Christianity is the most persecuted religion in the world today. So much so that even the BBC admits that it’s at “near genocide” levels. A glance at the map of persecution around the world is rather telling: apart from the world’s remaining communist regimes, anti-Christian hate is notably congruent with Islamic-majority countries.
That ol’ “Religion of Peace” sure seems to have trouble “coexisting” when it’s not in the minority.
And it doesn’t take much to trigger the peaceful followers of the Religion of Peace into murderous rage.
Muslims in eastern Pakistan went on a rampage Wednesday over allegations that a Christian man had desecrated the Koran, demolishing the man’s house, burning churches and damaging several other homes, police and local Christians said. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
The scale of the violence prompted the government to deploy additional police forces and send in the army to help restore order.
The attacks in Jaranwala, in the district of Faisalabad in Punjab province, erupted after some Muslims living in the area claimed they had seen a local Christian, Raja Amir, and his friend tearing out pages from a Koran, throwing them on the ground and writing insulting remarks on other pages.
Then again, Muslims in Afghanistan went on the rampage after seeing US soldiers burning some rubbish and just ‘assuming’ that it was Korans. Or the Muslims in Britain who drove an autistic child into hiding after he allegedly “scuffed” his own copy of the Koran.
All in all, it went about as ‘peacefully’ as you no doubt suspected.
A mob gathered and began attacking multiple churches and several Christian homes, burning furniture and other household items. Some members of the Christian community fled their homes to escape the mob.
Although police eventually intervened and dispersed the rioters, it’s plain whose side they’re really on.
Police chief Bilal Mehmood told reporters they were also looking for Amir, who went into hiding to escape the mob, and would detain him to determine whether he had desecrated the Koran.
Videos and photos posted on social media show an angry mob descending upon a church, throwing pieces of bricks and burning it. In another video, two other churches are attacked, their windows broken as attackers throw furniture out and set it on fire.
Several policemen are seen in the videos watching the situation without intervening to stop the vandalism.
It got so bad, it almost resembled a scene from Germany or France.
In yet another video, a man is seen climbing to the roof of the church and removing the steel cross after repeatedly hitting it with a hammer as the crowd down on the road cheered him on […]
Khalid Mukhtar, a local priest, said most of the Christians living in the area had fled to safer places. “Even my house was burned,” he added.
Mukhtar said there are 17 churches in Jaranwala and he believes most of them were attacked.
Of course, the mainstream media can’t report on Islamic mayhem without throwing out a ‘yeah, but, no, but…’ bone. In this case, that Muslim clerics were called in to help quell the riots and “express solidarity with Christians”.
It would have been more help if Islamic clerics didn’t fan the violence in the first place.
Father Gulshan Barkat, who teaches church history at the National Catholic Institute of Theology in Karachi, described the blasphemy allegations as a “false accusation” and said the local mosques were also to blame because loudspeakers erected on minarets had earlier in the day called on Muslims to gather and “attack the churches and Christian community”.
“The emotion of our Muslim brethren flares up very quickly, even at hearsay,” he said […]
Domestic and international human rights groups say blasphemy allegations have often been used to intimidate religious minorities in Pakistan and settle personal scores.
In December 2021, a Muslim mob descended on a sports equipment factory in Pakistan’s Sialkot district, killing a Sri Lankan man and burning his body publicly over allegations of blasphemy.
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All in all, just another day in the religion of peace.
