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[Muaddib]

Nasibi beasts...


"The People of the Book" is Islam's distinctive name for non-Muslim monotheists such as Jews and Christians. It sounds like a title given to those respected and revered. Unfortunately, the opposite is true. "Protected People," another such term, sounds so reassuring. Who doesn't want to be protected? But for the Islamic world's "Protected People" there is no protection.
Nowhere is this truer than for Pakistan's tiny minority Christian population. Rather than being protected, Pakistani Christians are disadvantaged and victimized in every way. Dhimmis, treated as second-class citizens, they live with grinding poverty and Muslim contempt, deprived of education and employment opportunities. Vulnerable to threats and lacking the means to defend themselves, they are the inevitable targets of Islamist attacks, even victimized by those who are supposed to protect them, merely because they are Christians.
Christians in northern Pakistan, such as the precarious Afghanistan-bordering Northwest Frontier Territory Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) and Punjab Province have long suffered and continue to suffer oppression and persecution. But increasingly, Christians in southern Pakistan's Sindh Province are being persecuted under the "Talibanization" of Karachi. Afghani and Pakistani Pashtun militants that have been flooding Pakistan's largest city forthe last few years are causing problems for the whole city, but especially for the impoverished, minority Christian community. They and other Islamists subject southern Pakistan's Christians to horrific violations of their human rights and dignity.
http://www.aina.org/...20629130604.htm

[Auqab]

What else can you expect...the only thing those Wahhabi/Salafi/Deobandi's know is to kill people in the name of religion.

[titumir]

I wonder what they will make of American Christians killing thousands of Pakistanis through drone strikes. Or maybe we should keep silent on that.

[Brained]

titumir, on 15 July 2012 - 11:17 PM, said:

I wonder what they will make of American Christians killing thousands of Pakistanis through drone strikes. Or maybe we should keep silent on that.

This cannot be used to justify the treatment meted out to Christians and Hindus in Pakistan. The Americans have nothing to do with Christians who chose to live in Pakistan after partition. Likewise, this reasoning cannot be used to justify the inhumane treatment of the Hindus "Muslims are treated badly in India, so we punish the Hindus here." Typical Deobandi logic.

These hardliners, living in houses built with the blood of innocents, will be held accountable for their deeds, if not today than on the Day of Judgement.

[titumir]

Brained, on 16 July 2012 - 09:36 AM, said:

This cannot be used to justify the treatment meted out to Christians and Hindus in Pakistan. The Americans have nothing to do with Christians who chose to live in Pakistan after partition. Likewise, this reasoning cannot be used to justify the inhumane treatment of the Hindus "Muslims are treated badly in India, so we punish the Hindus here." Typical Deobandi logic.

These hardliners, living in houses built with the blood of innocents, will be held accountable for their deeds, if not today than on the Day of Judgement.

At the same time, mentioning wahhabi atrocities against Christians without mentioning the reasons (no matter how unjustified) they give, is dishonesty. Its not ethical journalism. This article from the start blames Islam for the treatment of Christians. This is absolutely dishonest and unacceptable.

[forte]

titumir, on 16 July 2012 - 10:53 AM, said:

At the same time, mentioning wahhabi atrocities against Christians without mentioning the reasons (no matter how unjustified) they give, is dishonesty. Its not ethical journalism. This article from the start blames Islam for the treatment of Christians. This is absolutely dishonest and unacceptable.

What are the reasons?

[Brained]

titumir, on 16 July 2012 - 10:53 AM, said:

At the same time, mentioning wahhabi atrocities against Christians without mentioning the reasons (no matter how unjustified) they give, is dishonesty. Its not ethical journalism. This article from the start blames Islam for the treatment of Christians. This is absolutely dishonest and unacceptable.

Agreed. But what else can be expected from these self-styled journalists and armchair analysts.

[Fink]

hope we kill more Taliban

the Pakistani govt needs to help out too

[joshhacker5133]

As I understand it after reading the Amnesty International Report...the most common official reason for Pakistani Christians being persecuted is alleged blasphamy against either Islam or more commonly the Prophet both of which carry the death penalty.

[titumir]

They don't really need a reason to persecute the minorities, after all, Shias are killed much more often than Christians in Pakistan.