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"We Will Teach You a Lesson": Extremist Persecution of Christians, November 2018
by Raymond Ibrahim
January 27, 2019 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13578/christian-persecution-november (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13578/christian-persecution-november)
After it was announced that Asia Bibi -- a Christian women who had spent nearly a decade on death row for allegedly "blaspheming" against Islam -- had been acquitted, Muslims rioted throughout early November; in one march, more than 11,000 Muslims demanded her instant and public hanging. A leading Muslim party announced that the judges who had acquitted her deserved death. The lawyer who represented her fled the nation due to many death threats. — Pakistan.
While under arrest, he asked police to allow him to "kill the infidels... otherwise you will become infidels like them." Authorities later said the man had mental problems and was under the influence of drugs. The Christians replied that the media always present such Muslims who attack churches and Christians as suffering from mental illnesses. — Egypt.