This is what happens when people take faith seriously...
Another move to ban child marriages in Pakistan has fallen at the first hurdle. The bill to prohibit underage marriages has been withdrawn after the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) declared it un-Islamic...and ‘blasphemous’... In May 2014, amid severe criticism from various quarters, the council had endorsed its earlier ruling that girls as young as nine years old were eligible to be married “if the signs of puberty are visible”....
Meanwhile elsewhere in Pakistan a 15-year-old boy accidentally raised his hand to answer the wrong question at a religious sermon... “Who among you doesn’t believe in the teachings of the Holy Prophet? Raise your hands!”...He stuck his right hand up in pride. ..But to the poor boy’s horror, the mullah had asked the question in the negative. ..the boy was told before 100 worshippers that he had committed blasphemy. He went home and stuck his hand in the mower.
The boy was promptly hailed by his mullah as an ‘aashiq—a true lover of the prophet—and his extreme act of expiation was celebrated throughout his village and surrounding villages. Neighbors are appearing at his home, kissing his left hand, and placing some cash in his pocket...