Probably one of the most unsafe places in the world to be a Christian must be Pakistan. Not only are they discriminated against in all areas of life, they are also the target of attacks on them and their property and now we see the use of rape to intimidate Pakistani Christians.
The Christian news service BosNewsLife tells of a case where Christian women were abused, and in a separate incident, one woman was raped, by members of the Pakistani security forces and hardline Muslims.
BosNewsLife said:
“Christian relief workers rushed to a volatile district in Pakistan’s Punjab province Saturday, February 9, after security forces and Muslim hardliners allegedly abused Christian women and raped at least one Christian girl.
“Yesterday some Muslims and some [undercover] police men raided Kaila Masih’s house” in the town of Pattoki [where they] “beat and tortured Christian women Zareena Bibi,Hameedan Bibi and Sharifan Bibi,” said the Legal Evangelical Association Development (LEAD), an advocacy and aid group.
It was the second such incident in Punjab’s Kasur District within about two weeks, according to LEAD investigators. On January 25 a 15-year-old Christian girl, Fouzia Bibi, was raped by two influential Muslim men in the district’s village of Roday, LEAD Chief Sardar Mushtaq Gill told BosNewsLife.
Gill said he met a local pastor and victims and helped to register a criminal case against the alleged attackers of the women, including “police officials and other Muslims.”
LEAD also demands that the rape case be moved to more independent police in Pattoki amid concerns that authorities are reluctant to investigate the crime because of pressure from influential Muslims in the region.
Though police “arrested” one suspect, “he was not yet sent to jail”, complained LEAD investigators.
Another alleged rapist “is free and making threats to Christians of the area,” LEAD said, adding that both men should be jailed.
Local Pastor Saleem Gill said in published remarks that he wasn’t surprised about the slow police investigation. “Our people are poor that’s why they are treated like this,” he reportedly said.
These are no isolated incidents.
Church groups say minority Christians have been targeted in several areas of Pakistan in attacks fueled by Islamic extremism.”
Read more at http://www.bosnewslife.com/26420-pakistan-christian-women-abused-girl-raped
Pakistan is such a wonderful example of the tolerance and moderation that Islamic apologists tell us is at the heart of Islam. The ideology of Islam has given us, in Pakistan, a nation that gives such an exquisite example of the sort of society that is created when Islam has control or makes up the core culture. It is very difficult not to make comparisons between the two societies that make up the Indian Sub-Continent. Both India and Pakistan gained independence from Britain at the same time but India is a dynamic, thrusting democracy, whereas Pakistan is a backwards basket case and Bangladesh is not far behind. Now why could that be? Which of the three nations mentioned is NOT dominated by Islam.
