Assault, blasphemy charge for defending cross

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A Christian woman in Pakistan has been jailed after being assaulted and stripped for defending the holy cross:

Everything started on 3 March when many Muslims were protesting the blasphemous cartoons of Muhammad near Naseem’s house in Kasur. “They were raising slogans against the US president George W. Bush, abusing him and Christianity too,” said Gulzar. “Naseem saw the protesters draw a cross on top of a rubbish [heap] and so she went out to protest the desecrating gesture.” The woman told the demonstrators they were violating a sacred symbol of Christianity while protesting about exactly the same offence against their own faith.

According to her husband’s account, Naseem was beaten and stripped. The group of Muslims then left only to return after a few hours with an image of the Kabah soiled with excrement. The men accused Naseem of blasphemy and the police, who came to the spot, took her away to the local police station. Gulzar admitted that he did not intervene to help his wife because he was afraid.

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One Response to “Assault, blasphemy charge for defending cross”

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   Craig Says:
   April 17th, 2006 at 6:29 pm

   I sent the story to the editor of my local newspaper. I hadn’t read about it in the local paper so don’t know if they’re aware of the issue. It sounds like the same thing that the other guy in Pakistan went through when he was arrested and threatened with death for converting to Christianity. This is nothing new. They’re are plenty of Christians that have suffered martyric deaths at the hands of Muslims.