Pakistan: Abuse, death of 12-year-old girl highlights plight of Christian domestic workers

Qur'an 4:3 permits Muslim men to have sexual relations with captives and slaves, and it is the supposed divine endorsement of the idea that makes it so persistent in Muslim countries -- most notoriously in Saudi Arabia, but not only there. "Lahore: 12-year-old Christian domestic worker killed by Muslim employer," from Asia News, January 25:

Lahore (AsiaNews/Agencies) - A 12-year-old Christian girl died on Friday as a result of physical violence inflicted by her employer, a rich and powerful Muslim lawyer in Lahore. The case has led to protests by the Christian community, which demonstrated before the provincial assembly of Punjab in Lahore. The authorities are trying to appease people and have pledged that justice shall be done. Pakistani President Zardari has also promised to pay compensation to the family.
A Protestant NGO, Sharing Life Ministry Life (SLMP), reported the case of Shazia Bashir, 12, who was employed for the past eight months as a domestic worker in the household of Chaudhry Muhammad Naeem, a lawyer and former president of the Lahore Bar Association.
Local Christians say that during that period the girl was the victim of constant harassment, and that she was raped and tortured before she was killed.
SLMP chief coordinator Sohail Johnson said the girl worked under constant stress and experienced emotional and psychological trauma. She was also denied the agreed salary (Rs 1,000 or about US$ 12 per month).
Shazia "would get insults whenever she raised the subject of payment," the Christian activist said.
Three days before her death, her employer tortured her, he noted. Afterwards, he tried to have her treated at his home without informing the parents of her health situation. In the end, the medical care she did get proved inadequate and she had to go to Lahore's Meo Hospital.
"Shazia's parents were not allowed to meet her. They did not know what she was going through," said Razia Bibi, the girl's 44-year-old uncle.
Shazia died last Friday from her injuries.
Sohail Johnson said that her body showed signs of torture with at least 12 marks of injury. "Shazia was admitted to the hospital with a broken jaw," he said.
Initially, Chaudhry Muhammad Naeem's family tried to pay off Shazia's parents with Rs 20,000 (US$ 250) to stop them from filing a case against them. Eventually they fled, but were arrested yesterday under pressure from the federal government.
On Saturday, Christians demonstrated in front of the Punjab Provincial Assembly.
The Lahore Bar Association has instead sided with the powerful Muslim lawyer.
Local Christians have expressed scepticism about the impartiality and efficacy of the police investigation; however, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said that outside interference would not be tolerated and that justice would be done.
Sohail Johnson said that 99 per cent of Christian girls from poor families are hired by wealthy Muslims, and are often physically, psychologically and sexually abused.
"In some cases, their employers marry them off to Muslim servants, and forcibly convert them to Islam," he said.
"These vulnerable Christian girls do not have any state protection. We urge the government to ensure protection of these disadvantaged girls," the SLMP coordinator said.
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has promised Rs 500,000 (US$ 6,000) in compensation to the girl's family and urged the Punjab government to provide financial help as well. The money is expected to cover the cost of Shazia Bashir's funeral, which is scheduled for today in Lahore.
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This is the ugliest thing about this religion and its people - what they do to children.

Not the only source of horror for kids, by any means - but certainly one of the most frequent, and virulent.

I hate these sorts of stories :(

Imagine how desperate a Christian family would have to be, to allow their 12 year-old daughter to accept employment from such a dirtbag. I wonder what happened to his last 12 year-old female servant.

And now he's offered them a generous sum of blood money--Why, it's almost enough to cover the cost of this little girl's funeral! What a nice man! He's every bit as "beneficent" and merciful as "Allah and his Apostle".

'Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has promised Rs 500,000 (US$ 6,000) in compensation to the girl's family'

Somehow 'compensation' doesn't seem to be the right word to use here.

My daughters are all older than that, but if someone had tortured, raped and murdered one of them at that age, and I knew who it was, then I would out be looking for something other than money...

Here's another story about the same event, with some additional details:

Teenage Maid Tortured, Murdered in Pakistan

Posted on 24 January 2010 by Ibrahim Sajid Malick

A lawyer who is accused of torturing, raping and killing a thirteen year old Christian domestic help was arrested in Lahore, capital of the largest province of Pakistan Sunday afternoon.

Naeem Chaudhry, member of Lahore Bar Association and his wife are accused of killing a young girl Shazia Masih who was working for the couple as a maid.

Lahore Police told us that Naeem Chaudhry was in custody but not formally charged of any crime as of yet. Local media had earlier reported that he had escaped to Libya.

Shazia Masih died in Lahore’s elite Defense Colony last night and local police has registered First Incident Report (FIR) against Naeem Chaudry, his wife, sister-in law, son and an unknown man.

Parents of Shazia filled the FIR alleging that their daughter was raped, tortured and killed by her employers. In the FIR her parents have said they wanted to meet their daughter but Naeem and his family did not allow them.

According to the FIR the cause of Shazia’s death are rape and brutal torture. Report says lawyer and his family members tortured Shazia and when she was about to die and moved her to the Jinnah Hospital where she succumbed to her injuries. The victim’s father, a resident of Aria Nagar, a Christian community of Lahore said his daughter was raped and murdered.

A family member in Lahore told this reporter that 13 year old was raped and became pregnant. And, that is why she was not allowed to see her parents. This family member said she died of a botched abortion attempt.

Following Shazia’s murder several protest rallies were held by local Christian communities demanding justice and protection for minorities.

Because of media coverage of this incident, President Asif Ali Zardari had to make a statement annoucing Rs.500,000 ($6,500) for the family members of the deceased. He has asked provincial minister to visit the victim’s family and assure them that justice would be provided to them at all costs.

Provincial Law Minister Puanjab, Rana Sanaullah, told Urdu language TV that he ordered police to immediately arrest the accused.
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Frequently in Pakistan Christian girls are kidnapped, raped, and then forced to marry their Muslim rapists, of course converting to Islam.

"There is no compulsion in religion."

But in life, in Muslim-dominated states and societies, there is compulsion, often murderous compulsion, every which way you look.

Yom-seem, please come on board and explain this away for us, will you?

But -- Pat Buchanan and Bin Laden surely nodding their heads in solemn agreement -- if only American foreign policy were to change, and if only Israel were pushed back to the 1949 armistice lines, then everything would quiet down, and Christian girls in Pakistan would have nothing to fear.

The so called religion of peace has a good track record of kidnapping, raping and molesting young girls and women throughout the world. Since its inception it has been in the forefront of such atrocities.

What a dumb article, please send me the exact part in the quran that says this.

I went to the link and could not find it.

Also islam was one of the first religions to abolish slavery.

Just look up it, it's psalm 90 in the quran.


Keep spewing hatred, this is not 1bc, muslims are not our enemy.

jewnot4israel (what an odd name)-

What planet have you been living on?

"The Lahore Bar Association has instead sided with the powerful Muslim lawyer."

The oft-debunked theory of "poverty and lack of education" is debunked anew; the professional associations, the most educated strata in the Muslim world, are typically hot-beds of extremism. In Egypt, for example, the lawyers, doctors and engineering guilds all have elected leadership that are best described as "Islamist"...i.e., proponents of Sharia.

He's been living in Islamoland; not part of our planet, IND.

jewnot4israel is a mohammedan troll.

From above post...Just look up it, it's psalm 90 in the quran.

Psalm 90? You must be one of those Islamic scholars we keep hearing about...You obviously have been studying Islam really hard to know about Psalm 90...It's one of Islams most closely held secrets...And you have exposed it to kufr...Your Imam will not be happy about that when he finds out...

jewnot4israel is a mohammedan troll.

From above post...Just look up it, it's psalm 90 in the quran.

Psalm 90? You must be one of those Islamic scholars we keep hearing about...You obviously have been studying Islam really hard to know about Psalm 90...It's one of Islams most closely held secrets...And you have exposed it to kufr...Your Imam will not be happy about that when he finds out...

Koran 24:33-34“You shall not force your slave-girls into prostitution in order that you may make money, if they wish to preserve their chastity. If any one compels them, God will be forgiving and merciful to them.”

'If they wish to preserve their chastity'
'If any one compels them, God will be forgiving and merciful to them.'


Islam is a Religion of War, created during war with all the rules and regulations of war. War involves deception. Islam has honed deception into an art form. Islam fosters and creates deceivers. Muslims idolize all the wars and battles of Muhammad. Muhammad is their hero. Muslims want to; dress like him; eat like him; talk like him; behave like him; and of course war like him. This is a very good religion or code of ethics for war but terrible for peace, love and forgiveness. - Dar-al-Islam means the Territory of Islam and Dar-al-Harb means the Territory of War. All non-Islamic territory is Dar-al-Harb with the Koran and Hadith supporting the policy of unceasing war against non-Muslim lands and the booty that comes with it. If they do not have land or property of their own they can simply take it from non-Muslims with or without a fight. - Islamic terrorists are the navy, marines, army and air force of Islam in the same way that democracies and communists have military defensive/offensive forces that are usually a small percentage of the total population. The general Muslim population is waiting for the terrorists to soften their targets so that they can take over new territory. - All Muhammadens are either terrorists; supporters of terror; future terrorists or supporters, or ignorant as long as they remain Muhammadens. - (Koran 4:96) The believers who stay at home – apart from those that suffer from a grave impediment – are not equal to those who fight for the cause of God with their goods and their persons. God has given those that fight with their goods and their persons a higher rank than those who stay at home. God has promised all a good reward; but far richer is the recompense of those who fight for him: ranks of His own bestowal, forgiveness, and mercy. God is forgiving and merciful. - There are a multitude of other responsibilities that are necessary for the maintenance and expansion of Islam. When a Muslim says that they do not agree with terrorist activity and that they are just innocent civilians, it is either dangerous ignorance or dangerous deception on peace loving societies that is easily played out because of the philosophical ignorance of the host they are preying on and the subtle deceptive networking and concerted efforts of all Muslims towards making all the world Islamic or killing them. Just because there appears to be many Muslims not engaged in direct terrorism, this does not relieve the fact that all Muslims, including so-called civilians, are seeking world dominance and using whatever skills they have to make this happen. In the same way that any society or movement depends on many trades and professions for its existence, Islam depends on the butcher, baker, tailor, doctor, weapons manufacturers, politicians, government employees, vehicle makers, military, police, lawyers, public relations with non-Muslims and all professional and non-professional tradesman to supply its needs, therefore there are no civilians, all are participants, knowingly or unknowingly. - Conversely this is also the logic, taken from the Koran that terrorists use when they call on all Muslims to kill Americans and non-Muslims wherever they are. Any non-Muslim is participating in the development and maintenance of non-Muslim societies and therefore is considered evil by Islamic source material and Muslims obeying it and therefore a target for elimination. Non-Islamic countries that think that by helping Islamic countries with weapons, training, medicine, food, shelter, etc they will create long lasting allies are in error. Muslims will take whatever help they can get to strengthen their cause and weaken yours and then turn on any non-Muslim simply because they are not Muslim. This is Koranically acceptable behavior. Any help for any Muslim or Muslim society that believes Muhammad was someone to imitate and the Koran is the infallible word of God that must be obeyed is assisting in the demise of non-Muslims and is therefore the same as the criminality of contributing to mass murder. All Muhammadens are participating in terrorist activities against non-Muhammadens even if it is simply spreading Koranic demonification, which reduces non-Muhams to something that can be abused, mutilated and/or killed.

In all cultures and societies there is child abuse, but in how many cultures or societies does one have to protest the government in order for them to step in and punish the perpetrators? What, no outrage from the citizens of this vile culture? Raping and murdering little non-muslim girls doesn't seem to upset these filthy pigs. No, what upsets these pigs is any perceived insult to their child molesting monster of a false prophet.

Note how blood money seems to be the usual punishment.
Pakistani officials would never arrest or try this animal for his crimes because he's a compliant Muslim.

He could do this to his own daughter and avoid punishment. Why: the Qu'ran permits it. The Qu'ran has a hundred escape hatches for Muslim men who rape, torture, and kill girls and women.

Allah allows it. Muhammed voiced that allowance. Muslims heed that allowance. A wild animal takes better care of its young than a muslim.

This is one of the saddest stories to come along lately amongst a virtual torrent of sad stories from the world of Islam.

The themes though are often similar:

A powerful elite (just being a male in Islam gives one elite status) versus a powerless victim (just being female in Islam, or coming in contact with Islam, makes one powerless.)

Add other elements such as university education, lawyer status, a powerful bar association, money, and the dominant religion of Islam versus a young girl, most likely barely literate, servant status, from a downtrodden Christian family in a wildly aggressive Muslim society and the stage is set for a huge injustice.

Add the fact of her pregnancy, with all the accompanying shame, bewilderment, and frustration at the injustices being heaped upon her that she must have felt, and the ensuing attempt at abortion (whether by the girl herself, or more likely forced upon her by her employer) and a full-blown tragedy emerges, about which even Shakespeare would have trouble capturing all the elements.

This poor girl didn't stand a chance.


Apart from arresting the girl's employer (ex-President of the Lahore Bar Association), police have also booked a Christian relative of the girl and his wife, who had introduced the girl to this employer. It's all in the interest of ensuring justice for the girl, of course.
Can't charge the police of being biased can you,now?

jewnot4israel said:

"What a dumb article, please send me the exact part in the quran that says this.
I went to the link and could not find it.
Also islam was one of the first religions to abolish slavery.
Just look up it, it's psalm 90 in the quran."

Hey muslim troll! Stop lying.

Islam was NOT "one of the first religions to abolish slavery" idiot.

Did you know that Saudi Arabia legally (but not practically) abolished slavery in the NINETEEN sixties?

Do you know that the ONLY current countries that do not specifically abolish slavery are MUSLIM majority? Mauritania, for example.

There is NO SUCH THING as "psalm 90" in the Quran. The 90th chapter or sura has NOTHING to do with slavery.

It always amazes me that descendents of slaves in the U.S. think that Islam has a better record on slavery than Christianity. As bad as it was for slaves in the U.S., Muslims did slavery earlier, more brutally, in larger volume, in many more places, with much more significant residual slavery and racist attitudes than EVER happened in modern non-Muslim culture. Slavery was practically extinct in Christian controlled lands UNTIL Islam was started. The Islamic world is responsible for the VERY WORD "slave" as it originates from the word "slav" meaning people from certain ethnic groups in eastern Europe that MUSLIMS took as slaves in the 7th century and beyond.

Did you know that one of the last known slaves in the Ottoman court was from Britain? This was in the early 1900s.

Islam better with slavery? WHAT A BOLD-FACED LIE!

Islam (organized sociopathy) in action.

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

How long, Oh Lord, holy and true, doest thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the Earth?

It's coming followers of the false prophet!!!

A Muslim (or possibly demented non-Muslim -- they are so hard to tell apart) poster above not only bizarrely refers to something he calls "Psalm 90" in the Qur'an, but says that Islam abolished slavery.

Islam did not "abolish slavery" but, for Muslims, permanently legitimized it. Muhammad had slaves, and Muhammad was, for all time, the Perfect Man, al-insan al-kamil. Because, in Islam, one must accept things as they are given in Qur'an, Hadith, Sira, one must ideally submit to authority, the authority of Islam and not, as a humble individual Muslim, dare to question anything that Islam teaches (Islam as formulated, and codified, more than a millennium ago, in the Shari'a). There never was an anti-slavery movement in the Muslim world. In fact, the only way slavery was stamped out was through the efforts of the European powers. It was Great Britain that, largely through the power of the Royal Navy, managed to stamp out the slave trade that brought black Africans by dhow to the slave-markets of Arabia. In North Africa, it was the French who stamped out the slave trade. In those places where the Europeans never entered -- the interior of Arabia -- slavery continued. Indeed, slavery was only formally abolished in Saudi Arabia in 1962, after enormous international pressure, at a time when the Saudis did not have the vast oil revenues they do now, and they had to worry a bit more about what others thought, and could do to them. Even today there is still an informal system of slavery all over the Muslim world -- the treatment of Christian household domestics in Pakistan amounts to slavery (they are often not paid, as the girl in the story above was not paid). or land (slave coffle) to the Islamic slave-markets.

Arabs still enslave black Africans everywhere they are able to do so. In the southern Sudan, black African Christians and animists have, according to hundreds of reports by many different groups, been sold into slavery. In Mauritania there is slavery. In Morocco, there is not formal slavery, but slave-like conditions for the black Africans who are employed.

The only reason there is no longer the formal and legal recogntition of slavery is due to the need to outwardly pretend to conform, here and there, to what are international norms. There never was a Muslim Wilberforce, and there never could be.

In fact, Saudi clerics have been calling for a recognition, again, of slavery, as a part of Islam. Just look up Sheik Saleh Al-Fawzan, a member of the inner circle of Saudi clerics and Islamic scholars who recently was quoted thuys:

"Slavery is a part of Islam. Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam." Al-Fawzan described those Muslims who pretended -- perhaps for the sake of Islam's image, and to fool Infidels -- that slavery is not part of Islam as "ignorant, not scholars. They are merely writers. Whoever says such things is an infidel."

Sheikh Al-Fawzan is not a minor cleric, nor one un-versed in Islam. He is (or was, I'm not sure of his current status):

-A member of the Senior Council of Clerics, Saudi Arabia's highest religious body;
-A member of the Council of Religious Edicts and Research;
-Imam of the Prince Mitaeb Mosque in Riyadh
-Professor at Imam Mohamed Bin Saud Islamic University, the main Wahhabi center of learning.

Many in the West are now aware of the dimensions, and cruelty, of the Arab slave trade, particularly that which made the seizing of young black African boys, to serve as eunuchs, a specialty. They were not castrated after their journey to the slave-markets of Islam, but where they were captured: castrated without, of course, any anaesthetic, and then forced to endure the voyage by dhow or slave coffle. In “The Hideous Trade” Jan Hoogedorn estimates their survival rate at 10%.

Among the books by black African writers on the Arab slave trade, one that ought to be better known in the United States (it needs to be translated into English) is “Le génocide voilé” by Tidiane N’Diaye. You can find an interview with him on French television here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcIcd3T2BMw&feature=related

Jewnot4Jews is a Mahoundian troll...Like most of them, he drops a bomb and runs...

Child abuse is rampant around the world, but no abusers can top Islam for 'extreme and consistent'...

"Child abuse is rampant around the world, but no abusers can top Islam for 'extreme and consistent'..."

Except in some despicable cultures it is accepted as a part of the child molester muhammad's example. Like the Saudi Judge whom refused to annul an eight year olds marriage to a muslim pedophile, or even charge the devout parents for allowing it or the imam that performed the evil union. Lots more examples of it in the sick islamic world. But, I know you already know this, Swami.

These zombies surrendered to a woman, and to a woman they will surrender again.I am not going to name her.She is a mighty woman.

Hey zombies! Rememeber this?:

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh21/plotino_photos/latomadeGranada.jpg

"jewnot4israel" wrote:

Also islam was one of the first religions to abolish slavery.
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Is that why England had William Wilberforce, and America had her abolishionists, but there has never been a similar movement in the Muslim world?

Is that why "the Prophet" himself owned slaves—including sex slaves-and led raids to capture more slaves? (And don't try to use the argument that everyone practiced slavery in those days—I don't recall Jesus being a slave owner.)

As recently as the 1950s, Saudi Arabia had an estimated 450,000 slaves, 20% of the population. Saudi Arabia only banned slavery—under Western pressure—in 1962.

It is estimated that as many as 200,000 black Christian and animist women and children have been taken into slavery in Sudan. In Mauritania it is estimated that up to 600,000 men, women and children, or 20% of the population, are currently enslaved. Slavery wasn't nominally criminalized in Mauritania until *2007*.

A few years ago Saudi cleric Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan, called for the *re-legalization of slavery*—and he did so on religious grounds. Lest you think Al-Fawzan is some sort of crank, he is the author of a religious textbook (At-Tawhid, "Monotheism") widely used to teach Saudi high school students as well as their counterparts abroad studying in Saudi schools (including those in the West).

He had this to say about the "noble" institution of slavery in Islam:

"Slavery is a part of Islam," he announced in a recent lecture. "Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam." He argued against the idea that slavery had ever been abolished, insulting those who espouse this view as "ignorant, not scholars. They are merely writers. Whoever says such things is an infidel."

And from the paradise that is Bangladesh (/sarc) we have this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/bangladesh/7073191/Rape-victim-receives-101-lashes-for-becoming-pregnant.html

You'll note that the perp got pardoned by the village elders. Actually, given that this is the religion of faeces we're talking about I'm surprised he didn't get an effing medal.

What does our newest little troll - yes I'm talking to you 'jewnot4israel' - have to say about this?

I get the feeling I'm gonna have along wait for an answer.

Regards

Barguest
(feeling even angrier than usual)

The State of Vermont would be one example where it required public outcry. One liberal activst judge in particular was releasing child predators after 2 or 3 months. So can we say that Liberalism and Islam are compatible? They certainly seem to bo in bed with one another.

Ironically, we own a sizable share of these atrocities and abuses inflicted upon the Christian minority by unwittingly and directly funding ($10 billion dollars, courtesy of Biden, Obama, Kerry with no requirement of accountability) and supporting "Jihad Central", Pakistan.

What is shocking but true is, if a supposedly educated man, elected as president of the Lahore Bar Association, responsible for taking leadership in establishing an exemplary conduct to protect minority rights, to prevent a "Christianophobia" and an "anti-Christian backlash", the very president himself is raping, torturing and murdering Christian children, behaving like a 7h century savage, what to say of this sorry nation, Pakistan?

And where is Washington's protest on this issue? I guess not after Obama/Biden/Kerry's dollars in Pakistan are hard at work!

STOP FUNDING TERRORIST SUPPORTERS!
STOP FUNDING CHRISTIAN PERSECUTORS!

IND ? Lahore is NOT in India ! It is in Pakistan ! Pakistan is NOT a part of India ! What a gross ignorance of geography and political knowledge of Europeans/Americans ! There is "world" outside Anglo-Saxon lands , madam ! Phew !

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