Islamic tolerance. The Qur’an says “There is no compulsion in religion” (2:256). However, what constitutes “compulsion” is in the eye of the beholder. The institutionalized subjugation of the dhimma, with its regular humiliation and harassment, from which one can be freed for the simple price of converting to Islam, is not considered compulsion. Remember Steve […]
Islamic Republic of Pakistan: Muslims force 15-year-old girl to convert to Islam, third such incident in a week
What about that Qur’an verse so celebrated by Islamic apologists in the West, “There is no compulsion in religion” (2:256)? No problem! The teacher who forced this girl to convert to Islam likely believes that she did so freely and of her own volition; after all, she could have chosen to be brutalized or killed […]
Pakistan: Daughter of Sikh priest kidnapped, forced at gunpoint to convert to Islam and marry Muslim
“A Sikh girl, who was missing for a number of days, surfaced on Thursday after she was forcibly converted to Islam and made to marry a Muslim man in Nankana Sahib area of Lahore. The 19-year-old is the daughter of a ‘granthi’ (priest) of Gurudwara Tambu Sahib and was converted to Islam at gunpoint.” The […]
Pakistan: Muslim sends Christian teens image of Muhammad, police arrest the Christians for blasphemy
“According to FIR #353/19, registered at the Bahawalnagar police station, Mushtaq and Asghar have been accused of receiving blasphemous sketches of the Prophet Muhammad on their WhatsApp numbers. Police reportedly recovered printouts of the blasphemous sketches from Mushtaq. However, Mushtaq’s family denies the allegation, stating, ‘The police have generated this story against Sunny.’ ICC’s local […]
Pakistan: violent attack on Christians incited from Mosque loudspeakers
It is commonplace in Pakistan for Muslims to accuse Christians of blasphemy either for purely persecution purposes or because of neighbor/work disputes as a means of revenge. Clerics have done the same and now comes word of a heightened level of persecution against Christians: an Islamic call to attack Christians from mosque loudspeakers. The mob […]
Pakistan: Muslim murders his daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren — his daughter married a man of her choice
Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. The Palestinian Authority gives pardons or suspended sentences for honor murders. Iraqi women have asked for tougher sentences for Islamic honor murderers, who get off lightly now. Syria in 2009 scrapped a law limiting the length of sentences for honor killings, but “the new law says a […]
Video from Pakistan: Muslims open fire on Christians who try to retake their homes that Muslims seized
The global “human rights community” will take little notice. After all, it isn’t as if something important, such as “Islamophobia,” had been committed. “In Punjab, Christians who tried to retake their homes grabbed by Muslims suffer gunshot wounds (video),” by Kamran Chaudhry, Asia News, May 18, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Lahore (AsiaNews) […]
Pakistan: Police defy court orders, withdraw security for lawyer of Christian woman on death row for blasphemy
This will make it easier for the jihad vigilantes with which the Punjab government is clearly allied to assassinate Malook, and ease the way for Aasia Bibi to be executed. “Aasia Bibi’s lawyer’s life at risk as police withdraws security despite court orders,” Pakistan Today, April 25, 2018: LAHORE: The Punjab government on Wednesday withdrew […]
“We are bigger than your Jesus”: Pakistani Muslims beat Christians with bricks, open fire on them, injuring seven
Will the Islamophobia never end? “Christians Wounded in Muslim Attack on Church Service in Pakistan,” Morning Star News, March 20, 2018: LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – At least seven Christian worshippers were injured in an armed attack by local Muslims on a church service on Sunday (March 18) in southern Punjab Province, Pakistan, the church […]
Islamic Republic of Pakistan: Police invite Muslim mob to beat Christian “blasphemers”
“Rather bizarrely members of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah (TLYR) who led a riot and called for extra-judicial murder of the the two cousins and other Muslim religious bodies, were also present at the FIA building during the time of the investigation. They had apparently been asked to attend the police station at the same time […]