The Muslims were outraged over a carpet that allegedly had Qur’an verses on it, but they did not think this response outrageous at all: “Rukhsana’s husband, Awais, had his head shaved in the incident, after which all three Christians had their faces painted black, had shoes put around their necks as garlands, and were paraded around town on donkeys, while the mob continued teasing and beating them.”
“Two Christian Women Accused of Blasphemy Tortured by Muslim Villagers in Pakistan; Faces Painted Black, Beaten as They’re Forced to Parade Around on Donkeys,” by Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post, July 3, 2015:
Two Christian women from a Pakistani village in the Sheikhupura district of Punjab province have reportedly been tortured by Muslim villagers, after which their faces were painted black and they were paraded around the town on donkeys.
The Pakistani Christian Post reported that the women, identified as Rukhsana and Rehana, were accused of committing blasphemy, which activists have said is a common way for the Muslim majority to oppress Christian and other minorities.
The two Christians apparently got into an argument with a Muslim woman who wanted to buy from their home a flex used as a carpet for a low price, to which the Christians refused. The Muslim woman then accused the Christians of committing blasphemy by pointing out that the carpet has images of Holy Books and Quran verses on it, which prompted a Muslim mob to beat the Christians and drag them out of their home.
Rukhsana’s husband, Awais, had his head shaved in the incident, after which all three Christians had their faces painted black, had shoes put around their necks as garlands, and were paraded around town on donkeys, while the mob continued teasing and beating them. The public punishment was eventually put to an end after police were called into the village.
Human rights group The Voice Society was reportedly instrumental in getting the police to get involved and help the Christians. The families of Rukhsana and Rehana have said that they will leave the village following the attack, and not come back again.
PCP noted that some Muslim extremists in Pakistan look for “any reason” to persecute and execute Christians and other minorities, and noted that Christians are finding themselves in an “awful reality” where they are being targeted around the world….
Nothing that a little “dialogue” won’t fix — at least according to the bishops in the U.S.
CogitoErgoSum says
The Muslims painted the faces of the Christians black? Hmmmm…..what is the symbolic meaning of that?
desidude2 says
Painting the face black is an insult in the Indian subcontinent. sort of like dirtying your face. Placing shoes around the neck is another insult, shoes are the lowest form of wear because they touche the dirty ground. Shoes are also used to hit a person as another insult. Riding a donkey is considered travel for the lowest class of people.
Think of all these insult as equivalent to tar and feathering a person, as was done in the west.
Angemon says
So, what happened to the carpet? Did it flew away like something out of the 1001 Nights (possibly into the home of the accusing muslima)?
The reason of the crime should be obvious: the muslima cooked up a story because she couldn’t get the carpet of her dreams at a discount price. It didn’t bother her that the carpet allegedly had verses of the quran and depictions of Holy Books until she couldn’t get the Christian to part with it for her price.
Why Christians would have depictions of quranic verses (surely they knew what would happen if muslims got wind of it) is left to the imagination of the reader, much like how the accusing muslima knew the alleged verses belonged to the quran (maybe she is one of the minority of muslims in the world who actually can read arabic, or maybe she claimed patterns in the fabric were arabic verses from the quran).
Lynn says
I’m guessing the black face was a slave reference. Muslims have never stopped harvesting and selling slaves. Black or white.
And yes the default position is blasphemy so the muslim may take what they coveted.
2John says
Help persecuted Christians like this man and his family: Rescue Christians dot org
Richard C Brown says
You will never hear an out cry from the Catholic Church about this type of treatment or Slaughter of Christians or Catholics b/c Mary has not sent a message to the Pope .
As a Humanist at Heart it is criminal for #TheChurch or #Churches to remain #Silent as the cries for help falls on deaf ears .Politicos are in denial also.
citycat says
I wonder if anything that puts down a person is useable by Islam. Instilling fear, shame, feeling subdued are ways to reduce the personality of the infidel, who then releases energy to the perpetrators of Islam, who get a buzz and then how it gets to Allah that is the unfillable tool of Islam is another process.
Who is the top man with the smug sneer? Or the vampiric entity or group? There is no argument, all, Christian, Buddhist, Jew, are all booty.
citycat says
And then there is the the old fear surrender equation. Surrender and fear is gone, gangland tactics enmasse.
Westman says
The victims were on donkeys and the asses were in the crowd….
baucent says
Pakistan is a medieval hell hole with little sign of social of economic progress in the last 50 years.
duh_swami says
They used to do that to traveling snake oil salesmen in America’s old west. But I doubt these Christian women were selling any snake oil. In paradise, the land of the pure, it only takes one person to totally wreck a Christians day by accusing them of blasphemy and setting the howling mob on them…
It’s easy to do that because the accusation is the proof…happens all the time. They are lucky they are not in prison waiting for death as Asia Bibi…
Gary says
“You will know them by their fruits”
Matthew 7:16
Lioness says
The family will leave the village and will not come back. But where would they go? Anywhere else in Pakistan is the same situation for Christians, and the west is too busy “rescuing” muslims. So what hope do these poor terrified people have? None, I would say.
Linda Rivera says
Coming to a town or city near you soon – in Britain. Most imported Muslims in Britain are from PAKISTAN. Brought to you by dirty traitors, Tony Blair, Jack Straw, Brown and Cameron who are demonically eager for the Muslim conquest and sharia enslavement of indigenous Brits to Muslim masters.
Raju G. C. Thomas says
Pakistan was created abnormally and violently in the name Islam for Muslims of undivided India. Therefore, some of its citizens may act abnormally and violently against non-Muslims. Under Islam, women are usually considered of lower status than men. Therefore, beating and painting the faces of two Pakistani Christian women was logical and rational. May be not. Some Pakistani men are illogical and irrational like men all over the world.