Shahbaz Bhatti was Pakistan’s Minister for Minorities and today he paid the price for belonging to the most despised Pakistani minority of all: Christians. He was shot dead in his car for the crime of campaigning to reform the country’s medieval blasphemy laws. Those laws are used to make life hell for Christians – but that doesn’t seem to bother Britain and the EU, which pour millions of pounds into Pakistan and don’t make a big deal out of anti-Christian persecution.
I don’t recall an enormous fuss being made, either, when Egypt last week acquitted the suspected murderers of six Coptic Christians mown down as they left Mass in Nag Hammadi in January. That was the “justice” handed out to Christians in Mubarak’s Egypt. If the Muslim Brotherhood seize power, this sort of case won’t even come to court. [telegraph.co.uk] Read more
Daily Telegraph Blog Editor Condemns 'Islam's Persecution of Christians' .... Then, as now, Christian leaders did highlight the persecution of Christian minorities in these countries but refrained from blaming the door at the foot of Islam. It is difficult for someone to argue that Islam compels Muslims to persecute Christians when we witness reports of acts such as those in Egypt, where Muslims “turned up in droves” for the Coptic Christmas mass to protect Christians from violence – unless of course, they have an anti-Islamic agenda which they wish to peddle at any available opportunity.
As for Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), who one can only assume is the one referred to by Thompson when he says ‘the founder of Islam’, he instigated many treaties during his lifetime for the purpose of protecting Christian communities. See here for an example of the treaties. That would hardly be the actions of someone whose vision was to extinguish Christians. [ENGAGE] Read more
