According to Amnesty International, over 8,000 people are on death row in Pakistan, and convictions are highly unreliable in the country "whose criminal justice system is notorious."
Source/Credit: The Gospal Herald
By Leah Marieann Klett | March 12, 2015
A Christian persecution watchdog has warned that there will soon be a "great holocaust of Christians in Pakistan" as the country restarts executions for all prisoners condemned to death, a sentence often brought on by nothing more than an allegation of "blasphemy" against the Muslim prophet Muhammad.
"While the majority of those sentenced to death deserve capital punishment (murderers, rapists, drug dealers, etc), there are Christians currently in prison, and there will be more Christians in prison, for blasphemy laws," writes Theodore Shoebat at Shoebat.com, a website founded by his father, former Muslim terrorist Walid Shoebat.
Shoebat quotes a report from Russia Today about the end of the death penalty moratorium in Pakistan:
"It will begin executing criminals whose appeals have been exhausted, a spokesman said, reversing an earlier decision that only those convicted of terrorism would be executed."According to Amnesty International, over 8,000 people are on death row in Pakistan, and convictions are highly unreliable in the country "whose criminal justice system is notorious."
With this ban lifted, Shoebat warns, more and more Christians found guilty for blasphemy will be killed by the Pakistani government.
"The current law in Pakistan is that those found guilty for blasphemy are to be sentenced to death (or given life in prison)," he writes. "This is all leading to the future systematic genocide of Christians that will be happening in Pakistan. We must work to help save Christian lives before the Muslims unleash their wave of cruelty and violence on the Christians and usher in the coming great holocaust of Christians in Pakistan."
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