An mob of angry Muslims in Lahore, Pakistan torched a girls’ high school because of a rumor that one the teachers there had insulted the prophet Mohammed. The principal of the school has been arrested on a blasphemy charge — which carries the death penalty — and the teacher is said to be in hiding.
In other news, a patient in Abu Dhabi who was being treated by a urologist — a native of India — became so angry at the slowness of his treatment that he hunted the doctor down in his office and stabbed him to death.
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