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In 2009, eight Christians were killed by mob violence in Gojra.
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Pakistani officials have been cracking down on social media dissent in recent years, and even turning a blind eye to mob violence against alleged perpetrators of blaspheming.
Eight Christians were killed in the mob violence, including six family members burned alive in their home.
Reuters: Pakistani mob burns alive a man accused of desecrating the Koran A mob broke into a Pakistani police station and burnt a man accused of desecrating the Koran alive, police said Saturday, in the latest violence focusing attention on the country's blasphemy laws.
Where the sinful group is not external to the society but internal, stringent controls, including both rigorous policing and occasional mob violence, have long been normal in America.
In August 2008, anti-Christian mob violence swept across the Kandhamal District of India's Odisha State, then known as Orissa, after Christians were wrongly blamed for the assassination of Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Lakshmanananda Saraswati.
And four months ago, the Indian Supreme Court ruled that the Indian government's response to anti-Christian mob violence that killed 100 and displaced 50,000 Christians in 2008 was inadequate.
In both stories, hosts wishing to protect the male guests offer women — essentially considered property at the time — to the mob instead, which goes to show that this was not about sexual preference, but about violence and domination.
At some point, when feuding threatens to dissolve a community, spontaneous and irrational mob violence erupts against some distinctive person or minority in the group.
The attempted overthrow of a democratically elected government by coup d'etat is clearly unacceptable, but the prime minister's expression of pride in the brutal murder of citizens by others is an appalling encouragement of mob violence that has no place in a democratic regime.
Ben Shapiro does well to highlight the violence between AntiFa and the White Supremicists in Charlottesville and the mob rule that occurred.
The deadly mob violence that wracked England this past week has abated, as police came out in force and used surveillance images to track down and arrest some 1,900 alleged rioters.
Theft, violence, and even death all resulted from this seasonal wardrobe switch, and the New York Times reported that a «mob of 1,000» took part in the Straw Hat Riots of 1922.
Dolan's Cadillac Rated R for violence and language Available on DVD and Blu - ray Based on the Stephen King short story, when a school teacher's (Wes Bentley) wife is murdered in cold blood for witnessing the crimes of a mob boss (Christian Slater), the teacher vows revenge.
Glenn Ford is the bland family man cop driven over the edge when the mob violently kills his wife in a hit meant for him (the scene is the first of the film's explosive eruptions of violence that tear through the placid poise of normalcy).
Gangster Squad (R for profanity and graphic violence) Mob saga, set in the Forties, revolving around the efforts of a half - dozen detectives to prevent the Mafia from gaining a foothold in Los Angeles.
Directed by Fritz Lang on a modest budget, the 1953 crime drama stars Glenn Ford as the workaday family - man cop driven over the edge when the mob violently kills his wife in a hit meant for him (the scene is the first of the film's explosive eruptions of violence that tear through the poise of normalcy).
While its tale of near - future mob assassins uses time travel to generate exciting twists and turns, those popcorn elements are in service of a fundamentally character - driven piece about the self - defeating futility of violence.
Leaves of Grass (R for violence, drug use and pervasive profanity) Mob comedy about an Ivy League Classics professor (Ed Norton) who is lured home to Oklahoma by a false report of his pot - dealing, identical twin's death only to end - up embroiled in a cockamamie scheme to topple his rival drug kingpin (Richard Dreyfuss).
VanBebber's freak flag flies proudest, though, in the moments between the freak - outs, as a particular, pungent variety of drunken puerile enthusiasm (the type that leads to mob violence, fraternities, and Focus on the Family) seeps off the screen and into our memories of our lowest, most frightened moments.
Yet where Gladiator turned cinemagoers into a mob of Roman spectators baying for ever more bloody excess, «Kingdom of Heaven» instead appeals to the very best in its viewers, and steadfastly refuses to glorify war or violence.
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 2, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS American Gangster (R for nudity, sexuality, profanity, violence and pervasive drug content) Oscar - winners Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe square off in this mob saga, set in the Seventies, about the efforts of a rogue cop to bring down a drug lord who's been smuggling heroin to Harlem in the coffins of soldiers who died in Vietnam.
Even a fun cameo from Clark Gregg helps bring some levity to the harsh violence we witness in the Italian / Irish Mob war of the late 1910s.
Legend (R for sexuality, drug use, graphic violence and pervasive profanity) Mob saga revisiting the exploits of Reggie and Ronnie Kray (both played by Tom Hardy), infamous identical twins who ran a powerful crime syndicate in London in the Sixties.
Transporter 3 (PG - 13 for violence, intense action, sexuality and drug use) High - octane adventure with Jason Statham returning as the gruff, two - fisted chauffeur for a mission where he falls in love with the kidnapped daughter (Natalya Rudakova) of a powerful Ukrainian politician (Jeroen Krabbe) while driving her from Marseilles to Odessa through a gauntlet of mob goons.
Mob violence and firebombing during the Tulsa Race Massacre resulted in the destruction of Tulsa's Greenwood District ---- one of the wealthiest African - American enclaves of that period that was often referred to as «Black Wall Street.»
Other cities such as Philadelphia have also experienced flash mob thefts to the point that Philly's mayor announced a 9 p.m. curfew last month «for city children in certain neighborhoods in an effort to stop increasing occurrences of flash mob violence.»
This week, the island country sought to block access to the social network, as well as two other platforms that Facebook owns, WhatsApp and Instagram, in an attempt to stem mob violence directed at its Muslim minority.