Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | Source/Credit: Compass Direct News, By BP News
Attempt fails as influential Islamic family intervenes on behalf of Christians
SIALKOT, Pakistan (Compass Direct News)–Tensions are still high in a village near here following Muslims’ attempt to seize land from a Christian family by threatening to accuse them of “blasphemy.”
What began on Feb. 19 as a quarrel over a pigeon between Christian and Muslim youths at Nawa Pind Sabu Mohal village, in Sialkot’s Pasroor area in northeast Punjab Province, grew into an occasion to jail some Christians in the overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim country, the Christians said.
Gulshan Masih, 20, told Compass that his younger brother, Saif Masih, 18, had quarreled with a young Muslim over a pigeon that led to about a half dozen boys from each group charging into a fistfight and later pelting each other with stones. With the Muslims throwing bricks and stones from inside a mosque at the young Christian men’s homes, the skirmish ended when an elderly female relative of the Christians was wounded in their courtyard, Gulshan Masih said.
A few hours later, police officers arrived and took his father, 55-year-old Bashir Masih, and 50-year-old uncle, Pervaiz Masih, into custody.
“The Muslims had accused us of desecrating the mosque by throwing stones at it,” Gulshan Masih said. “My father and uncle were not even involved in the fight, yet they were taken into custody on false charges.”
Categories: Asia, Crime, Human Rights, Human values, Interfaith tolerance, Islam, Pakistan, Separation of Church and State
Pakistani Muallah has coin for toss with both sides same. Every toss goes to them. Non Muslims or the ones they consider non Muslims are worse then animals to them.
Ironically this injustice is being practised in the name of the most just religion Islam.
Christians are even better the worst target of their brutal strategies are the Ahamdies.
How just-fully this law is being applied can be judged by the statistics, that the number of cases filed in blasphemy are more against Muslims then of none Muslims.
These cases are blindly persecuted. In most cases falsely, just out of enmity. Whereas if this law must persist the lawmakers should make sure that if the accusation is proved wrong then a blasphemy case should be filed against such a liar.
A blasphemy law against the people who did wrong by using the name of Islam and its Holy fonder.