If the roles were reversed here, which they would not be and should not be, this would be screaming international news. But this will get no notice.
“Pakistan: ‘Police said, if we didn’t convert to Islam we’d face prison,'” by Fionn Shiner, ICN, September 1, 2020:
A man, who spent nearly five years in prison in Pakistan, has described how police tortured him and fellow Christians, threw their rosary beads on the floor and told them they would escape jail if they converted to Islam.
Speaking to Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Amjad Arif, a rickshaw driver in Lahore, said the police’s alleged mistreatment took place after he and dozens of other Christians were arrested in connection with the lynching of two Muslims.
Mr Arif, who denies the accusation, said: “At the police station, officers abused, slapped and tortured us with batons, charging us with burning Muslims.
“They snatched rosaries from three of us and threw them on the floor. We were forced to accept either Islam or guilt in the murder of two men.”
Mr Arif added: “A 25-year-old Christian, also arrested for alleged lynching, converted to Islam and was released three hours later. We kept our faith in the living God.”
The lynching of the Muslim men happened amid riots that followed two suicide bombings on 15th March 2015, targeting Sunday services at St John’s Church and Christ Church, both in Youhanabad, a largely Christian quarter of Lahore.
At least 20 people died and 80 were injured in the attacks.
Mr Arif said the incident radically changed life for Christians in Pakistan….
Dave from San Antonio says
ALL Christians need to pray for these martyrs for Jesus, that they will have the strength to endure.
mortimer says
When will Pope Francis listen to the cries of persecuted Roman Catholics?
tom parry says
Thanks for a report that our “leaders” refuse to hear. These are the real refuges that should replace all the fake refuges. Give them a free flight if they can prove their Christian faith.
mortimer says
Forcible conversion is the Sunna (sacred example) of Mohammed that all Muslims should imitate.
When the Meccan leader visited the Muslim army camp in 630 in an attempt to convince Muhammad not to make war, but he was led into their prophet’s presence at the point of a sword. There he was “invited” to embrace Islam:
[Muhammad] said, “Woe to you, Abu Sufyan, isn’t it time that you recognize that I am Allah’s apostle?” He (Abu Sufyan) answered, “As to that I still have some doubt.” I (the narrator) said to him, “Submit and testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the apostle of Allah before you lose your head,” so he did so. (Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 814)
Abu Sufyan’s “embrace” of Islam was neither genuine nor volitional. He was FORCIBLY CONVERTED.
mortimer says
St John’s Church (RC) and Christ Church (Anglican), both in Youhanabad have been attacked in the past by suicide bombers who succeeded in slaughtering 78 in two attacks and wounding many more.
Boycott Turkey says
Thank you JW or we would never know about the Christians in Pakistan persecution it’s not as if the pope or lame stream media are going to talk about it there should be protest in the streets about this it’s very unjust Pakistan is hell on Earth if your Christian Hindu bhuddist Pakistan should be sanctioned for its human right abuses.
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Police torture imprisoned Christians, tell them they’ll be released if they convert to Islam
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Just appalling. And would police have offered to release them if they had *really* murdered Muslims? I very much doubt it. This charge was likely intended to just scare the victims.
God, I hate Islam.
Walter Sieruk says
This is still further proof that Islam so terribly lacks good valid arguments ,by either the Bible or reason,, to win converts that some Muslims then resort to the use of brute torture and prison to gain “converts”
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says
Since half the Western world (and 99% of its government officials, bureaucrats, “intelligence” workers, charity douches, and police officers) have been taught to fawn endlessly over Islam no matter what, I guess the loonies in Pakistan feel free to act as insanely and barbarically as possible, knowing there will be no international campaign against their abuses, no matter what they do.
Good job stripping people of their natural “Islamophobia”, liberals. You’ve now doomed a lot of people who are unlucky enough to live in these countries. And eventually you will have doomed us all.
gravenimage says
This dhimmitude and willful ignorance in the West does not help–but Pakistan has been persecuting Christians and other Infidels ever since its inception.
AntiIslamicman says
These are the same actions of the false prophet. I wonder how the Liberals sleep at night knowing people are being in the name of a false god and a fake prophet. Islam is from the devil himself.
Walter Sieruk says
Such a horrible brutal of those Christians in Pakistan reveals that there are many Muslims who strongly dislike Christians. Some Muslims even hate Christians so much that they even become violence against them and burn their Bibles.
One reason for this is that in the mosques and madrasas the Muslim clerics, as the imams who speak many awful and unproven terrible things against Christians and Christian doctrine. So much so the many Muslims get all worked up against Christians and Christian teachings and some those Muslims commit violent actions against Christians.
Such false religious teachers, as those Muslim clerics, who speak to people unfounded and invalid evil things about Christians and Christian doctrines have been described in the Bible. For the Bible informs the reader in Second Peter 2:12. “They speak evil of things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption.” [N.K.J.V.]
It also should be make clear that in this specific above Bible verse, as well as in John 3:16. The word “Perish” does not mean loss of being but loss of well-being. As in going to ruin by ending up in languishing in torment in a terrible place of suffering that the Bible calls hell. Luke 16:19-31.
OLD GUY says
Forced to become islamic or be tortured or killed. Thats the rule of a dictatorship and muslim/islamic leadership wants exactly that to take place. Islamic rule leads to enslavement, violence and mass murder of non muslim/islamic followers.
Ron says
Go to the Voice of the Martyrs website for details on worldwide persecution. Also see Open Doors USA website for a lot more information about to Christian persecution.
gravenimage says
Both important sites–thanks.