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Pakistan: Muslim mob sets Christian TV station on fire

Nov 25, 2015 5:38 pm By Robert Spencer

“The station management had denounced past threats and despite many requests, police and authorities did not provide the necessary security.” This was because they held a point of view similar to that of those who issued the threats.

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“Karachi, masked men set Christian television station on fire,” by Jibran Khan, Asia News, November 25, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Karachi (AsiaNews) – A group of masked men set fire to Christian broadcaster Gawahi TV Karachi overnight. The building collapsed due to the fire. According to employees, the arson attack occurred at 2.30am (local time), and the men were seen as they fled from the place, having set fire to the entire complex.

Gawahi television was established in February 2013 in a joint collaboration between Catholic and Protestant communities, to “spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ to people of all religions who live in Pakistan.” The channel broadcasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As reported by the television website, about 12 million people watched it on a regular basis.

The station management had denounced past threats and despite many requests, police and authroities [sic] did not provide the necessary security. Some members of the Catholic Church, including several priests, visited the scene of the fire, expressing disappointment at what happened. Fr. John Arif, of the Diocese of Karachi, said: “It was disheartening to see the entire building and all equipment burned. The channel was set up to communicate the word of God. There have been threats and now the matter is under investigation. We hope to soon see the channel on air again. We pray for peace and tolerance.”

You’re going to need to pray harder.

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  1. Joseph says

    Nov 25, 2015 at 5:59 pm

    Every physical and vocal evil done by Muslims is given a free pass and an excuse. The world bends over backwards for Muslims and even goes so far as to blame the victims.
    If that weren’t enough the solution proposed is that the Muslims need more love and understanding. They need to have a free hand to do whatever they want for they only want peace.
    They are so misunderstood that their only avenue to be heard is violence.

    When the victims want justice or when people publicly state that they want nothing to do with Islam or the don’t want it in their countries they are painted as the evil ones. They are the true terrorists, the murderers and rapists.

    There is definitely something VERY VERY wrong with this world and a strong evil wind blows across the land. I am not frightened at what will have to happen in the future I am only saddened that it will have to take place. Many innocent people will have to suffer and die because of the stupidity of a few.

    May GOD give me the courage to fight the good fight and never back down but most importantly may I NEVER deny my precious Savior JESUS CHRIST.

    • John spielman says

      Nov 25, 2015 at 6:11 pm

      Agree! Islam tolerates NO CRITICISM of it’s vile tenets. It is a doctrine of demons vomited out of the mouth of muhammed that mass murderer thief liar misogynist and pedophile pervert. And he is considered the ” PERFECT MAN” in the twisted theology of this death cult which is islam

      • Dr. Divinity says

        Nov 26, 2015 at 1:18 pm

        Note….masked men…..better said………MASKED COWARDS. set fire to Christian. TV ststion. It does no good to hide your faces a Muslim terrorist is a MUSLIM terrorists.

    • 13pr108 says

      Nov 25, 2015 at 6:15 pm

      Collective punishment is illegal and adharmic (unethical). Innocent people do not have to live in fear or suffer for the actions of others.

      Om shanti Om

      Live and let live: there is a natural abundance in the universes – Malthusian economics is fraud. Semitic creeds could learn a bit from the ideals of Hindostan. If India had been officially Hindu the horrors of 1947 and 1984 would not have occurred. Jealous, hostile foreigners stir up trouble in Aryavarta/Bharat aka india

      Akhand Bharat is the way to go – South Asian reunification along Dharmic Ideals (Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Zoroastrian).

      Cheers and Ahimsa everyone!

      • Christianblood says

        Nov 25, 2015 at 9:20 pm

        Turkey+Qatar+Saudi Arabia+USA=ISIS

      • mortimer says

        Nov 25, 2015 at 9:43 pm

        What are you on? This is Islam, friend. Islam is a religion in its own category.

        Sharia law approves of revenge killing. Of course, preaching another religion to Muslims is a crime in Sharia law and Sharia vigilantes are permitted to take the law into their own hands with impunity.

        Vigilantism and revenge killing are normative Islam, rather than aberrations.

        • Keith Wilkinson says

          Nov 26, 2015 at 9:47 am

          lol

      • Jay Boo says

        Nov 26, 2015 at 2:22 am

        13pr108
        Where were you on that night?
        You seem just a little too smarmy about this.
        Do you have an alibi for that night?

      • Cicero says

        Nov 26, 2015 at 4:48 pm

        Well really 13pr108 , for someone with such an auspicious moniker , you are being too silly by half!

        You spout such nonsense about Akhand Bharat etc. when we should be enhancing the debate regarding Islamic Jihad and how toshare and spread the knowledge to halt its dastardly infestation. Instead of which you drag India and Dharma into an anti -jihad discourse which leaves none of us the wiser.

        Please tipsy one go back to drinking your chota peg!

        • Joseph says

          Nov 26, 2015 at 5:36 pm

          Cicero, 13pr108 probably thinks he is the infamous **Grasshopper** Shaolin Kwai Chang Caine from the KUNG FU TV SERIES 1972-1974
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzBIGv9atPo

          When you google “Ahimsa” one of the symbols looks like the one grasshopper had on the back of his robe.
          https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Ahimsa

    • Sharon Boozer says

      Nov 26, 2015 at 4:21 am

      Joseph – So well said! The winds of evil are Satan who is out to deceive and destroy as many as possible before Christ comes for those of us who follow him, the one true God.

    • winnie says

      Nov 26, 2015 at 6:37 am

      I still do not understand why Islam gets a free pass for all its evils ? Why it remains to be the big elephant in the room?

    • BC says

      Nov 26, 2015 at 8:53 am

      Does it ever occur to you people that if there is a ‘god’ who is all powerful and omniscient, whether he/she/it whatever you call him/her/it, Almighty God or Allah. He/she/it would just look down from wherever he/she/it is and not do anything about it?
      Have you not also remarked that where people do the most praying to ‘god’ usually gets all the disasters,
      like floods, typhoons/hurricanes, earthquakes and mud slides. Would you not think that ‘god’ would take greater care of his faithfull?

    • DP111 says

      Nov 26, 2015 at 11:34 am

      There is no hope for Islamic countries. They will be mired in violence that the koran begets.To escape that violence they flee & run to Christian countries. Once esconced safely, they start the same Islamic nonsense that caused them to run in the first place.,

      There is hope for Islamic countries unless they stop being & Islamic let Jesus come into their lives.

      Till then they will be beggars for food and sustenanace from the West.

    • John Stefan Obeda says

      Nov 26, 2015 at 9:01 pm

      God the Holy Trinity bless me also, please, in the same manner and my family and all believers in the Lord Jesus.

  2. Mrs Dianne Kirkwood says

    Nov 25, 2015 at 6:09 pm

    Islam = Barbaric Sharia Law, inseparable, one and the same. Muslims need to stay in their own countries and not export their violent ways.

    • Keith Wilkinson says

      Nov 26, 2015 at 9:52 am

      You’re absolutely right. That’s the only way. America needs to close its doors to all Muslim countries. Period.

  3. Mo says

    Nov 25, 2015 at 7:01 pm

    Coming soon to an American city near you! And cheered on by leftists who hate Christians. (Oh, is that being redundant?)

    • ? says

      Nov 25, 2015 at 8:53 pm

      Better get ready then… Exercise, take martial arts or MMA classes, and if you can get a gun train with it… They aren’t playing and neither should we be….

      This is the reaping 666

  4. kay says

    Nov 26, 2015 at 7:26 am

    There is an overall program, the same in different countries:
    Shut down free speech and alternative viewpoints.

    In this case a major Christian communications channel has been destroyed.
    In Paris France this January it was Charlie Hebdo, a secular satirical journal that mocked everybody, including the three Abrahamic faiths.

    For us there are two roads or paths into the future:
    One is free speech and the open society.
    The second is Islam and Sharia law.
    These are mutually exclusive. The second destroys the first, over time.

    We are seeing MANY Muslim no-go zones in Europe, quite a few “Sharia courts” in Britain, and explicit GOVERNMENT enforcement of Sharia anti-blasphemy laws in Britain, France, and Germany. In some individual cases. These are well documented in the press.

    This year alone we ( secularists and open society organizers ) have lost seven front-line people in Bangladesh, the former East Pakistan, Avijit Roy and the rest. All were actively working in public media for a free and secular society, and all were murdered by Islamists.

    Killing journalists such as these is a highest priority in the program of Political Islam. What surprises me most is when people in the free western societies support Political Islam, such as EU Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini.

    All who support Political Islam are by definition theological fascists, and this is proven in practice for many countries, such as Bangladesh, Pakistan, and many other countries.
    What is shocking is to see official governmental support for Islamic fascism in the west ,and official governmental aggression against free speech and basic human rights.

    It is not just danger that is coming to western Europe. It is also the destruction of human rights. That includes basic human rights for a Catholic priest in Dublin, for a policeman in France, and the murders of Jews and journalists. And “honor killings.”
    The danger and oppression are the same for all of us, whether Christian evangelist or journalist or Jew or young woman trying to leave Islam.

    Individuals and societies either support basic human rights or they do not. Foremost among these is free speech, which is the strategic tool, the main guardian, the main hope and main commitment of all free society organizers. The Christians suffered a big loss in Pakistan. So did we all. This is a shared struggle for free speech and human rights.
    We have nothing to lose but everything.

    “Our aim is to build a society which will not be bound by the dictates of arbitrary authority, comfortable superstition, stifling tradition, or suffocating orthodoxy but would rather be based on reason, compassion, humanity, equality and science.”
    — Avijit Roy, secularist, murdered in Bangladesh 2015 along with six other anti-Islam writers/ social organizers

    http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34613855

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/nov/21/millennials-government-should-ban-speech-offends-m/

  5. Jay Boo says

    Nov 26, 2015 at 7:48 am

    The Bible says be thankful 76 times.
    Gratitude has power.

    The Serpent of Satan is a formidable enemy yet. it is convicted by its own venom.

  6. Jeremiah says

    Nov 26, 2015 at 8:03 am

    Is there any way we can work with the Pakistani government to get all Christians across the border into India?

    • Cicero says

      Nov 26, 2015 at 4:40 pm

      I have an even better idea,

      Why not use the vast global wealth and resources of the Christian church to smuggle the Pakistani Christian converts to the West where they can outperform their Muslim fellow refugees in positive building of socially cohesive communities?

  7. Piccolino says

    Nov 26, 2015 at 10:32 am

    India is also persecuting Christians on a massive scale in Orissa and the rest of the country.

    • Cicero says

      Nov 26, 2015 at 4:34 pm

      Having been a visitor to this site over the past ten years and an occasional contributor ,it is deplorable that there is an increasing tendency by certain posters to seize / manufacture defamatory statements against the states of India upon the slightest pretext.

      However filled with Christian evangelical zeal ( that is the more charitable interpretation of their comments) and a mischievous impulse to lay a mighty Dharmic civilization low by ceaseless slurs and calumny , such posters need to focus on what / who is our common threat/focus- namely the forces of Islamic jihad. Thry ought to be looking at how the Dharmic and non-Dharmic spiritual traditions can wage the struggle via challenge and debate against this most pressing existential threat!

  8. Manuel Franco says

    Nov 26, 2015 at 11:50 am

    No-one chose to do a damn thing; unsurprisingly!   They let pass everything, and waited to be rescued by someone else. This sadly is just a preview of the things to come in all the western world…

  9. Angemon says

    Nov 28, 2015 at 2:32 pm

    A group of masked men set fire to Christian broadcaster Gawahi TV Karachi overnight.

    Where’s the trigger warning for that? See, if the perps were maked how do they know they were men? Are they implying that women can’t torch buildings? Oh, the misogyny!

  10. Clarence andrade (clarry) says

    Dec 31, 2015 at 7:02 am

    Brethren, we are all HUMAN BEINGS, period…SUMJAH..i’m glad i’ve got your’ attention….. So, why do you still indulge-in religion/politics???…yes behains/bhais, when was the last time any of you just took a few moments to thank GOD to clothe/feed a really poor person that lives on the road??? GOD never created religion/politics, the human race did…. I do have tons more to say but for now i’d just rather say ” yes, i did live in karachi pakistan from 1952-1977…and i presently live in calgary canada….So, don’t forget,,,, we are human beings first and everything-else is secondary….God bless

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