Post by Paddy by Grace on Feb 28, 2010 21:01:26 GMT -7
Pakistan: Muslim mob attacks Christians, authorities arrest...Christians
www.jihadwatch.org/2010/02/pakistan-muslim-mob-attacks-christians-authorities-arrestchristians.html
An attempt by Pakistani officials to harass the Christian community. "Unnamed Christians Accused after Muslim Attack in Pakistan," from Compass Direct News, February 26 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
KARACHI, Pakistan, February 26 (CDN) -- In the wake of an attack this week by 150 armed Muslims on a Christian colony in this city in Sindh Province, police have filed a false First Information Report (FIR) against 40 unnamed Christians and arrested five, Christian leaders said.
They said the 40 unnamed Christians in the FIR are accused without basis with beating Muslim men, abusing Muslim women and girls, ransacking Muslim homes and looting expensive items from Muslim homes. The false FIR is designed only to harass the Christian community, they said, adding that the five arrested Christians were visitors to the area - the only ones on the street available for police to summarily round up, as they were unaware of the FIR.
Some 150 armed Muslims assaulted the Christian colony of Pahar Ganj in North Nazimabad, Karachi, on Sunday (Feb. 21), damaging two churches, shooting at houses, beating Christians and burning shops and vehicles after a fruit stand vendor attacked a Christian boy for touching his merchandise.
Christian leaders said Muslim extremists helped gather and inflame the assailants, but they said the fruit stand vendor upset with the 14-year-old Christian boy for touching plums on his hand-pulled cart initially instigated the attack. The unnamed vendor reportedly had a previous conflict with the boy, whose name was also withheld, and in objecting to the teenager's actions he slashed his hand with a fruit knife and threw an iron weight at him, Christian leaders said....
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www.jihadwatch.org/2010/02/pakistan-muslim-mob-attacks-christians-authorities-arrestchristians.html
An attempt by Pakistani officials to harass the Christian community. "Unnamed Christians Accused after Muslim Attack in Pakistan," from Compass Direct News, February 26 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
KARACHI, Pakistan, February 26 (CDN) -- In the wake of an attack this week by 150 armed Muslims on a Christian colony in this city in Sindh Province, police have filed a false First Information Report (FIR) against 40 unnamed Christians and arrested five, Christian leaders said.
They said the 40 unnamed Christians in the FIR are accused without basis with beating Muslim men, abusing Muslim women and girls, ransacking Muslim homes and looting expensive items from Muslim homes. The false FIR is designed only to harass the Christian community, they said, adding that the five arrested Christians were visitors to the area - the only ones on the street available for police to summarily round up, as they were unaware of the FIR.
Some 150 armed Muslims assaulted the Christian colony of Pahar Ganj in North Nazimabad, Karachi, on Sunday (Feb. 21), damaging two churches, shooting at houses, beating Christians and burning shops and vehicles after a fruit stand vendor attacked a Christian boy for touching his merchandise.
Christian leaders said Muslim extremists helped gather and inflame the assailants, but they said the fruit stand vendor upset with the 14-year-old Christian boy for touching plums on his hand-pulled cart initially instigated the attack. The unnamed vendor reportedly had a previous conflict with the boy, whose name was also withheld, and in objecting to the teenager's actions he slashed his hand with a fruit knife and threw an iron weight at him, Christian leaders said....
Read it all.