One recent horror tale — there are so many — about Muslim murders of Christians in Pakistan should not be overlooked. It is a simple story of an 18-year-old Christian man, Waqas Salamat, who wanted to leave his job at a Muslim-owned factory where he had been receiving slave wages and treated miserably. In response, his Muslim employer, together with his son and several Muslim employees, tortured Salamat to death. More on this horror tale can be found here: “Muslim Employer in Pakistan Tortures Christian Worker to Death,” Morning Star News, June 11, 2024:
A Muslim factory owner in Pakistan on Thursday (June 6) tortured to death an 18-year-old Catholic worker for leaving the job against his wishes, family members said.
Waqas Salamat had started working at the plastic bottle manufacturing factory owned by Haji Muhammad Saleem in Lahore’s Islampura area two months ago. Salamat died when Saleem, his son Umar Saleem and three Muslim workers forcibly took him to the factory and tortured him for hours with electric shocks, the victim’s mother said.
After Waqas Salamat had stopped going to the factory on June 1 because he believed he could find better work, Saleem on June 4 summoned his parents to the factory and pressured them to make him return, said his mother, Rubina Salamat.
“When we told him that he didn’t want to come back, Saleem suddenly accused Waqas of committing a theft worth millions of rupees,” she told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News. “We told Saleem that our son was not a thief, but Saleem refused to listen. We even asked him to show us any evidence that incriminated Waqas, but nothing was produced before us.”
When Saleem threatened to have Waqas Salamat arrested on a fake theft charge, Rubina Salamat told him that, although her son was innocent, they were willing to compensate Saleem the alleged damages in installments, she said.
She offered to pay the installments by deducting 7,000 rupees (US$25) per month from the salary of another son who worked at the factory, 13-year-old Awais Salamat, in exchange for Saleem releasing Waqas Salamat, she said.
Saleem rejected the offer and insisted that Waqas Salamat must resume work at the factory, and the parents agreed to talk with him.
On Thursday (June 6), Waqas Salamat went to meet a potential employer near Saleem’s factory, and Umar Saleem spotted him.
“He informed his father, and they sent some workers to bring Waqas to the factory,” where they bound his hands and feet, Rubina Salamat said.
“Factory workers Shahzad, Bilal and Shani and the two owners started beating my son mercilessly with plastic pipes and other objects,” she told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News. “My son Awais was also present in the factory and witnessed the entire episode, but there was nothing he could do to save his elder brother.”
The assailants also gave Waqas Salamat electric shocks, she said.
“The torture was so excruciating that my son collapsed. Seeing the situation, Saleem told my son Awais to clean Waqas’s body with water and then run home and bring us to the factory,” Rubina Salamat said. “As soon as Awais informed me, I ran towards the factory, but my son had succumbed to the torture by that time. There was nothing I could do to save his life.”…
This tale of torture and murder of a Christian by five Muslims in Pakistan is all too common. The refusal of Pakistani Christians to give up their faith, despite such horrific persecution, is inspiring. You can help, by bringing this case of the torture and murder of Waqas Salamat to the attention of your Congressmen, urging them to raise the matter with the Pakistani ambassador in Washington, and making clear that American aid to Pakistan will be cut if the perpetrators of this crime are not adequately punished and the Salamat family not properly compensated for their son’s torture and death.
somehistory says
There may be some in D.C. (district of corruption) who care; but the majority of the politicians, and their *staffs,* don’t give a fig.
So whatever money biden and the criminal gang are sending to the hell-halls of pakistan will not be diminished by the horror dealt out to this young man and his family. After all, biden and his evil spouse just wished all of the mozlum scum a ‘happy year.’
Imagine the younger boy seeing his older brother tortured. The murdered son is out of his pain and misery; the younger one is not. Must he still work for the murderers, making money for them or he too will be tortured to death? His mental anguish must be horrific.
I pray for all of God’s people who rely on Jesus’s promises of eternal life in paradise to stay the course, hold fast to their faith. They will not be disappointed.
Rick Smith says
Islam turns normal people into sadistic monsters. Everyone has a right to fair pay and to leave their job. But these vermin think they own non-Muslims as slaves…this is why they tortured this poor man to death.
What I don’t understand is Christians/non-Muslims who think that Muslims are rational and will treat them fairly, esp. in a Muslim country.
Why can’t we as humans treat each other with some basic dignity? Not one person asked to be born…we’re thrown into the world from a decision by our parents.
Speaking of which, people in these hellhole nations should know better than to have kids, raise them in poverty and insecurity, and esp. having to face brutal treatment by the majority population.
The goal of every non-Muslim and every female to be frank, should be to escape Islamic nations and we should be accepting them in non-Muslim countries.
But back to my point above, nobody should harm or kill anyone whatever one’s beliefs/religion. Sadly, people violate other people’s bodily autonomy all the time…this should be disallowed.
To be honest if Christians united against Islam, Muslims would have no chance. At the very least western nations should use their power and influence to force Muslim nations to treat non-Muslims well or face serious consequences…like war. Cutting off funding isn’t enough…the perps have to be caught and dealt with.
But at the end of the day, what’s needed is the eradication of Islam…it should be treated like Nazism or a pandemic…Muslims should be isolated from others and we might need reeducation camps like they did in China. There are worse options for Muslims than that and they should consider themselves lucky that we won’t do to them what they’d do to us if they had the upper hand.
Mike says
Supremacist, fundamentalist Muslims believe that everyone who is a non-Muslim is a “criminal kuffar” because of the supposed “fact” that the Quran is completely clear and consistent, so therefore to have any doubts about the Quran, or Muhammad, or Islam, or to impugn them in any way, constitutes a capital crime.
However, this claim is demonstrably FALSE. Here are a couple of quotes from honest and thoughtful Muslims:
“The Quran is a vast, vague book filled with poetry and contradictions, much like the Bible. There are calls to peace, and exhortations to struggle. There are beautiful expressions of tolerance, but also stern strictures towards unbelievers.”
“We have to own up to thr fact that the Quran’s message is all over the map. Look at its take on women. Hopeful and hateful verses stand just lines away from one another. So too, with religious diversity.”
“There is no central thrust to this supposedly perfect, infallible text, making its alleged perfection ultimately suspect.”
OLD GUY says
Islamic followers kill Christians and Jews, that’s what they do. Islam’s goal is to dominate the world, so let’s allow them to come into our neighborhoods and kill us. BRIGHT thinking.