Pakistan: Churches vandalised and set ablaze, Christians under attack by Muslim mobs over alleged blasphemy charges in Jaranwala
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Pakistan – Islamic Failed State
Pakistan: ‘Eye-for-an-Eye’ Repercussions on Christians from Sweden Burning the Quran
In the interconnected, digital world of the 21st-century, an event thousands of miles away can send shockwaves felt in other parts of the world. The recent burning of a Quran in Sweden has had reverberations as far away as Pakistan and a special impact on the already defenceless Christian minority there.
This is not the first time Pakistani Christians have experienced societal prejudice, institutional discrimination, and sporadic violence. These issues are frequently exacerbated whenever similar events take place anywhere in the West. The fallout from the Quran’s desecration in Sweden, however, has intensified these conflicts, resulting in an alarming rise in threats and the defilement of Christian symbols, particularly the Cross, symbolising Christianity.
At least 35 killed in Pakistan after explosion at Islamist political rally
At least 35 people have been killed in an explosion in Pakistan during a rally organised by an Islamist party.
At least 200 people were also injured in the explosion in north-west Bajaur district, where Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) was holding a meeting.
Authorities have cordoned off the area and have warned the death toll is likely to rise further.
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Bombs cause at least 40 dead & more than 100 wounded in Pakistan-Afghanistan border northwestern Bajur district after decades of US/NATO destabilisation & 🇬🇧UK-🇺🇲US-🇪🇺EU-backing for ISIS & Al Qaeda. pic.twitter.com/TAPJtuTa8D— Afshin Rattansi (@afshinrattansi) July 30, 2023
The Horror of Being Christian in Muslim Pakistan: Just One Month
The persecution of Christians in Pakistan — whether at the hands of judges and police, or mobs and rapist gangs — continues to worsen, as evidenced by one fully documented month, that of May 2023.
On May 30, for instance, a Pakistani court sentenced Noman Masih, a 22-year-old Christian man, to death for “blasphemy” (in keeping with Pakistan’s blasphemy statutes, Section 295-C of the Penal Code, which calls for the death penalty for anyone convicted of insulting Muhammad, the prophet of Islam).
Two School Employees are Charged with Blasphemy for Desecrating the Holy Quran
On 15 April, 2023, a First Information Report (FIR) was registered against two people working in Government girls’ higher secondary school, EB 66, Arifwala, Punjab.
According to the FIR , sub inspector police, Abid Hussain received a call from Kashif Nadeem, who informed him that two people working in the school had desecrated the Holy Quran.
When he reached the school there were already several people gathered around.
Convert, Marry Me, or Die by Acid: Christian Women in Muslim Pakistan
A Muslim man recently splashed acid onto the face of a teenage Christian girl, disfiguring her permanently. Her crime? Refusing to convert and turning him down.
Pakistan: Mohammedans accuse man of blasphemy beat him to death then set body on fire to please their murder cult idols
Lahore, Feb 11 (PTI) A violent mob lynched a blasphemy-accused man after storming a police station in Punjab province of Pakistan on Saturday, police said.
A police officer said a mob stormed the police station at Warburton, Nankana Sahib, some 80kms from Lahore, and took custody of Waris Issa, who was arrested for alleged desecration of the holy book, stripped him naked, and dragged him in the streets before beating him to death.
Will @BBC show this ? NEVER !
Waris Issa,A Christian arrested on blasphemy charges in Nankana Sahib of Pakistan.
Islamic mob attacked Police station, dragged him out on streets & set him on the FIRE with slogan of Allah-o-Akbar.
Pak is HELL for MINORITIES 😡@UNHumanRights pic.twitter.com/GVEOq7cgRt— Major Surendra Poonia (@MajorPoonia) February 13, 2023
Pakistani Taliban: The Most Powerful Anti-State Actor in the Country
Commander Noor Wali Mehsud, the head of Pakistan’s most formidable terrorist network, Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP), also known as the Pakistani Taliban, recently threatened to assassinate Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the leaders of Pakistan’s coalition government.
Sharif heads the Pakistan Muslim League (PML), the larger party in the coalition. Zardari runs the smaller partner, the Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP).
Pakistan’s ‘Purification’ Campaign Against Its Minorities
When Pakistan was created in 1947, 23% of its population was non-Muslim. Today in Pakistan — “Land of the Pure” in Urdu — only about 3% of the population is non-Muslim. At present, about 80-85% of its citizenry are Sunni Muslim. Pakistan’s appalling treatment of Hindus, Christians, Shia Muslims and other Islamic sects, such as the Ahmadis, has caused many minorities to leave the country. Most Hindus have migrated to India, others to Singapore and Hong Kong.
The Pakistanis, it is clear, do not want to host minorities: instead, they seem to be increasingly engaged in “purifying the land of the pure.”
Why do we allow immigration from Pakistan?
Now here’s a country that could really use an Islamophobia advisor ….
Suicide bombing at mosque in Pakistan kills 32, targeted police
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jan 30 (Reuters) – A suicide bombing at a crowded mosque in Pakistan’s Peshawar killed at least 32 people on Monday, the latest attack targeting police in this northwestern city where Islamist militants remain active.
Hospital officials said at least 147 people were wounded, with many of them in critical condition.
Prime Minister Shebaz Sharif called the blast a suicide attack. There were at least 260 people in the mosque, police official Sikandar Khan added.
Meanwhile in the UK …
This may be Speaker's Corner, Hyde Park as a Muslim says to an Indian Christian "any Christian, any Jew, I hate you all for the sake of Allah. If we were at war I would chop your head off." pic.twitter.com/2wGKM2isMh
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) January 30, 2023
‘The Shame of Pakistan’: Blasphemy Accusers – Courageous Christian Woman Stand Up to Them
“Pakistan was to review its harsh blasphemy laws. It has made them even harsher,” according to a report from this month. “The National Assembly has unanimously passed an amendment to the laws that widens the net and makes punishment more stringent under these laws… The blasphemy laws are often misused in Pakistan to settle personal scores. It is also used to persecute its small minorities.” [Emphasis in the original]
Recently in Pakistan, however, an encouraging sign emerged: an interesting uproar on social media about a Christian female security officer who bravely stood up to a Muslim colleague threatening her with a false accusation of blasphemy .
Good thing we have an Islamophobia advisor!
Anger as Pakistan court frees rapist after he agrees deal to marry his victim
A court in Pakistan has caused outrage after it freed a convicted rapist when he agreed to marry his victim.
Dawlat Khan, 25, had been sentenced to life imprisonment in May by the district court of Buner, in north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, for the rape of a young deaf woman.
After an intervention by the area jirga, or council of elders, a deal was struck between Khan and the family of the woman, who had a child as a result of the attack. Khan was released on Monday after the deal was accepted by the Peshawar high court.
Pakistan has been a major source of immigration to Canada. Why?
Marriage of a 5-year-old girl in Pakistan has reignited debate over child protection
In October, two men in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province were arrested after police were tipped off that a five-year-old girl had been forced into a marriage contract.
The girl’s uncle said that a local man had insisted the girl marry his son, and forced her father to accept a marriage contract.
“We insisted that she is too young to contract a marriage,” the girl’s uncle told DW, adding that the exchange between the two men had been filmed and then reported to police.
Death for “Blasphemers” in Pakistan
On July 4, 2022, a Christian mechanic who had been imprisoned for the last five years, awaiting trial under a false accusation of “blasphemy” for allegedly insulting the Muslim prophet Muhammad, was sentenced to death by hanging in a Pakistani court.
Five years earlier, on June 5, 2017, Ashfaq Masih, 34, had gotten into a quarrel with Muhammad Naveen, a rival who had established a mechanics’ workshop near Masih’s. According to Masih’s not guilty plea, Muhammad “was jealous because my business was running better,” and, after their altercation, “threatened me with dire consequences.”
Christian mechanic is sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan after he argued with a customer who demanded a discount for being a devoted Muslim
A Christian mechanic has been sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan after he was found guilty of insulting the Prophet Mohammed by saying that Jesus Christ is the ‘true prophet’.
Ashfaq Masih, 34, was arrested in 2017 after he got into a verbal disagreement with a Muslim customer at his motorbike repair shop in Lahore after the man refused to pay his bill.
The customer had asked for a waiver on the grounds that he was a religious devotee – but Masih refused the request, saying he believed in Jesus Christ and wasn’t interested in the man’s religious status as a Muslim.