“Make ready for them all that you can of force and of warhorses, so that by them you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy…” (Qur’an 8:60)
“Attack on a Lahore Pentecostal church leaves several people injured,” by Shafique Khokhar, AsiaNews, September 9, 2021:
Lahore (AsiaNews) – Christians were attacked once again last Sunday. The targets were a Pentecostal church, The New Hope Church of Pakistan, in Sheracote, a district in Lahore, and the homes of some faithful.
A group of Muslims opened fire during Sunday service at 2.30 pm, injuring several people, both men and women. A pregnant woman was among the victims; for some, the injuries are life threatening.
“I was cleaning a room when suddenly I heard shots coming from the street. I fainted for a while,” said Rukhsana Bibi, one of the victims of the attack.
After regaining consciousness, “I remembered my three-year-old son was playing in the courtyard. I ran out to him. While I was rescuing my son, a stone broke a window and a piece of glass injured my hand.”
According to witness accounts, Christians, especially women in Sheracote, had been the victims of harassment in previous days; families going to church were mocked and insulted with offensive language.
Last Sunday, things got worse, threats and insults were followed by an actual assault against the church and homes.
The attackers “had military-style weapons and fired directly at the houses,” said Christian journalist Simon Aleem. They “wounded several people, including the New Hope Church pastor, Rev Asif Nawab Masih.”…
Mount Zion says
While here in the west muslim complain about Islamophobia the real plight of christians in muslim countries is not taken into consideration.
In the West they have all the freedom they want , even the freedom to harras us christians with churches beeing attacked every day especially in France, with women beeing raped , with cement blocks around christmas markets bevor the Covid outbrake a.s.o. Imagine, it got to the point in Germany where Christmas markets had to be protected from vehicular jihad by cement blocks because it offended muslim sensibilities that infidels would visit a christmas market .
Have they ever been harrassed like that in the west ? Have they ever been attacked in their mosques ? And jet they are constantly whining and complaining . I have no more hope , if western authorities don’t change their policies towards this beautiful religion of peace it will soon come true “……until the whole world be for allah” . Let’s hope I’m wrong .
gravenimage says
+1
Lion heart says
War should be declared on Islamic-ISIS like midline of Pakistan
Hindu American says
As expected this went unreported in any woke media here in the US or the UK or in any mainstream media in Pakistan.
peter says
+1
Ray Jarman says
Hindu American,
This is not the first time that acts such as this has happened that the media completely ignored. In March, 2002, in Islamabad a grenade was thrown into a church where some Americans posted to the US Embassy would attend the services. In the blast a close friend lost his wife and there was little to no press coverage. In fact, had my friend not apprised me of the violent act, I would have never known about it except that while working at the Embassy for a couple of weeks on temporary duty a little later that year, I was apprised that I was not allowed to go to any church there.
mortimer says
IWhen a mosque is shot up in Western countries, it becomes a yearly commemoration by the leading politicians. When Muslims shoot up a church, the story is swept under the carpet.
Hindu American says
If it were to be reported, it would be deemed islamophobic and liberals will hound you on social media.
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Muslims open fire at church during Sunday service, murder several Christians
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*Horrifying*. And these poor Christians cannot expecty any help from Pakistani authorities.
robert rawson says
you’ll all be safe when you pay 50% of everything you earn cleaning the sewer in jizya.
not.
Walter Sieruk says
As in the days of Nehemiah when he and his men were busy in the reconstruction of the walls around Jerusalem and the Arab became furious and indigent at this at this grand project of the rebuilding of the walls. Neh 4:1 and they thus despised the Jews , Neh. 4:4 ,and schemed terrorist attacks against them.
So the Jewish men set up watch for such attacks, Neh 4:8, therefore ,on this watch they set up guards to be ready for those terrorists attacks , Neh 4;16.
Likewise, in this twenty –first century in areas of the world, as the nation of Pakistan , Christians need to be “on watch and stand firm” First Corinthians 16:13.,as to be on guard from jihad-minded Muslim terrorist attacks against Christians .
For Christians together compose the symbolic body of Christ, Ephesians 1:13. 5:30.
Furthermore, it should be made known that the Muslim terrorists who engage in the persecution of Christians will not get away from the punishment of God for their wicked actions. As seen in Romans 14: 12. First Corinthians 3: 16, 17. Galatians 6:7.
Walter Sieruk says
There are many Muslims who strongly dislike Christians. Some Muslims even hate Christians so much that they even become violent against them, some times even murderous violent ,as seen in the incident in Pakistan.
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.