Will the Islamophobia never end? “Pakistan military: Officials foil ‘major terrorist attack’ on Easter Sunday,” Fox News, April 15, 2017: Pakistan’s military said on Saturday that security forces foiled a “major terrorist attack” on Christians after killing a militant and detaining his associate in the eastern city of Lahore. The military said in a statement […]
Pakistan acquits and releases 115 Muslims accused of burning down 150 Christian homes over “blasphemy”
Pakistan regularly claims to the world that it wants to partner with the West to fight jihad terrorism, while all too many of its citizens keep on demonstrating a propensity for violence against innocent Christians, manipulating the nation’s harsh and unjust blasphemy law with official sanction. In this case, Pakistani officials released 115 Muslims who […]
Raymond Ibrahim: ISIS or Islam — Which Breeds Terrorism?
A lie conceals the truth. And ugly but hidden truths never have a chance of being acknowledged, addressed, and ultimately ameliorated. Because of this simple truism, one of the greatest lies of our age—that violence committed in the name of Islam has nothing to do with Islam—has made an intrinsically weak Islam the scourge of […]
Christians in Pakistan live in constant danger of persecution
“Shortly after the attack, a faction of the Pakistani Taliban named Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, which in truly Orwellian fashion means ‘Assembly of the Free,’ claimed responsibility, admitting brazenly that the attack was ‘aimed at killing members of Pakistan’s Christian minority gathered at the park to celebrate Easter Sunday.’” Meanwhile, in the West Christian leaders work actively to […]
Pakistan: Muslim murders 53 at park as Christians were celebrating Easter
UPDATE: A Taliban group has claimed responsibility and says that it was targeting Christians. —– “He says the area was crowded because Christians are celebrating the Easter holiday and many families were leaving the park when the blast occurred.” “Tragedy strikes Lahore: Blast at Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park kills 53, injures 30 on Easter,” First Post, March […]
Pakistan: Christians build churches despite death threats
Javed David doesn’t seem to understand the situation. Muslims have threatened David and warned him to stop building new churches. So why is he going ahead? Why is he needlessly and recklessly poking them in the eye? They told him they didn’t like this activity — doesn’t he realize how much he is harming Muslim-Christian […]
Pakistan: Muslims on motorcycles open fire on Christian school
Quick — we’re going to need a few more handwringing articles about “Islamophobia” in the Washington Post and CNN to deflect attention away from this. “‘Muslim Hardline’ Gunmen Open Fire on Catholic School in Pakistan; Injured Christian Student Taken to Hospital,” by Samuel Smith, Christian Post, April 17, 2015: Two masked gunmen on motorcycles, believed […]
Pakistan: Muslims murder 15 Christians, injure 70 with blasts at churches
These blasts led to protests by Christians in Pakistan because for too long the Pakistani government has done nothing to protect the Christians, and has even aided and abetted those who persecute them. And the response from Christians in the West? Yawns of indifference. “15 killed, 70 injured as blasts target Lahore churches,” The News […]