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Christian Family in Pakistan Beaten by Muslim Mob
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01/05/2010
Islamabad: Assist News (ANS) and Compass Direct News report that an angry Muslim mob in Pakistan has attacked and wounded a Christian family in Iqbal Town, Islamabad.
Compass shares, “Infuriated by an alleged anti-Islamic comment by a mentally ill man, more than a dozen Muslims attacked his Christian family here last week, beating his 20-year old sister unconscious and breaking her leg.”
“The woman’s father, Aleem Mansoor, said his daughter, Elishba Aleem, ‘went unconscious’ after being struck in the head with an iron rod in the December 28th attack.”
The Compass story goes on to share that Mansoor had said that the Muslims beat him, his daughter and other family members with rods and cricket bats on the street in front of their apartment home after falsely accusing his 32-year-old so, Shumail Aleem, of blasphemy.
Aleem, who suffers from schizophrenia, had remarked to a Christian that a shopkeeper was right as a Muslim to not show movies in his general store during a Muslim holy day. To this, the shopkeeper, Muhammad Naveed, responded by beating Aleem for profaning Hussein ibn Ali, grandson of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad.
“Mansoor’s daughter received treatment at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Services (PIMS) and eventually regained consciousness, though she remains in intense pain,” continues Compass Direct News. “When Mansoor told Naveed and others that he would take them to court over the attack, his Muslim adversaries said he would fail because they had paid off PIMS officials 50,000 Rupees (US $600) to withhold the medical report on his daughter’s injuries.
“He said they also told him that they had paid off officers at the Shehzad Town Police Station to pressure the family to drop the case with an out-of-court settlement.
Mansoor said, “The assistant sub-inspector, Ghulam Gilani, of Shehzad Town Police Station, called my wife and told her that if the family pursued the case of assault on us, then we would be implicated in the blasphemy case, which would have serious consequences for us.”
Please continue to pray with us for the Christians in Pakistan who are severely persecuted for their faith. We know there are times when we feel that all we can do is pray, but we can assure you this matters a great deal; not only to the Lord, but to Pakistanis as well.
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