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This sort of thing happens from time to time in Pakistan, because the perpetrators know that authorities will be reluctant to intevene on behalf of a Christian. From ASSIST News Service:
FAISALABAD, PAKISTAN (ANS) -- A 23 year-old Pakistani Christian has died of injuries as a result of five days of severe torture by Islamic militants for refusing to convert to Islam, the UK-based Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) reports.Javed Anjum, a Christian from Toba Tek Singh District, was tortured for five days and nights by Islamic extremists from a 'madrassa' or Islamic school in the district.
CSW reported the torture included electric shocks and burns from warm iron rods. He suffered 26 injuries. He was hospitalized for 11 days, and died at the Allied Hospital in Faisalabad at 2.12am on 2 May. Doctors said his kidneys had failed and he had undergone dialysis four times. His right arm was fractured, and electric shocks to his ears had affected his hearing. According to the doctors' report, "his bladder stopped working. Instead of urine, he was passing blood or pus."
Javed Anjum, from Quetta, was traveling to Pir Mahal, in Toba Tek Singh district, to attend a wedding, but went missing on April 16, 2004 before reaching Pir Mahal. His father, Parvez Masih, reported this to the local police and placed an advertisement on the local cable channels.
On April 22, 2004 Maulvis (mullahs) from the madrassa, the Jamia Hassan Bin Ali-ul-Murtaza, in Chak (village) 323 JB Tarandi, Toba Tek Singh district, handed Javed to the police, claiming that he was a thief who was trying to steal their water pump. The police refused to take him because he was badly injured and was not in his senses. Instead they called Javed's father and told him that Javed should be admitted to hospital immediately.
In his statement to the police before he died, Javed said: "I was searching for water near the Islamic madrassa when the Maulvis (mullahs) took me inside and told me that I was a thief and was trying to steal the water pump. I rejected the charge and told the Islamic leaders that I am a Christian youth and a student. I had come here to attend a marriage. As soon as the Islamic extremists came to know that I am Christian they asked me to convert to Islam. I refused and they started torturing me. They would continue the torture from night till morning. They tortured me badly and during the torture they continuously asked me to accept Islam."
CSW is deeply concerned about this case, and urges the Pakistani authorities to ensure that the perpetrators are brought to justice. The police have registered a case against one of the suspects, Moulana Ghulam Rasool, and several of his companions under 337/F6 of the Pakistan penal code.
Stuart Windsor, National Director of CSW-UK, said: "This is a tragedy, and is an example of the threat that Christians continue to face in Pakistan. We urge our supporters to pray for Javed's family, and to appeal to the Pakistani authorities to investigate this case and bring the culprits to justice. We also urge the international community to raise this case with the Pakistani government."
Posted by Robert at May 9, 2004 6:11 AM
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Will this receive any attention? Any anguished comments on ABC, CBS, NBC? Will a single Senator speak about this matter, or about the attacks in Nigeria, the Philippines, the Moluccas? Or will the word "torture" be reserved exclsively for those modern Nazis, those beasts beyond compare, the American solders who have spent the last year trying to remove killers, build schools, hospitals, roads, power plants, even as those they are trying to help try, by way of expressing their appreciation, to kill them?
Posted by: Hugh at May 9, 2004 8:19 AMAgree with you Hugh.
There has been such an overplay in the media of a few American soldiers atrocities in Iraqi. Yet the media choose selective morality when it comes to the above atrocities, plus, plus, plus, plus....ad infinitume....... atrocities perpetrated by Jihadists towards anyone that opposes them.
This includes their very own.
Posted by: ws at May 9, 2004 12:54 PMthis is common play for years in the enlightened world of islam, the religion of peace. and we are afraid to call the war on terror a religious war. shame on us christian soldiers.the world in thelast 25 years is littered with the bodies and souls of christians murdered at the hands of muslims, only surpassed by the number of christians murdered at the hands of the communists. there are few places ,save the united states of america, in the world where christians can worship the LORD, in a sanctuary of safety. we take this for granted and forget about our christian brothers and sisters who live the life of martyrs everytime they"dare to worship the LORD". i, for one, will not forget them or forsake them. the enemy of my christian brother and sister is my enemy, and if you love the LORD, you must hate evil.
Posted by: greg at May 9, 2004 10:22 PMNo pictures, no story. Remember, the media was silent between the January press release from the Pentagon about investigation of prisoner abuse in Iraq and the late-April release of pictures. And too, the latter is getting so much exposure because it is an aberration - not the norm.
Posted by: John Anderson at May 10, 2004 6:11 AMMaybe this is just a coincidence, but this poor man's father has the same last name as this little girl and her family:
"On April 6, 2004, Two year-old Neha Masih, was brutely raped by a 24-year-old Muslim man, Abid Hussain in a straw pile of a dairy farm, and was subsequently left in a ditch."
http://www.pakcyber.com/pcp/newsdetails.php?newsid=468
Maybe Masih is just a very common Christian family name in Pakistan.
That poor little girl. Shhh...I am listening for the "arab outrage"...dont hear anything...still dont...still nothing...
hope this piece of trash gets whats coming to him.
How can the Mulsums just say they only want kill all the Jews and that is it! Well this proves other wise! This is why they have to cover their women they are Savages
Wake-up America and for-give yourselfs for what we have to do!
Part of the American Tribe
God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and All who Fight with her give Them Strength and Courage to stay the course to Victory Amen
This story needs to be sent to every US Gov't official and news organization. Will they follow up on it? Will they go after the pictures? Maybe not, but we have to try.
Posted by: Rootless Cosmo at May 10, 2004 4:43 PM
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