Muslims Extremest Mobs Burns Christian Churches in Pakistan

Thousands of Muslims burned down a Lutheran church as well as its school and adjacent homes in Pakistan Friday, September 21, injuring several Christians in violent protests against an anti-Islam film that elsewhere killed dozens of Pakistanis,

In published remarks, Lutheran Bishop Humphrey Peter said a crowd of some 8,000 people, many of them carrying petrol, attacked the St.Paul Church complex in Mardan city in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province.

“The St.Paul Church, its school and the houses of the principal and pastor along with a vehicle were burned by a mob,

Several people staying inside the church complex were beaten,

Source  suggested that many more people could have been killed or injured in Friday’s church attack.

“Nearly 500 students are studying at the primary and secondary school of the Lutheran church. But nobody was there now because it was a holiday in Pakistan, ” he told  to Christian media

* and they  also  burns   an other  Church in Karachi (civil line Church) .on same day on Friday 21 sep 2012

MORE DEATHS
Source said that elsewhere in Pakistan at least 22 people died in clashes between Muslim protesters and security forces.

“According to the reports we received from hospital sources in the city of Karachi alone there were 15 killings, while four others died in Peshawar, two in other parts of Punjab province and at least one in the capital Islamabad.”

Additionally “hundreds were injured,” he said.

More than 100 were wounded in Karachi alone, according to Allah Bachayo Memon, spokesman of the chief minister of Sindh province.

He told reporters about 20 vehicles, three banks and five cinemas were set on fire.

CINEMAS BURNING

Crowds also set two cinemas ablaze and ransacked shops in the northwestern city of Peshawar, clashing with riot police who fired tear gas in deadly clashes there, witnesses said.

Security forces reportedly fired in the air in Peshawar and the eastern city of Lahore to keep protesters away from U.S. consulates.

Police also fired tear gas at about 1,000 protesters in Islamabad, news reports said.

Violence has erupted in Pakistan and other nations after excerpts of the “Innocence of Muslims” movie were posted on the video-sharing YouTube website in English and Arabic.

The film depicts the Prophet Muhammad as a caricature.

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Muslim Demonstrator burning Vehicle 

Extremest Burns one of Commercial Cinema Building in Karachi