Posted on 04/11/2023 9:40:03 AM PDT by anthropocene_x
In the absence of workplace health and safety regulations and ethical superintendence, Pakistan’s sanitation workers, about 80 percent of whom are Christian, are routinely exposed to a host of unsafe and deadly work practices.
Generation after generation of Pakistani Christians like Nadeem, Faisal and Michael face preventable workplace deaths and accidents as they are forced into the hazardous work of cleaning the country’s streets and gutters.
Pakistani Christians have continued to endure substandard living conditions, and in recent years, the community has been the target of escalating attacks due to growing intolerance. Christians have faced persecution, targeted killings – including gunmen killing a Catholic man and a priest in two separate incidents last year – forced conversions, mob violence, and destruction of their places of worship and graves by perpetrators emboldened by the absence of meaningful action from the authorities and widespread impunity.
The Christian minority has also been heavily persecuted under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, which carry a possible death sentence for anyone found guilty of insulting Islam. According to the Lahore-based NGO Centre for Social Justice, seven Christian individuals were charged and imprisoned over blasphemy charges in 2021. At least two others were arrested and tried for the same crime in separate incidents in 2022. The threat of being accused of blasphemy has also been used to intimidate the community.
In early 2022, Aqeel and his CLJ colleagues released a harrowing repository of nearly 300 discriminatory job advertisements that were published in Pakistani newspapers between 2010 and 2021. “I had been collecting these ads for a decade, and it was time to make them public,” he says. “These discriminatory job ads specifically invited Christians and other non-Muslims to apply for janitorial openings in public sector organisations.” Many of these ads were for positions at government agencies.
(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...
How many of us would remain in the faith, generation after generation, if the only jobs available to us were garbage collector and septic cleaner?
Lord, by Your blood please forgive our whining.
Our great ally, which sheltered Osama bin Laden in a safe house a mile away from their military intelligence headquarters.
This is just one reason why I despise the death cult of islam and its’ founder, that homicidal anti Semitic pedophilic warlord mohammed.
This was reported in Al Jazeera? But probably not in The New York Times. I doubt that Biden, Omar, or AOC give a hoot.
That Somali whore quietly applauds. Or may not quietly.
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