Given all the “Islamophobia” propaganda that inundates us regularly, one would expect to see a similar statistic in the West. And there is one: Muslims are small percentage of Western countries, but often a massive percentage of the prisoners. And they’re not in prison because of “Islamophobia.”
“30% of extrajudicial-killings for blasphemy involve 1.27% Pak-Christian population,” by Hannah Chowdhry and Juliet Chowdhry, British Asian Christian Association, November 27, 2022:
A French Magazine concerned about the treatment of Christians in Pakistan submitted some questions to us. You can read the actual article, which converts into several languages (click here). Our full response can be read below:
Christians are persecuted in Pakistan, like Hindus or Ahmadis… But are they proportionally more persecuted than other communities?
There is no simple answer to this question unfortunately. Figures from the National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP) recorded that 537 persons were accused under blasphemy laws during 1986-2015, 633 (47%) were Muslims, 494 were Ahmadi (37%), 187 were Christian (14%) and 21 were Hindu (2%). Christians at the time made up 1.6% of Pakistan’s and Ahmadi’s around 0.2%. The report did not distinguish between Shi’a and Sunni sects of Islam (click here).
It should be noted however that the Ahmadi community have been boycotting the census since 1974, to avoid persecution through identification. The UNHCR estimates that their are 4 Million Ahmadi in Pakistan a figure that would make them a larger minority than Christians (click here). At this point both minorities were facing great tribulation that was disproportionate to their demographic population. It can also bee seen that over 50% of blasphemy allegations were being laid against minorities.
Recent data from the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) indicates that an anomaly occurred during 2020 where 199 people were charged in one year of which 75% were Muslim, mostly Shi‘as (70%), followed by Ahmadis (20%), Sunnis (5%), Christians (3.5%), Hindus (1 per cent). The Ahmadis still rate higher than Christians, but both percentages have dropped significantly. I presume that a lack of contact with Christians due to a fear they were dirty and more likely to contract COVID-19 (a known Muslim perception), and a belief that COVID-19 was a punishment for ritually impure minorities resulted in these lower figures. The figures also reflect the tensions between the Shi’a and larger majority Sunni sect (click here).
What can be seen is that both the Ahmadi and Christian communities in Pakistan are targeted with Blasphemy laws by mainstream Muslims at a rate higher then their percentage of the population. Taking these figures into account it would also seem that the Ahmadi faith is more targeted than Christians. However, figures of extra-judicial killings indicate that Christians are similarly targeted. The ICJ reports states that at least 78 people have bene killed in blasphemy-based extra-judicial killings. Within that number are 42 Muslims, 23 Christians, 9 Ahmadis, 2 Hindus and 2 whose religion could not be ascertained. Of the 42 Muslims killed several were also converts to Christianity. Here we see that a Christian accused of blasphemy is significantly more likely to be killed than prosecuted, when compared to all faiths. That said, the Ahmadi people in Pakistan suffer the ignominy of having two laws 298A and 298B that specifically outlaws them being able to call themselves Muslims or referring to Islamic practices as their own. The second amendment of Pakistan’s constitution also alters the meaning of section 260 of the Pakistan’s constitution. This sharpens the description of what a Muslim is and states that Ahmadi believers will not be considered Muslims. Though this not a specific outlawing of the Ahmadi faith it is viewed as such by the west, In essence the 2nd amendment Section 298A and 298B, simply create the same disenfranchisement for Ahmadis as other Minorities in Pakistan, resulting in a near guarantee of asylum for Ahmadis in the west. A facilitation that does not cover Christians or other minorities escaping the persecution, discrimination and disenfranchisement they face in Pakistan.
Christians have faced several large scale mob attacks on Christian villages, such as Shanti Nagar (click here), Gojra (click here), Korian (click here), Sumbrial (click here), St Joseph’s colony (click here), Mardan (click here) and others. These are usually triggered by blasphemy allegations but not always, the attack on a school and Church in Mardan for instance was triggered by Pastor Terry’s threat’ to burn a Koran in the US. The number and scale of these attacks on Christians is more frequent and violent than experienced by other minorities in recent times. Ahmadis however, suffered a large number of deaths during the Lahore riots in 1953 (click here) and 1974 Anti-Ahmadiya Riots (click here)….
Devasur says
Yet Indian Christians support Islam’s takeover of India. It seems they never learned the lesson from Pakistan.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I doubt it: all the conversion activities in Andhra and Punjab indicate that they wanna take over India themselves. In Kerala, the Christians have already turned on muslims, after figuring out somewhat belatedly what’s in store for them
Watto35 says
And yet the Pakistanis want the Christian west to pay for ‘climate reparations’.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I’m somewhat surprised to see the Hindu percentage figures in single digits: one would have thought that they and Sikhs would follow Christians and Ahmadiyas and even be ahead of MINOs