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Pakistan: Christians in Peshawar celebrate Christmas behind cement blocks, barbed wire, and 2,000 policemen

Dec 26, 2014 11:00 am By Robert Spencer

christians-in-pakistan-all-saints-church-peshawar-prayersAll these precautions were necessary because on September 22, 2013, jihad-martyrdom suicide bombers murdered 127 people and injured over 250 at All Saints Church in Peshawar. And one never knows when the adherents of the Religion of Peace may launch yet another murderous attack that Has Nothing To Do With Islam. Note that even these embattled Christians echo the mainstream line that “terrorists had no religion.” They know that if they don’t say that, the jihad may come around to them all the more quickly.

“X-mas celebrated in Peshawar,” Dawn, December 26, 2014 (thanks to Lookmann):

PESHAWAR: The Christian community on Thursday celebrated Christmas in the provincial metropolis with religious fervor by offering prayers in different churches under tight security.

The people also cut merry Christmas cakes and exchanged gifts on the occasion. Both men and women were thoroughly checked at the main entrance of churches by volunteers of Christian community. The churches were beautifully decorated where children and women participated in groups as usual.

It was observed that heavy contingents of police were deployed in and around the churches at cantonment and city areas where movement of other people was restricted and the citizens were allowed only after thorough body search.

According to officials, some 2,000 policemen were deployed in addition to personnel in plain clothes only in Peshawar district while the entry points leading to the churches had been closed by placing cemented blocks and barbed wire. The organisers at different churches said that the people offered special prayers for the protection of the country and uplift of the nation. They also prayed for the departed souls of those killed in the militant attacks on Army Public School and All Saint Church in Peshawar.

The speakers said the terrorism did not make any difference for them because they were the followers of Hazrat Essa (AS) and they had to work for peace, religious harmony and extend full cooperation to their Muslim brethren. Expressing shock over the frequent bloodshed in parts of the country, they said that terrorists had no religion and they were bent upon shedding blood of the innocent people and destroying the country….

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  1. Pere LaChaise says

    Dec 26, 2014 at 11:35 am

    Pakistani Christians may well call terrorist moslems ‘irreligious’ because (primarily Sunni extremist) attacks are so out of character in regard to the majority religion in Pakistan, which is Sufism. Do not forget that Wahhabist killers’ favorite targets are tombs of moslem saints (‘pirs’) and Shi’ite mosques, preferably the nice old monumental ones.
    Sufism in Pakistan goes vastly underreported because it generates no news you can use about violence – but it remains, despite all the evil work of Wahhabists, the majority faith there.
    So when Christian minority call terrorists ‘irreligious’ they probably speak in reference to the fact that Sunni thugs have no faith that can be recognized as traditionally moslem by Pakistanis.
    The problem there is that the society of Sufi and nominal moslems have no structure of defense from attacks and radicalizers from among the foreign (Saudi-backed) Wahhabists, since Islam is basically formless with no real authority structure. The lateral structure of Islamic teaching authority tends to legitimize the worse actors in it, and marginalize the better ones, who generate no excitement in their lack of violent outbursts.

    • mortimer says

      Dec 26, 2014 at 1:33 pm

      Scholarly and well-written, chère Père.
      However, large numbers of Pakistanis express opinions about Sharia and jihad that are virtually the same as those of the Taliban. 25% of Pakistanis are out-and-out Salafists.

      There is a virtual civil war between ‘high church’ Sunnis and ‘low church’ Sunnis throughout Pakistan. There will be ongoing treachery and betrayal until ‘jihad’ becomes a word hated by the overwhelming majority of the country.

    • marc says

      Dec 26, 2014 at 4:24 pm

      Pere, That’s pretty much what a friend had said about the majority sufi in pakistan, 2 questions though.

      1. i have come across many pakistanis in the uk, and the vast majority are anti-semitic, pro-jihadi savages of the lowest order (all inbred to), are they the only ones that are allowed to travel then?

      2. all sounds great, but this vast majority are still responsible for what you say are a minority, maybe when its an muslim v infidel issue, these supposed peaceful sufis will always side with the muslim, as they have no argument against the koranic inspiration for their savagery.

    • Know Thy Enemy says

      Dec 26, 2014 at 4:34 pm

      @Pere LaChaise
      I disagree with your understanding of the role that Sufism provides in Pakistani Muslims’ religion. It is important to understand the role that Sufism plays in hiding real Islam, not just in Pakistan but in any Islamic society-

      Real Islam has very little spiritual/devotional component in it. It is mostly about rules that one should follow, and about making sure that one maintains his/her deen (faith in Islam and Allah). Believers [of all religions] however, like to connect with a *personal* God and seek spiritual nourishment from their religion….

      ….. And that is where Sufism comes in. It meets the spiritual/devotional need of Muslims. Sufism is NOT Islam but it claims to be, and employs terminology from real Islam, making it difficult for most ordinary people, especially women, to tell the two apart.

      The mullahs are full aware of the role that Sufism plays in believers’ lifes, but they also know that real Islam has to have an upper hand on Sufism…… And they know what to tell people so as to condition them (people) to give [much] higher importance to real Islam even if they patronize Sufism. As a result, and depending on social conditions, Muslims oscillate between Sufism and real Islam, but they never quit Islam itself.

      Hence, even though it might appear that Sufism is “the majority faith there”, it is actually Islam that is the majority faith in Pakistan.

    • Know Thy Enemy says

      Dec 26, 2014 at 6:52 pm

      More:

      It is also important to understand the role that Sufism plays in bringing people to real Islam:
      Sufism started out in Persia and shows strong influence from the Indian Bhakti (devotional) tradition. Both are quite liberal in practice but Sufism used popular arts more effectively and gained acceptance in popular culture.

      Now I happen to have a north Indian (Punjabi) background, and Indian anti-Islamists claim that all the Muslims in North India and Pakistan were converted at sword-point. However, I have reason to believe that to the east of Afghanistan/Pashtun-istan, only a few were converted at swordpoint; The rest converted because of Sufism.

      Sufism used to be dominant in popular culture prior to India’s partition in 1947. It is once again gaining popularity in Punjab and I get to see its insidious nature with my own eyes…. Now I understand why North Indians never fully grasped the danger that Islam posed, and why they did not foresee a breakup of the country and the genocide that accompanied Pakistan’s creation.

      Watch the first 11 seconds of this video (click here). The video is from a musical function that was performed at the site of a Sufi Pir’s tomb in India’s Punjab. The title picture (the first 11 secs) shows the Pir’s photo. But look carefully! Do you see that golden Ganesh idol on the right? There is also an idol on the left (It is hard to tell whose idol it is, but it surely looks like some Hindu saint). If you understand the language, you will hear the singer praise the Sikh Gurus and rever the Sikh God, among other things.

      Now think about it- Say a Hindu/Sikh/Atheist/(even Christian) comes across this video and others, and visits the shrine. S/he will be impressed with how liberal, open-minded, and tolerant they are, how great their music is, and how they seem to be saying good things in their devotional songs….. chances are that if s/he has any difficulty in his/her current religion, s/he will quickly become a Sufi!

      Except the Sufis call themselves “Sufi Muslims”! That is, they call themselves followers of Quran and Muhammad- something not obvious at all from visiting their tombs and watching these videos. They never call themselves “Sufi Hindus”, or “Sufi Sikhs”….. Always “Sufi Muslims”….. the world takes it for granted that when someone says “Sufi”, s/he means Sufi Muslim!

      So what happens a generation or two down after the person becomes a Sufi?? The children/grandchildren completely forget their roots…. they now think they are Sufi Muslims! …… And this is when the real Muslims come in and employ their tricks. First they start preaching how “to be a Muslim” means believing in one God, not having idols, and not having partners with God etc., then they start preaching how men should relate to women,…. and so on…. until the person or his children have become true Muslims!

      What is worth realizing is that if ever a Muslim rebels against orthodox Islam and goes back towards Sufism, s/he is not going to be paying obeisance to the idols, godmen, or Gurus. Islam has now taken hold in him/her and s/he now prefers to see him/herself as “moderate Muslim”. Not only that, s/he is now totally unaware that in the past the reason why his/her ancestors became Sufis was because they wanted to be far more liberal than even “moderate” Muslims!

      ……And this is exactly the situation today in Pakistan.

      (The same thing happened in Egypt. After people kicked out Muhammad Morsi from power, they didn’t become Atheists or open minded liberals……. they became “Moderate Muslims”. Islam still exists in them and sooner or later it will get hold of them again!)

      Hope this helped.

      Sufism is like this person who you think is awesome and wonderful and who calls himself Islam, except that he is infected with HIV (real Islam). ….It is absolutely NOT wise to have an affair with him, or else sooner or later you will be dealing with full-blown AIDS!

      • Semeru says

        Dec 27, 2014 at 1:21 am

        Know Thy Enemy saidSufism is like this person who you think is awesome and wonderful and who calls himself Islam, except that he is infected with HIV (real Islam). ….It is absolutely NOT wise to have an affair with him, or else sooner or later you will be dealing with full-blown AID

        Know Thy Enemy sayssaid<Sufism is like this person who you think is awesome and wonderful and who calls himself Islam, except that he is infected with HIV (real Islam). ….It is absolutely NOT wise to have an affair with him, or else sooner or later you will be dealing with full-blown AIDS!

        Well Most here have heard of Front Pembela Islam (Islamic Defenders Front – FPI), thugs.

        Its motto is “Live honorably or die a martyr.” Rezieq Syihab and Misbahul Anam, both of whom are Sufis, founded FPI in 1998

        FPI describes itself as a movement committed to combating sin, vice and heresy. It is known for attacks on those it deems “deviant” and for “sweepings” (ransacking) of nightclubs, bars, massage parlours and other establishments promoting what it considers to be immoral activities, especially during Ramadan. FPI actions have yielded few fatalities but many victims have been severely injured. More violent attacks in which there have been fatalities have been directed against the Ahmadiyah sect of Islam which is widely condemned for heresy because of the belief that its founder Mirza Ghalam Ahmad (1908-1935) was a prophetS!/blockquote>

        Well Most here have heard of Front Pembela Islam (Islamic Defenders Front – FPI), thugs.

        Its motto is “Live honorably or die a martyr.” Rezieq Syihab and Misbahul Anam, both of whom are Sufis, founded FPI in 1998

        FPI describes itself as a movement committed to combating sin, vice and heresy. It is known for attacks on those it deems “deviant” and for “sweepings” (ransacking) of nightclubs, bars, massage parlours and other establishments promoting what it considers to be immoral activities, especially during Ramadan. FPI actions have yielded few fatalities but many victims have been severely injured. More violent attacks in which there have been fatalities have been directed against the Ahmadiyah sect of Islam which is widely condemned for heresy because of the belief that its founder Mirza Ghalam Ahmad (1908-1935) was a prophet

        • Know Thy Enemy says

          Dec 27, 2014 at 1:59 am

          @Semeru,

          Thank you for telling me about Front Pembela Islam! The actions of FPI and the fact that their founders were Muslims, only confirm what I wrote. I said that once Sufism spellbinds a person (or society), then real Islam starts taking over!

          Hence if someone calls him/herself a “Sufi”, the wise thing to do is to find out whether s/he respects the Quran, respects Muhammad, or otherwise call him/herself a “Sufi Muslim“. If yes, then s/he must be considered a Muslim, plain and simple!

        • Know Thy Enemy says

          Dec 27, 2014 at 2:08 am

          Correction: “…. the fact that their founders were Sufis,….”

    • Angemon says

      Dec 27, 2014 at 8:58 am

      Pere LaChaise posted:

      “the majority religion in Pakistan, which is Sufism”

      Where did you get that idea?

    • Jerry says

      Dec 27, 2014 at 1:04 pm

      @Pere LaChaise

      “Sufism in Pakistan goes vastly underreported because it generates no news you can use about violence – but it remains, despite all the evil work of Wahhabists, the majority faith there.”

      Just happens that Hassan al Bana, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood
      was originally a Sufi.

      He just happened to become frustrated because of the demise of Turkish Ottoman Caliphate, so he changed his strategy.

      Sufism is part of Islam.

      They aspire for the same outcomes though follow a different strategy to try and achieve them.

      They follow the same Kor’an and Hadith and thus cannot denounce or renounce Jihad.

      You have to understand the nature of the beast to realise that there is no fundamental contradiction when yesterday “peaceful moderate Muslim” becomes a genocidal Jihadist overnight

      Just remember that when you encounter acts of terrorism and genocide committed by any un-Islamic Godless “Allahu Akhbar” irreligious peaceful fanatics.

  2. mortimer says

    Dec 26, 2014 at 12:58 pm

    ANGLICANS around the world should take note: JIHADISTS HATE YOU AND WANT TO KILL YOU.

    The Taliban in Pakistan alone killed many more Christians in the last months (and as many Anglicans) as the number of children in the recent school attack!

    I have no doubt that the clergy are echoing the official Pak government message in exchange for having 2000 soldiers protect their Christmas celebrations!

  3. mortimer says

    Dec 26, 2014 at 1:40 pm

    50% of Pakistanis are ‘moderate’ Barelvi Muslims. In 2009, the prominent Barelvi scholar, mufti and jurisprudent of the Barelvi movement, the late Sarfraz Ahmed Naeemi, issued a fatwa denouncing suicide bombings, as well as criticizing the violent Taliban leader Sufi Muhammad by saying he “should wear bangles if he is hiding like a woman” (in women’s clothing to avoid discovery). Naeemi added: “Those who commit suicide attacks for attaining paradise will go to hell, as they kill many innocent people”.

    Mufti Naeemi was himself killed by a suicide bomber.

  4. C says

    Dec 26, 2014 at 1:58 pm

    Oh why don’t you cut the crap already? You could not possibly care less about the sufferings of Christians. No, you only “care” when you can use it as a pretext for attacking Muslims.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Dec 26, 2014 at 4:26 pm

      If you want a general discussion and critique of *all* persecution of Christians, then you should be visiting the “Voice of the Martyrs” and “The Barnabas Fund” and other similar websites.

      But even there – despite the many occasions, at this forum, on which you have attempted to obfuscate and deflect and deny obvious realities – you will discover that, with the exception of North Korea which is in a class of its own – all the top worst persecutors of Christians are MUSLIM entities.

      The Barnabas Fund – founded, nota bene, by an ex-Muslim – critiques all persecution of Christians; but when one reads through its newsletter, the fact is, most cases of severe persecution there reported are occurring within Muslim states.

      *This* website is focused on a political goal: the exposure, discussion and critique of Jihad, the Sixth Pillar of Islam. Jihad is the worldwide campaign, by the Muslim ummah, to impose a ruinous Muslim despotism on the entire planet and to force all humans to live within the total and totalitarian system of mental, physical and spiritual enslavement that is Islam. Persecution and murder of Christians, by Muslims, is one manifestation – but not the only manifestation – of that Jihad, which is going on all over the world.

      All regular non-Muslim commenters at this forum are implacably opposed to the Jihad. We recognise that Islam is an evil death cult, a system that sacralises rape, robbery, murder and lies. We are committed to criticising it and resisting it.

      If you don’t like our decision here in this forum to focus our attention on the activities and tenets of a murderous death cult – adhered to by a very large number of deluded and/ or evil human beings – that wants to kill us, enslave us, or force us to embrace its soul-killing tenets, and that currently has a very large and expanding and dangerous and increasingly aggressive Fifth Column entrenched within many non-Muslim lands, then… you can damn well shut up and buzz off, because…we are *not* going to stop just because of your squawkings.

    • islamisdeath says

      Dec 26, 2014 at 4:28 pm

      Currently you lot are doing ALL of the attacking.

  5. mortimer says

    Dec 26, 2014 at 1:59 pm

    Barelvi sectarians are 50% of Pakistanis.

    On 4 January 2011, the late governor of Punjab, Salmaan Taseer, was assassinated by a member of the Barelvi group Dawat-e-Islami due to his opposition to the blasphemy law in Pakistan. Over five hundred scholars of the Barelvi movement voiced support for the crime and urged a boycott of Taseer’s funeral.

    Sunni Tehreek rewarded the assassin’s family and then threatened Taseer’s family, while another Barelvi group abducted Taseer’s son.

    Barelvi Muslims are ‘MODERATE’? Only when compared to the Taliban who are ready to kill almost everybody.

  6. gp says

    Dec 26, 2014 at 4:24 pm

    God will bless them, they are brave people of great faith.

  7. chanah says

    Dec 27, 2014 at 8:26 am

    there is only 1 islam no matter what muslims call themselves they are all commanded to fight the infidles till they say there’s no god but ill-allah and his Messenger is mu-ham-mad-dog, every muslims know and understand this to their goal in order to please their murderous moon god=satan

  8. B says

    Mar 19, 2015 at 11:04 pm

    PLANTING CHURCHES INSIDE MUSLIM COMMUNITY
    Email: gospel2muslims@gmail.com / muslimsfoundjesus@gmail.com
    ————————————————————————————————————-
    Sub: please pray for God’s help to plant more Churches among Muslims

    Dear Director / Pastor / Brother / Sister in Christ all around the world,

    Greetings to you in the most precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ!

    We are very glad to share with you that our Living God has filled our hearts with His burden & vision in our lives to reach specifically to The MUSLIMS by The Gospel of Jesus Christ & plant House Churches inside Muslim community. While Muslim terrorist groups such as Islamic state , Taliban, Al Qaeda and Boko Haram are killing Christians in different countries, He is leading us to reach out to the Muslims for His own glory and help them to know that Jesus Christ is The Only Living God and Saviour.
    Our Lord Jesus is using us to fulfill His plan & will in and through our lives. Already Several Muslims men & women surrendered their lives to Jesus and they are following His teachings. They are witnessing about Jesus and their testimonies to their relatives & neighbors. God is adding more men & women to our worship services almost every week for His own glory.
    Militant Muslims are often torturing physically and trying to kill us and the believers from Muslim background for their new faith in Jesus. Even though we are facing heavy persecutions & threats by the Militant Muslims, but our Lord Jesus is using our lives for the extension of His Kingdom and He has protected us for His own glory. Militant Muslims are constantly trying to murder us. Our lives are in danger at this moment.
    We are in great need of your kind prayers in our own lives and for the persecuted believers. Humbly, we request you kindly pray for God’s protection from the hands of Militant Muslims. Please also pray that we might be always faithful to His call in our lives and grow in Him.
    It would be very nice if you kindly write few words for us.
    With regards,
    B & A
    KINDLY PRAY FOR: House Church Fellowship, Discipleship Ministry, Women Ministry, Children Ministry, Health Care Ministries for the women & Children and Compassion Ministry (such as Distributing Clothes & blankets to the poor children & Sarees to poor woman, Free tuition to the needy students, Feeding to the poor children , helping to the persecuted believers those who lost their sources of income & houses for their faith in Jesus, Educational help to the poor & needy students, Providing Nutrients for Malnourished children)

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