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Muslims Rape 9-Year-Old Christian For Iraq Revenge
Pakistan Christian Post ^ | Michael Ireland

Posted on 05/23/2003 7:38:33 AM PDT by milestogo

Muslims Rape 9-Year-Old Christian For Iraq Revenge. By Michael Ireland. ANS


LAHORE, PAKISTAN - A nine-year-old Christian girl from Pakistan claims to have been beaten and sexually assaulted by her Muslim employers whenever footage from the war in Iraq was shown on television.


The girl from Faisal Town in Lahore claims that when she cried for mercy, they would ask her to call for the Americans to help her, according to a report from Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW).

The girl said the couple told her they were taking revenge for the American bombing of Iraqi Muslim children on her because she was an "infidel and a Christian," according to what she told CSW partners, the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance (APMA), a human rights NGO based in Pakistan.

She said the couple would beat her with a cricket bat, hang her upside down from the ceiling, pour spoonfuls of hot chillies into her mouth, handcuff her and bash her head repeatedly against the wall.

When she cried and appealed for mercy, they would tell her to call the Americans for help.

She attempted to escape from her employers on April 26, but after being recaptured, she was so badly beaten that she was put on a rickshaw home by her employers who apparently thought she would die.

When her older brother took her to the local hospital, she was immediately admitted to the intensive care unit.

A preliminary medical report from that hospital stated that she had suffered a fractured right arm, multiple burns, and bruises and lacerations to her face and body. She was later treated at Jinnah Hospital, Lahore and is suffering from depression and trauma.

The APMA has helped the girl's family register an official complaint against her employers with the Faisal police. The APMA reports that so far no action has been taken on her behalf by the authorities.

The APMA has also helped another family file a complaint under Section 10 of the Zina Ordinance against a man whom they allege raped a ten-year-old Christian girl.

The girl's father told the APMA the family had enjoyed peaceful relations with their Muslim neighbors until the war in Iraq broke out.

He said they noticed a marked change in their neighbor's attitude and noted his links with some extremist Islamic organizations. They claim the man lured the girl into his home on March 31 under the pretext of receiving an urgent telephone call from her uncle before raping her.

Both families are said to have received threats from Muslim extremists to withdraw their complaints.

Stuart Windsor, National Director of Christian Solidarity Worldwide, said: "We strongly condemn these two appalling attacks. Although there has been no major backlash on Christian institutions since the war in Iraq began, the attacks on these two girls seem to be related to the war.

"Christians in Pakistan are increasingly vulnerable to religiously motivated hate crimes and Christian girls and women seem to be specially targeted. We are outraged by the unwillingness of the police to investigate the complaints as this only emboldens extremists to continue to victimize Christians and other

non-Muslims.

"CSW calls on the Government of Pakistan to clearly and publicly condemn such acts, investigate them promptly, independently and impartially and to ensure that those responsible are brought to justice."

The names and details of the girls and their alleged attackers have not been given for legal reasons.

Christian and other non-Muslim women who are victims of rape are often forcibly converted and married off to their rapists or sold into prostitution. They can also be at risk of being accused of committing adultery. Under Shari'ah Law, there is no distinction between rape and adultery.

The penalty for zina (adultery and fornication) is death by stoning and to discharge adultery, the burden falls on the victim to prove rape which requires the testimony of four adult male Muslims who have witnessed the rape. The testimony of the rape victim alone or of four female witnesses is insufficient. If the accused is a Muslim, no non-Muslim is allowed to testify against him.

There are about 2.25 million Christians (1.6 percent of the population) in Pakistan and they are often from poorer backgrounds. They suffer a wide range of discriminations including the Blasphemy law, which can see them sentenced to death on the testimony of a single Muslim witness.



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To: lizbet
I suppose to a good muslim beating and raping a 9 year old 'infidel' christian girl would be considered an act of worship. What degenerate religion.

Compare that with:

Mark 10:14 "Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

Matthew 18:6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

I'd say from a secular view that Christianity is a much better deal.

As far as praying for them, I agree completely. However, it any of them makes a wrong move, I'b be ready to kill them without quarter, without remorse, and without mercy.

21 posted on 05/23/2003 8:21:13 AM PDT by tbpiper
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To: lizbet
So this rape is the fault of Islam? and no Christian males have ever raped young girls?

Islam does suck, but Christians have certainly been guilty for crimes as horrible as this.

That religion that is without sin should cast the first stone.
22 posted on 05/23/2003 8:22:00 AM PDT by Blzbba
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To: Salgak
Tagline: don't mind me: the orbital mind control lasers are making me write this

Bummer, dude! You can block the microwaves with tinfoil. But lasers are another matter!

23 posted on 05/23/2003 8:22:39 AM PDT by gridlock
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To: Cathryn Crawford
Shouldn't that be the religion of piece? I hear that clintoon is thinking of converting to get some of this action.
24 posted on 05/23/2003 8:23:29 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave)
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To: milestogo
A few weeks ago I signed up for a correspondence course in Sufism, a type of Islamic-based "mysticism" which is sometimes presented as a "universalist" religious philosophy. As the exercises became increasingly tied up with Islamic religious material, and as my knowledge of Islam increased from other sources, I finally realized I could not in good conscience continue. A liberal acquaintance seemed to think my decision was "bigoted," but it seems to me that the bigots are the Muslims, and quite dangerous bigots at that. I just realized I wanted nothing to do with a philosophy, no matter how well-meaning and comparatively liberal by Islamic standards, which was largely based on Mohammed and the Koran.
25 posted on 05/23/2003 8:25:53 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Blzbba
Islam does suck, but Christians have certainly been guilty for crimes as horrible as this.

Yes, but Christians are not often known for stoning the victim to death.

27 posted on 05/23/2003 8:28:03 AM PDT by jackbill
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Sick. 9 year old girls? Rape is bad enough when your body is fully developed. Imagine being a third the size of your rapist.
28 posted on 05/23/2003 8:29:56 AM PDT by Cathryn Crawford (Kill all the lawyers - except for mine.)
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To: Blzbba
"That religion that is without sin should cast the first stone."

The difference is that most of the atrocities committed in the name of Islam can arguably be derived from explicit passages in the Koran and the Hadith (sayings of Mohammed), whereas Christian sins have generally been done in direct contradiction to Christian scripture. Moreover, IN TODAY'S WORLD, the only world that really matters, it is by far Moslems who are committing atrocities in the name of their religion - not as personal moral failings - but as acts done with specifically religious motives.
29 posted on 05/23/2003 8:30:40 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: knighthawk
One for your archives.
30 posted on 05/23/2003 8:32:37 AM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: milestogo
Satan is alive and well in Pakistan.
31 posted on 05/23/2003 8:32:39 AM PDT by Gritty
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To: Cathryn Crawford
Sick.

Yep, that fits the description of clintoon and all who support him.

32 posted on 05/23/2003 8:37:39 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
I agree.
33 posted on 05/23/2003 8:38:30 AM PDT by Cathryn Crawford (Kill all the lawyers - except for mine.)
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To: milestogo
A kind, caring bunch aren't they......
34 posted on 05/23/2003 8:38:35 AM PDT by b4its2late
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To: MarineDad
The penalty for zina (adultery and fornication) is death by stoning and to discharge adultery, the burden falls on the victim to prove rape which requires the testimony of four adult male Muslims who have witnessed the rape. The testimony of the rape victim alone or of four female witnesses is insufficient. If the accused is a Muslim, no non-Muslim is allowed to testify against him.

Satan couldn't have written better loopholes and burden of proof.

37 posted on 05/23/2003 8:45:51 AM PDT by b4its2late
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To: Blzbba
That was THE MOST assinine comment I've ever read in this website!!!! You win an all-expense paid trip for life to Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
38 posted on 05/23/2003 8:46:01 AM PDT by aardvark1
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To: 5by5
They are still busy making excuses for Osama and his jihad goons, when they are not whining aboue Saddam.
39 posted on 05/23/2003 8:46:16 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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To: Steve_Seattle
no argument there. Since 9/11, I've been for the full extermination of the Islamic faith or, at minimum, the illegalization of its practice in the USA, or at the bare-bones minimum, forcing that 'faith' to join the 21st century.

Of course, this flies fully into the face of Christianity ("Love thy neighbor", "turn the other cheek") and the US Constitution unfortunately allows for the free practice of religion.

so what are ya gonna do? (not 'you', but society! :) )
40 posted on 05/23/2003 8:52:39 AM PDT by Blzbba
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