A Pakistani man working in the fields, photo via assistnews.net

Muslims order Christians to leave village in Pakistan

Compass Direct News (CDN) is reporting that the head of a Muslim village last week ordered 250 Christian families to leave their homes in Khanewal district, Punjab Province, local residents said, reports Dan Wooding, founder of ASSIST Ministries.

The CDN story states that Abdul Sattar Khan, head of village No. 123/10R, Katcha Khoh, and other area Muslim residents ordered the expulsions after Christian residents objected “too strenuously” to "sexual assaults" by Muslims on Christian girls and women, said a locally elected Christian official, Emmanuel Masih.

It added that most of the village’s Christian men work in the fields of Muslim land owners, while most of the Christian women and girls work as servants in the homes of Muslim families, said Rasheed Masih.

The Muslim employers have used their positions of power to routinely sexually assault the Christian women and girls, whose complaints grew so shrill that four Christian men – Emmanuel Masih, Rasheed Masih, his younger brother Shehzad Anjum and Yousaf Masih Khokhar – sternly confronted the Muslims, only to be told that all Christians were to leave the village at once.

CDN continued by saying, “Asked why they didn’t contact local Katcha Khoh police for help, Emmanuel Masih and Khokhar said that filing a complaint against Muslim village head Khan and other Muslims would only result in police registering false charges against them under Pakistan’s notorious ‘blasphemy’ statutes.

“That very fate befell two Christian couples in Ggulshan-e-Iqbal town, Karachi, who had approached police with complaints against Muslims for falsely accusing them of blasphemy. On May 28, a judge directed Peer Ilahi Bakhsh police to file charges of desecrating the Quran against Atiq Joseph and Qaiser William after a mob of armed Islamists went through their home’s garbage looking for pages of the Islamic scripture among clean-up debris.”

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TAGS: Pakistan Muslim village Christian families blasphemy law persecution anti-Christian violence

[06/08/2010]

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