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Pakistan: Muslim mob attacks church, Christian homes after four Christians falsely accused of desecrating Qur’an

Feb 28, 2019 12:00 pm By Robert Spencer

“Approximately 200 Christian families from Farooq-e-Azam have fled their homes and moved to safer areas within Karachi. Local police have regained control of the neighborhood; however, members of the mob are still refusing to allow Christians to open their churches.”

Christians in Pakistan are routinely subjected to monstrous human rights abuses, but the international “human rights community” is far too busy looking for incidents of “Islamophobia” to take any notice.

“Four Christian Women Falsely Accused of Blasphemy in Pakistan,” International Christian Concern, February 25, 2019:

02/25/2019 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that four Christian women from the Farooq-e-Azam neighborhood of Karachi, Pakistan were falsely accused of blasphemy on February 19, 2019. Following the false accusation, a mob of enraged Muslims attacked the Christian-majority neighborhood, leading to the displacement of approximately 200 Christian families.

The incident began in January 2019, when Fayaz and Samina Riaz, a Muslim couple, were asked to vacate their rented house by their Christian landlord, Amjad Dildar. According to local Christians, the Muslim couple had been “causing trouble among the Christian families in the community” and were asked to leave.

On Tuesday, February 19, Samina Riaz accused four Christian women, including three of her landlord’s daughters, of desecrating a Quran. According to Aslam Masih, a local eyewitness, “Samina Riaz alleged Sunaina Amjad, age 22, Sophia Amjad, age 18, Soneha Amjad, age 14, and Sophia Qamar, age 30, [of] desecrating a Holy Quran. She claimed they stole a copy of the Quran and ruined it by submerging it into a basin of dirty water.”

As news of the accusation spread, a mob of enraged Muslims gathered in Farooq-e-Azam and attacked several Christian properties, including Amjad Dildar’s house and a nearby church. The mob killed pets, livestock, and damaged several Christian homes by stoning them.

Approximately 200 Christian families from Farooq-e-Azam have fled their homes and moved to safer areas within Karachi. Local police have regained control of the neighborhood; however, members of the mob are still refusing to allow Christians to open their churches.

“After police investigated, it was revealed that Samina Riaz borrowed a copy of the Quran from Khalid Khan, a nearby shopkeeper,” Masih told ICC. “When she reached home, she threw it into a water tub in the restroom. She purposely alleged the Christian women of desecrating the Holy Book of Islam.”

Samina Riaz later admitted to orchestrating the incident and she and her husband, Fayaz, were arrested. However, a First Information Report (FIR) has yet to be filed because negotiations between local Christian and Muslim leaders are ongoing….

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  1. Walter Sieruk says

    Feb 28, 2019 at 12:15 pm

    Once again , this time in Pakistan and based on hearsay of all things ,this shows that evil is always looking for an excuse., for those violent and vicious jihad –minded Muslims in their murderous persecution of Christians aren’t really going to get away with their destruction of Christians. As the apostle Paul had written each individual Christian is actually, in the View of God, a temple of God. For to Christians, it is written in the Bible “Don’t you know that that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys God’s Temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.” First Corinthians 3:16,17. [N.I.V.] As in “A man reaps what he sows.” Galatians 6:7.

    • keith Oades says

      Feb 28, 2019 at 6:45 pm

      And of course, there is nobody in prison in the west because of “hearsay evidence”.
      This happens all over the world. The problem is the way these fools react to rumors.
      The lower the IQ the more chance of being influenced to believe as story, no matter how fr fetched it is and despite all evidence to prove otherwise.
      For example. The prophet made water appear from the sand.
      The prophet ascended into heaven.
      911 was a terrorist attack by goat fuckers hiding in a cave.
      All false stories lapped up by a gullible audience.
      And for the record. The attacks on 911 were a cowardly act which needs to be punished, no matter who was responsible.

      • Terry Gain says

        Feb 28, 2019 at 7:00 pm

        We know who was responsible for 9/11. We knew their names within a day of the attacks. You shouldn’t make derogatory comments about anyone’s IQ.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 28, 2019 at 7:28 pm

          +1

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 28, 2019 at 7:39 pm

        keith Oades wrote:

        And of course, there is nobody in prison in the west because of “hearsay evidence”.
        This happens all over the world.
        …………………………

        Whatever the shortcomings of the justice systems of the free West, pretending they are no better than the horrors of Shari’ah is grotesque.

        More:

        The problem is the way these fools react to rumors.
        The lower the IQ the more chance of being influenced to believe as story, no matter how fr fetched it is and despite all evidence to prove otherwise.
        For example. The prophet made water appear from the sand.
        The prophet ascended into heaven.
        …………………………

        That is not really the main point here. I’m sure a lot of these rioting Muslims realize that these rumors don’t have a basis in fact–but they don’t care. Islam teaches that Infidels not having embraced Islam makes them “guilty” all by itself, and so they deserve any violence Muslims decide to dole out.

        More:

        911 was a terrorist attack by goat fuckers hiding in a cave.
        All false stories lapped up by a gullible audience.
        And for the record. The attacks on 911 were a cowardly act which needs to be punished, no matter who was responsible.
        …………………………

        “No matter who was responsible”? Is this another “Truther”, claiming that 9/11 was mot really Jihad terror, but was instead pulled off by–who? Mossad? George Bush? The Illuminati? Larry Silverstein’s insurance company?

        Is he claiming the same for all the other 34,000+ Jihad terror attacks in the world just since 9/11? Good God…

  2. brane pilot says

    Feb 28, 2019 at 1:15 pm

    This is what ‘interfaith-dialog’ looks like where Muslims are a majority.
    There is no exception.
    But sure, bring them into your communities by the millions.
    What could go wrong?

    • mortimer says

      Feb 28, 2019 at 4:48 pm

      What’s the pope going to say about this? Maybe the pope should take these rioters to Vatican to live with him.

  3. somehistory says

    Feb 28, 2019 at 1:24 pm

    The “police regained control of the neighborhood”….but the moslim mob was still preventing the Christians from opening their churches. This fact shows on whose side the police are.

    And now the charges are delayed until the moslims and Christians work it out through “negotiations.” We can all have a guess at just what will be the result of these…when does the Christian ever win in a molsim majority, moslim ruled, country?

    The moslim who claims that Christians “desecrate” the filthy book, or “blaspheme” by doing something to the filthy book…is always lying. No Christian in a country such as pakistan…where people like Asia Bibi has had such torture and threats, is going to risk such by spending money on and doing to the filthy book less than what it deserves.

    The pastor Jones in Florida showed what happens…even in this ‘free’ country…when moslims learn that someone has done something…or plans to do something…to the filthy book, the unholy book. Why take that risk in pakistan when there are millions of copies of the nasty, evil writings?

    Clearly this was revenge…evil and just like a moslim…because they didn’t like being made to pay for being trouble-makers. They were getting even for the eviction. And they likely will go free to do stuff again.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 28, 2019 at 7:42 pm

      Good post.

  4. gravenimage says

    Feb 28, 2019 at 7:19 pm

    Pakistan: Muslim mob attacks church, Christian homes after four Christians falsely accused of desecrating Qur’an
    …………………..

    This is obviously “revenge” for being asked to leave. Of course, these Muslims were only asked to leave because they abusing Christians in the first place.

    This was so inept that even the Pakistani authorities–such as they are, and biased against Christians as they are–soon found the charges were false, and were orchestrated by the Muslims themselves.

    That didn’t stop the Muslim mob from attacking the Christian community, though…

    More:

    Samina Riaz later admitted to orchestrating the incident and she and her husband, Fayaz, were arrested. However, a First Information Report (FIR) has yet to be filed because negotiations between local Christian and Muslim leaders are ongoing….
    …………………..

    I doubt any report will ever be filed–there is enormous pressure–sometimes from the police themselves–for non-Muslims not to file reports against Muslims, no matter how violent the crimes against them.

    Probably the best these Christians can hope for at this point is that the Riaz’s will leave and their Muslim ‘neighbors’ stop attacking them. No one will be charged, and they will never receive any recompense for injury to property or self.

    That is the *best* scenario–the worst is that Muslims will continue to consider the girls “blasphemers”, and attack or murder them and their fellow Christians.

  5. somehistory says

    Feb 28, 2019 at 11:20 pm

    OT, but still regarding pakistan.
    India has evidently bombed pakistan in retaliation for the murders of Indian soldiers by pakistanis.
    Per the Washing Standard
    World War? India Just Bombed Pakistan – Russia Accuses US Of Preparing To Invade Venezuela”

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