Dear
students, dear readers,
To
keep in mind that your goal is to succeed in getting into an IEP, on
the one hand you know that you have to practice each day your foreign
language, english for example, on the other hand, you have to develop
your cultur. That why, we would you to have a look to this article of
the Hindustantimes :
Blasphemy
case evokes fear in Pakistan Christian town
For Rafia Margaret, the
case of a young Pakistani Christian girl accused of blasphemy
rekindled horrifying memories of the day a furious mob smashed
through her front door and torched her house. On August 1, 2009
Margaret, then aged 28, had just finished breakfast at home in the
Punjab town of Gojra when she heard the announcements over the mosque
loudspeakers urging Muslims to attack the Christian quarter.
Minutes later an angry crowd massed outside her
modest one-storey house in the Korian area of the town baying for
revenge after rumours spread that Christians had desecrated a Koran.
As the pack swelled still further and violence erupted, she ran to
her roof to judge the seriousness of the situation while her mother
and ailing father sought refuge in a Muslim neighbour's house.
The sight of the tall, elegant girl on the roof
enraged the mob still further and they began attacking her door.
"I was terrified, so frightened I couldn't
think. I thought I was going to lose everything. I don't know how I
did it, but I managed to climb over to the Muslim neighbour's house
where my parents were hiding," she said.
"Just as I got there, they entered our home and
set it on fire. My father had had heart surgery a few days earlier
and when he went back and saw his house burned down, he died,"
she told AFP, weeping.
The Muslim mobs razed a total of 77 houses in Gojra,
which lies 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the industrial hub of
Faisalabad and had never before seen tensions between its 495,000
Muslims and 35,000 Christians.
Seven members of a family were killed in the
violence.
A. Cuvelier
