Posted on 08/30/2007 4:43:24 PM PDT by camerakid400
Islamabad (AsiaNews) – For last three months religious minorities in Pakistan have been receiving death threats from Islamic fundamentalists “if they fail to convert to Islam”. The warning was reported by Minorities Concern of Pakistan, a human rights vigil group.
According to a statement from the group the threats to minorities (especially in North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Punjab) “began in May last but the most recent episode dates to August 25th: Christians of Shantinagr, a Christian village in south Punjab, invited to convert or face death.”
The letter reads: “We have already sent you letter some times back but you did not follow our advice. We know, you have torn or burnt the letter. Through this action you have committed blasphemy so you are liable to death. We will only leave you alone if you will follow our demand otherwise you will be killed”.
Saleem Dutt, a local inhabitant says: “People are so scared and do not know what to do. Police and other local authorities are not taking this issue seriously. People are living in constant fear”. Similar letters, threatening phone calls were also made to Hindus and Sikhs, who neither receive any help.
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Guess Islam doesn’t care if they get coerced conversions or conversions in name only....form over substance is good enuf....fools.
Perhaps we should send a similar open letter to the muslum peoples of Pakistan inviting them to leave islum, signed USAF
Now everyone don’t get your panties in a bunch, Christine Amanpour says this is morally equivalent to Jews settling in the West Bank.
Y’all have no idea just how much I despise islam. Just. No. Idea.
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