Here is yet another indication of how blasphemy accusations are weaponized against religious minorities in Pakistan. No one cares, however, because the case doesn’t fit the establishment media narrative, in which Christians are always oppressors and Muslims are always victims.
“Christian in Pakistan Accused of Blasphemy for Refusing to Convert, He Says,” Morning Star News, March 12, 2024:
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A former classmate of an 18-year-old Christian in Pakistan accused him of blasphemy after failing to convert him to Islam, impeding the accused’s college studies and his family’s hopes for a better future, sources said.
Police arrested Ashbeel Ghauri from his home in Attock city, Punjab Province on Wednesday (March 6) after his former classmate, Sheraz Gulistan, accused him of disrespecting Islam during a religious discussion in a WhatsApp group two months ago, said his father, Babar Ghauri.
“We were shocked when the police came to arrest Ashbeel,” Ghauri said. “My son had not shared with us before that Sheraz and some other Muslim classmates had been pressuring him to change his Christian faith.”
A devout Christian passionate about his faith, Ashbeel Ghauri had begun college while his former classmate, Gulistan, entered an Islamic seminary (madrassa), said his father, who belongs to the Presbyterian church. Gulistan and other Muslims had engaged Ashbeel Ghauri in religious discussions on several occasions in a bid to convert him, he said.
His former classmates have implicated him in a false blasphemy case to destroy his educational career and prospects because he refused to renounce his faith in Christ, Babar Ghauri said.
“Ashbeel has categorically denied making any derogatory remarks about Islam,” Babar Ghauri told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News. “He always asked academic questions about the Islamic faith whenever he was forcibly dragged into such conversation. As Christians living in Pakistan, we are all well aware of the sensitivities involving religious discussion, and our children are taught from day one to avoid getting into such arguments.”…
Tony Rice says
All Christians are well advised to leave Pakistan and move to India, where the political/ religious climate may not be perfect, but a damned site better than in Pakistan where absurd conditions persist. Same applies to any Jews but I doubt any are in that country.
Mike says
Moreover, any Hindus, Sikhs, Janis or Buddhists who remain there, should also move to India.
FYI says
If you leave islam ,you become an apostate and can be killed
If you convert to islam and later decide to leave then the apostasy still applies and you can be killed.
If you don’t want to convert to the religion of peace then you will either be killed or accused of “blasphemy”.
islam: A primitive cult whose god suffers from a lack of omniscience,the most obvious false prophet in History and a holy book so full of scientific,theological and scientific errors it cannot come from any god.
Does allah know ALL things as he claims in koran 2:29?
NO
How many gods do Christians worship?
ONE but allah thinks it is THREE{koran 5:116 pickthall]allah,mukim jesus and…MARY
Can you see the problem with the koran?
allah’s advice on where to find the answers;koran 10:94
“question those who read the scripture that was before thee”:That’s the Bible which allah confirms as koran 3:3
islamic “scholars” /”holy men”‘dawah conmen ..don’t want muslims to know this!
Siddi Nasrani says
Keep away from these dangerous evil sick people. This is what happens when a country
has Sharia Laws from their alleged Holly Book.
FYI says
If muslims folowed allah’s advice in koran 10.94…to check with the Bible…
1]muslims would realize that the koran is in TOTAL VIOLATION of the Laws of Moses which were written down in the Torah/Pentateuch for all posterity.allah confirms the Torah in koran 3:3 but laughably the koran violates all the laws given in the Torah and so the koran defeats the purpose of the Torah..
It is like allah is saying “sure i inspired the Torah and gave it to Moses{the muslim version} in koran 2:87 but who really needs those pesky commandments anyway?That’s just for the Jews.”
2}muslims would see their “scholars” and holy men have been keeping them in ignorance for CENTURIES.
Apostasy is a neat trick to use against any muslim who uses Critical Tinking and figures it out.
islam has no history of critical thinking in its “scholarship”:they just quote the koran back at you.
allah’s claim that “Abraham was not a Jew” koran 3:67 is ridiculous.If he claims to be the knower of “all things” he would have to know Abraham was a key figure of Judaism-he HAS to be a Jew because “it is from the Jews that salvation comes”John 4 v22
muslims are kept in ignorance by fear generated by their fraudulent “holy men”..
They are not supposed to interpret the koran for themselves.I did and o haram of harams..i am an infidel.
I know for a fact that the Moon never split in two,Abraham has to be a Jew and Christians do not worship THREE{!!}gods.It seems I know more than allah and as a Socrates fan i admit I know nothing!
Why do you think the Bible is BANNED in islamic countries if allah confirms it koran 3:3 and says to consult it if in doubt koran 10:94?
The “holy men” of islam have had centuries to perfect their scam…