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Steel On Steel Persecution Update

June 16, 2010

          Edited by:  Donald McElvaney, www.missionbarnabas.org

Top Stories:  

    1.  Egyptian Convert Endures Life at a Standstill – on the Run

     2.  Pakistani Islamists Keep Two Newlywed Couples from Home

     3.  Two Iranian Christian Women Acquitted of all Charges

     4.  Trial over ‘Insulting Turkishness’ Again Yields No Evidence

     5.  Christian Woman Kidnapped in Pakistan Escapes

     6.  Muslim Boys in Pakistan Accused of Raping Christian Girl

     7.  Muslims Order Christians to Leave Village in Pakistan

1.  Egyptian Convert Endures Life at a Standstill – on the Run

Daughter unable to attend school, church; acid thrown on her jacket.

By Wayne King

CAIRO, Egypt, May 25 (Compass Direct News) – The apartment where an Egyptian convert from Islam to Christianity was living in hiding with his teenage daughter is across the street from a mosque that regularly broadcast anti-Christian messages. “Do not shake their hands. Do not go into their homes,” an imam shouted through the minaret loudspeakers as 57-year-old Maher Ahmad El-Mo’otahssem Bellah El-Gohary looked through his window and grimaced. For nearly two years, he and his daughter have been forced to hide after he sought to change the religious designation on his national ID card to “Christian.” El-Gohary had taped over the locks of his apartment, as well as taped shut the inside of windows and doors, to guard against eavesdroppers and intruders. He taped over all the drain holes of the sinks to keep anyone from pumping in natural gas at night. Unable to obtain work because of his quest, El-Gohary has to rely on the kindness of other Christians to bring him food and water and the occasional donation. Possibly the worst part for him is watching the suffering of his daughter, Dina Maher Ahmad Mo’otahssem, a reflective 16-year-old whose life should be filled with friends, freedom and self-discovery; she is instead confined between four walls. She cannot go to school or attend church. Now she and her father fear she could be beaten, kidnapped and forcibly converted, or simply killed. One afternoon last month, as she was walking to a market with her father, El-Gohary noticed smoke and vapors coming off her jacket. The canvas was sizzling and dissolving, as someone had poured acid over the jacket. El-Gohary ripped it off her and threw it away. “I don’t understand why I am being treated this way,” Dina said. “I believe in something, Christianity – I chose the religion because I love it. So why should I be treated this way?”

 

2.  Pakistani Islamists Keep Two Newlywed Couples from Home

Armed Muslims upset that Christians complained to police of false ‘blasphemy’ charge.

By Thomas Kelly

KARACHI, Pakistan, May 27 (Compass Direct News) – Islamists armed with pistols and rifles waited for two Christian couples to return to their rented home this week, seeking to kill them after the newlyweds complained to police that the radical Muslims had falsely accused them of desecrating the Quran, according to a local Christian legislator. Atiq Joseph and Qaiser William and their wives, who requested anonymity, went to an undisclosed location after Christians in Gulshan-e-Iqbal town, Karachi, warned them that the armed Muslims were stationed in front of their joint home on Friday (May 21), said Saleem Khurshid Khokhar, a representative of Sindh in the Punjab Provincial Assembly. The Christians were returning from having tried to file a complaint against the Islamists at Peer Ilahi Bakhsh police station of Gulshan-e-Iqbal town – where Muslim police responded by shouting angry obscenities at the couples and began secretly planning to charge them under Pakistan’s widely condemned “blasphemy” laws, Khokhar said. The armed Muslims had accused the couples of desecrating the Islamic scriptures after searching through a pile of debris the Christians had gathered while cleaning their new rented home. The station house officer at the Peer Ilahi Bakhsh police station who shouted obscenities at them and secretly began to file baseless charges against them was unavailable for comment; after Compass made repeated requests to speak with him, a police station registrar said the SHO could not comment because he was ill in the hospital.

3.  Two Iranian Christian Women Acquitted of all Charges

Young converts previously held in prison for Christian activities have fled country.

By Damaris Kremida

ISTANBUL, May 27 (Compass Direct News) – Nearly five months after releasing them from prison, an Iranian court has acquitted two women of all charges related to being Christians and engaging in Christian activities. Iranians Maryam Rostampour and Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad were arrested on March 5, 2009 and detained on charges of “acting against state security,” “taking part in illegal gatherings” and “apostasy” (leaving Islam) under Iran’s Revolutionary Court system. After nearly eight months, on Nov. 18, 2009 authorities released them conditionally. Elam Ministries said the two women had fled Iran on Saturday (May 22) to an undisclosed location and were recovering. Another Iranian convert who was forced to flee his country said the court likely made a political decision. “The government would not want them to stay in the country as heroes,” said the source, who requested anonymity. “It would be better for the government if they left Iran and didn’t become a positive example for the rest of the Christian community in Iran. Otherwise they would create a precedent of who have not denied their faith, who have been acquitted and still live as Christians inside the country.” 

4.  Trial over ‘Insulting Turkishness’ Again Yields No Evidence

Justice Minister says Article 301 defendants ‘presumed innocent’ until verdict.

By Barbara G. Baker

ISTANBUL, May 28 (Compass Direct News) – The 11th hearing of a case of alleged slander against two Turkish Christians closed just minutes after it opened this week, due to lack of any progress. Prosecutors produced no new evidence or witnesses against Hakan Tastan and Turan Topal since the last court session four months ago. Despite lack of any tangible reason to continue the stalled case, their lawyer said, the Silivri Criminal Court set still another hearing to be held on Oct. 14. “They are uselessly dragging this out,” defense lawyer Haydar Polat said moments after Judge Hayrettin Sevim closed the Tuesday (May 25) hearing. The two Protestant Christians were accused in October 2006 of slandering the Turkish nation and Islam under Article 301 of the Turkish criminal code. The prosecution has yet to provide any concrete evidence of the charges, which allegedly took place while the two men were involved in evangelistic activities in the town of Silivri. Turkish Justice Minister Sadullah Ergin this week criticized Turkish media for presenting Article 301 defendants as guilty when they were charged, before courts had heard their cases or issued verdicts. But for Tastan and Topal, Ergin’s comments were little comfort. “At this point, we are tired of this,” Tastan admitted. “If they can’t find these so-called witnesses, then the court needs to issue a verdict. After four years, it has become a joke!”

 

5.   Christian Woman Kidnapped in Pakistan Escapes 

Impoverished father had received ultimatum from employer who loaned him money.

By John Little

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, May 31 (Compass Direct News) – A Christian woman who was kidnapped, forced to marry a Muslim farmer and told to convert to Islam amid a dispute over a loan said today she has returned home after weeks of  “captivity and torture.” Sania James, 33, was kidnapped April 5 by armed men who stormed her parent’s house in the small town of Rawat, just outside Rawalpindi, neighbors confirmed to Compass. The gunmen allegedly told her father that he would see his daughter again only if he paid off a loan to his employer of 250,000 rupees (US$2,930) plus 30 percent interest, though they had previously agreed upon a rate of 15 percent. James said the armed men took her to her father’s employer, farmer Mohammad Shahbaz Ali, and forced her to marry him. She refused to convert to Islam and was continuously tortured, James said without elaborating. Shahbaz Ali reacted angrily when asked about the alleged incidents. “I refuse to say anything,” he told Compass. Local Pastor Faraz Samson said he had gone to Shahbaz Ali to end the injustice, but that he wouldn’t listen. “I am shocked that a daughter of a poor man has been kidnapped, and the law can’t do anything,” Pastor Samson said.

6.  Muslim Boys in Pakistan Accused of Raping Christian Girl

DNA results match their semen samples in case filed by family of fatherless 14-year-old.

By Thomas Kelly

LAHORE, Pakistan, June 3 (Compass Direct News) – Forensic DNA results of semen samples in a sexual assault case show they match those of the Muslim boys a 14-year-old Christian girl accuses of raping her, according to advocacy organizations. The girl accuses Muhammad Noman and Muhammad Imran, both 17, of abducting her from her school in Kamboh colony, Lahore, in Punjab Province, on May 6 and drugging her prior to sexually assaulting her, according to Khalid Gill, president of the Christian Lawyers Foundation (CLF), and officials of the National Commission of Justice and Peace. The minor, who name was withheld, told the organizations that Noman and Imran gagged her, took her by motorbike to a place unknown to her and made her drink a beverage containing tranquilizers. The CLF’s Gill said the boys later left her on a road near the school’s main entrance. The girl’s father, Rehmat Masih, is deceased. After investigating, on May 9 Millat Park Police registered a case against Noman and Imran for abducting “with intent to commit adultery.” When Muslims commit crimes against Christians in Pakistan they commonly assume law enforcement officials will not prosecute, but the two boys were arrested on May 26. 

 

7.  Muslims Order Christians to Leave Village in Pakistan

Christians drew wrath by objecting to sexual assaults on girls and women.

By Thomas Kelly

KHANEWAL, Pakistan, June 7 (Compass Direct News) – The head of a Muslim village last week ordered 250 Christian families to leave their homes in Khanewal district, Punjab Province, local residents said. Abdul Sattar Khan, head of village No. 123/10R, Katcha Khoh, and other area Muslim residents ordered the expulsions after Christian residents objected too strenuously to sexual assaults by Muslims on Christian girls and women, said a locally elected Christian official, Emmanuel Masih. Most of the village’s Christian men work in the fields of Muslim land owners, while most of the Christian women and girls work as servants in the homes of Muslim families, said Rasheed Masih. The Muslim employers have used their positions of power to routinely sexually assault the Christian women and girls, whose complaints grew so shrill that four Christian men – Emmanuel Masih, Rasheed Masih, his younger brother Shehzad Anjum and Yousaf Masih Khokhar – sternly confronted the Muslims, only to be told that all Christians were to leave the village at once. Asked why they didn’t contact local Katcha Khoh police for help, Emmanuel Masih and Khokhar said that filing a complaint against Muslim village head Khan and other Muslims would only result in police registering false charges against them under Pakistan’s notorious “blasphemy” statutes. That very fate befell two Christian couples in Ggulshan-e-Iqbal town, Karachi, who had approached police with complaints against Muslims for falsely accusing them of blasphemy. On May 28, a judge directed Peer Ilahi Bakhsh police to file charges of desecrating the Quran against Atiq Joseph and Qaiser William after a mob of armed Islamists went through their home’s garbage looking for pages of the Islamic scripture among clean-up debris.

For more information concerning the persecution of Christians around the world, please contact Compass Direct at www.compassdirect.org