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Monday, June 1, 2026

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


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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


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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Monday, July 28, 2025

Islam Hates Christianity > Family murders Muslim who converted to Christianity in Uganda

 

Uganda: Muslim converts to Christianity, his relatives break into his home and kill him


The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law. It’s based on the Qur’an: “They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah. But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them and take not from among them any ally or helper.” (Qur’an 4:89)

A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law according to all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence.

This is still the position of all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence, both Sunni and Shi’ite. Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the most renowned and prominent Muslim cleric in the world, has stated: “The Muslim jurists are unanimous that apostates must be punished, yet they differ as to determining the kind of punishment to be inflicted upon them. The majority of them, including the four main schools of jurisprudence (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i, and Hanbali) as well as the other four schools of jurisprudence (the four Shiite schools of Az-Zaidiyyah, Al-Ithna-‘ashriyyah, Al-Ja’fariyyah, and Az-Zaheriyyah) agree that apostates must be executed.”

Qaradawi also once famously said: “If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment, Islam wouldn’t exist today.”


Muslim Relatives of New Christian Break into Home to Kill Him

Morning Star News, July 22, 2025:

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslim relatives of a Christian convert in eastern Uganda on Friday (July 18) forced their way into his locked home and killed him, sources said.

As he had done since accepting Christ in April, Kasajja Abdul Maliki of Kaliro village, Kaliro District had locked himself in his house during Friday mosque service to pray and study the Bible when his Muslim relatives burst in and stabbed him to death, his niece said. He was 37.

Maliki, who was unmarried, had begun receiving questions from his family members about his absence from mosque prayers earlier this month – he responded that he was getting training as a welder – and a week before his death, a Muslim neighbor informed relatives that he was seen leaving a church premise, sources said.

His niece, identified only as Shamina, said that on Friday (July 18) at about 3 p.m. the relatives heard Maliki praying loudly inside his house “in the name of Issa [Jesus], petitioning Issa to save the family members.”

“I then alerted the family members about Maliki’s strange way of praying, who hurriedly went to his house,” said Shamina, daughter of Maliki’s older brother Lubega Kalimu. “They found the house locked as Maliki was still praying. They pushed the door very hard and got inside and found Maliki still praying with the Bible placed beside him.”

They picked up the Bible and tore it to pieces, she said.

“As we were inside the house, other members of the family arrived and were so angry and started shouting the Islamic slogan, ‘Allah Akbar [God is greater],’ and began striking Maliki with kicks and blows,” Shamina told Morning Star News. “Soon more members of the family arrived with knives and sticks led by my father, Kalimu, and Sempa Arafat.”

As Maliki screamed for help, Kalimu “with a sharp knife pierced him through his chest,” she said….



Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Islam Hates Christians > Pakistan's Blasphemy Laws used to trap Christians; Muslim Jihadists murder 53 Christians in DRC

 

Pakistan: Increasing honey-trap incidents target young Christians in blasphemy cases for extortion and blackmail


Pakistan’s Islamic blasphemy laws, which often target Christians on false pretenses, are now being further abused “to blackmail and extort” young Christians for “personal gain.” The new trend further shows the disdain of Islamic supremacists toward Christians in Pakistan, while the UN (and the world) is silent about it.


Human Rights Report Exposes Rising Honey-Trapping in Blasphemy Cases in Pakistan

by Mushtaq Gill, Pakistan Christian Post, January 14, 2025:

PAKISTAN: In the past, women were often exploited to trap innocent individuals in sexual assault cases for blackmail, revenge, and other selfish motives. However, a disturbing new trend is emerging in Pakistan, where Christian youth are increasingly being targeted through honey-trapping schemes. Reports indicate that these young individuals are lured into compromising situations, after which blasphemy laws are manipulated to blackmail and extort them for personal gain. This alarming exploitation of religious laws is being used as a tool for coercion, raising serious concerns about the safety and rights of minority communities in the country.

An Islamist gang in Pakistan is reported to have trapped hundreds of people in false blasphemy cases in recent years, with severe consequences. Human rights lawyers claim that these individuals were ensnared in fabricated accusations and subjected to brutal torture. Tragically, some victims died while being tortured in police custody. This alarming pattern highlights the exploitation of blasphemy laws to target vulnerable groups, especially Christian youth, for blackmail, coercion, and even death. The widespread misuse of these laws raises urgent concerns about the safety and rights of minority communities in Pakistan…..




Democratic Republic of Congo: Muslims murder at least 53 Christians in two jihad attacks on the same day


The world yawns. After all, no Jews were involved.


More Than 50 D. R. Congo Christians Killed in Single Day of Violence

Barnabas Aid, January 16, 2025:

At least 53 Christians were killed on January 15 in two Islamist attacks in Lubero, North Kivu, north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

The Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP, also known as the Allied Democratic Forces) announced the killings in two social media posts, according to the Terrorism Research and Analysis Consortium (TRAC).

One of the two posts declared, “By the grace of God Almighty, the soldiers of the Caliphate attacked the village of Makoko in the Lubero region and killed 41 Christians [who] were stabbed with knives.”

The other post confirmed killing of 12 others in the village of Masakuki.

The terrorist group also abducted 16 Christians, as well as burning houses and motorcycles.

Attacks of this type have been carried out consistently by ISCAP since the group first affiliated to Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) in 2017. However, the scale and frequency of the attacks has increased in the past few weeks.

Relentless Targeting of Christians

Including the January 15 attacks, at least 128 have been slaughtered in North Kivu and the neighboring province of Ituri since Christmas Day 2024….

North Kivu, DRC