These Muslims, the “best of people” (Qur’an 3:110) have contempt for the Christians, “the most vile of created beings” (98:6). They know that in the perfect Islamic State, Christians would be paying jizya to them and submitting to their hegemony (cf. Qur’an 9:29). They know that police and law courts in Pakistan are likely to be more sympathetic to them than to their victims. So there is no downside to this behavior.
“Muslims fire at Christians in Burewala to seize their lands,” by Shafique Khokhar, Asia News, November 4, 2021:
Burewala (AsiaNews) – A group of Muslims attacked and fired at Christians in order to seize their lands in Trikhani, a village near the city of Burewala, Vehari district (Punjab). At least nine people were wounded, three hospitalised in critical condition.
On 29 October, Muslims started shooting at Christians as they watered their fields. After the latter filed a First Information Report (FIR) with police, the attackers, who had obtained pre-arrest bail, continued to threaten the Christians, demanding they drop the FIR.
“They wanted to kill us,” said Raja Masih. “They fired straight at us, so I got a bullet that almost hit me in the heart”.
Kamran Masih, a resident of the village and an eyewitness to the incident, explained that Muslim landowners demanded local Christians to sell their land. Uttering threats, they told them if they refused, they would face “serious consequences”.
This is not new. Local Christians have already resisted selling their land in the past because “they are the history and legacy of our ancestors” and allow families to earn a living.
The village was originally founded by missionaries and farmland was donated to the poorest families, who handed it down through the generations.
“In any case, the Muslim offers do not reflect the real market value of the fields,” Masih told AsiaNews.
Human rights activist Saleem Iqbal, who visited the injured in hospital in Sahiwal, expressed his regret over the affair. “It is sad to see how Muslim landowners use their influence to target Christians.”…
Michael Copeland says
“It is sad to see…” says Saleem Iqbal.
Of course, with a name like that revealing that he is muslim he knows that if he says it is disgraceful and criminal it is he who will be at the receiving end of the thuggery.
gravenimage says
Michael–with the greatest respect–you are mistaken about Saleem Iqbal.
He is a serious and brave human rights activist, and is himself Christian.
Here is one story about his work:
https://christianpersecution.com/tag/saleem-iqbal/
In Muslim-majority countries many non-Muslims, including Christians, have Muslim-sounding names. (although the surname “Masih”–derived from “Messiah”–always denotes Christians.)
James Lincoln says
gravenimage says,
“In Muslim-majority countries many non-Muslims, including Christians, have Muslim-sounding names.”
Is it also done to “blend in / pretend to be a muslim” for safety, etc., reasons?
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Muslims attack and fire upon Christians in order to seize their lands
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This is very common–Muslims targeting Christians and other Infidels not just to harm them, but to steal their land, businesses, possessions, and sometimes wives and daughters.
God, I hate Islam.
Walter Sieruk says
The Muslim propagandists for Islam keep telling naive Westerners that “Islam respects Christians and Christianity.”
What lying balderdash !
Boycott Turkey says
The missionaries who helped build the village should do something and speak out against this
Walter Sieruk says
One very good way to describe this twenty –first century “War of Ideas” is that of a great a conflict and a clash between Christianity and Islam.
As explained by the Christian author, William Wagner,, in his book which is entitled HOW ISLAM PLANS TO CHANGE THE WORLD had explained on page 155 about a meeting that he had with a Muslim cleric , which reads “Several years ago one Imam told me that ,prior to 1990, the greatest enemy to Islam was Communism but now it is the Christian missions.” Further, on page 208 the Wagner had written about some zealous Muslims that “They have failed to stop Christian missions. They see Christian missions as their number one enemy.” On the very next page the reader is informed that “Christianity remains the number one buffer against Islam, a fact readily recognized by those who seek a world wild ummah.” [1]
[1] Ummah – The community of all those who affirm Islam.