In Pakistan Muslims Murder Dozens of Christians for Allah

Lahore Park Bombing Leaves Pakistan Reeling WSJ

Some strict Muslims love to murder Christians for Allah

By SAEED SHAH and  QASIM NAUMAN

LAHORE, Pakistan—Sakhawat Ali was standing next to a carousel at a park’s fairground, where his son was spinning around in one of the cars. Then a bomb went off next to it, killing at least 72 people, including 17 children, and wounding more than 300. A suicide bomber had slipped in among the throng at Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park in Lahore, where many from the city’s sizable Christian community had ventured out with their families to mark Easter Sunday.

A faction of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility, saying it had targeted Christians enjoying the holiday....

The blast on Sunday was one of Pakistan’s deadliest since it began to face an Islamist insurgency in 2007 and the latest in a series of attacks that have targeted Christians. The same Pakistani Taliban faction that claimed Sunday’s attack last year bombed two churches in a largely Christian area of the city, killing at least 13. And at least 70 people were killed in the northwestern city of Peshawar in 2013 when a suicide bomber struck a church.

Mobs and vigilantes in Muslim-majority Pakistan have also targeted the Christian community, which makes up around 2% of the population, often after accusing a Christian of blasphemy. Local blasphemy laws carry a maximum penalty of death. Human-rights campaigners say the laws are often misused to settle personal scores, against both Muslims and non-Muslims. In 2014, a poor Christian couple who made bricks for a living were accused of blasphemy and lynched by a mob that then burned their bodies in a brick kiln.

Many mainstream Muslims have championed Mumtaz Qadri, a former police officer who shot a prominent politician in 2011 for challenging blasphemy laws and was executed in February. On Sunday and Monday, thousands of supporters of Mr. Qadri converged on Islamabad to demand stricter implementation of blasphemy laws....

A Pakistani Christian human-rights group, the National Commission for Justice and Peace, confirmed that 24 of those killed were Christians. But the director, Cecil Shane Chaudhry, said he expected that number to rise as the group verified more victims’ religions.

Jinnah Hospital, close to the park, was overwhelmed by the number of casualties, with even doctors breaking down in tears at the injuries they saw, medical staff said. Among the injured were a 4-year-old boy who was burned and his 5-year-old sister, whose parents died in the blast.

The fairground had turned into a scene of horror.

“I saw bodies lying all around, many were burned, some were missing limbs, others eyes,” said Syed Qaiser Ali, 74 years old, who lives near the park and had rushed to the site. “Wounded women were crying out for someone to find their missing children.”

On Monday at the church of the Assemblies of God, a Pentecostal denomination that originated in the U.S., a family was burying Haroon Nazir, a 30-year-old nurse who had gone with his extended family to the park....

“We had gone there to celebrate Easter, to have a good time,” Shahzad Nazir said. “My mother usually doesn’t allow us to go out much, I don’t know how she agreed yesterday. She came along too. [Haroon] died in her arms. We were trying to stop the bleeding, but it wouldn’t stop.”

Munawar John, a friend of Mr. Nazir’s who attended the funeral, said there was no doubt things are getting worse for Christians in Pakistan.

“No Christian is safe here,” he said. “Every time I go outside, death is close by. It follows me around when I go to church, or anywhere else. But I have God on my side, he protects us.” read full WSJ post HERE
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Book Review: What Every Christian Needs to Know About the Qur’an

What Every Christian Needs to Know About the Qur’an by James R. White

Review by Mike Robinson

The first thing to know about ancient Islamic history is that it is untrustworthy. The earliest fragments of the Qur’an were placed on an odd collection of leaf-stock, stones, parchments, and other items of convenience. After subjectively discarding fragments and parchments from controverting Surahs, an arbitrary collection of fragments were partially standardized as the accepted Qur’an. Today, we have copies of the Qur’an that antedate the Reformation, the first Greek translation[1] of the Qur’an was completed by the Byzantines in the ninth century, a span of time that separates it from us by a thousand years.

At the start of What Every Christian Needs to Know About the Qur’an, James R. White, a researcher with textual credentials and Christian apologist, dials back the clock to the Sixth and Seventh centuries—the approximate time of Mohammad’s life and the formation of the Qur’an. Peering into the murk of Islamic history, he begins with the earliest sources of Mohammad[2] and the Qur’an where he starts to carry the story forward.

Mr. White faces weighty problems in devoting space to early Islamic material in conjunction with the Hadith. Since there is little reliable historical material vis-à-vis Mohammad, in addition to almost no written records of his existence during most of his lifetime, there is but a minutia of history that can be retold with confidence.[3] The author repeatedly turns to the almost wholly defective Hadith to find material on Mohammad, wars, battles, and doctrine. But in the midst of such a heap, his skilled eye and adroit prose-style bring these to light. He makes us see the difficulty Mohammed had coming up with religious doctrine. This was the case because the self-proclaimed prophet had little firsthand knowledge of the Bible—the very book Mohammad said was a revelation from Allah.[4] White identifies, in minute details, the context and the reason Islam evolved the way it did—ultimately into a works-righteousness and anti-Trinitarian religion. Much Islamic doctrine was built upon Mohammad’s complete misunderstanding of biblical history and doctrine.

Irenic, but a textual analyst to the core, Mr. White leans heavily on the evidence of the text, its transmission, and Hadithic application. What Every Christian Needs to Know About the Qur’an moves from one Surah to the next as it is interpreted by the Hadith and various Islamic traditions. Mr. White often supplies the counter-evidence for Islamic claims, but he has more of a diplomatic tone than a vigorous apologist. He tells us, for instance, selected Islamic stories about Jesus that are mere fancy (pp. 125-126). Nonetheless, Mr. White doesn’t provide a robust assault on the whimsical claims—claims that are devoid of any historical connections. These non-historical tales are largely retold without employing rigorous critical examination. Possibly, Mr. White was merely laying a foundation of Islamic claims in a manner that would be considered fair and scholarly.

The central thread of Mr. White's story is the emergence in Arabia of a mistaken leader who ignorantly (Mohammed was largely ill-informed concerning biblical history and doctrine) attempted to build a religion from a biblical underpinning. The Qur’an asserts that “Jesus was strengthened by the Holy Spirit, which Muslims today understand as Gabriel” (pp. 110-111). The confusion of the Holy Spirit with the angel Gabriel is a colossal and ignorant mistake—Mohammad frequently makes these types of daft blunders. The real fascination for me: Why would Mohammad makeup such a farcical religion? Probably for power and treasure. His self-proclaimed religion gave him both.

read the full review HERE