On Being a Christian in Pakistan > Two Christian boys shot by muslims in Pakistan, one died; Christian humiliation in Pakistan

The title of the 2nd story on this post has been altered to bring it in line with community standards. 

Pakistan: Muslims open fire on two Christian boys,

killing one of them

May 29, 2026 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer

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Compounding the fear and uncertainty of the Christian community is the fact that they know that authorities will not be on their side, and they cannot assume that the perpetrators will be apprehended and that justice will be done. Authorities are all too often sympathetic to those who attack the Christians, and so there is no justice for the victims.

Fear and Persecution Grip Pakistan’s Christian Community

After Deadly Peshawar Shooting

by Sardar Mushtaq Gill, Pakistan Christian Post, May 27, 2026 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

PESHAWAR: Fear and uncertainty continue to spread among Pakistan’s Christian minority following the tragic death of an 18-year-old Christian youth who succumbed to injuries sustained in a deadly shooting incident in Peshawar.

According to local residents, Silas, son of Ejaz and a resident of Father Colony in Peshawar, died on Wednesday after battling critical gunshot wounds for several days. The attack reportedly occurred when unidentified armed men opened fire on two Christian boys a few days earlier, leaving both seriously injured.

Silas remained under treatment following the attack, but his condition deteriorated due to the severity of his injuries. His death has deeply shaken the local Christian community, where many believe minorities continue to face increasing violence, harassment, and intimidation in different parts of Pakistan.

Residents of Father Colony described the incident as another painful example of the insecurity faced by Christians in the country. Community members expressed grief and anger, saying repeated attacks on minorities are often met with silence and an inadequate response from authorities and political leaders….

 

‘Every Sunrise Brings Fresh Humiliation for Pakistani Christians

May 31, 2026 12:00 pm By Faraz Pervaiz RoshanLeave a Comment

The problems that Pakistani Christians have to face with every sunrise emanate from the moral paralysis of all too many Muslims — their ignorance, oppression, injustice, bigotry, hypocrisy, stubbornness, lowly thinking, and vulture-like behavior.

Despite this, Muslims today go around the whole world raising a clamor about how there is no religion as excellent as Islam, and that it has also bestowed the best rights, status, and rank upon non-Muslims. Or they raise the same clamor that Islam is a religion of tolerance and forbearance which commands good treatment even with kafirs, whereas the reality on the ground is exactly the opposite of this.

The true teachings of Islam are filled with malice, hatred, contempt, and discriminatory inferior treatment full of killing and plundering towards non-Muslim kafirs — Christians, Jews, and Hindus. Whoever does not accept Islam has been trained to be humiliated and disgraced at every step.

Today, Muslim scholars and preachers cover up all these hateful true Islamic teachings and wrap themselves in an apparent and false cloak of morality and character in front of others. The purpose of this apparent garb is nothing except that those who are not aware of the real false teachings of Islam should become impressed by this apparent morality and fall into the trap of Islam.

Therefore, in this connection, it is necessary to bring forward the teachings of Islam that are filled with hatred and malice towards others. Even many Muslims themselves are not aware of these teachings today; otherwise, they are so disgusting that revealing this face of Islam is enough even for any justice-loving Muslim.

Christians Demonstration Pakistan, VOA, Public domain

Allah’s Curse Is Upon the Kafirs

The god of the Quran has bestowed another honor upon the kafirs by saying: “So the curse of Allah is upon the disbelievers.” (Al-Baqarah: 89)

Not only the curse of Allah alone, and not only upon the living kafirs, but even regarding those kafirs who have passed away from the world, it is said:

“Those who disbelieved and died while they were disbelievers — upon them is the curse of allah and the angels and all mankind.” (Al-Baqarah: 161)

Those who believe in such teachings and consider them their faith accuse others that non-Muslims harbor hatred towards them. By no means! It is the hearts of the Muslims that, under the influence of these hateful Islamic teachings, knowingly or unknowingly, are filled with hatred and contempt against every non-Muslim kafir.

Protection of a Muslim’s Life for Killing a Non-Muslim

In an Islamic state, a non-Muslim kafir will also have this right and status that if a Muslim kills him, the Islamic state, which believes in life for life in cases of murder, can never impose the death penalty on that Muslim killer in exchange for that kafir.

Accordingly, the Islamic prophet Muhammad had advised Ali, which he had written down. In it, this command was also present: “A believer will not be killed for a kafir.” (Sunan Abu Dawud, Kitab al-Diyat, Bab iqad al-Muslim min al-kafir, Hadith 4530)

Therefore, let no non-Muslim ever forget that in an Islamic state, any decision regarding even his life will not be made at the level of equality. Similarly, a Muslim should be confident that if any non-Muslim kafir dies at his hands, he should consider his own life completely safe and secure.

Kafirs Are Worse Than Animals

The Quran, while describing the status and rank of those who do not accept Islam — the kafirs — states: “These people are like cattle, rather they are even more misguided than them. It is they who are heedless.” (Al-A’raf: 179)

The famous commentator and Imam Ibn Kathir has written in the tafsir of this verse:

“And whoever commits kufr (disbelief), he is an animal, rather worse than an animal.” (Tafsir Ibn Kathir, translated, Volume 2, Page 438, Maktaba Islami, Lahore)

Similarly, in another verse it is said: “Do you think that most of them hear and understand? By no means! They are like cattle, rather they are even more astray from the path.” (Al-Furqan: 44)

Thus, the first honor bestowed upon those who do not accept the invitation of Islam is that their very humanity is denied, and they are declared to be like animals, rather worse than them. Not only are they declared worse than some specific animals, but they are declared worse than all creatures and living beings.

Accordingly, the Quran states: “And the worst of living creatures in the sight of allah are those who disbelieve and do not believe.” (Al-Anfal: 55)

Kafirs Are Impure and Unclean

The Quran has declared regarding non-Muslim polytheists:

“O you who believe! The mushrikin (polytheists) are completely najis (impure).” (At-Tawbah: 28)

Look at this hateful teaching of the Quran that those who do not accept the concept of Tawhid are declared impure and unclean. The majority of Muslim scholars believe that such people are dirty and impure in their inner self, but their bodies are not impure. However, some scholars who take the apparent words of the Quran as their proof consider even the bodies of kafirs to be impure. So much so that if a Muslim shakes hands with a kafir, he should wash his hand. Ibn Kathir has written:

“This verse is also proof of the impurity of the mushrikin… As for whether the body and person of the mushrikin is impure or not, the majority say it is not, because Allah has made the slaughter of the People of the Book lawful. Some Zahiris say that the bodies of the mushrikin are also impure. Hasan says: Whoever shakes hands with them should wash his hand.” (Tafsir Ibn Kathir, translated, Vol. 2, pp. 549-550, Maktaba Islami, Lahore)

Fight the Kafirs Until They Pay Jizya in a State of Humiliation

The Quran, inciting and creating hatred against those who do not accept Islam, says:

“Fight those who do not believe in allah and the Last Day, who do not declare unlawful what allah and his Messenger have declared unlawful, and who do not accept the true religion — from among those who were given the Scripture — until they pay the jizya with their own hands while they are humiliated.” (At-Tawbah: 29)

Ibn Kathir has explained this verse: “So (Allah) says: Do not leave them until they pay the jizya with humiliation and degradation by their own hands.” (Tafsir Ibn Kathir, translated, Vol. 2, p. 550, Maktaba Islami, Lahore)

These are the teachings because of believing in them and acting upon them that Islam remains a continuous danger for the followers of other religions or other non-Muslims. The Quran has commanded the Muslims that as long as the kafirs do not accept faith and do not accept the halal and haram imposed by Islam, the Muslims should continue to fight them until the Muslims force these non-Muslims to pay jizya in a state of humiliation and degradation. Therefore, Muslims not only extort protection money in the name of jizya by threatening the followers of other religions with fighting and killing, but also give them the title of being humiliated.

Accordingly, the famous Islamic warrior companion Khalid bin Walid wrote a letter to the people of Persia, in which it was stated:

“We invite you to Islam. If you refuse, then pay the jizya with your own hands while you are humiliated, because with me are such people who love fighting in the way of Allah as the Persians love wine.” (Hakim: 299/3, Tabarani al-Kabir: 105/4, Musnad Ali bin al-Ja’d: Hadith 2304, Majma’ al-Zawa’id: 310/5, Imam Haythami declared this hadith hasan in Majma’ al-Zawa’id.)

The Quran spoke of taking jizya while considering non-Muslims humiliated, but Muhammad also made it obligatory that if any of those Muslims who consider them humiliated passes by them while traveling, they will host him for three days.

Accordingly, it is narrated from Abu al-Huwayrath: “Muhammad had made it obligatory upon the Christians of Aylah to pay three hundred dinars every year, and he had also made it obligatory that any Muslim who passes by them, they will host him for three days, and they will not deceive any Muslim.” (Musnad Imam Shafi’i, Part Four, Kitab al-Asir wa al-Fida’, Bab Darb al-Jizyah, Hadith 1771, Musannaf Abdur Razzaq: Hadith 10092, Al-Sunan al-Kubra lil-Bayhaqi: 19/9)

The second Caliph of the Muslims, Umar, added to this that if Muslims pass by them, these kafirs will not only host them for three days but will also be bound to provide for their other necessities of life.

Umar bin al-Khattab fixed four dinars on those who pay in gold and forty dirhams on those who pay in silver as jizya, along with the necessities of life of the passing Muslims and three days of hospitality. (Mishkat al-Masabih, Kitab al-Jihad, Bab al-Jizyah, Hadith 4041, Muwatta Imam Malik: 1/279, Hadith 623)

These forced hospitalities and humiliating treatment of non-Muslims will not end here, but Muslims have been permitted that if non-Muslims refuse these unnecessary forced hospitalities, they should take this “Islamic right” of hospitality by force.

Uqbah bin Amir narrates: I said: O Messenger of allah! When we pass by a people, they neither offer us hospitality nor fulfill the right that is upon them, and we also do not take our right from them by force. The Muhammad said: “If they refuse and you have to take it by force, then take it by force.” (Mishkat al-Masabih, Kitab al-Jihad, Bab al-Jizyah, Hadith 4040, Sunan Tirmidhi: Hadith 1589)

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European Politics > Why is Sweden so desperate to give up its Neutrality?

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'We humiliated ourselves': Sweden’s bid to join NATO

meets continued resistance from Turkey

Issued on: 28/11/2022 - 17:51

Cetinmuhurdar/PPO, Reuters

Text by:Louise NORDSTROM

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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson shake hands after a news conference

at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, November 8, 2022. © Murat

May 18, 2022, was a big day for Sweden. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and more than 200 years of non-military alignment, the Nordic country finally broke with tradition and applied for NATO membership along with Finland. But what was supposed to be an easy accession has proven to be anything but a smooth sail. NATO member Turkey has a problem with Sweden, and its patience is wearing thin – with both the country’s humour and its freedom of expression principles.

The ink had barely dried on Finland and Sweden’s joint application letter before Turkey started conditioning their aspiring NATO memberships, saying they posed a threat to its national security and they needed to take more concrete steps if they ever wanted its blessing to join the military alliance.

“Neither country has an open, clear stance against terrorist organisations,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said just hours after the application was filed, accusing them of acting as safe havens for Kurdish militant groups such as the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party, PKK. He also demanded they lift an arms export ban imposed on Turkey in 2019 after it launched an offensive in northern Syria targeting the YPG, the Kurdish militia fighting the Islamic State group there.

After signing a memorandum of understanding on the sidelines of a NATO summit in June – in which both Finland and Sweden in broad brushstrokes agreed to address Turkey’s concerns surrounding arms exports and its fight against terrorism – Ankara suddenly started getting very specific in its demands.

At first, it issued a long list of “terrorists”, or alleged Kurdish militants, that it insisted the two countries extradite – despite many of them having been granted asylum by the Nordic countries years, or even decades, earlier.

But Turkey’s demands soon grew in numbers, and began focusing more and more on Sweden: Ankara called for a Swedish minister to be fired over his attendance at a pro-PKK party 10 years ago, and went as far as to summon the Swedish ambassador over a TV show poking fun at Erdogan.

Last week, Turkey piled on the pressure even further by calling on Sweden to investigate a Stockholm rally staged by a group it said was sympathetic to the PKK, and during which anti-Erdogan slogans had allegedly been made. It also demanded Sweden identify those who had taken part in the protest – a move which stands in stark contrast to the country’s highly valued freedom of expression principles.

Between a rock and a hard place

Ankara’s growing lists of demands has caught Sweden between a rock and a hard place since its NATO application pretty much stands and falls with Turkey’s approval – any enlargement of the alliance must be ratified by all of its 30 members. Although Hungary remains the only other NATO member that has yet to greenlight Sweden’s (and Finland’s) membership, its Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said its parliament is expected to do so in the beginning of next year.

The overhanging threat posed by Russia has left the tiny nation of 10 million scrambling to live up to Turkey’s tough asks – as far as its democratic values and laws will allow. In September Sweden lifted the arms export ban to Turkey, and in August it agreed to hand over a man whose name featured on Turkey’s “terrorist” list. The Swedish government insisted, however, that the handover was in line with regular legal proceedings, and that the decision to extradite the man had not been influenced by Sweden’s aspirations to join NATO.

‘Self-destructive behaviour’

Critics, however, have accused Swedish officials of bending over backwards to try to please Erdogan personally, especially after Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s new government took office in October and vowed to do everything in its power to get Sweden’s application granted. “Kristersson must stop humiliating himself for Turkey,” columnist Alex Schulman wrote in an opinion piece published in Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter earlier this month, pointing to the fact that the new prime minister’s first ever visit outside of the European Union was to … Turkey, on November 8.

“All of a sudden we no longer have any problems with selling arms to Turkey. And all the groups that Turkey has labelled terrorist organisations – well nowadays we feel the same way they do! Yes, we humiliated ourselves, but it was going to be worth it, because this trip was sure to pay off. Kristersson was going to receive a long and warm hug by Erdogan […] and Erdogan was going to tell him: ‘Welcome to NATO my friend’,” Schulman wrote in his sarcastic résumé of Kristersson’s trip which left him, and Sweden, without any type of promises indicating the country was inching any closer to joining NATO.

Schulman also ridiculed Sweden’s Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom insistence on describing Turkey as a “democracy”.

“In three weeks time, Erdogan is coming to Sweden, meaning the humiliation will continue also on Swedish turf. But this time around, Kristersson won’t be the only one humiliated, this time the king will have to bow and the queen hold her tiara in hand before him,” he continued.

“Are we really going to continue this self-destructive behaviour? At some point we need to ask our government to stand up for our country and our values, don’t we?”

An election strategy?

But despite Sweden’s many attempts to try to accommodate Ankara’s taxing requests, Aras Lindh, analyst and programme manager at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, believes that it will be kept on tenterhooks for a while still.

“Turkey has several reasons to wave its veto card around. All of a sudden, the country has found itself in a favourable negotiation position,” he wrote in a November analysis piece, noting that Turkey has already successfully forced Sweden to adapt to Turkish interests in a way it rarely has before.

But another, and perhaps more important, gain, is how Erdogan could up his chances in next year’s election by continuing to bully Sweden – for his image’s sake.

“Turkey is plagued by a mismanaged economy,” he said, pointing to Turkey’s shrinking GDP and soaring unemployment rate. “The NATO issue would therefore work as a way to shift the focus in the debate, partly by making it become more about lax European states that can’t keep terrorists from the streets, but above all, by getting the conversation to revolve around the strong leader who isn’t afraid of standing up to them.”

‘Good TV’

Aron Lund, a Middle East analyst at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), agreed.

“Erdogan can paint himself as a strong and important leader that the US, Russia, and a bunch of European countries are all talking about. Not to mention the fact that he got NATO’s secretary-general to travel to Turkey and beg him to let Sweden enter the alliance. It makes for pretty good TV.”

But in the long run, Lund said Turkey has a lot to gain from approving Sweden and Finland’s NATO memberships.

“Militarily, it would be great for Turkey to have them in NATO because it would make the land border between Russia and NATO very long and it would move the focal point of that border and the NATO-Russia tensions that come along with it much, much further north, far away from Turkey.”

Lund, who stressed he was commenting on the Sweden-Turkey issue in a personal capacity rather than as a spokesman for FOI said that it is possible that Erdogan will hand Sweden its much sought-after blessing “near the June elections, or just after they’ve been held”, but that the situation could also be dragged out for much longer.

In the meantime, he said: “Sweden will likely seek to try to keep Erdogan in a good mood as best as it can."

Did Swede's vote to join NATO and give up their precious neutrality? Without a border to Russia, why would they feel the need to join NATO. NATO's aggression puts Sweden more at risk than the risk of Russia invading Sweden. Russia would have to go through Finland first and they are showing that they are not really capable of invading Ukraine successfully.

NATO's attempt to bully Sweden and Finland into joining is an attack on Russia and goes against Europe's agreement with Russia not to work to recruit border countries. NATO and America's determination to crush Russia through the proxy war in Ukraine, and through recruiting border countries, and through the Pentagon's funding of dozens of biolabs near Russia's borders, are pushing Putin too far and too fast. They are creating the least safe environment for Europe since Hitler. 

And don't think this will be an inexpensive endeavour for Finland and Sweden. The cost of joining NATO will be the housing of thousands of American troops and kazillions of dollars (American dollars) in American weapons and weapons systems.

Russian Politics - If Nothing Else, It's At Least Entertaining

Crimean official quits, changes her mind, then quits again after bizarre ‘bread and fur coats’ scandal

Maya Khuzhina hands out loaves to Leningrad Seige survivors © Kerch City Council

By Jonny Tickle

"Fur-coat gate" has gripped Crimea after a local official resigned, then re-instated herself, before – somewhat unbelievably – later resigning again. All in the space of a couple of days.

The controversy started when Maya Khuzhina was pictured handing out pieces of bread to elderly veterans of the Second World War Leningrad blockade while wearing an expensive animal skin. The siege of the city – now Saint Petersburg – by Nazi Germany and its Finnish and Italian allies, lasted 872 days and resulted in over a million deaths, a great many of them from starvation.

In her role as chair of the city council of Kerch, an ancient settlement on the Black Sea coast, Khuzhina handed out bread and medals to eleven survivors of what many consider a genocide. She then posted photos on Facebook, and that's where the trouble started.

The images quickly gained notoriety, and in less than 24 hours there were more than 500 comments, most of which complained about how out-of-touch the politicians pictured seemed to be. The outrage was caused by the contrast between the seemingly cheap loaves of bread and the expensive fur coats of Khuzhina and the accompanying council members making up her entourage.

Later, the politicians explained to reporters that the bread was actually a meat pie, while the fur coats were “imitation,” and they stressed that the gifts were purely “symbolic.”

Following a considerable amount of interest in the national media, the head of Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov, stated that Khuzhina’s actions looked “like mockery, like humiliation,” and ordered an investigation into the event. Aksyonov wrote that the head of the City Council and all deputies should be fired and expelled from the ruling party, United Russia.

Maya Khuzhina © Kerch City Council

Despite the outcry, Khuzhina refused to show any remorse, saying:

“I don’t think I’m guilty, I think I did everything right. I received comments from those blockade women who came to me today with their children... and said that ‘we are very grateful to you; you are the only person who remembered us.’”

The story quickly took a strange turn. Despite seemingly not feeling any guilt, just three days after the scandal broke, Maya Khuzhina and her deputy Larisa Shcherbula wrote letters of resignation. However, the resignation didn't last long, as Khuzhina rescinded her decision less than one day later. "I withdraw my statement, it was a moment of weakness," she said. Unbelievably, just a couple of hours later, she resigned for a second time.

It seems she has more weak moments than strong ones.

Khuzhina's resignation letter will be considered at an extraordinary session of the City Council, according to First Vice-Speaker of the Crimean Parliament Yefim Fiks.

Fiks told RIA Novosti: "Khuzhina wrote a statement and will comply with any order of the head of the Republic of Crimea. An extraordinary session is scheduled for Monday to consider her statement... she apparently said something emotionally, but then explained that she would obey any decision of the head of Crimea."

Khuzhina was born in Kerch, Crimea, and has been an elected official since September 2019.

Head of Chuvashia expelled from Russia’s ruling party after humiliating local firefighter & threatening journalists

©  Global Look Press / Komsomolskaya Pravda

By Jonny Tickle, RT

Russia’s largest political party has expelled the long-time leader of the Chuvash Republic following a series of gaffes which caused national outrage.

Mikhail Ignatiev had run Chuvashia, in the Volga region, for almost a decade before a video of him taunting a local firefighter went viral across the country.

It followed earlier comments in which he suggested that journalists who criticize the authorities be “wiped out.”

The party’s General Council secretary, Andrey Turchak, announced the decision after a meeting of its Presidium.

On January 23, Ignatiev conducted a ceremonial review of firefighting equipment in the republic’s capital, Cheboksary. As part of the inspection, he was tasked with handing out keys for brand new fire engines to firefighters, during which Ignatiev held a set of keys above the head of an officer, forcing the worker to jump to reach them.

Chuvashia’s most senior official is considerably taller than the firefighter in question.

The video of the incident quickly spread on social media and anger fomented over a politician publicly humiliating a city employee.

Bryan MacDonald✔

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The Governor of Chuvashia, Mikhail Ignatiev, has just been expelled from the ruling "United Russia" party. Last week, he forced a firefighter to jump for keys to a new fire-engine. A few days earlier, he suggested “wiping out” unfriendly journalists. 

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The governor’s spokesperson told RIA Novosti that he has been friends with the firefighter for a long time, and it was just a “joke.” However, Russian Minister of Emergency Situations Evgeny Zinichev didn’t see it this way and noted that it’s “unacceptable” for a high-ranking official to act in such a manner.

It wasn’t the first incident for which Ignatiev caused upset in January. Earlier in the month, he was forced to apologize for suggesting that journalists who criticize the authorities be “wiped out.” Ignatiev was invoking a famous phrase used by President Putin in 2000 when he suggested “wiping out” Chechen terrorists.

Sounds like a 'wannabe oligarch'!

A statement from the Chuvash regional administration insisted that he was misunderstood, and he only meant to criticize journalists who peddle fake news. He also apologized to those “good souls” who were offended by his words.

Ignatiev has been the leader of the Chuvash Republic since 2010, having previously served as the local minister of agriculture. Russian media has speculated Ignatiev could also leave this post. Responding to questions about this, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov replied: “I can only say that there is no decree at the moment.”

Chuvasia, Russia