The harassment didn’t stop, and Arooj Karamat ended up quitting her job. Even that wasn’t enough. She and the rest of her family not only continued to suffer intimidation, but were nearly murdered, had it not been for the arrival of police just in time to save her, her brother and parents.
Forced conversions of Christians, forced marriage, village mobs and unjust court rulings for trumped-up blasphemy offenses are all endemic in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. And as is with the case of Arooj Karamat, the persecution of Christians can also be found in the workplace.
Human Rights Watch listed Pakistan in its World Report 2021 as a country where attacks by jihadists targeting law enforcement and religious minorities killed dozens of people in 2020. The report states:
Women, religious minorities and transgender people continued to face violence, discrimination and persecution, with authorities often failing to provide adequate protection or hold perpetrators to account…
The Pakistani government did not amend or repeal blasphemy law provisions that have provided a pretext for violence against religious minorities and have left them vulnerable to arbitrary arrest and prosecution. The death penalty is mandatory for blasphemy, and 40 people remained on death row as of late 2020.
Child marriage remains a serious problem in Pakistan, with 21 percent of girls marrying before age 18 and 3 percent marrying before 15. Women from religious minority communities remain particularly vulnerable to forced marriage. The government has done little to stop such forced marriages.
“There is no justice for minorities in Pakistan.” That also includes Hindus and Ahmadis. Ahmadis are considered apostates, and persecuted accordingly. Meanwhile, Pakistan ruthlessly continues to press the issue of stamping out global “Islamophobia” at the UN.
In fact, Pakistan, despite its human rights abuses, has held impressive roles at the UN, including membership on the Human Rights Council from 2013 to 2015, the Commission on the Status of Women from 2013 to 2017, and the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice from 2013 to 2015.
“Christian Teacher threatened to death and rape if not converted to Islam in Pakistan,” Pakistan Christian Post, February 16, 2021:
New York: A Christian Teacher was threatened to death and rape by her Muslim C0-workers in a Coaching Center adjacent to one mosque in I-9 area of Islamabad city. The Mosque running this Coaching Center required one Teacher of Mathematics for which one Christian girl named Arooj Karamat for this job for which was selected and started teaching in May 29, 2020.
Arooj Karamat performed her duties very effectively but after few months her co-workers who were Muslim ladies’ teachers started discussing religion which she avoided.
The comments of Muslim teachers about Christianity were hateful and derogatory but Arooj Karamat never responded to them.
After few months on Job those Muslim teacher started pressing to accept Islam to Arooj Karamat on which she informed her parents who asked her to leave the job.
Talking with Pakistan Christian Post, Arooj Karamat said “I was born on March 30, 1997 in Islamabad (PAKISTAN). I lived in Islamabad with my parents and younger brother; we are only Christian family live in that area”
“Near my house there was a newly opened small academy a kind of coaching center for students named “bright star” which required a teacher for mathematics, so I needed that job to support my family financially and i applied there on, it was near my home after a month, I started facing religious criticism from my co-workers by talking bad about Christianity. There were three female teachers and one male teacher, he taught QURAN (religious studies) to students. One day on “JULY 20, 2020” that man named “MUHMMAD ABUL BASIT” offer me to convert to Islam and be a Muslim if I want to go to heaven and if I want to live a peaceful life, he was a kind of extremist person, he belongs to some religious group who spread Islam”
Arooj Karama added that “I refused to accept Islam then he started cursing me, speaking bad things about Christianity and then threatening me that he will kill me and rape me for denying Islam”
“I left that job and told everything to my family. My family protected me by going outside with me they never left me alone. on “JULY 24, 2020” my family and I went to market in the afternoon around 4pm. Me and my mother were buying groceries from one shop and my brother and father were at tools shop buying stuff they want , they were 5 minutes away from us , when me and my mother got done with groceries, we were going towards my brother and father , we were passing by a Mosque when Muhammad Abdul basit came out from front and a white big double cabin pickup truck stopped behind us and four men with black turbans on the head and white gowns with long beard came out with guns and a rope in their hands they covered us from all sides, I started screaming for help and they pushed away my mother and one of them hit my mother with gun and broke her arm, others were grabbing my arms and legs while Muhammad Abdul basit was trying to tie my hands with rope and forcing me towards car I was shouting for help and my mother was laying on road injured screaming and shouting for help people …
gregbeetham says
Another horror story that the MSM will ignore, a horror story from the demonic land of the cult of Satan, Christians should escape from there and go to India asap.
Stay Away From Islam says
Greg Beetham, there is no refuge in India either as we can see that the Islamic perverts and devil worshippers are tormenting violence against the Hindus in an attempt to overturn India into another Islamic state. God help India although that will never happen either.
Infidel says
SAFI, multiple states in India are fighting back and have cracked down on jihadist activity wherever they see it. To claim that India is as unsafe for Christians as Pakistan is is really stretching it!
Raja says
There are some weirdos who imagine that Christians are being persecuted in India. Being in India is paradise when compared to evil empire of Jihadi Pakistan.
Hindus hate proselytizing by Christians but don’t cast aspersions on any and every Christian. There is a way to teach a Hindu or anybody about God, like inviting people for a bible study though distribution of handbill is detested by many.
Indian legal justice system is almost useless hence the ennoblement of fringe elements
Anthony says
Islam was a religion founded by a sick criminal Muhammad, who raped, killed , robbed and enslaved nonbelievers. When will the world wake up??
TruthSeeker says
Unlike what the NYT and Washington Post claim, ndia is not unsafe for anybody. India passed the CAA legislation last year to provide refuge to hindu, Sikh, buddhist and christians persecuted in Porkistan and Afghanistan. This was widely opposed by the Muslims and liberal crowd because Muslims were not included in that legislation. Would you believe it the Church in India also decided to side with the radical left and opposed the legislation that would have helped the Christians persecuted in Porkistan.
Infidel says
But more recently, the Church in Kerala has warmed up to the BJP, as they’ve started noticing muslims using marriage jihad against Christian girls in Kerala as well. Since the BJP is the only party w/ a record of establishing laws against marriage jihad in UP and MP, and currently working on it in Gujarat, the Kerala Church has finally decided to warm up to them
Raja says
Infidel, The Keralites like all the people seem to have very short memory.
This is an excerpt from Google that describes about a murderous attack on a professor in Kerala by Jihadis.
I googled – when was the kerala professor hand chopped, I got this result:
July 4, 2010
He was produced before the NIA court in Kochi. Activists of the Popular Front of India had chopped off the right hand of Prof TJ Joseph on July 4, 2010, when he was returning along with his family members from the Sunday mass near his home in Muvattupuzha in Ernakulam district.
Notice here that Google had shielded the Jihadi elements in this narrative. I hate Google etc just as much as Islam. Thank God Australian govt is standing upto their thuggery
it is very sad that girls and the Christian society have failed to notice the elephant in the room.
I personally know of a Kerala Christian preacher’s daughter who ended her life by suicide after being married to a Muslim for about a decade, presumably because of Islamic torture of her husband,
Rob Porter says
greg, Hindus in India are increasingly hostile towards Christians and Christianity, so persecution of Christians is on the rise in India.
gregbeetham says
Oh? I didn’t know that Hindus had a beef with Christianity. Christians are by and large not very aggressive so it didn’t occur to me that they would upset Hindus, live and let live kind of thing.
Dude says
I guess that’s the only preaching tactic that might work on anyone with intelligence.
Don’t those dumbasses see this? I guess for thugs it doesn’t matter that it makes no sense, only that it legitimizes their murders, rapes, robbery and slavery.
gravenimage says
Muslims don’t believe they have to “sell” their faith, either by reason or love. Violence and threats of violence are their favored methods.
James Lincoln says
Absolutely true, gravenimage.
After all, mohammed was a warlord…
mortimer says
No wonder so many Christians want to emigrate out of Muslim countries. Islamic supremacism is an absurd, discriminmatory ideology that creates dysfunctional societies
J. Morgan says
That’s a horrifying story. People like these Christians are the ones who need to leave Pakistan and are legitimate refugees, fleeing for their lives and should be given refuge in a safe country. Unfortunately, all the western counties are importing Muslims and calling them refugees. Making formerly safe places, unsafe for any non Muslim.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
Walter Sieruk says
This is still more proof that Islam is totally lacking in any valid and true evidence based on the Bible or reason logic to uphold its claim to be Divine . Therefore those Muslims resort threats of violence rape and murder. to gain “converts ” into the”House of Islam.” As revealed in this case example on Pakistan.
It should be made clear that the way for a person to discover the truth concerning the nature of Jesus is found in the Bible verse Isaiah 8:20. This instructs “To the law of the testimony. If they do not speak according to the word, it is because there is no light in them.” [N.K.J.V.] In other words, if a religious teacher has teaching that are in contradiction to the Word, the Bible, then that teachers is a false teacher who teaches false doctrines. The Muslim clerics, as the imam and mullahs, teach and speak doctrines about God from the Quran .
As the Quran in 112 teaches “He is God alone: God is the eternal begetteth not…” Likewise, this religious book which is the entire foundation of and for Islam further teaches in 19:35. “It is not befitting to God that He should beget a son.” In great contrast the Bible teaches in John 1:14. “The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory , the glory of the only begotten of the Father ,full of grace and truth.” Likewise John 3:16 teaches “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son… Then just a little further in verse 18 it is written about Jesus Who is “the only begotten Son of God. “ Other places in the Bible further teach that Jesus is the Son of God as in Matthew 16:15:16. Luke 1:35. John 3:36. First John 4:14. 15. 5:14,15.
Moreover to be even more clear the Bible teaches that Jesus is the Son of God, Who is God the Father. As found in Matthew 3:16,17. First John 2:22,23. 4:14,15. Of course , it ,very much, needs to made even more specific . The Bible teaches that Jesus is also God the Son. As seen in Hebrew1:8 and First John 5:20. The imams and mullahs as well as the other apologists for Islam will try to “explain” this all away. As in they will try brush off all those Bible verse off by making the claim that the Bible had been corrupted, through time, by Christians and that’s why the Bible reads as it does. That claim they make actually underestimate the Power of God to protect and keep His Word safe and intact ,through time, and away from the corruption of men.
In conclusion ,with the above instruction of the way to find doctrinal truth in Isaiah 8:20 and in the light of the Bible verse provided it may be clearly seen, by all those who are willing to see, that Islam is in terrible doctrinal error and it is therefore a false religion, Proverbs 14:12. John 14;6.
There’s the Bible based Christian site which replies to the many claims made by imams and mullah as well as the other apologists for Islam. It’s answering-islam.org
Johnny B says
People of the Book – Wikipedia
The word literally means “protected person.” According to scholars, dhimmis had their rights fully protected in their communities…
Can we finally refute this false claim, please???
Raja says
When Islam is in full cry through Jihad it is just a rolling artillery and everything comes under it. Even the “people of the book” of are not spared from being put under the bus. The global Lefties might be enjoying this including a vast Muslim population who are the cheer leaders as Islam is in action.
This is another mental pandemic sweeping the world thanks to Islamic preachers like Zakir Naik and leaders of the West.
vcragain says
“The global Lefties”are at ‘fault’ for trying to be fair & decent to ALL religions….I personally believe that they are beling too blind to what the purpose of Islam’s belief system is, and I AM A LEFTIE – I loathe Islam, I’m 81 now & have always felt this way since my early teens as I have explained numerous times on this website. The big problem is that there are many millions of innocents who are only Muslims because that is what they became by virtue of their birth situation, no choice for them, it was ‘fait accomplit’, and once entwined into that situation, they are brainwashed throughout life & cannot think independently ! A very few do leave, and will tell you why, but most people born into a country where the religion is bound into the political status – like Pakistan, are too weak or lazy or blind to see anything past their own circle. At least in the West you will get exposure to many viewpoints, so that in Ireland you are quite free to decide to become some other religion than Catholic….and your fellow countrymen might make comments, but nobody considers it such sin that they plot to murder you ! The mania in Islam is something everyone should be ashamed of !
Raja says
vcragain ,
Thanks for your views. Islam survives on slander and lies about anything else especially about Christianity and Judaism. Islam’s attributes are so close to the devil’s attributes as indicated by Jesus, the author of Christian faith.
gravenimage says
Dhimmitude is near slavery, not protection.
tim gallagher says
Islam is so sick and so evil. There is surely no other religion that would threaten to “rape and murder” people who won’t convert to their religion. I know that Christianity would never say to anyone, hey, you better convert to Christianity or we will “rape and murder” you. Islam is so extraordinarily evil. And yet, amazingly, we have so many people who keep telling us to respect islam. Islam is a disgusting religious ideology and definitely deserves no respect from anyone.
gravenimage says
+1
Infidel says
Arooj Karamat did the right thing by quitting her job when she did, or she would have suffered the same fate as those 2 Christian sisters working in a pharmacy who were murdered a few weeks ago after being abducted
gravenimage says
And they are still going after her.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Don’t worry, I’m sure Biden and Trudeau are fighting over who gets to grant this woman and her family asylum based upon religious persecution. LOL.
Andrew says
muslims sure have a strange way of trying to get people to convert to their religion… convert or be killed… your choice…
Aastra says
MSM busy in creating christian persecution story in india and christians in india are busy defending their islamic brothers. as wiping out evil polytheistic hindus is more important than saving your own in pakistan.
also christians who helped in creating pakistan should never come to india if they have any shame left.
also western countries should give them refugee not india.
gravenimage says
Aastra has made the claim before that Indian Christians created Pakistan, but this is claptrap.
And this vicious poster doesn’t care about the persecution of this poor woman, even though Muslims do similar things to Hindu and Sikh women.
Just more sickening enabling of Islam.
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Muslim coworkers threaten to rape and murder Christian teacher if she doesn’t convert to Islam
The harassment didn’t stop, and Arooj Karamat ended up quitting her job. Even that wasn’t enough. She and the rest of her family not only continued to suffer intimidation, but were nearly murdered, had it not been for the arrival of police just in time to save her, her brother and parents.
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Just horrifying–and I doubt it is over for them yet. The attack with the thugs in the van with ropes sounds like an attampted kidnapping. I imagine this poor woman would have been kidnapped, raped, and forced into a marriage with some Muslim thug–probably the instigator named in the story.
OLD GUY says
Coming to a neighborhood near you, thanks to old Joe. Open borders to islam is a disaster that will happen. I fail to see how anyone with common sense can call islam a religion. If you have to threaten to kill people to get them to convert to islam it is hard to see how you can callout a religion. It is a cult with political ideologies online with a dictatorship that wants world rule. If you love FREEDOM islam is the enemy and must be kept out of our christian countries.