One of the main arguments that can be made against Islam is the violent intolerance towards the idea of freedom of religion that exists in Islamic culture and Islamic societies. This can’t be lied about or explained away by apologists for Islam, as the evidence, both historical and contemporaneous, for this intolerance is freely available for all the world to see.
Sadly Britain has recently been treated to another awful example of Islamic religious intolerance with a Pakistani Christian from the English city of Derby being beaten up by a gang of Muslims merely because he displayed a crucifix. In an article published by an association of British Pakistani Christians based on a report in the local newspaper the Derby Telegraph, Tajamal Amar, was said to have been attacked by a group of Muslims who took offence at his crucifix and the two Rememberance Poppies displayed on his car.
The British Pakistani Christians website said:
A 45-year-old Pakistani Christian man residing in Derby had to be taken to hospital after being assaulted outside a popular restaurant on Friday 20th October 2017. Read Derby Telegraph story (click here)
Tajamal Amar, a food delivery driver, suffered a broken nose along with several lacerations to his head and body after a group of Muslim men attacked without warning.
Mr Amar was rendered unconscious and woke approximately 5 hours later at Royal Derby Hospital where he was admitted overnight, after having been transported there by emergency services.
A local police spokesman said: “We were called to a report of an assault outside the Red Chilli restaurant, in Littleover, at around 8:45 pm on Friday.
Mr Amar, remembers being stared at by a group of Muslim men who seemed to be taking offence at the cross in his vehicle and the two large poppies that were displayed on the front of his car.
After this Mr Amar is not very clear on what happened but he seems to have been hit on top of the head and then suffered further violence as he lay on the floor unconscious.
The British Pakistani Christian website went on to say that this is not the first time that Mr Amar has been subjected to anti Christian behaviour.
The British Pakistani Christian Association website added:
Mr Amar, said;
“Several times local Pakistani people in Derby have taken offence from the fact that I am Christian, when they first find out many stop talking to me. My wife and I have often been shunned.
“On the day of my attack the visible display of a cross in my car and two poppies just below the front bonnet, triggered the violence against me. I know this, because for a few days before the attack the same men, glared at me after they notice my Christian paraphernalia.
“I fled from Pakistan to escape violence such as this, but more and more the same violence is coming into Britain.
“Freedom of religion should be the right of any British citizen but today I feel unsafe, even then nothing will stop me going to church.
“I will pray for my attackers and hope they will change their hard-line approach to faith which is very dangerous for our society.”
From what I have read about the attack on Mr Amar and of his previous problems with Pakistani Muslims and their bad attitudes towards him, it looks most likely that Mr Amar was attacked because he is a Christian. He is yet another victim of that monstrous intolerance towards all that is not of Islam that is prevalent in Islamic nations, cultures and communities.
I find it both disgusting and shaming to me as a Briton that this man, a Christian who came to the United Kingdom to escape anti Christian persecution by Pakistani Muslims, is having to face the same persecution here in Britain. It is a horrific irony that the country that Mr Amar should have felt safest in, Britain, has foolishly imported and pandered to those who would attack those like Mr Amar for his faith. As a society and as a nation we need to ensure that members of peaceful faiths are not assaulted by the followers of violent religious or political ideologies of which Islam is a significant one.
Mr Amar is correct when he says that the hard line religious attitudes that one must reasonably expect to be behind the attack on him are not good. I agree that these attitudes must be tackled. But, it may be that to ensure the rights and security of peaceful British Pakistani Christians are first that the security organs of the state need to take an unequivocably hostile view of orthodox Islam for it is from here that these incidents of violent intolerance are coming from. Unless Islamic arrogance and violent intolerance is properly and effectively tackled, then peaceful British Christians, especially those from places where Christianity is oppressed such as Pakistan, will continue to be victimised.
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Original story on the British Pakistani Christians website
