Pakistan is a terrible craphole. It is the turd of the family of nations that refuses to flush. Founded in part by a man, Mohammed Ali Jinnah who was not the secularist that Pakistan apologists try to claim him as, Pakistan is home to some of the worst and most intolerant forms of Islam on the planet. Not for Pakistan the more enlightened or at the very least the less dangerous forms of Islam or even a more cultural and less political Islam. Instead what we see in Pakistan is the very worst forms of Orthodox Islam given political power and also with the ability to call up mobs to call for the heads of those who ‘blaspheme’ about Islam.

Pakistan is one of the worst places on Earth to be a member of a non-Muslim religious minority. Such people live in fear of their lives because of the domination of Pakistan’s particular brand of violent intolerant Islam.

Sometimes, violent Koran followers in Pakistan do not stop at making violent threats to minorities but all too often end up killing members of these minorities.

The latest case of murderous violence aimed at a member of a minority religious group in Pakistan comes from the region of Peshawar where a Christian Pastor was shot dead by a gunman who approached the Pastor’s car and fired a number of shots into the church minister. A pastoral assistant who was travelling with the Pastor was injured but is expected to recover.

This case has been relayed by the British Asian Christian Association who said:

A Pastor who has travelling home after leading a church service at Church in Peshawar was shot dead in an attack on Sunday 30th January 2022.

A pastoral assistant who was also shot in the same attack survived with minor injuries and was treated in Lady Reading Hospital, before being discharged

Gunmen killed a Christian vicar and wounded another as the clergymen drove home from church in Pakistan’s north-western city of Peshawar on Sunday.  Police said:

Two attackers on a motorcycle opened fire on the car on the city’s ring-road, killing Pastor William Siraj (75 yrs) instantly, officers added.

Pastor William Siraj had completed his service at All Saints Church, part of the Church of Pakistan Diocese of Peshawar (The Church of Pakistan,  is a union of protestant churches including the Methodists and the Anglicans) and was driving home with his pastoral assistant Pastor Patrick Naeem.

Pastor William  was shot twice in the abdomen and the wounds proved to much, as he died from painful trauma and excessive bleeding. Pastor Patrick was rescued from his vehicle and taken to Lady Reading Hospital where he was treated for minor injuries and then discharged later the same day.

The shooting occurred near Ring Road in the city’s Gulbahar area, and many protestors gathered later the same day in anger of another targeted attack on Christians.

Pastor Siraj’s body was later handed over to his family after an autopsy and police inspection of the crime scene.

This latest murder of a Christian in Pakistan has caused justifiable anger in the constantly endangered Christian community of Pakistan. Following the shooting of Pastor Siraj, Christians gathered to protest. According to the report linked to above, Christians gathered and shouted ‘Long Live Jesus Christ’. To gather and say these words might look like small things to a Western eye, where in theory we have religious tolerance, but to say these words in a place like Pakistan where Christians are violently persecuted, takes great bravery.

Pakistan is one the very last places on the planet that I would want to live as a religious minority unless of course I had an open plane ticket out of the place to use when Pakistan’s Islamic nutcases, both those in government and on the streets, decide to get violent, which happens all too often. I hold that view because of the type of Islam that dominates Pakistan, an intolerant and violent form, creates followers for whom the murder of those who believe differently to them as a religious duty or sacrament.

Pakistan is a terrible place, a catastrophe of a country and it is that way almost entirely because of the dominance of some of the worst forms of Islam on the planet. Pakistani Islam has created an angry, backwards, intolerant, violent failed state and unless things change in Pakistan it will continue to produce nothing that others want to buy and continue to be a cautionary tale of what happens when bad ideologies run entire nations.