Christian Murdered for Drinking Tea from a Muslim Cup

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

WASHINGTON, June 12 /Christian Newswire/ -- International Christian Concern (www.persecution.org) has learned that radical Muslims running a tea stall beat a Christian man to death for using a cup designated for Muslims on May 9. The young man, Ishtiaq Masih, had ordered tea at a roadside stall in Machharkay village, Punjab, Pakistan, after his bus made a rest stop.

When Ishtiaq went to pay for his tea, the owner noticed that he was wearing a necklace with a cross and grabbed him, calling for his employees to bring anything available to beat him for violating a sign posted on the stall warning non-Muslims to declare their religion before being served. Ishtiaq had not noticed the warning sign before ordering his tea.

The owner and 14 of his employees beat Ishtiaq with stones, iron rods and clubs, and stabbed him multiple times with kitchen knives as Ishtiaq pleaded for mercy.

The other bus passengers and other passers-by finally intervened and took Ishtiaq to the Rural Health Center in the village. The doctor who took Ishtiaq's case told ICC that Ishtiaq had died due to excessive internal and external bleeding, a fractured skull, and brain injuries.

Makah Tea Stall is located on the Sukheki-Lahore highway and is owned by Mubarak Ali, a 42-year-old radical Muslim. ICC's correspondent visited the tea stall and observed that a large red warning sign with a death's head symbol was posted which read, "All non-Muslims should introduce their faith prior to ordering tea. This tea stall serves Muslims only." The warning also threatened anyone who violated the rule with "dire consequences."

A neighboring shopkeeper told ICC on condition of anonymity that all Ali's employees are former students of radical Muslim madrassas (seminaries).

Ishtiaq's family said that they immediately reported the incident to the police and filed a case against Ali. However, the murderers are still freely operating the tea stall.

When ICC asked the Pindi Bhatian Saddar police station about the murder, the police chief said that investigations were underway and they are treating it as a faith-based murder by biased Muslims. When asked about Ali's warning sign, police chief Muhammad Iftikhar Bajwa claimed that he could not take it down. However, the constitution of Pakistan explicitly prohibits such discrimination.

The public is encouraged to call the Pakistani embassy of their country to protest this heinous crime?

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[Saddle Bronc 124]

Not entirely surprised.

Muslims in Pakistan are largely descended from forced (Hindu) converts (with caste-ladder displayed, basically unchanged--for descendant of dalit convert to attempt marriage with arain convert can result in communal riot and murder of "dalit") while Christians there are oft perceived (as in neighbouring India) to be most-likely descendants of dalit converts; and there is also synergistic effect of Islamist shills since misrule of war-criminal Zia ul-Haq....

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Its terrible, but $hit like this happens every day.

[~PalmTreeGurl~ 154]

I guess they didnt know the rule, Love your neighbor as yourself.

[edp333 9]

I guess they didnt know the rule, Love your neighbor as yourself.

Perhaps they know the golden rule and are sadist and masochist.

Edited June 15, 2009 by edp333

[sara..... 371]

thats just crazy, when we lived in Multan Pakistan we had neighbors that are Christians they celebrated with us and us with them there was never a problem about religion.

people that do stuff like this are not following what Islam is........i cant even call them muslims.

sara

Edited June 15, 2009 by estadia

[~PalmTreeGurl~ 154]

hmm give someone a cup of tea or murder them... I wonder which one is the worst offense?! I will have to think about that the next time I offer out cups of tea

[Saddle Bronc 124]

hmm give someone a cup of tea or murder them... I wonder which one is the worst offense?! I will have to think about that the next time I offer out cups of tea

Ok, I'll give you a historical (albeit really tangential) factoid on this.

In 1883, Bal Gangadhar (aka "Lokamanya") Tilak and his friend Daji Abaji Khare were once invited by a man named Gopalrao Joshi (a chop who wanted to do mischief) to speak at a Christian (most likely Catholic) school. After the speech was finished, Tilak and Khare prepared to leave, but Joshi told them it would be rude to leave without taking a cup of chai--which they did. Joshi then planted the story in a popular newspaper (read by the kharhada community which included Tilak and Khare) the next day; many of the kharhada leaders said, "Tilak is ostracised till he and Khare perform a 'purification' ceremony"--which did not set well with Tilak (Khare supported him in this) who was blunt-spoken and not known for backing down, who retorted "is your religion/religiosity so flimsy?".

Edited June 15, 2009 by CherryXS

[Peikko 1,575]

What's so terribly wrong is to use this type of story to incite hatred towards muslims in the US. These things are not really anything to do with being christian or muslim but everything to do with local tribal rivalries etc.

[Ban Hammer 13,643]

I guess they didnt know the rule, Love your neighbor as yourself.

wow did i ever read that the wrong way........

[Guderian 0]

More from the religion of peace...

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

More from the self-serving propagandists clicking their tongues at other people's tragedies to justify their own bigotry.

[Peikko 1,575]

More from the religion of peace...

Using stories like this as propaganda against the majority of muslims is completely disingenuous.

[JimandChristy 1,689]

That's desperate

[Guderian 0]

More from the religion of peace...

Using stories like this as propaganda against the majority of muslims is completely disingenuous.

That it happened at all is too much to bear.

Is it unfair to point out that a certain group of people are disproportionately violent, or is it just educational?

If the majority of snakes are non-poisonous, is it unfair to advertise that some are?

Not all of us can tell a poisonous snake from a non-poisonous one.

For instance, a milk snake looks an awful lot like a copperhead, and getting bitten is not a good way to find out the difference.

More to the point: when do you begin to kill all the snakes you see just to save your own life?