Each type of human society, whether it be a free society or whether it be an oppressive one, has characteristics that put it in either camp. The United States of America for example has many of the characteristics that are essential for a free society. It has a relatively free economy where people can build businesses, it allows its citizens to speak freely on a vast number of matters and very importantly to my mind is a society where people have freedom of religion.

The right for citizens or subjects to choose the peaceful faith that best suits them is in my view a prime characteristic of a free society. Americans can choose to follow a religion or not in relative peace and safety and families can bring up their children in the religious environment that best suits them. We may not agree with the religious choices of others, but free societies like the United States allow almost everyone to believe in the god or gods that each individual sees as best for them.

Contrast the religious life of the United States with the religious life of a nation that epitomises oppression and lack of freedom and we can see just why free societies are better than oppressive ones. I’m speaking here of the nation of Pakistan that is without doubt one of the worst and most oppressive shitholes on the planet.

Pakistani society is run on guidelines that produce the very opposite of freedom and instead produce little more than violence, cultural retardation and oppression, especially religious oppression. We can see this by the harsh and abusive way that Pakistani society and culture treats religious minorities, including those heterodox Muslims such as the Ahmediyya.

The latest and very worrying indication from Pakistan that this country has thrown the freedoms that it was born with in 1947 down the toilet comes from a story in Breitbart about a Muslim Imam who converted to Christianity. This former Imam, who was given an pseudonym by the German newspaper that originally published the story, has quite frankly been put through hell by Muslims both in Pakistan and in Germany where this man fled. He was shot at by Pakistani Muslims in Pakistan and only survived because the gun jammed and was stabbed by men he presumed by Pakistani Muslims whilst in Germany, a place where people like him should be safe.

Breitbart said:

The 34-year-old said he grew up in a religious household in Pakistan and trained from the age of eight to become an imam, just as his father and grandfather had been before him. Following missionary work in Greece, where he had planned to start his own mosque, he began his conversion to Christianity and now says he fears for his life in Pakistan, German tabloid Bild reports.

The German paper identifies the imam under a different name, Haroon Masih, for his own safety, and according to Mr Masih it was the charity of a Christian couple in Greece that began his journey to Christianity, saying that he had previously been taught to reject other faiths.

Haroon Masih has in my opinion done nothing wrong. He was on one path and then realised that there was something missing or wrong in the path that he was on and changed his path for one that he believes is better. I have seen this sort of thing happen before. I once had the privilege to meet an elderly man who had been a small part of the Hitlerian machine in Nazi Germany when he was a young man, but after the defeat of the Nazis went through a similar experience of having is previous views challenged. In this example, which echoes somewhat the experience of Haroon Masih, personal contact with Jews after the war, brought him to a position of religious enlightenment and this man eventually converted to Judaism. Like Mr Masih, the remarkable man I met, exercised his right to choose a religious and cultural path that best suited him.

Breitbart added:

“During my studies, I persecuted and oppressed Christians myself. Then the question flared up in my heart: why?”

Sometimes asking ‘why’ something is as it is can be the first step that people who adhere to bad ideologies take to getting out of such ideologies.

After converting Masih moved back to Pakistan where he founded an underground church which was eventually discovered. After the discovery, he claims he was “beaten half to death” by members of his own family and friends along with others from his town.

This was incredibly brave of Mr Masih to do this. He could have stayed in Europe or gone to some other nation that is less backward and hateful than Pakistan, but to his credit and to my admiration, he went back to try to support other benighted Christians there.

Several other attempts were made on his life, he claims, including one involving an AK-47 that jammed before he could be shot, leading the then-26-year-old to flee to Germany and seek asylum.

Despite being granted asylum in Germany, Masih was still under threat from violent Islamists and claims that he was stabbed by two men who he said spoke Urdu, the main language spoken in Pakistan.

This man is truly the sort of thoughtful and intelligent individual who it was right for Germany to give asylum to. I very much doubt that he will be the sort of economic and societal burden that many others of Germany’s recent third world migrants have become. He is the epitome of the sort of ex Muslim who we in the West should be protecting and valuing.

It is truly awful and disgusting that Haroon Masih is unsafe in Germany. Modern Germany should have been the place where Mr Masih could work and practise his faith in peace, but as we can see here, it seems as if Merkel’s Mobile Muslim Mayhem have other ideas.

Although Germany is a bit of a mess at the moment due to the influx of vast numbers of unsuitable and indeed dangerous migrants, this story tells us just as much, if not more, about the nature of Pakistan. It tells us that Pakistan is a universe away from what should be considered as a civilised society.

The sort of violence directed at Mr Masih is not an isolated incident created by a small number of malcontents, it’s the sort of violence that is tacitly condoned by Pakistani politicians who know that their nation has an intolerant Islamic religious character and pander to this current in order to stay in office. No civilised society or one that aspires to be one attempts to kill or maim those who should be considered as civilised. Pakistan and some of those in the Pakistani diaspora who have attacked Mr Masih have shown that they are uncivilised and that their nation is unworthy of being considered as the equal of the nations of the West. If you want any confirmation that Pakistan is the turd that will not flush, then look at how Mr Masih has been treated and the huge number of other Pakistanis who have to endure the oppressions of this basketcase of a country and its disgusting people and politics. I grieve for what Pakistan could have been post independence. It could have been a contender for prizes among the world’s family of nations, instead it has become a prime example of what happens when Islam is given any place in the running of a country. Pakistan is a shithole not because of any resource or trade problems that the country may have suffered, but primarily because of the influence of Islam.