“Jim Crow” Alive & Well ... In Pakistan
According to the Pakistan Christian Post (Aug. 4, 2006), a Christian stonemason was violently beaten just outside the city of Lahore after drinking from a public water glass.
On Tuesday, June 6th, Nasir Ashraf was working on a school construction site when he got thirsty, drew water and drank from a glass chained to a public water tank next to a mosque. While returning to the construction site, a Muslim man asked, “Why did you drink water from this glass since you are a Christian?” He accused the mason of polluting the glass and proceeded to destroy it. The Muslim man then summoned a crowd by shouting, “This Christian polluted our glass,” and encouraging them to attack the offender. The crowd began beating Ashraf, eventually pushing him off a ledge. The fall dislocated his shoulder, broke his collarbone in two places and knocked him unconscious.
Many Pakistani Muslims will not allow Christians to share their eating and drinking utensils because they regard Christians and many of the jobs they perform as unclean. According to a 2004 report by Asia News, in some areas of Pakistan, restaurant owners ask their patrons for their religion before serving them, and one restaurant in Hafizabad has separate utensils and washbasins for Muslims and non-Muslims. The Pakistan Christian Post reports that the practice of maintaining separate utensils for Muslims and Christians is widespread.
Comment: Where is the righteous anger on the part of the media at the unceasing brutality inflicted daily upon Catholics and Protestants around the globe? To cite only a few examples from the last few months –
- In Nigeria, a Muslim mob stoned and clubbed a woman to death, after overwhelming the police officers who were protecting her. Her crime? She distributed some Gospel tracts to Muslim youths and, thereby, “insulted the Prophet Muhammad.”
(Compass Direct)
- A group of Hindu radicals attempted to burn down an electrical transformer as part of a plan to attack and rape 150 orphan girls at the Emmanuel Orphanage in Kota, Rajasthan (India). The plan failed when their actions led to an uncontrolled fire and brought many onlookers.
(The Global Council of Indian Christians)
-In Pakistan, a man is freed on bail after kidnapping and raping a Christian high-school student in an effort to pressure her into converting to Islam. The girl was taken and violated by wealthy neighbors near the town of Faisalabad. Among the gang of criminals was Muhammad Kashif, who has been granted bail on the technicality that he is suffering from an illness. What is his illness? It is psoriasis.
(Compass Direct)
-In Lahore, Pakistan, a Christian father of three abducted daughters (aged 20, 16 and 15) who have been forcibly converted to Islam receives this letter from one of the kidnappers:
You have invited your death by moving application in police station Factory Area, against Mohammad Ali and me. Each of bricks of the police station, every constable even the Station House Officer (S.H.O), all belongs to us. You can not cause harm to us. If you want to live any more, withdraw your application from police station immediately. Otherwise we can kill you along with your wife and children. Your (three) daughters are in our custody, we can take any action against you by using them. They have embraced Islam and I got married with Najma Bibi [the eldest of the daughters]. Now she is my wife, she is Muslim now and you are Christian. She can not meet you now. I am sending their embracing Islam certificate and marriage certificate of Najma with me. Let you read it so that you can be satisfied.
The letter was signed, “Angel of your death.” According to the report, Muslim gangsters follow Christian women to their workplaces – hospitals, factories, schools, etc. In collusion with the Muslim heads of these establishments, they pressure the young women to enter into illicit relations with them and, on denial, kidnap them and forcibly convert them to keep as mistresses.
(Sharing Life Ministry-Pakistan)
Such atrocities are daily fare throughout the world, but it is left to small “special interest groups” like the ones cited above, and not the mainstream press or talk-radio, to report on some of the worst outrages being perpetrated against humanity today.
