Should Recent Atrocities Make Us Rethink Our Relationship With Pakistan?

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While the eyes of the world looked to Iran, or the Moon, Easter Sunday ended in horrific tragedy for Pakistani Christians.

It’s easy for Western Media to ignore religious violence abroad because it doesn’t fit their biases or their preferred narrative. But shouldn’t someone care about a foreign policy that will directly impact whether thousands of people live or die?

ClashDaily will gladly be their voice. And appeal for someone to fight on behalf of those who are being ignored.

Look at the violence we saw in Pakistan, for example.

One Christian man was killed and at least 30 others were injured when a speeding truck crashed into an Easter sunrise procession in Wazirabad district in Pakistan’s Punjab province early Sunday (April 5), authorities and church officials said, as national leaders marked the holiday by praising Christians for their “admirable services” to the country.

The incident occurred as more than 300 members of a local Catholic community took part in a candlelight procession en route to Easter morning prayers at a church in Maryamabad. The tragic incident cast a shadow over otherwise peaceful celebrations in Pakistan marking the resurrection of Jesus Christ. — ChristianDaily

That was April 5th.  Here’s another story from the next day:

A Christian family is seeking justice after their 16-year-old daughter was abducted, forcibly converted to Islam and possibly married to a Muslim prayer leader, according to her father.
Faqeer Masih, a brick kiln worker from Handaal village in Kot Radha Kishan, Kasur District, Punjab Province, said his daughter Neha Bibi had been attending sewing classes for six months at a center run by the wives of 45-year-old prayer leader Sajid Ibrahim.
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“We continued to search for her, but when we couldn’t trace her, we went to the police,” Masih, member of a local evangelical church, told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News. “They did not pay attention to our pleas for help.” — ChristianDaily

And another story the day after that.

Police in Pakistan tortured and killed a Catholic father of four within hours of taking him into custody on false kidnapping charges, his family said.

In Lahore’s Sadhoki Kahna Nau area, police tried to portray the death of Iftikhar Masih on March 26 as a suicide, saying they found his body hanging by a scarf from a ceiling fan, according to his brother, Riyasat Masih. Iftikhar Masih was 42. — ChristianDaily

None of those stories even acknowledge the more systemic exploitation of Christians under a corrupt system:

Pakistan: Blasphemy Laws Exploited for Blackmail, Profit

Marginalized Communities Targeted for Land Grabs, Evictions — Human Rights Watch

The first story we referenced about the Easter Massacre seems so matter-of-fact.

The footage tells another story.

 

Why does this matter to those of us halfway around the world?

That’s a fair question.

Thousands of Christians in Pakistan face certain death if Pakistan follows through on their deportation promise.

After Biden’s missteps guaranteed the Taliban’s retaking of Kabul, Afghani converts to Christianity in Pakistan are between a rock and a hard place. Pakistan wants Afghani nationals out of their homeland, but any Christian pushed back to Afghanistan faces a grim future indeed.

Don’t expect the rabid leftwing Amnesty agitators to care at all about the fate of those people. Christians have no place in their powerbroker games, and are therefore disposable pawns in a larger geopolitical game.

Since we’re talking to them already, surely we can find some nearby 3rd country where these Christians could be resettled and find a fresh start in life? Without the threat of religious genocide hanging over their heads?

It’s not as if we are without leverage. We chould give their student Visa or work visa status a rethink if they balk at the idea. Something tells me Rubio might be sympathetic to such a question. Maybe if enough people raised the question to him…?

You might wonder why mainstream media has a history of being aggressively disinterested in this type of story.

Here’s a theory:

The left has gotten so effective at slandering Christianity in North America that the default assumption of many is that Christians are somehow evil, aggressive monsters hellbent on destroying the lives of innocent victims.

People barely bat an eye when Churches burn by the hundreds in Canada or Europe, and Biden’s DOJ actively avoided pursuing charges against domestic terrorists on the left who destroyed or defaced churches and pro-life centers, even when threats from groups like Janes Revenge were openly known.

Christian Nationalists. Fascists. These, and all manner of other epithets are casually thrown around. But question an Imam’s open support of political violence in the name of religious ideology and you’re labeled as ‘Islamophobic’.

Activists have worked hard for more than 20 years to set up this dynamic. And they’ve gone a long way to achieving those goals of making the West too afraid of being called BadNames™ to speak out about genuine concerns about how one particular religion sees NO distinction between religious and political authority at the same time that it sees itself as an entity with a mandate from their god to conquer and subjugate heretical cultures.

In America, the activists work very hard to tell us how poorly treated they are, while diverting our attention for how life is for non-adherents in communities (like Dearborn) where they achieve their desired monoculture. It must be remembered that Sharia and the Bill of Rights are in direct and irreconcilable conflict… and not everyone agrees with the American assumption that the Bill of Rights is the preferable solution.

If stories like this one, or the Easter massacre in Nigeria were to break through the carefully crafted information silos, people might ask the some of the very important ‘why’ questions.

And once you start asking those questions — while genuinely looking for answers — carefully crafted narratives can quickly become a house of cards.

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