Pakistan: Christians told "protest again and you will die"

“The quality of life for Pakistani Christians has reached its nadir." An update on this story. "Christians told, ‘protest again and you will die!,’" by Shamim Masih for the Daily Times, March 16 (thanks to Lookmann):

HUNDREDS of Pakistani Christians became homeless in Badami Bagh, Lahore, on Saturday, March 9 after an attack by a mob of 3000 fanatics. Two hundred homes in the Joseph Colony were turned to ashes and poor Christians of the neighbourhood are now living in the streets, desperate for food and other needs. Their children cannot attend school or college due to the destruction and fear. Many residents have expressed great dismay and sorrow, and depression is seeping through the entire community.
One Sajid Masih said, “I feel helpless and unable to do anything for myself and my family”, as he broke into tears. Christians around the country are incensed by the recurring theme of blasphemy allegation followed by attacks and burning down of their vulnerable communities. They have held protests across the country in a concerted effort to vent their disgust at the recent incident and to show solidarity with the victims.

In Youhanabad and Kot Lakhpat, Lahore police used the opportunity to beat the innocent Christian protesters. They shot tear gas shells at them and beat them with sticks. Yet when the Muslim attack took place they stood back and watched till the town had been razed to the ground. There were protests in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Sialkot, Jhelum and Sahiwal, to name but a few.

Jhelum controversy: Muslims of Jhelum city have threatened to burn Christians home in response to the protests. Now the community is living in fear of reprisals for their simple act of condemning violence and the blasphemy laws of Pakistan. According to sources, on March 12, 2013, when Christians of Jhelum city went to protest against the violence in Joseph Colony, chanting slogans “Repeal Blasphemy Law” and “Blasphemy law is Black Law”, local imams called on Muslims from the mosque loudspeakers to gather and punish those Christians who were decrying the blasphemy law. Local radicals have pressured the area police station to lodge a First Investigation Report – FIR under 295-C PPC against Christians who chanted slogans against the blasphemy laws.

Basharat Khokhar, a human rights activist, told us that around 26 Christian families have been living among the large Muslim population of Machine 2 mohallah since Partition. The local Christians arranged a protest to show solidarity with Christians of Joseph Colony, and Mr George Masih led the protest rally. They obtained permission from the district police officer (DPO) who provided them with security. There were 250 people in the protest rally. The next day Muslims demanded the arrest of George Masih and called for the registration of an FIR against him.

Sialkot: Pastor Naeem Bhadhar, a Presbyterian missionary living in a village Kalaswala, Pasroor Road, district Sialkot, 140 kilometres away from Lahore city, told me on telephone that he had arranged a protest rally in their city, but on March 14 when he was travelling back to his village a few radical Muslims from Jamaatud Dawa severely beat him with sticks and destroyed his motorcycle. He was severely injured and was taken to hospital where he got a number of stitches on his left arm. He has been warned by the extremist group that if any Christian organises further protests, he will be killed!

British Pakistani Christian Association Chairman Wilson Chowdhry has said, “The quality of life for Pakistani Christians has reached its nadir, this recent attack on Badami Bagh is unwarranted and a blight on the nation.” St Joseph’s community have been left destitute and homeless and when other Pakistani Christian communities decried this treatment, they have been savagely attacked by police authorities and threatened by local imams.

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fitna | March 17, 2013 1:01 PM | Reply

Well what do you expect when you live in an Islamic states which denies rights and freedoms to non-muslims and grants them only to muslims?

When the police and the mob killing you and the politicians all happen to be muslims?

Pakistan is not a democracy, there is no equality or protection for minorities-it is basically a vise that grows tighter and tighter on non-muslims until they are crushed or they leave.

So all those Christians praying to God (ie-the West) to save them, well have to wait for a very long time since we ourselves have been deeply infiltrated and compromised by the same evil ideology.

Muslims only respect force-so if Christians were able to fight and subdue them, then they would be left alone. But with the a population of 99.5% muslim, I would do everything I could to leave that shithole country.

gravenimage | March 17, 2013 1:40 PM | Reply

Pakistan: Christians told "protest again and you will die"
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Under Shari'ah, Christians and other Infidels not only have to suffer, they are to suffer in silence—unless they want more of the same.

And that is why Muslims become so crazed and violent when anyone dares to speak out against Islamic savagery, and why their is such an effort to censor any mention of Muslim oppression and violence.

In Youhanabad and Kot Lakhpat, Lahore police used the opportunity to beat the innocent Christian protesters. They shot tear gas shells at them and beat them with sticks. Yet when the Muslim attack took place they stood back and watched till the town had been razed to the ground.
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Very, very common—police in Dar-al-Islam attack the victims, while letting pious Muslims riot, burn, attack, and even kill.

Jhelum controversy: Muslims of Jhelum city have threatened to burn Christians home in response to the protests. Now the community is living in fear of reprisals for their simple act of condemning violence and the blasphemy laws of Pakistan.
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Actually, as pious Muslims see it, this is not a "simple act" as it would be in any civilized country, but rather a criticism of Shari'ah, and that is punishable by death.

God, I hate Islam.

ala sux | March 17, 2013 7:38 PM | Reply

What shocks me ( and is very telling) is the deafening silence by the pakistani muslims in canada that have been too quiet since 9/11 and the pakistani background Toronto-18 homicide-bombers that almost got to use truck bombs to slaughter 10'000 plus people across canada and behead the prime Minister.
For years now canada has taken in muslims that claimed to be fleeing oppression and harm to live in peace in canada. BUT, we now have Honour-killing as the norm that get blamed on "Domestic-Violence" ,Terrorism plots or illegals from pakistan with fake ID the get deported.
A mostly Muslims area of the Toronto area (GTA) had hosted an event where a pro-taliban Imam would be speaking. This should be a warning to all canadians that multiculturalism seems to be a suicide-pact with the imported islamic supremacy thugs bent of created one big Global caliphate run by Shariah .

dumbledoresarmy | March 17, 2013 11:51 PM | Reply

From the article - "when Christians of Jhelum city went to protest against the violence in Joseph Colony, chanting slogans “Repeal Blasphemy Law” and “Blasphemy law is Black Law”, local imams called on Muslims from the mosque loudspeakers to gather and punish those Christians who were decrying the blasphemy law."

To repeat: "**local imams called on Muslims from the mosque loudspeakers** {my emphasis - dda} to gather and punish those Christians who were decrying the blasphemy law."

Keep a copy of this story, and of the many other cases where the imams or sheikhs or other Muslim gang bosses shriek incitement and give orders to the marauding mohammedan mob, doing so through the loudspeakers in the minarets.

Because there is no guarantee, not at all, that Muslims who build a mosque anywhere within the non-Muslim world, and get permission from foolish local authorities to broadcast the azan via loudspeakers (usually from a minaret), will not one day do in *those* places exactly as we see them doing in Pakistan, and in quite a few other places.

Here are a couple of examples of what mosque loudspeakers have been used for, in Pakistan, and elsewhere:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/07/clashes-with-police-outside-lal-masjid-mosques-loudspeakers-told-suicide-bombers-to-get-in-position.html

Clashes with police outside Lal Masjid, mosque's loudspeakers told suicide bombers to get in position

In Indonesia:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/08/indonesia-urged-on-over-mosque-loudspeakers-muslims-go-on-rampage-against-students-of-christian-theo.html

Indonesia: Urged on over mosque loudspeakers, Muslims go on rampage against students of Christian theological school to "drive out the unwanted neighbor"

"Urged on by announcements from a mosque loudspeaker to “drive out the unwanted neighbor,” hundreds of protestors shouting “Allahu-Akbar [God is greater]” and brandishing machetes, sharpened bamboo and acid continued to attack 1,400 students and school staff members even as they were evacuated over the weekend..".

In 2008, in jihad armed camp Gaza, here is how minarets were used by Hamasniks in an internecine Mohammmedan gang war (reported by Jerusalem Post, August 3 2008, in an article entitled 'Weekend in Hamastan' - "Hamas cut off the clan's Gaza City stronghold. In the ensuing fighting, nine Palestinians were killed; a residential building was reportedly blown up, with people still in it; and **Hamas sharpshooters aiming from minarets in nearby mosques targeted anyone trying to flee** {my emphasis - dda}."

and back in 2006 a poster in the comments to this jihadwatch thread

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2006/07/malaysia-faith-forum-to-defy-mob.html

described something that happened in Malaysia in the 1960s when Muslim mobs attacked the non-Muslim Chinese

"This was evident during the race riots [sic: not race riots but 'religious' riots - dda] (may 13, 1969) where mosques' loud speakers were encouraging muslims to take arms & kill the [non-Muslim- dda] chinese."

In the same thread, an Indian poster added the information that "In every single riot in India in the past 60 years, mosque speakers have been at the hands of fanatic imamas who scream at the muslims to kill the infidels. "

and in Acre, **within Israel**, in 2008, mosque loudspeakers were used to rally and direct Mohammedan rioters:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/10/israel-mosque-loudspeakers-used-to-rally-muslim-rioters-in-acre.html

And back to Pakistan in 2009, the Asia Bibi case, and Muslims using mosque loudspeakers to incite attacks upon defenceless Christians:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/06/pakistan-christian-woman-beaten-and-detained-for-blasphemy.html

"Muslims announced from mosque loudspeakers a plan to punish Bibi by blackening her face and parading her through the village on a donkey. "

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