The UN is far too concerned over the desecration of a copy of the Qur’an to be concerned about Christians being terrorized in Pakistan.
“Christians in Pakistan Flee Homes after Blasphemy Accusation,” Morning Star News, July 20, 2023:
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A third accusation of blasphemy in less than a month compelled Christians fearful of Islamic retribution to flee their homes in an eastern city in Pakistan this week, sources said.
Muslim crowds including members of Islamic extremist groups blocked the main Sargodha-Faisalabad highway for hours on Sunday (July 16) after mosque announcements urged people in Sargodha to protest posters allegedly bearing derogatory caricatures and comments about Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, and his wife Aisha, that were pasted on mosque walls.
“The situation was already tense in Sargodha after two Christians were arrested and charged with blasphemy, but this incident has put the security of the entire community at risk,” former provincial lawmaker Tahir Naveed Chaudhry told Morning Star News.
The Christian politician told Morning Star News that the 3,500 to 4,000 Christian families of Maryam Town, a suburb of Sargodha, panicked when they heard the announcements.
“The posters were pasted on a mosque’s wall in Green Town which is adjacent to the Christian settlement,” Chauddhry said. “As word of the alleged blasphemy spread, hundreds of angry Muslims started congregating on the highway raising fears of violence in Maryam Town. Thankfully, the police responded in time, and a large contingent was deployed on all entry and exit points of the colony.”
The handwritten posters also reportedly lauded the desecration of the Koran in Sweden last month and were critical of the Abrahamic tradition of animal sacrifice, he added.
“The mosque announcements accused Christians of being involved in the incident because the posters were purportedly written by ‘an unknown soldier of Maryam Town,’” Chaudhry said.
Hundreds of Muslims blocked traffic and burned tires on the Faisalabad road intersection near Maryam Town at about 10 a.m., threatening to take matters into their own hands if police failed to arrest the unknown offender within 48 hours, he said.
The mobs dispersed after police registered a case under Sections 295-A, 295-B, 295-C, and 298-A against an unknown offender and also formed a committee of religious leaders to investigate the incident in coordination with the administration, Chaudhry said.
Another source told Morning Star News that nearly half of the Christian population in the area fled their homes fearing attacks by Muslims.
“Christian settlements across Sargodha district were alarmed when they heard about the protests near Maryam Town,” said Sanawar Balam, a member of the district’s human rights committee. “Though police were deployed in Christian neighborhoods, many Christian families left their homes due to fears of retribution.”
He said that at least 15 Christian men were taken into custody on Sunday based only on their identity cards stating Maryam Town as their address.
“Most of these men were picked up from the streets when they were shopping for groceries or going for some work,” Balam told Morning Star News. “They were released after interrogation but then more people were taken into custody on Monday and Tuesday. “I believe there are four or five men still in police custody.”
Both Chaudhry and Balam expressed suspicions of a conspiracy against Sargodha’s Christians.
“This third incident points to a deliberate attempt to spark religious unrest and target Christians,” Chaudhry said….
Pakistan ranked seventh on Open Doors’ 2023 World Watch List of the most difficult places to be a Christian, up from eighth the previous year.
Tatanka says
Evil Islamic Satanic monsters. When oh when are people going to stand up against those blood thirsty fanatics and drive them to extinction.?
bill says
What puzzles me is that after nearly three quarters of a century, India was partioned in 1947, there are still Christians and Hindus living in Pakistan.
John1 says
But former president Bush and pope Francis insist Islam is peace and love………..wishful thinking will not change 1400 years of reality.
Ghislain Pilon says
I am a Christian and do not want any provocation against the Muslims. God wants us to love everyone, including our enemies. We must pray for them. My real home is not on this earth but with Jesus in heaven, to be with all who have put their faith in Jesus.
somehistory says
In recent years, many mozlum barracks have been “vandalized” and in the U.S., c.a.i.r jumps right in to claim it’s an infidel who hates, etc. Some have been set on fire, others have had a window broken. And, so many of these “attacks” have been perpetrated by mozlums.
Several mozlum women, and a few girls, have made claims of having their scarf ripped off, or of having been told to “go back” from whence they came. And these have been found to be false claims…hoaxes pulled by mozlums to gain sympathy and attention and special laws about “hatred” if possible. They want the criticism of islam to be a crime.
Now, in pakistan, mozlums don’t need a c.a.i.r. or a ‘tell mama’ organization to get special treatment for themselves. The government is all about keeping people in the dark about what a scum the fake prophet proved to be…if he existed, he was not fit to breathe…and persecuting anyone who disagrees with the worship of the feculent creature.
To my mind, it is quite possible….and highly likely…to have been a mozlum that painted a poster…if, a poster was painted…making fun of the mass-murdering, raper of children, in order to stir up hatred and cause the arrest and death of Christians in that town.
The claim could have been made that there was such a poster, but the mozlum who *found* it, just couldn’t let it stand, tore it down and destroyed it…so no evidence it existed. If there was truly a poster, it was done by mozlums to incite the mobs into a fury to get the Christians killed.
the cops should…but won’t….look for a mozlum, or mozlums, who want something the Christians have.
Jesus said, “When they persecute you in one city, flee to the next.” Christians are running out of places to flee. We are very near the end of this evil system, and that is part of the reason I say this. There are so few “cities” where there is no persecution in pakistan, africa, afghanistan, etc. ..and, Jesus said, “The days will be cut short, or no flesh will be saved.”
These “days” of persecution of Christians by mozlums will be “cut short.”