Tonight’s presidential debate had the requisite pre-qualified question from a “random” audience member for Donald Trump about his “islamaphobic” position (whatever that may be today) on Muslim immigration. My question is why don’t we ever get to discuss the ubiquitous persecution of Christians in predominantly Muslim countries? Like this recent outrage for instance?
Christian boy, 16, facing DEATH PENALTY for offending Muslims in Facebook post ~
Pakistan. The boy has been arrested and charged with blasphemy after a photo of the Kaaba in Mecca, one of the holiest sites in Islam, appeared on his profile. The black cube-shape is built around an ancient stone at the centre of Islam’s most sacred mosque Al-Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Locals reportedly claimed the image showed the Kaaba with a pig’s head on top. (The Facebook post has since been deleted.)
Shahbaz Ahmed, a police official, said an informant contacted officers over a post “hurting religious sentiments of Muslims and desecrating the religious place.”
He said the boy “had done a great injustice to us by badly hurting our religious feelings”.
(Sounds like a leftist college student in need of a safe space.)
Is it “islamaphobic” to believe that expressing oneself on Facebook shouldn’t result in a death sentence?
His family have been forced to flee their home in Bhai Pheru for fear of violence as their sons awaits trial in prison.
Wilson Chowdhry, chairman of the British Pakistani Christian Association, said: “This incident again underlines the worthlessness of Christians in Pakistan. A 16-year-old boy who has been accused of a blasphemy, has been placed in a prison without any proper investigation.
“Social media can be a force for good or for bad, and we are all too aware of trolling in the west. However few understand the blasphemy entrapment Christians can face in Pakistan and often on flimsiest evidence, for which I can see social media becoming an ever more prolific weapon.
Note to false narrative planters ➡ It’s only a “phobia” if the fear is irrational.
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Related:
Pakistan: Christian boy, 16, arrested for Kaaba ‘blasphemy’ ~ Writing about persecution in Pakistan, World Watch Monitor also reported ~
Meanwhile, a poor Christian neighbourhood in a remote village 20 miles south of Faisalabad came under attack after Muslim Friday prayers on 16 September.
Five people were hospitalised, including two women who also faced public humiliation after their clothes were torn, but police said the injuries were not sufficient for the formal registration of a case.
At least 20 men armed with sticks and firearms attacked the Christian neighbourhood – in the village of Chajwal, in the Samundri district. The incident took place only the day after the Punjab Minister for Human Rights and Minorities Affairs, Khalil Tahir Sandhu, told local media that “minorities in Pakistan are more secured (sic) than [in] other countries of the region” […]
Hundreds of Christians from the village gathered together on Sunday evening (18 Sep.) and resolved to seek justice. They told World Watch Monitor the attackers must have had support from local politicians, which is why the police had refused to officially register the case, and said they were fearful of further attacks.
