Pakistani Christian mother raped for hours

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REPORT: POLICE REFUSE HELP AFTER CHRISTIAN PAKISTANI WOMAN ‘GANG-RAPED FOR AN ENTIRE NIGHT’
Posted on May 31, 2011 at 2:07pm

The situation is becoming increasingly grim for Pakistan’s Christian population. Unimaginable fits of violence and acts of desecration against sacred lands barely begin to describe the horror and devastation that non-Muslims face in a nation that is becoming increasingly less tolerant. Last week, the Asia Times reported on two alleged instances that perfectly illustrate how the situation has devolved:

Christian tombs were recently desecrated and a young Christian woman was gang-raped for an entire night. In both cases, police refused to file a First Information Report, allowing the culprits to escape justice. These are examples of the ordinary violence visited upon Pakistan’s Christian minority.
The woman in question was a 29-year-old mother who was allegedly abducted by a Muslim co-worker, beaten and then violently raped. The most perplexing and infuriating part of her story is her quest for justice following the incident. According to accounts, despite her attempt to file a report, the police refused to help. Instead, they offered to assist the rapists in “cover[ing] their tracks.” The Catholic Church is understandably perplexed and disgusted by these developments:

Fr Joseph Jamil, a Faisalabad priest, strongly condemned the anti-Christian violence. “The Church,” he said, “is closing monitoring the issue.”
“Landowners and extremists are actively involved against the Christian minority in Punjab,” he told AsiaNews. “Most attacks happen in the central part of the province.” The government, he said, should “take charge of the situation and defend the minority.”
According to the Star Tribune, anti-Christian violence has become so intense that it is ingrained in the nation’s legal system. Anti-blasphemy laws are used to suppress the Christian minority. Additionally, well-known “Christian politicians and their defenders” are executed. In light of ongoing abuses, some critics claim that the United States needs to take a second look at how monies are allocated to countries like Pakistan.


Recently, the U.S. pledged $7.5 billion in aid to the Middle Eastern country. So far, it seems the Obama administration is being relatively careful in terms of the pace at which the funds are being allocated. Earlier in May, The New York Times reported:

…so inadequate is Pakistan’s civilian bureaucracy and so rife are United States fears of corruption in the government that American officials, constricted by layers of their own rules, have struggled to find safe places to actually invest the money available. Instead of polishing the tarnished image of America with a suspicious, even hostile, Pakistani public and government, the plan has resulted in bitterness and a sense of broken promises.
The alleged events discussed above and the general worry over abuses provides fodder to critics who would like to see stricter allocations of U.S. monies. What do you think? Should the U.S. limit finds if Pakistani officials continue to ignore human and religious rights violations?

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WHY do we give these people money? Surely it is not okay to do this to Christian women, while it is a human rights affront what is done to Muslim women???

[ameiko]

Ahhh yes, the religion of peace.

We have dismissed this claim.

[handyman2]

Yet there are those here who constantly defend the islamists as peaceful peoples. This story has been repeated in Iraq as well. Christians had to flee or go underground and their churches burned.

[floridayankee]

May 31, 2011 22:10:57 GMT -5 ameiko said:

Ahhh yes, the religion of peace.

We have dismissed this claim.

That can be applied to pretty much any religion, IMHO. Historically, there's been more blood spilled in the name of God (pick one) than just about any other reason out there.

[floridayankee]

May 31, 2011 22:19:46 GMT -5 handyman2 said:

Yet there are those here who constantly defend the islamists as peaceful peoples.

IMHO, a poor choice of words with "islamists as peaceful peoples", handy. An Islamist is one that merges the political with the religious. An Islamist, by definition, would require a strict enforcement of sharia law, political unity of muslims, and support jihad against non-muslims. IMHO, an islamist is the radical branch of the muslim religion...and not all muslims could be classified as islamist.
From Wiki....

On the other hand, Muslim-owned and run media have used the terms "Islamist" and "Islamism" — as distinguished from Muslim and Islam — to distinguish groups such as the Islamic Salvation Front in Algeria[20] or Jamaa Islamiya in Egypt,[21] which actively seek to implement Islamic law, from mainstream Muslim groups.

Another source distinguishes Islamist from Islamic "by the fact that the latter refers to a religion and culture in existence over a millennium, whereas the first is a political/religious phenomenon linked to the great events of the 20th century". Islamists have, at least at times, defined themselves as "Islamiyyoun/Islamists" to differentiate themselves from "Muslimun/Muslims".

[ugonow]

This is horrific,and hope it is not a standard for the whole religion. I did not assume every Catholic raped little boys when their little issue came up,and I will not assume all Islamics rape women either.

[commentator]

May 31, 2011 17:00:50 GMT -5 @krickitt said:

WHY do we give these people money? Surely it is not okay to do this to Christian women, while it is a human rights affront what is done to Muslim women???

Who, other than terrorists, have said it is ok to rape Christian women? Which U.S. elected official has said this is ok?