News - Religious Fanaticism

Blind devotion to religion without thinking can lead to some pretty tragic behaivor. It doesn't seem to matter what the religion is - it is just plain ugly when people don't exercise reason.

From News.com.au...

A BLIND seven-year-old student at an Islamic school in eastern Pakistan has died after his teacher punished him for not learning the Koran, police said today. Muhammad Atif was hung upside down from a ceiling fan and severely beaten by his teacher, Qari Ziauddin, at the seminary or madrassa in Vihari, near Lahore on Thursday, they said.