Talibanisation Through Parliamentarians

Much vocal/written criticism against human rights violation and ill-treatment of Christians has been raised by high profile International human rights organization such as Amnesty International, The US State Department, UK Foreign Affairs ministry and even various UN based agencies.  The government of Pakistan usually handles such allegations with contempt issuing contradicting statements that “All is well in Pakistan” and “Pakistani Christians enjoy religious freedom”. The government’s mouthpieces Christian MNAs and parliamentarians have repeatedly refuted international criticism adding that Christians are happy here, enjoy religious freedom and are provided protection at all times. To convince the international community, the government of the day handpicked lackeys/stooges usually shower praises on the government thereby corroborating with the governments positive statements.  These stooges are then rewarded by being given prominent positions including Members of National Assembly, Ministries and in most cases land or money in lieu.

On other occasions the government blatantly reminds members of the minorities who are required to speak at domestic & international forums to refrain from making negative comments about the draconic situation that otherwise prevails in Pakistan.  Blackmail is a preferred method of extracting a favorable response from the minorities.  Knowing the mindset of the Christians who after decades of subjugation offer little or no resistance, the government succeeds in realizing their agenda.

This stranglehold on the Christians has many benefits for the government.  Since Pakistan is a developing nation with a sizeable population whose is eternally dependent on foreign financial assistance, most donor countries assess the human rights situation before offering financial assistance. Almost every donor donate funds for poverty alleviation but Christians rarely see a piece of the pie and actually taste it because the financial assistance directly goes to ISI which is then further distributed to the Talibans and these development funds divert for other illicit purposes such as acquiring the latest conventional weapons including weapons of mass destruction, establishing terrorist networks and promoting Islam through propaganda.

The situation of Christians stays same and despite of getting developed they still live in mud houses in posh and expensive city like Islamabad. And the donation money goes to the terrorists and to those who are in power. Donors are of view that if terrorists of northern areas of Pakistan will get educated they will change and will think differently and positively but my experience says a Pakistani Muslim more educated person more criminal and terrorist minded. Some prominent examples are Abdul Rashid Ghazi of Red Mosque (Lal Masjid) Islamabad, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, Faisal Shahzad responsible of bomb blast in Times Square, New York is a son of Air Vice Marshall, two star general in Pakistan Air Force. Faisal Shahzad confessed bombing attempt and throughout his court appearance, he remained unrepentant.

Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, Junaid Jamshed and Imran Khan are the examples of their educated criminal mindset. Imran Khan, he studied from Oxford University, London. But no Oxford can change his mindset; Imran Khan is in fact a Osama Bin Laden in disguise. Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pervaiz Khattak of Pakistan Tehreek e Insaaf, political party of Imran Khan, gave a statement that Muslims cannot be hired as sweepers and cleaners only Christians will be hired for sanitary jobs. These are only few examples; there are many other incidents of USA, UK and other European Countries.

89% of Muslims of Pakistan, including army generals and other high officials support Talibans. I have witnessed warm welcomes of terrorists and killers of Christians in prison by prison staff; and the prison staff considers them as the heroes of Islam. The staff takes proper care of them and provides them every facility in prison.

The Christians in Pakistan live in sewerage lines and are living in dreadful and terrible condition. These places where Christians are living are the worst places but the Mullahs and other agencies want them to leave these places. They don’t want any Christian to get educated and tries to keep them away from education; this is why they attack their places and Christian enclaves time to time. This cycle has been repeating itself since 1947. The government, mullahs and the general Muslim population are of the view that if Pakistani Christians are happy, then foreign financial assistance will cease to flow into Pakistan.

Christians have been made the scapegoat for decades and yet pundits in the Christian community not only support the government for their own self-interest but all too often shift the entire blame on the Christians for the predicament they are in. These Christian so called leaders or members don’t care about their Christian nation and they only think of making money because they are the selected members not the elected ones. The self-professed leaders of the Christians of Pakistan like J. Salik need to look deep and find that particular characteristic known as the ‘conscience’ in order to restore human dignity among themselves.

Pakistanis are the only people on earth with a bottomless stomach and if the world wants a peaceful and civilized Pakistan, than it is impossible. To find a needle in a haystack is much easier than to change the mindset of a Pakistani which is aggressive and discriminative, till they don’t change their syllabus which teaches hate against other religions.

Dilemma in Pakistan is this that whoever struggles for Christians gets trapped in false cases; the cases can be of any nature e.g. fraud, criminal or blasphemy. Real ruler of Pakistan is not the government but ISI. As long as ISI continues to intervene in all matters, it is impossible to bring any change in Pakistan for Christians no matter who’s ever government is.

Let’s touch on another issue that has caused consternation among the Christian minority – the issue of Religious Freedom. While every government official from the President downwards is quick to point out that Religious freedom exists in Pakistan – quite the opposite is true.  Permit me to elaborate.  In all my years of existence, never have I ever heard any Priest or Padre ever criticize other religions or for that fact categorically degrade adherents of other religions, on the other hand rarely does any Friday go by without a mullah criticizing Christians or Christianity. Every Friday in mosques during sermon, it is announced that Bible is changed, that Jesus is son of God (which is a blasphemy in their eyes), and that Christians eat haram. They urinates on Cross or crucifix, I myself have witnessed this during the Denmark issue. There is no such big blasphemer as Pakistani Mullahs and whoever follows them doesn’t know about their own religion Islam. They keep hurting Christians in the name of blasphemy and when it comes to Christians, they burn their whole enclaves and houses without any proof.

While the government is aware of such lewd behavior, they are either gutless to take action against such mullahs and perhaps give tacit approval to further their agenda.

Muslims do not acknowledge the crucifixion of Christ, while Christian ideology is based on this fact.  Muslims heckle the cross even though it is the most sacred icon of Christianity.  Muslims accuse Christians of making changes in the Text of the Bible proudly claiming that the text of the Koran has remained unchanged, but can they prove otherwise?

My argument is that what right does a Muslim have to degrade Christianity? Why is that Muslims detest other religions on the one hand and expect compassion from Non-Muslims on the other? Hatred breeds Hatred, violence is answered by violence or have the mullahs forgotten this.  Just because we Christians in Pakistan are small in number, Muslims prefer to exhibit their prowess to subdue us.  Muslims must be very insecure in themselves to have to resort to this sort of behavior. 

Muslims are brainwashed from an early age into believing that Islam is the only superior religion and all other religions are either fake or irrelevant.  Muslims are also under the wrong impression that by virtue of them being Muslim, all sins are automatically forgiven and Paradise is promised to all Muslims irrespective of their sinful existence on Planet Earth.

In that context ordinary Muslims are not to blame for this mindset, the blame lies squarely on the shoulders of the intellectuals & Islamic clergy.  If Muslims cannot tolerate other religions then how can they state that Christians have religious freedom in Pakistan? Now only if I could amicably convince my fellow Muslim of this reality. Until then the suffering will continue and untold miseries inflicted on the Christians all in the name of Islam.

​Hector Aleem

Chairman

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Stop Islamisation of Schools in Pakistan

Muslims live in North America, Europe, Australia and other non-Muslim countries, but never have the education system in these countries ever tried to impose an alien religious subject on their children, nor have the Muslim children ever been brainwashed into believing that their religion is inferior to those of other religions. As a matter of fact all children in non-muslim countries are taught the importance of national unity, patriotism, love for humanity & economic development of their respective countries.

Here in Pakistan, since the last 65 years special emphasis is given to Islamayat (Islamic studies) in all educational institutions from primary to under-graduate level. Diverse subject such as Mathematics, Science, Geography, History and even language subjects such as Urdu, Punjabi and Sindhi have Islamic concoction in them. Alternative subjects such as Civics & Ethics are given little or no importance and even in these subjects, 75% teaching of Islam is present. This is well and okay if all the students in Pakistan come from Islamic backgrounds – What happens to children from Christian backgrounds? What alternative subjects are taught to them that do not include Islam? I am afraid the answer to the above two questions is not positively reassuring.

Islamic Studies is taught to Christian children from Kindergarten level and when these children reach the upper primary level, they are reasonably brainwashed by then into believing that Islam is the only superior religion and that their belief in Christ or Christianity is wrong-the Holy Bible unlike the Holy Quran has been amended and due to this fact it is no longer accurate and an inferior religion. Teachers also coax these Christian children (05 years old and above) to renounce Christianity & embrace Islam to redeem themselves from sin and promises of a place in paradise. Our Christian children when at home pose serious & misinterpreted questions to their parents about the activities that took place in their respective school and begin to question their faith creating an atmosphere or uncertainty, alienation & inferiority complex which later in life causes entrenched doubts about their religious convictions and even a switch to Islam, based on the earlier misinterpreted version imparted by their Islamic Studies teachers. It is no secret that these Islamic Studies teachers are in fact aggressively promoting Islam with the tacit approval of their respective educational hierarchy, which is turn are taking their instructions from the Government. Is this approach correct?

Let’s take another example. There was a hue & cry in France about the issue of Muslim female students not allowed to wear the scarf while in School. The Government of France made it amply clear that all students in France must follow rules & regulations and that the dress code did not include religious insignia or restrictions. The point is that Muslim prefers to adhere to their religious values in non-muslim countries but force Islamic value to non-Muslims in their own countries. Why the double standard? Can Pakistani Government justifiably prove that Islam is in fact more superior to other religion? Pakistani print and electronic media always claim that the Holy Quran explicitly forbids Muslims from discriminating against other religions. Why then the unnecessary discrimination? Pakistani Government boast about the rising number of converts to Islam but in reality, other religions are not allowed to flourish, instead other religions are demonized here. Pakistani government never provides a level playing field and usually resorts to unethical & provocative methods to inflict physiological torture on Christians.

Religion can never be forced onto others, we the Christians in Pakistan are guaranteed religious freedom both by the Constitution of Pakistan as well as the United Nations (Pakistan is a veteran member of the United Nations) but this guarantee only exists on paper – the reverse is actually applicable.

To compound problems Islamic studies is taught in the Arabic language – once again an alien and irrelevant language both for Muslim & Christian students alike, whom face extreme difficulty in comprehending this language. Then there are a few schools that teach Civics or Ethics instead of Islamic Studies but it becomes difficult for children whom are studying these particular subjects to successfully pass their examinations. This is another hand twisting methods adopted by the educators into compelling students from opting out of Civics/Ethics in favor of Islamic Studies.

Interestingly enough Christian students, who complete Islamic Studies examinations, are given good grades, even though they may not have made a serious attempt to pass.

Peace Worldwide strongly urges the Government of Pakistan both at Federal & Provincial level to cease teaching Islamic Studies to Christians, instead appoint teachers from Christian background to teach Holy Bible to Christian students. This will improve the unemployment situation for the Christians, create an atmosphere of tolerance & brotherhood and will give Christians a sense of security- sorely missing in Pakistan.

Pakistani Christians applaud the Government into allowing Aga Khan Board to be established; similarly we recommend that a Christian Board too be created to facilitate children from Christian background.
Forcibly eradicating other religious values & beliefs will only create an atmosphere of distrust, contempt, intolerance, discrimination & loss of self-esteem, a situation currently in existence here in Pakistan. Wake up Government of Pakistan before it is too late.

Hector Aleem
Chairman
Peace Worldwide

Christian Genocide in Pakistan

Christianity is the largest minority in Pakistan but besides being the largest number of minority, they are also the largest number of persecuted nation in Pakistan. There are lots of examples of Christian persecution since the inception of Pakistan. Today, Pakistani Christians are regularly jailed, persecuted and even sentenced in false blasphemy cases. Pakistani fundamentalists are cutting the necks of Christians like street dogs, raping and abduct Christian girls. Shame on recent parliamentarians like Tahir Khalil Sandhoo and Kamran Michael who are enjoying the ministry with the ruling government, if they care even a little about their nation they should resign immediately and start working for Christians.

The recent case of Shafqat Masih is the worst example of blasphemy cases lodged against Christians because his whole family is in custody of the police and they have been shifted far away from their home city. This is the same case in which Peace Worldwide Chairman, Mr. Hector Aleem was trapped and he spent four years in prison for this offence. No Christian is such fool to send a blasphemous message to any Muslim cleric especially when they know the consequences, also, every Christian parent teaches their children not to involve their selves in any anti Islamic activity.

There are no organizations especially Christian NGOs who are helping these victims of blasphemy instead they depends upon the local NGOs who do nothing but provides false news to the international media, normally all these organizations are the agents of the government of Pakistan who provides news according to the guidance of the Government of Pakistan.

Peace Worldwide condemns the misuse of blasphemy law in Pakistan because it is creating hate and inferiority complex in the minds of Pakistani Christians, the government, the secret agencies and courts are silent when several innocent Christians are facing persecution due to blasphemy law.

Pakistan should stop genocide of Christians of Pakistan. Or else a time will come when Christians of Pakistan will consider Pakistan their enemy and will rebel against it because same concept of two nation theory applies here.

Deception of PML N

Why anchors and TV channels are talking against Mr. Qaim Ali Shah who is quiet a gentleman? Shahbaz Sharif is also nominated as a Chief Minister of Punjab for the third time. Why Qaim Ali Shah is the only target, Of course it is the party leadership who appoints its members for any post. It’s not his own choice. Why Pakistan People’s Party is the only target? PPP has its roots in all provinces of Pakistan, is a sign of federation and has always supported the Minorities of Pakistan. Media should not be so biased; media has a duty of providing news by staying neutral. 

We know the propaganda of Pakistan Muslim League (N) that they are Anti Christian and Anti Women; we still remember the Shantinagar, Gojra, Badami Bagh and Josephabad incidents which are the gifts of PML N to Christians of Pakistan during PML N tenure. 

A Christian MPA is nominated as a Deputy Speaker of Punjab Assembly by PML N only to show the international community their so called liberal ideology. That Christian Deputy Speaker of Punjab Assembly is brainwashed and a remote controlled man whose remote will be in the hands of Nawaz Sharif (Chief of PMLN) and that Deputy Speaker will be the mouthpiece of Nawaz Sharif who will provide only positive reports about the Christians of Pakistan to the international community.