all TURD world countries are CULTURES OF DEATH. They do not value life like most Western countries, of course, till Demoncraps took over who are COMMUNIST. They have no regard for life either as being GODLESS and LAWLESS like most TURD world countries.

Demoncraps and lieberals like to tell Americans how behind we are to the rest of the world to TRICK you to importing these DEMON people. Like father, like son. Crap meet demon, demon meet crap. Together we shall be known as DEMONCRAPS!

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volksnut

6 years ago

So much for soetoros ” religion of peace “

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leonore35

6 years ago

Bizarre how the followers of the religion of peace always go for the death penalty even on the slender bit of evidence and usually carry it out as well. Moderation is just not a word in the Islamic language or its quran for that matter

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