From Compass Direct, with thanks to Nicolei:
September 27 (Compass) – A Pakistani woman has charged three men with raping her earlier this month and threatening to kill her if she did not convert from Christianity to Islam.Ribqa Masih, 22, testified at last Thursday’s court hearing that Ghulam Abbas and Mohammad Kashif drugged and kidnapped her on September 2.
Masih had made the 10-mile trip from her home town of Chak to the city of Faisal Abad that morning with her Muslim friend Humaira Hussain. Hussain said she wanted help in gaining entrance to a Dominican boarding house in Faisal Abad, where Masih had previously stayed while receiving her teacher’s training.
A Trap
Unbeknownst to Masih, she said, Hussain had arranged to meet Abbas and Kashif at the bus stop in Faisal Abad, where the two men offered Masih a drink of water that made her lose consciousness.
She said the two men took her to a house in the city of Lahore, approximately 100 kilometers (62 miles) away, and raped her repeatedly throughout the night. They threatened to shoot her and to kill the rest of her family, she said, if she did not repeat the Islamic creed, an act which, if done in the presence of two Muslims, is considered a valid form of conversion to Islam.
Masih refused to convert, saying that she would rather die than change her religion. The next morning her kidnappers handed her over to another Muslim man, whom they said would return her home.
The Catholic woman’s new captor, however, repeatedly raped her over the next three days and threatened to kill her if she told anyone, Masih testified.
On September 6, the man finally returned Masih to Faisal Abad and left her at a public bus stop. Unable to walk due to vaginal injury, Masih hired a rickshaw to take her to her uncle’s house, where she telephoned her parents.
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Why aren't christians given refugee status in Western countries?
Why must they be allowed to suffer, and yet muslims are allowed to come to the west in droves?
Voltaire:
I also have asked that question. It appears Christians cannot be refugees in the mind of the politically correct crowd. Other than blogs like this one, where else do you read of Christians being routinely persecuted as in Egypt, Indonesia, Nigeria, etc.
Agreed. Christians (and, frankly, any non-muslim) living in a muslim-majority nation must be considered actual or potential refugees.
End violence against non-muslims now.
Prophet Geoff
BBUH
How right the three of you are - it is inconceivable in the minds of Western Persons that there is even such a thing as persecution against Christians (at least since that big round thing in Rome ran out of lions) but these are forgotten people.
Somebody of a more legal bent than myself should look into this - surely being a member of victimized minority would make one a candidate for political asylum.
Perhaps there is some merit to the suggestion one of my fellow Jihad Watchers posted on a much earlier thread; swap the Muslims in non-Muslim countries for the non-Muslims in Muslim countries. I can see an upside there for all of us.
A sort of Christian Refugee Foundation must be set up ASAP.
Other than blogs like this one, where else do you read of Christians being routinely persecuted as in Egypt, Indonesia, Nigeria, etc.
http://www.barnabasfund.org/
And Compass Direct which has provided 3 of todays stories.
But its not enough