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Words fail me as I write this. We, Bishops, Priests and lay people are deeply pained and distressed at the Jaranwala incident in the Faisalabad District in Pakistan. A church building is being burnt as I type this message. Bibles have been desecrated and Christians have been… pic.twitter.com/xruE83NPXL
— Bishop Azad Marshall (@BishopAzadM) August 16, 2023
In recent months we’ve had incessant wailing and violence because someone in Sweden burned a copy of the Koran which is considered a holy book within Islam and by apologists for the ideology.
But when Muslim mobs burn churches, it gets a fraction of the attention.
Several churches were set on fire by a rampaging mob in eastern Pakistan on Wednesday after a Christian family was accused of blasphemy, officials said.
Hundreds of people armed with sticks and rocks stormed the predominantly Christian area in Faisalabad city, police in the area told AFP.
Images on social media showed smoke rising from the church buildings and people setting fire to furniture that had been dragged from them.
The Muslim pretext for the attack was the usual one in totalitarian theocracies… blasphemy. Someone had supposedly burned or red-penciled a Koran and the howling mobs quickly gathered.
Bishop Azad Marshall, President Bishop of the Church of Pakistan, said that the priests and ordinary people were deeply pained and distressed at the Jaranwala incident. “A church building is being burnt as I type this message,” he wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Bibles have been desecrated and Christians have been tortured and harassed having been falsely accused of violating the Holy Quran.”
Several churches were vandalised on Wednesday in Pakistan’s Faisalabad over blasphemy allegations. Three churches – Salvation Army Church, United Presbyterian Church, Allied Foundation Church – situated in the Isa Nagri area of Jaranwala tehsil were ransacked by the extremists, a pastor told Pakistan-based Dawn News. Imran Bhatti, the pastor of the Jaranwala tehsil, said that the house of a Christian cleaner, accused of blasphemy, was also demolished.
Punjab police chief Usman Anwar said the police were negotiating with the protesters and the area had been cordoned off.
The official said that efforts were underway to contain the situation by engaging with peace committees and police across the province had been activated. He also informed that the protesters had also turned against the assistant commissioner of the area, a member of the Christian community. The assistant commissioner has been evacuated, Anwar told Dawn. The Christian leaders, however, alleged that the police remained silent spectators.
Pakistan is an Islamic totalitarian state. The police are arms of its Islamic theocracy.
Although Pakistan was founded in 1947 with the intention of creating a tolerant and egalitarian country, religious communities have continued to face discrimination.
Last month, Naveed Walter, the President of Human Rights Focus Pakistan said that the population of minorities in Pakistan has come down to 3 per cent from 23 per cent since its independence in 1947.
“There were multiple reasons behind this. One of the main reasons was when Pakistan was declared an Islamic country. In 1973, when the constitution was established, in Article 2 it was stated that Islam shall be a state religion. In Article 41 (2) it was declared that the President shall always be a Muslim always. Article 91 restated that the Prime Minister shall be a Muslim always. There were multiple amendments in the constitution in the 1980s when the dictator Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq made the amendments in the constitution as per the Sharia law”, said Naveed Walter.
The human rights activist said that the blasphemy law was introduced in the country to target religious minorities. A large number of people have been killed and many languished in jail across Pakistan since its introduction.
This is the reality of Islam. It’s already happening in Europe under the pressure of Islamic migration. And it’s coming to America.
Riots continue in Jaranwala after two #Christians were accused of #blasphemy.
The angry Radical Muslim mob has damaged several Christian houses and set many churches on fire.
Police say they are trying to negotiate with the Radical Mob, Failed State #Pakistan #Faisalabad… pic.twitter.com/ju4bg98ymM
— Faraz Pervaiz (@FarazPervaiz3) August 16, 2023
Yes, the religion of peace strikes again. This is so sad. I have a friend that lives in Pakasistan who is a Christian and he tells me about the persecutions. He said Christians are discriminated against in jobs too. The work he and some other Christian pastors and churches do there is to give people Bibles and they try to get enough donations to get families out of the brick kilns as slaves to pay off the family’s debt. He said the police there won’t hurt them but will look the other way when Muslims are hurting them.
“This is the reality of Islam. It’s already happening in Europe under the pressure of Islamic migration. And it’s coming to America.”
I’m listening to my favorite crooner of all time, Nat King Cole. A man of elegance, dignity, sophistication, self-esteem, self-control. Singing beautiful songs of elegance, dignity, sophistication, self-esteem, self-control. Singing songs of man’s happiness on earth.
Songs that celebrate man, man’s life, the happiness and possibilities of man’s life when man is at his rational best. A celebration of man’s life on earth.
No religion, least of all the monotheistic religions, when believed in and practiced seriously, could produce music celebrating man, man’s happiness, man’s pride, man’s dignity, man’s self-esteem, the love, pride, and joy that is possible to man on his journey through his life on earth.
Keep the Bible and the Koran, just give me Nat.
Thank you Mr. Cole, thank you.
Nat King Cole started his musical career playing the organ in his father’s church.
I like Nat too but Christian Churches have come up with sublime hymns. Does Bach ring a bell?
Your arrogant atheism is misplaced.
I remember I liked some of his songs but I can’t remember what they were. Looking on youtube I couldn’t find any that jogged my memory. I usually don’t like sentimental songs but this was the best I found so far.
Here’s a good one:
In the past 50 years, Christianity in the UK has all but disappeared. More than a few churches are now mosques, but the disease that killed Christianity in Britain was atheism. Once the churches emptied out, the Satanists move in. No one dared to stop them because “rational” people don’t really believe all those old “fairy tales.”
By the way, Satan was a musician.
It is difficult to win a religious war for the side that does not fight. Europeans pretend to some extent to be for individual rights. However, they fail to protect them against the current collective threat by treating it as individual offenses.
In this generation (or two) they failed. In my grandfather’s generation, they made total war on the collective enemies without the slightest doubt about the righteousness of our cause.
Who ever called Islam the Religion of Peace must have been dropped on their head too many times now their Brains are screwed up
Thanks to the largess of the terror org CAIR, we have a supply of the muslim’s guide to terror. They are quite handy. You can pick up dog feces on a walk. You can use them as part of a backstop at the range. Israeli IMI ammunition is a perfect match for the most holy of terror guides. Tried using it to line the cat’s box, but they are clean creatures, and wouldn’t crap on crap.
John 15: 17-21 “These things I command you, that ye love one another. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word which I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have also persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him who sent me.”
Once Islam became one of the Left’s official victim groups (despite the fact that Islam victimizes people all over the world) you were not allowed to criticize it or report anything negative about it.
The obvious thing would have been to liquidate everything and move to India when Pakistan and India split.
They did so but the Muslims murdered many Hindus on their way out. A friend of mine worked with an Indian who was the only survivor of the massacre of the passengers on his train out. Convert or die are the option Islam allows for. Either way is fine with them.
Thanks Kasandra. I remember a little bit now. I once read some about that. Millions massacred I think.
Before the British set up shop in India, Muslims ruled Hindus throughout India with an iron fist. Over the four centuries of Muslim rule, they murdered 80 million Indians and enslaved an unknowable number of survivors.
Islam mandates and sacralizes genocide, slavery, and lying.
Savages will always be savages.
At some point a few nukes will be the only solution for getting rid of them.