I kid you not.  A nursing school in Pakistan has been ordered closed and five Christians—the principal and four students—suspended after it was alleged that verses from the Qur’an had been “erased from a wall”.

A nursing school was shut down and its Christian principal and four Christian students suspended after Muslim pupils accused unknown people of desecrating verses from the Quran, officials said Saturday.

The action by the management of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Science — the main hospital in Islamabad — came two weeks after Muslim nurses protested that verses from Islam's holy book regarding proper manners in drinking water had been erased from a wall.

So, who dunnit?  My bet’s on the janitor.  Janitorial staff are supposed to clean graffiti off walls, aren’t they?

This farcical incident gets worse.  The principal doesn’t know why she’s been disciplined, and no one knows why the four students have been suspended.

Principal Stella Hidayat said she was in shock after being suspended."I was on leave when this incident happened. I don't know why they punished me," she told The Associated Press.
. . .
It was not known why the four Christian students were suspended.

They don’t know who committed the “blasphemy”, so authorities automatically target Christians.

Shahbaz Bhatti, head of the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance, has asked that the principal and students be re-instated.  I hope that the five will be vindicated but, at the same time, I don’t think I’d want to work or attend school in such a poisonous environment.

h/t: Jihad Watch

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