An update on this story. This account, in which the victim is called Vikram Alvin — he is called Vikram John in the earlier report, and his father’s name is Alvin John, which accounts for the variation — reveals that the victim was completely blinded, not just blinded in one eye. What’s more, a Muslim cleric, a man who has dedicated his life to understanding Islam properly, accompanied the Muslim mob as they beat and blinded this man. Pope Francis is undoubtedly on his way to Karachi now to explain to this cleric that he is misunderstanding his own religion, and that true Islam and the proper understanding of the Qur’an reject every form of violence.
“Pak-Christian engineering student beaten blind by a violent mob of neighbours for being the only Christian family on the block,” British Pakistani Christian Association, September 5, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A 2nd year chemical engineering student and resident of KDA 2, Mehmoodabad, Karachi, was beaten so badly by a mob of young Muslim men accompanied by an Islamic cleric, that he lost his sight. The mob using rods, clips and stick to beat the young man then stoned him outside his home.
On the 18th August 2018 at approximately 11:30 p.m. Vikram Alvin (25 yrs), was beaten till unconscious by 26 local Muslim men and an Islamic cleric outside his home. His neighbors use bigoted and abusive language against him as the swarm of 27 surrounded the family home and beat Vikram Alvin. When Vikram’s father Alvin John (48 yrs), and brother, Sunil Alvin (23 yrs), saw what was happening they came out to rescue him but the mob pummeled all three of them with sticks, bricks and stones. The attackers were from all ages and in their display of contempt for good measure a few young boys threw stones at their house.
The brutal attack left Vikram Alvin severely injured with blood clots behind his eyes that have left him unable to see. Doctors have said that they do not expect his sight to return. A visit to one of Pakistan’s best hospitals, Aga Khan Hospital was demoralising when doctors told the family of Vikram Alvin that he was incurable due to a lack of medical expertise. Doctors advised that there is some potential treatment that could be received via specialist hospitals in Malaysia and Turkey where medical treatment might restore partial sight to his left eye. Vikram Alvin’s family have been told that there are no specialists who can perform this type of surgery in Pakistan.
The attack outside Mr Alvin’s home came after a series of altercations with members of the local Muslim community who did not want to have a Christian family in the neighbourhood. Since moving to the area local Muslims have been trying to force out the Christian family. Neighbours had been tormenting the family and verbally harassing them in order to get them to move out of the community even though the family had only been living in that area for 8 months. The family had been warned that they would be killed if they did not leave the area but refused to move as they had no other options, having already moved from the Drigh Road area of Karachi following previous persecution.
When living at Drigh Road the family had been running a transportation business providing private bus services through the hire of vehicles. But recently, Karachi has been going through severe gang warfare and political violence from a political party named MQM who were forcing Christians to pay extortion to them. When the family failed to pay their regular payment they found themselves targeted for violence and abuse. The last straw was when gun shots were fired at their vehicle as the angst against them got out of control.
The brutal and harshly rendered hatred of their assault is clear, Christians are considered haram or unclean in the culture, so much so that in another BPCA story we reported about how some neighbours feared a church building in their neighbourhood would defile their community to such an extent that it would “make their ladies and families insecure” in that living next to a church would make their daughters unmarriageable! (click here) This violent assault upon this family is not in any way a land dispute or related to criminal gangs, but a direct act of persecution by neighbours because this is a Christian family.
Vikram Alvin, said:
“I can’t believe this has happened to me. I was going to complete my studies in civil engineering this year and now that opportunity has been taken away from me. After completing my course, I had a job lined up with a large firm but the stable future I saw before me is now fraught with uncertainty.
“I have done nothing to deserve such treatment I only stayed faithful to God, yet these evil men began to be jealous of the success of our family and the hatred they have for our faith boiled over.
“I am unmarried and few women will want to marry me now what is left of my life will now be very difficult. I know God will help me through these difficult times and I seek him in prayer daily only He can save me from my dilemma.”
Vikram’s father Alvin John, has made a request to BPCA for urgent medical support, and they have not been able to return to their home due to threats. The opposition party is not only putting tremendous pressure on the police but also the hospital administration which has not released the medical certificate of Vikram Alvin. Vikram Alvin is recovering from his other injuries but he cannot see at all….
Mary says
Where’s doctors without borders. They could surely help him.
Rarely says
He’s not muslim.
Texanforever says
Islam, the “religion” of peace.
upoi says
Texanforever the mind drone of Islamic cliche repetition.
Try something original for once.
gravenimage says
It bears repeating how grotesque this assertion is.
mortimer says
Damage to the nerves at the back of the eyeball are very serious and likely not reversible. These evil ISLAMIC gangsters probably feel no remorse because ALLAH HATES the dirty KUFAAR and wants Muslims to HATE them too … ‘for the sake of Allah’.
That hideously evil doctrine is called AL WALAA WAL BARAA and its NORMATIVE as well as ESSENTIAL ISLAM.
Muslims have no option about HATING THE DIRTY KUFAAR, because its a required behavior of ALL MUSLIMS without exception.
Muslims are merely PRETENDING to be friendly when they smile at kufaar or treat them benevolently. The companion of Mohammed said, “WE SMILE AT CERTAIN PEOPLE (Jews and Christians) while our hearts DESPISE THEM.”
That’s NORMATIVE Islam, rather than an aberration. But who in the West cares to learn that?
Even MOST COUNTERJIHADISTS are TOO DAMN LAZY to even LOOK UP the doctrine of AL WALAA WAL BARAA, let alone master it.
The European says
Al wala wal bara is mandatory for every Muslim, and, in a nutshell, it means: Hate for Allah’s sake and love for his sake. It is about loyalty and enmity, about friendship and disavowal and it it says what the relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims should be like. A Muslim is required to hate disbelievers and to show love and mercy only to other Muslims. Al wala wal bara is a code of conduct which draws on some surahs of the Qur’an ( 3,28;3,110; 5,51;9,71). There are, of course, many ahadith which corroborate this principle ( you may check them out for yourself), and a Muslim scholar named Shayk Muhammad Saeed al-Qatani wrote a book about it where he elaborates profusely on al-walaa-wal-baraa, but there is also a video on you tube, where a Muslim explains it quite succintly. (subtites are in German, and he speaks Arabic sometimes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amso21LnrMc
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elee says
Wanna live like that? Move to Pakistan, don’t bring that s@#t here. Oh and who let this government get set up in the first place in 1948? Evil prevailed on that day, who let it happen?
Michael Copeland says
In 1948 Israel was set up as a Jewish state. The two states make an interesting comparison.
Rarely says
How so? I can’t see anything similar.
Lefty says
EXACTLY. The only threat a Muslim faces in Israel is the threat posed by …. other Muslims.
Rob Crawford says
Exactly. One is a thriving modern state, with an innovative economy and universal rights. The other is Pakistan.
gravenimage says
That’s the whole point–they can’t be more different.
Seventy years later; compare and contrast.
Rarely says
Like a pack of rabid dogs.
It’s so hard to imagine people acting this way, especially with religious support, that one can understand how easy it is for some to see it as an aberration. In time these “aberrations” will be so commonplace that the naïve deniers will accept the reality.
mortimer says
Allah ordered Muslims to have Baraa (to be cleansed) from the dirty kufaar and from kufr and shirk.
-Imam Abdul-Latif ibn Abdur-Rahman Rahimullah said, “It is not possible for someone to realize Tawheed (Islamic faith) and act upon it, and yet not be HOSTILE against the mushrikeen (i.e. wrong worshippers). So anyone who isn’t HOSTILE against the mushrikeen, then it cannot be said that he acts upon Tawheed nor that he realizes it.” [ad-Durar as-Saniyyah 8/167]
-“The doctrine of al Walaa wal Baraa is the REAL IMAGE for the actual practice of this faith.” – source “Al Walaa wal Baraa According to the Aqeedah of the Salaf”, by Sheikh Muhammad Saeed al Qatani, authoritative Saudi Sharia lawyer and imam at the Abu Bakr and Al Furqan Mosques in Mecca. – https://islamfuture.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/al-wala-wal-bara-according-to-the-aqeedah-of-the-salaf-parts-123/
-Shaykh Ahmad ibn ‘Atiq said:
“There isn’t in the Book of Allah the Exalted – after the issue concerning the obligation of tawheed and the forbiddance of its opposite (kufr=wrong belief)- any issue which has as so many proofs, nor so clearly explained, than the issue of al-walaa’ and al-baraa’.” (W-B is ‘Islamic apartheid’)
– from Sufi scholar Ahmad Sirhindi (1564-1624): “The honour of Islam lies in INSULTING kufr and kafirs. One who respects the kafirs dishonours the Muslims… The real purpose of levying jiziya on them is to HUMILIATE them to such an extent that they may not be able to dress well and to live in grandeur. They should constantly remain TERRIFIED and TREMBLING. It is intended to hold them under CONTEMPT and to uphold the honour and might of Islam.”
– from ibn Taymiyya, “Book of Emaan”: “… true believers show ANIMOSITY and HATRED towards disbelievers and NEVER support them.”
– from Umar Sulayman ‘Abd-Allaah al-Ashqar, “Belief in Allah”: “The Muslim should regard the Kuffaar as ENEMIES and HATE them because of their kufr (wrong belief), just as he hates their kufr (disbelief) itself.”
– from [Chap.iv] “The Islaamic Concept of al-Walaa’ wal-Baraa’” by Khalid El-Gharib: “… to SHOW ENMITY to those who show enmity to Allaah and His Messenger”.
(Note: Muslims are to visibly demonstrate their ENMITY or HATRED towards the kufaar)
– from a lecture given by Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal (H.A.): “The implication of al-Baraa is that one HATES for the sake of Allah (SWT)…Al-Baraa means to recognize who your enemies are and to HATE them and EXTERMINATE them in their Endeavour to get rid of your Deen, al-Islam…Al-Baraa is to HATE the people who propagate Baatil (falsehood)—the Muslim should HATE them and (at least desire to) KILL them when the time comes.”
(Note: not ‘if the time comes’, but ‘WHEN the time comes.)
– “Killing a Kafir who is fighting you is OK. Killing a Kafir for any reason (i.e. criticism of Islam), you can say, it is OK – even if there is NO REASON for it. You can poison, ambush and kill non-believers. You must have a stand with your heart, with your tongue, with your money, with your hand, with your sword, with your Kalashnikov. Don’t ask shall I do this, just do it.”Abu Hamza al-Masri (Egyptian born British Cleric)
– “As a Muslim, I must have hatred for anything non-Islam” – Anjem Choudary.
Islam is genocidal to its vile core.
gravenimage says
+1
Marina says
I hate Mo (piss be upon him)
JAT 349 says
Muslims can not and will not live in peace with anyone anywhere.
Walter Sieruk says
Since this Muslim cleric ganged up with that Muslim mob in cowardly group violence against on this Christian man is further proof the Islam had no rational arguments that based are based on logic and reason to uphold that religion. Therefore the believers in Islam stoop so very low as to resort to the use of vicious brutal force to “answer” anyone who believes otherwise, as this Christian man.
To put this in another way ,that Muslim clerics and his Muslim mob who gang up in vicious violence against that Christian man does prove two things. First , those violent and Muslims by the very actions and proven that Islam is based on strong malicious feeling and vicious motions and not reason and logic.Second, this even proves the statement in the movie to be true which has the title of TIME AFTER TIME .For the hero in that movie said “The first man to raise his first is the man who has run out of Idea” Therefore , the Muslim clerics and his violent Muslim mob with their support of Islam are men who have “run out of ideas’
Walter Sieruk says
In an earlier article posted just yesterday in this site reported the Obama had the blatant audacity to say the false statement that “Islam had a proud tradition of tolerance” That Islamic cleric and his violent Muslim mob ganging up in heinous brutal violence against the one Christian. man is proof enough of the total and complete falseness of Obama’s lying words when he came out with that bogus statement .
For that tragic reality is that ,as this above news report is not an isolated incident in a Muslim country. be in in Pakistan or another nation where Muslim have much power. So any person wit eye to see and ears to hear, if they are willing to see and hear, will clearly understand that Islam has no tradition or history of tolerance for people of other faiths.
WPM says
This man and his family are the true refugees have them airlifted out of this hell hole , all Christians in Islamic run shithole states are refugees. Let the Islamic animals fight it out over the left over scraps of civilization in these garbage can countries like a pack of rabid raccoons.
gravenimage says
Agreed.
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Muslim cleric joins Muslim mob that beat and stoned Christian man, blinding him
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This is horrifying but does not surprise. The Imam was probably leading the mob.
He will almost certainly face no punishment in Palistan.
arg says
Stop being so surprised, if you knew anything about Islam and what it teaches in Hadiths, Koran and Culture you know such things have happened in the millions of times in the last 1400 years of their cult. Only another crusade and taking over all Islamic countries and making them all indentured servants for centuries can have any possible hope of controlling their evil spreading which the vile sickening turn the other cheek doctrine has done the absolute opposite (it has empowered and spread their evil).
Politicianophobia says
And the Muslim Brotherhood–CAIR–booted out the West, yes Stella that would work, now let’s tell our politicians, after all it is government of, for and by the people of the country and not the Muslim world.
My member of parliament does not want to hear such hate speech. In 2019 please fire Carol Hughes MP, for Algoma Manitoulin.