“Shortly after the attack, a faction of the Pakistani Taliban named Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, which in truly Orwellian fashion means ‘Assembly of the Free,’ claimed responsibility, admitting brazenly that the attack was ‘aimed at killing members of Pakistan’s Christian minority gathered at the park to celebrate Easter Sunday.'” Meanwhile, in the West Christian leaders work actively to silence discussion of this persecution, in fanatical pursuit of a “dialogue” with Muslims that has never saved a single Christian from being persecuted.
“Faith Can be Fatal: Pakistani Christians in the Crosshairs,” by John Stonestreet, BreakPoint, April 1, 2016:
This past Easter weekend, two events in Pakistan served as reminders of the precarious position of Christians living in societies with Muslims majorities.
The first was, of course, the bombing of a park in Lahore, the ancient capital of Pakistan’s largest province, Punjab. On the afternoon of Easter Sunday, while members of Pakistan’s increasingly beleaguered Christian minority celebrated the holiday, a suicide bomber detonated his device, killing at least 70 people and wounding at least 300 more.
Shortly after the attack, a faction of the Pakistani Taliban named Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, which in truly Orwellian fashion means “Assembly of the Free,” claimed responsibility, admitting brazenly that the attack was “aimed at killing members of Pakistan’s Christian minority gathered at the park to celebrate Easter Sunday.”
Since Christians are less than two percent of Pakistan’s estimated 190 million people, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the attack killed Muslims as well as Christians. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was outraged and after visiting victims in hospital, declared that, “Our resolve as a nation and as a government is getting stronger and the cowardly enemy is trying for soft targets.”
While I don’t doubt the Prime Minister’s sincerity, he really has his work cut out for him. As the Canadian Broadcasting Company put it, the jihadist market in Pakistan is “saturated.” And as recent events in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, demonstrate, there’s no shortage of Pakistani’s eager to victimize its Christian minority.
Earlier on Easter weekend, an estimated 25,000 people demonstrated against the recent execution of Mumtaz Qadri. Qadri was hanged last February 29th for the assassination of Salman Taseer, the provincial governor of Punjab in 2011.
Qadri, who was one of the governor’s bodyguards, murdered Taseer because he criticized the way Pakistan’s anti-blasphemy laws were being used against Christians.
In particular, Qadri was outraged by Taseer’s support of Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian whose Muslim neighbors, angered by the fact that she drank the same water as they did, accused her of insulting the prophet Muhammad. Bibi was convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to death.
Taseer wasn’t the only government official assassinated for intervening on her behalf. Two years before, Pakistan’s minister for Religious Minorities, Shahbaz Bhatti, was also murdered….

Curious Observer says
No doubt Christians in Pakistan are under constant fear of death and persecution. However, it should also be noted that Hindus and Sikhs in Pakistan face even greater danger. In fact, it appears that there has been an even greater persecution of these two communities than of Christians. Their trials and tribulations are no less than those of Christians.
mortimer says
Agreed. Atheists and agnostics are also at risk of being murdered for a false accusation of blasphemy. Pretty Hindu girls are frequently kidnapped in the so-called ‘love jihad’.
Islam is a cult of enslavement, torture, vigilante murder, rape and plunder. No one is safe in a Muslim majority country. Everyone lives in constant unrelenting fear from cradle to grave.
mortimer says
The point of the story is this: Sharia law forbids Jews and Christians from worshipping outdoors where Muslims can see them. For that reason, the Christians were murdered in the park.
On the other hand, Muslims are permitted to worship anywhere at any time…blocking streets, making traffic jams, screaming through loudspeakers at all hours louder than jet engines.
Angemon says
Especially (only?) when there are muslims involved.
Myrtle says
Nobody should have to die just because someone filled with hatred, from Satan feels the he needs to kill someone. He can go our and box a tree or stomp a bug!!!
PEER ZULQARNAIN SHAH says
The phenomana of Terrorism in Pakistan is an open secret to global community. It is not question of Shia, Sunni, christian no body is safe from terrorist attacks. The terrorist are not differniating thy are just killing and destroying.
We should do justice because we akk know the facts. Mr Spencer you know the reality very well but tou are misleading. It is intelctual dishonesty.
REGARDS
Westman says
So, Peer, you don’t think the discrimination against Christians in the Pakistan Constitution, and the targeting of Christians using blaphemy laws makes the persecution of Christians more direct than the collateral damage done to Muslims – BY MUSLIMS?
How about the assassination of Shahbaz Bhatti? Was that done by Christians? Where are those Christan militant Jihadists?
Let’s try a little honesty here. It is men who were raised in or converted to Islam that are in the news every day for violence committed in the name of Allah; usually with shouts for Allah. Islam is the seed of bitter fruit.
mortimer says
PEER ZULQARNAIN SHAH believes that the ISLAMIC terrorists of Pakistan are indiscriminate to soothe his conscience for supporting the Islamic vigilante murder cult. There is no justification for Pakistan’s breeches of human rights and the UNDHR. PEER ZULQARNAIN SHAH wants us to think he is a civilized man. He is not. He is theocratic fascist.
Christians in Pakistan have been specifically targeted by Muslim bigots who believe they are merely enforcing Sharia law and the Pact of Omar by taking the law into their own hands as SHARIA VIGILANTES. These bigoted, pre-planned attacks is not in dispute…unless one is committing ‘intelctual dishonesty’ like PEER ZULQARNAIN SHAH.
By the way, the interesting name ‘ZULQARNAIN’ of our interlocutor is one of the many proofs that the Koran is a man-made, plagiarized fabrication: ‘ZULQARNAIN’ (dhul qarnayn) means ‘the one with two horns’. That’s the nickname of Alexander the Great who in Egypt declared himself the Son of God…son of Amon…the two-horned creator god of Egypt’s pantheon. Coins bore the image of Alexander with the horns of a goat. The Koran claims Alexander was a monotheistic proto-Muslim, while, in fact, Alexander was a blasphemous polytheist declaring himself to be a living god. The
Dhul Qarnayn is a prime example of the many human fingerprints on the pages of the Koran, They demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt its entirely human origin. The name ‘dhul quarnayn’ is one of the greatest proofs that Islam is false. Mohammed (or whoever wrote the Koran…likely Hajjaj) was so delusional and semi-literate, he did not think his spurious ‘revelations’ would be found out. Modern scholars have found out the literary source of the ‘Dhul Qarnayn’ story: ‘Pseudo-Callisthenes’ (ca.200AD) and the ‘The Alexander Legend’ composed in or around Syria (ca 630AD) in the Syriac language. The word ‘dhu’ (de) is a distinctively Syriac word. Mohammed made no attempt to have the complete Koran assembled, showing that he himself did not think of his revelations as ‘eternal, perfect and complete’, but of merely opportunistic and temporary value. Mohammed and the other Koran creators did not realize modern scholars would discover their fingerprints on this hoax.
Champ says
https://youtu.be/zaJ6XV60ME0
J Smith says
Christians need to come togther in prayer to support their brothers and sisters under attack throughout the world. Instead of packing themselves into megachurches to hear a distorted false gospel of prosperity we need to fall on our knees; and seek God’s face and forgiveness for choosing mammon over the truth. Christians under attack around the globe are not praying for larger cars, houses, and bank accounts. When the enemy rushes in like a flood, do you really expect God to stand up for people who have only been taught to use Him as an ATM? The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but . . . . . And if you do not know the rest of this scripture, you’d better learn it soon.
celticwarriorcanada says
I couldn’t agree more J Smith ! Amen! Amen ! Amen! My prayer also is that God The Holy Trinity will once again Revive and Reform His Church through the Power of the Risen Lord Jesus Christ and the Efficacy of The Person of The Holy Spirit ! Or better yet ” Even so come Lord Jesus ! ” No doubt in My Mind that The Islamic Invasion is The True God’s Judgement upon Especially Europe and North America for Replacing Real Christianity with Neo Marxism and Prosperity Gospel Etc . Also rampant in Africa and South America Etc! REVIVE US AGAIN !
Truth Seeker says
So long as the Teaching, Butchering Kafirs (Inferior creatures) is an Assured way to get Visa to Jannah,is Engraved in the minds of people who follow Islam this Phenomenon will continue.
D says
Tell me something I don’t know
cut says
Actually its Christians of US murdering Christians of Pakistan.U.S is bankrolling pakistan’s economy.In addition they are being supplied F 16 fighters courtesy U.S taxpayers money.It is high time U.S imposes sanctions on countries who threaten Christians.