“Muhammad is not the father of any of your men, but he is the messenger of Allah and the seal of the prophets, and Allah is always aware of all things.” (Qur’an 33:40) “Pakistani police arrest woman for claiming to be Islam’s prophet,” Associated Press, April 14, 2023: Pakistani police arrested on Friday a Muslim […]
Ramadan in Pakistan: Police destroy minarets and dome of local Ahmadiyya mosque
Ahmadis are considered heretics; they aren’t even allowed by law to call themselves Muslims in Pakistan. So while Bitter Winter is shocked that this sort of thing would happen in Ramadan, from the point of view of the perpetrators it’s actually a quintessential Ramadan, purifying the community as one is supposed to purify one’s soul […]
Islamic Republic of Pakistan: Muslim mob lynches man accused of blasphemy
In such cases, no one has the patience to wait for evidence. The mere accusation is enough. Allah wouldn’t allow an innocent person to be killed, would he? “Pakistan: Islamists lynch man, accused of blasphemy, to death in Nankana Sahib,” OpIndia, February 11, 2023: On Saturday (February 11), a frenzied mob of Islamists lynched a man in […]
Pakistan: Muslim family lures two sisters home from Spain, murders them in honor killing
In the Qur’an, a mysterious figure, known as Khidr in Islamic tradition, kills a boy in an apparently random and gratuitous attack. He then explains: “And as for the boy, his parents were believers, and we feared that he would overburden them by transgression and disbelief. So we intended that their Lord should substitute for […]
Pakistan: Christians in Punjab conceal the cross, wear hijab to escape persecution and harassment
This is Islamic law to this day: Sharia stipulates that dhimmi Jews and Christians under the “protection” of the Islamic state — are “forbidden to openly display wine or pork, (A: to ring church bells or display crosses,) recite the Torah or Evangel aloud, or make public display of their funerals and feastdays” (Reliance of the Traveller, […]
Pakistan: Muslim mob beats Christian to death in Lahore
Most of Western society has become habituated to news of Muslims murdering Christians in Islamic countries, including all too many leaders of mainline Churches. In this particular case in Pakistan, a country infamous for its blasphemy laws, the reason for beating a Christian to death this time was unrelated to blasphemy. Mob attacks on Christians […]
Pakistan: Enraged Sunni Muslim mob attacks Shi’ite scholar for ‘blasphemy’
A Muslim mob nearly killed a Shia scholar for offending Islam, but he was rescued. A day earlier, a middle-aged mentally challenged man was stoned to death, also in Pakistan’s Punjab province. The Shia scholar reportedly burned pages “of a religious book”; an enraged mob attacked his home with bricks, sticks and other objects around […]
Pakistan: Muslim mob stones mentally ill man to death after claims he burned the Qur’an
In these types of incidents, mob justice all too often prevails, and Pakistani authorities don’t dare act strongly against the mob, for fear they will become its target themselves. Remember Mumtaz Qadri, who murdered Pakistan politician Salman Taseer for opposing Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. Qadri became a national hero, with a mosque named after him. “Raging […]
Pakistan: Sunni Muslim police desecrate nearly 50 Ahmadi graves in Punjab
Since 1948, over 12 million Muslims have been murdered by their coreligionists. Ahmadis are a persecuted minority, viewed by normative Islam as apostates and treated accordingly, as seen in this latest report. Despite this persecution, Ahmadis often insist in the West that Islam is a religion of peace, ignoring all the verses of the Qur’an […]
Pakistan: Muslims attack and fire upon Christians in order to seize their lands
These Muslims, the “best of people” (Qur’an 3:110) have contempt for the Christians, “the most vile of created beings” (98:6). They know that in the perfect Islamic State, Christians would be paying jizya to them and submitting to their hegemony (cf. Qur’an 9:29). They know that police and law courts in Pakistan are likely to […]