Islamabad (AP) - A Christian girl was sent to A prison in Pakistan after angry muslims accused her neighbor combustion page islamic holy book "the Koran", violates the country's strict against the law.
O police officials said Monday, there is very few evidence the book had been destroyed, will likely decline. However, hundreds of angry neighbors gathered together the girl's home for the last week to take action, puts forward a new religious extremism concerns in the conservative Muslim country.
Some human rights officials and media reports said, this girl is retarded. The police conflict report her age of 11 and 16.
In Pakistan's against the law, anyone found guilty insult Islam prophet Mohammed or defiled holy book, or the Koran, but faces life in prison or even executed. Critics say, often misused laws to harassment non-muslim or for individuals.
The police put the girl 14 days later, on Thursday in a prison neighbors said they believed that a Christian girl has been burned the Koran web pages, outside her house gathered in a poor rural areas Islamabad, police said firm than ULLAH. He suggested that she was held her protection.
"Her house in Islamabad about 500 to 600 people gathered outside, their mood is very excited, angry, they may hurt her, if we do not react rapidly, YouLa said."
The girl's neighbor almost everyone in insist, she has been burned down "the Koran" web pages, even if the police say they found no evidence of any. A police officer, qasim Virginia said this, when a girl was taken to the police station, she has a shopping bag, contains different kinds of religious and Arabic files, partially burned, but no the Koran ".
Some residents say they could see the charred page the Koran - whether in local mosque or in the girl's home. Pakistan few people speaking or reading Arabic, so usually think they see the Arabic is seen from "the Koran", and sometimes even is the only Arabic book have seen anything.
But familiar with the girl's case, a policeman said, it will probably drop, once the survey completed, atmosphere dissolve, say "no too many circumstances." He did not want to be identified because of the sensitivity of the situation.
Pakistan's President asif ali zardari, Farhatullah, said a spokesman for baal, President bush has "serious note" girl was arrested report, and has asked the ministry of the interior to see cases.
In Washington, state department spokesman Victoria's under the condition of Syria "deeply unsettling".
"We urge the Pakistani government protection not only religious minority citizens, and women and girls," she said.
AP detained girl's name, AP generally does not recognition under the age of 18 minors were convicted of a crime.
Example demonstrates that the deep emotion, allegedly desecrated situation, in a country, can arouse the religious many critics say, against the law often be abused.
"This has been using personal quote personal enmity, rob, in violation of the rights of non-muslim, basically to harass them," chief says, gianfranco zola Mr Yusuf Pakistan's commission on human rights.
Be condemned person profane can spend years in jail often face the mob judicial extremists, they finally got. July, hundreds of thousands of people dragged a person accused of against "the Koran" from the police station in the central city bahawalpur, beat his death, then his body on fire.
Try to met with vehement opposition revoke or modify the law against. Last year, has two outstanding political figure, speak against legal basic end, any attempt to reform the attack were killed.
The girl's in prison frightened her Christian neighbors, many of them leave their homes, in after the events of fear. A residents say muslims against the noise, when christians in their service sang songs. The girl was accused of, he said senior Muslim community high pressure owner out Christian tenant.
But Muslim residents insist on their respect, deal with their neighbors, to say that the Christian must respect the islamic tradition and culture.
"Their priest should tell them, and they should respect prayer called for. Pervez hajj said:" they should respect the mosque and "the Koran", a few Muslim gathered in local mosque less than 100 yards (meters) gray cement house Christian girl place to live.
"It is supposed to happen. We are standing in the temple of god. It had happened, this is true, this is very good."
"Even if is 3 years, 4 years old children all know:" this is Muslim. This is a Christian. The shopkeeper muhammad ilias said: "this is our religion.
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