The torturers simply didn’t think their victim’s life had any significant value.
Reliance of the Traveller, a classic manual of Islamic sacred law, explains matter-of-factly that “the indemnity for the death or injury of a woman is one-half the indemnity paid for a man. The indemnity paid for a Jew or Christian is one-third the indemnity paid for a Muslim. The indemnity paid for a Zoroastrian is one-fifteenth that of a Muslim.” (o4.9)
Sultanhussein Tabandeh, author of A Muslim Commentary on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, agrees, stating: “Thus if [a] Muslim commits adultery his punishment is 100 lashes, the shaving of his head, and one year of banishment. But if the man is not a Muslim and commits adultery with a Muslim woman his penalty is execution. … Similarly if a Muslim deliberately murders another Muslim he falls under the law of retaliation and must by law be put to death by the next of kin. But if a non-Muslim who dies at the hand of a Muslim has by lifelong habit been a non-Muslim, the penalty of death is not valid. Instead the Muslim murderer must pay a fine and be punished with the lash. … Since Islam regards non-Muslims as on a lower level of belief and conviction, if a Muslim kills a non-Muslim, then his punishment must not be the retaliatory death, since the faith and conviction he possesses is loftier than that of the man slain…Again, the penalties of a non-Muslim guilty of fornication with a Muslim woman are augmented because, in addition to the crime against morality, social duty and religion, he has committed sacrilege, in that he has disgraced a Muslim and thereby cast scorn upon the Muslims in general, and so must be executed. … Islam and its peoples must be above the infidels, and never permit non-Muslims to acquire lordship over them.”
“Muslims Torture Christian to Death in Pakistan, Brother Says,” Morning Star News, May 14, 2025:
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Muslims in Pakistan, including a former police officer, on Monday (May 12) tortured a Christian laborer to death over a theft accusation, the victim’s brother said.
Riyasat Masih of Mohalla Jamalpur in Jamkay Cheema village, Sialkot District, Punjab Province, said that his brother Kashif Masih, a 35-year-old Catholic, worked on the agricultural property of former police inspector Malik Irfan for the last three years.
At about 2:30 a.m. on Monday (May 12), two relatives of Irfan – Areeb Babar and Ijaz Ikramullah – forced their way into the home where the Masih brothers lived, Riyasat Masih said.
“They alleged that my brother Kashif had stolen a cell phone from their outhouse,” Masih told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News. “They conducted a thorough search of our house and left after finding nothing there. They did not tell us at that time that Kashif was in their custody since the evening of May 11, Sunday.”
At 5 a.m. the next day, neighbors informed Masih that someone had thrown Kashif Masih onto an area street, and that he had been brutally tortured, he said.
“We were already very worried because we were unable to contact him,” Masih said. “As soon as we got the information, we rushed to the spot and found him lying there, badly bruised with blood gushing out from several parts of his body. He was still breathing when we brought him home.”
Before succumbing to his injuries, Kashif Masih told his brother and others that Malik Irfan had summoned him to his outhouse on the evening of May 11 and accused him of stealing a mobile phone, Masih said.
“According to Kashif, Irfan then ordered his seven accomplices, including Areeb and Ijaz, to beat him till he confessed,” he said. “Kashif said that Areeb, Ijaz and the others then started torturing him with wooden clubs and iron bars, hitting him indiscriminately all over his body.”
Masih said that when they took his brother’s body to the hospital for autopsy, they found that the assailants had also hammered several steel nails into his legs.
“I cannot express the pain when I saw my younger brother’s body,” Masih said. “The bruise marks showed the brutality he had suffered at the hands of his influential employer and his goons.”
Police were initially reluctant to register a murder case against a former police officer, but after a large number of Christians gathered there, officers eventually registered a First Information Report (FIR) and arrested Irfan, Masih said….
Christians in Pakistan often suffer from violence and persecution perpetrated by Muslims. They also face barriers in accessing justice, further compounding their plight in this Muslim-majority nation….
aum says
Terrible Outcome but not unexpected from a barbaric cult.
bill says
As Pakistan was created at the independence of India in 1947 at the demand of the Muslims for their own Muslim state, I am always amazed that after three quarters of a century there are still non Muslims living there.