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Islamic Tolerance Alert: "Pakistan Couple And Children Threatened With Death For Embracing Christ," by Jawad Mazhar for BosNewsLife (thanks to Religion of Peace):
SARGODHA, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Pakistani Christian couple said Tuesday, December 18, they have gone into hiding in Pakistan's northeastern city of Sargodha because Muslim relatives threaten to kill them and their children for embracing Christianity.Salhey Luca, a former Muslim, and his wife Tasneem John told BosNewsLife they have been "receiving death threats by Luca’s Muslim siblings" in this predominantly Muslim country "after accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior."
The couple said they also fear for the lives of their four daughters Sabahat Iqra, 14, Sanobar Maria, 11, Sarcilla Iffat, 10, and Sabeqa Ulffat, 7, and their only son, five-year-old Zephaniah Anjum.Speaking by telephone from an undisclosed location, Tasneem John, who was raised in a Christian family, said the troubles began when her husband embraced Christianity five years into their marriage "in March 1997," after abandoning Islam. John said her his conversion was a dangerous step as her husband belonged to "a very conservative Islamic religious family."
DANGEROUS CONVERSION
Luca said soon after his conversion to Christianity family members, including his two sisters and only brother, now deceased, "turned against" him and his family. “My sisters even tried to force me to divorce my Christian wife and recant Christianity, otherwise they threaten to kill us” he added, his voice trembling. They are also trying to illegally occupy the couple’s inherited part of cultivated land, Luca said.
This year the situation worsened when Muslim in-laws allegedly stepped up the pressure and twice tried to kidnap the couple’s daughters from the girls’ hostel in the city of Rawalpindi near the capital Islamabad where they live and study.
John said that on September 11 this year Muslim in-laws and a Muslim security guard of the girls hostel "kidnapped" her eldest daughter Sabahat Iqra from the hostel. “Luckily Sabahat Iqra managed to escape from the vehicle of the kidnappers, as they stopped at a traffic signal and reached home," she said. Soon after in-laws allegedly tried to kidnap her second daughter as well, but this time they failed by “the grace of Lord Jesus Christ," she claimed.
Posted by Robert at December 20, 2007 11:39 AM
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at December 20, 2007 12:40 PM
Folks - leave Pakistan! It will get worse. Your lives and the lives of your children are at risk.
Posted by: tanstaafl at December 20, 2007 1:40 PM
...Islam plans to kill you....
Posted by: exsgtbrown at December 20, 2007 2:54 PM
Just out of curiositym what type of reprocussions are there if you're a Christian or a Jew who becomes Muslim?
Posted by: Stinkyinfidel at December 20, 2007 4:11 PM
"Whoever changes his religion, Kill Him" Muhammad via Bukhari.
Unless of course he changes from some other religion to Islam. Then it's a-ok.
Islam is like the Mafia in many ways. What a "faith"
Posted by: alexon at December 20, 2007 4:32 PM
This poor, brave family. May they please not fall into the hands of the numerous cutthroat muslims in Pak.
Posted by: alexon at December 20, 2007 4:35 PM
Another contradicting installment in the "Islam is Peace" campaign. It's because there's so much peace and love in their hearts that these good Muslims are threatening to snuff out the lives of their backsliden fellow converts. So, if you have a choice between joining this cult, think twice, and run.
Posted by: BurkasforHitlery at December 20, 2007 6:40 PM
So, if you have a choice between joining this cult, or a coven of thieves, prison is a finite sentence, not so Islam, so think twice, and run.
Posted by: BurkasforHitlery at December 20, 2007 6:46 PM
TO ALEXON: Actually Islam strikes me as more like the I.R.A. (and I ain't talking retirement accounts, me boyo) except they prefer head chopping to knee capping.
Buon Natale A Tutti!
A proud Italo American Infidel
Posted by: bevc at December 20, 2007 8:27 PM
Or the Cosa Nostra bevc.
at December 20, 2007 8:36 PM
BBC is publishing stories on Hajj (started Dec 19th). We should contact BBC and tell them Hajj is religious apertheid!
Will BBC glorify KKK seminars or Nazi conferences?
Hajj is discriminatory and any individual or organization involved in Hajj should be shunned. Boycott Hajjis!! Protest BBC's patronizing stories/pictures of Hajj!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7153540.stm
at December 20, 2007 10:11 PM
bevc, no slur against Italians intended. Every country has its bad apples. Islam's apple is full of worms.
Posted by: alexon at December 20, 2007 11:15 PM
May God the Father bless and protect this family.
Notice the name of the youngest child: Zephaniah. Name of a Biblical, Hebrew prophet - and not, I believe, on the list of 'prophets' identity-frauded by Islam.
And think about this. The Ummah is smaller by seven members (and if the Muslims kill this family, then, they're still seven down).
The world population of Christians, with the addition of this family, increased by seven members (note the dates: Luca converted in 1997, so the youngest two children were born subsequent to his conversion).
It's a huge argument for the essential unattractiveness of Islam that some people choose to leave it even when leaving carries a death penalty.
at December 21, 2007 1:12 AM
I wonder how many more Crypto-Christians there are in Pakistan. Could it be, that after all these years of forgetting that there were many Christians in the Middle East, that deepest memories are stirring, and seeing the wretched lot that Islam has foisted upon them, people, realizing that they were never Arabs, never could be Arab enough, and are tired of the Arabizers, are now open to new ideas?
The heart is hidden. No one sees what goes on the dreams of tired and miserable people at night, when by day they live in perpetual fear.
Posted by: Jauhara Al-Kafirah at December 21, 2007 6:16 AM
"Just out of curiositym what type of reprocussions are there if you're a Christian or a Jew who becomes Muslim?
Posted by: Stinkyinfidel"
....the world would now know you are a fool..
....the Muslim masters would make you a volunteer suicide bomber..
....you would not be allowed to engage in any capitalistic adventure such as making money, buying property, owning a satellite dish...
....your female children would be guarranteed a 60 year old bearded husband....
....you would have to share your wife with as many Muslim men as they deemed necessary...
....you would never be allowed to talk to your previous family or any other Non Muslim...
....you could not read any NonMUslim newspaper,magazine,or internet forum...
....you would have to start praying 5 times a day (these activities would be closely monitored and you would be severely punished if you failed to do as commanded)...
....you would have to learn how to attend protest marches, shout hate slogans and be able to light fires to tires and effigies....
....you would be trained in kidnapping tactics (you will be required to participate in locating and kidnapping new young brides and Non Muslims)
....you would be required to infiltrate the NonMuslims camps to gather information on Infidel activities and plans....
....you would be required to get a job with an Infidel company and place yourself in a postion to confuse and to disrupt the lives of the peaceful NonMUslim families..(this would also put you in place to go on a killing spree or to plant bombs)
....oh Yeah...you would be killed if you changed your mind and decided you wanted to return to Christianity...
at December 21, 2007 7:06 AM
...I forgot,, you would not be allowed to wear western style clothes....
....you would not need to worry about shaving or getting haircuts...
....you would have to throw away your collect of Music CD and movie DVDs
....you could forget about good health care or good healthcare facilities..
....you could forget about trying to save money
....you could realized you made an irreversable mistake...
at December 21, 2007 7:17 AM
The BBC pictures of Hajj are pathetic. I especially liked the one of the female muslim, though. She?...It?.....looks like a big blue package tied up with a ribbon and bow.
Posted by: ImNoDhimmi at December 21, 2007 9:01 AM
This situation is probably not unique. Many more families are probably making such a decision all over the Islamic world.
Posted by: Christian at December 21, 2007 10:40 AM
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