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Persécutions religieuses au Pakistan

“There is one option left to get rid of this situation is to migrate; which again people/person like me cannot afford.
So the only option left to me is to sale myself and my family (even in this country we have been sold to IMF/World Bank) to someone aboard.  So that he/she can keep us as slave (we are here slaves and minority too) at least we would be secure.”

• Chrétiens
La communauté chrétienne du Pakistan représente environ 1,5% de la population (2 800 000 habitants). Elle est régulièrement attaquée par des terroristes islamistes depuis que l’État s’est engagé aux côtés des États-Unis. Les tueries et viols commis à Gorja n’en sont qu’un aperçu médiatisé.

La loi elle-même, en discriminant certaines communautés religieuses, ouvre ainsi la porte à toutes les violences; car sur le terrain, les forces de l’ordre ne protègent pas les communautés qui sont attaquées.

“Besides blasphemy laws, there are other legal measures that discriminate against certain religious groups in Pakistan. For instance, a non-Muslim cannot be prime minister or president.
Pakistan’s constitution also requires that laws be consistent with Islam, which is the state religion.

The killings in Gojra come as extremist Islamists, fed by a virulent Taliban insurgent movement, is on the rise in Pakistan, making minorities feel more vulnerable than ever.”

L’analyse de Maloy Krishna Dhar :

“But the scale of oppression against the Christians in Pakistan is appalling. This has developed as a pattern and all over Pakistan most minority religious groups; especially the Christians are systematically persecuted.”

“Plight of the Christian, Hindu and Sikh minority should engage attention of the global human rights agencies and minority protection orgs of the United Nations. Mere denouncement by certain religious congregations in India and the US is not enough. The Indian Christians and media particularly have greater responsibilities. They have been very vocal over certain Hindu aberrations in Gujarat and Orissa.
When would they wake up to the realities of “Secular Jinnah’s” Pakistan abusing its religious minorities? They remained silent when hundreds of Hindus were uprooted in Sind last year. The SGPC looked idiotically to the imposition of Jizya on the Sikhs in Swat region. They may now consider drawing attention of the global Christian orgs, Indian religious orgs and the media orgs towards trampling of the rights of the religious minorities in Pakistan.”

Témoignages pakistanais :

“Anyways, latter Tehrik Nafaz-e-Shariat brought another trauma in the country; obviously that was situation like state in the state.  This killed hundreds of innocents who had nothing to do with and forced thousands to get displaced.”

“This is very first time that the schools have been closed for summer vacations from Aug 1 to 17.  Usually it gets close in July every year.  The main reason is that in most of the schools not even offering their National Anthem in assembly because they are threatened by some XXX army.   And due to this Govt. close the school to avoid misshape.”

“You must have heard the killing of innocents in Gojra, hundreds of home fired and many women were raped few of them yet missing (which not being highlighted in the news).”
“The police standing nearby did not do anything. As you know this part of Punjab is the strongest hold of Jhangvi and Sipah Sahaba. They openly move with arms and threaten the Christians and Hindus.”

• Communautés musulmanes chiites & ahmadis
La communauté chiite du Pakistan représente environ 20 % de la population musulmane (167 millions d’habitants).
Depuis 2007, 300 attentats ont tués plus de 2000 personnes au Pakistan. Les kamikazes sont majoritairement affiliés au Mouvement des talibans du Pakistan (TTP) de Baïtullah Mehsud.

Ustarzai, septembre 2009

Les communautés musulmanes considérées comme hérétiques par les taliban sont donc systématiquement visées par des attentats.

“The Ahmadis, who consider themselves a Muslim sect, are forbidden from calling themselves Muslims or engaging in Muslim practices such as reciting prayers, according to the US State Department’s 2008 Human Righs Report.
Even Shiite Muslims, the second largest sect in Islam, face threats from extremists in the Sunni majority.”

Après la destruction des écoles de filles, les taliban ciblent les écoliers shiites sur la route de l’école :

“Suspected Taliban militants opened fire on a group of students in Pakistan’s north-western tribal region on Tuesday, killing at least four of them, officials said.
Four students were fatally shot while three others suffered bullet wounds,” Asmatullah said.
Authorities said the militants, who largely belong to the majority Sunni Muslim community, attacked the school-goers probably as part of their ethnic campaign. All those killed and injured were Shiites.”

• le nationalisme pakistanais est libéraliste, bourgeois, démocratique, républicain, donc anti-islam
Dr Charles Amjad-Ali, Martin Luther King Jr Professor for Justice and Christian Community, director of Islamic studies programme -The Luther Seminary, St Paul, USA

One has to contextualise the continuing violence, flagrant victimisation, marginalisation and discrimination against the minorities in Pakistan, through a critical look at its history.
The ‘liberal’ side of Pakistan, or should I say the relatively more authentic side of the debate, argued that Pakistan was made for Muslims, not for Islam. The problem with this position is the high level of subtlety and differentiation which escapes the majority. Thus the sloganeers, playing on a common sentiment and simple clichés, are able to control the discourse.

The pre-Independence orthodox, conservative, and newly emerging fundamentalist Islamic movements were all against the formation of Pakistan. For them, if a state was created in the name of Islam for the Muslim population of India, then Islam was being reduced to a nation-state rather than a pan-ethnic, pan-national ummah with Khilafat as its political order. This was seen fundamentally as a product of a western nationalism.
Also, this nationalism, and its concurrent democratic ideals, was seen primarily as products of liberal bourgeois democratic republicanism with no basis in Islam.

Pakistan today sits in the international arena as the hotbed for the generation of Islamic fundamentalism, Jihadists, ‘terrorists,’ such as al-Qaeda, Taliban or whatever new nomenclature is given to them or a small group takes for itself.”

• écoles chrétiennes / madrasas : vision occidentale et réalité
La plupart des terroristes pakistanais ont fait leurs études dans des écoles chrétiennes… pas dans les madrasas réputées fondamentalistes.
Aijazz Ahmed (dans un article de 2003, Madrassas: A make-believe world)

Records show that madrassa students are not widely a part of the jihad in Kashmir. To name a few, Ghulam Abbas, Arif Hussain, Usman Atique, Mudassir Rashid, Mehmood Riaz, Abul Asim, Mohammad Sabir Shahid Mehmood Shafqat, Abdul Sattar, Faisal Mahmood, Sadaqat, Naweed and Niaz all died in Indian-administered Kashmir in different skirmishes with Indian security forces, and they were all from the regular Pakistani education system, mostly Christian missionary schools, such as Saint Patrick’s Karachi, La Salle Multan, Atchison Lahore, Cathedral Lahore and Saint Patrick’s Quetta, or government high schools and colleges.

This was remarkably akin to how, in Pakistan, many Muslim families send their children to Christian schools because of the high quality of teaching and discipline. Hindu enrollment in several Bengali madrassas, for example, was as high as 64 percent because many of these institutions offered vocational training programs. Such examples can certainly be emulated in Pakistani madrassas as well. We should not give up on madrassas but rather help bring them back to their heyday of pluralistic learning.

Et lorsque l’État est défaillant/injuste/arbitraire ou ressenti comme tel, rien n’est blanc ou noir, comme le rapporte dans le même article un étudiant, Bihar Ali:

“We don’t get military training, nor are we offered guns, but certainly we have been taught jihad, which is a basic duty of Islam.” Although the word jihad has ominous overtones in the West, it merely means to struggle for Islam. One can wage a jihad against poverty or illiteracy. Only in its extreme form does it refer to war.
Jihad is not terrorism; rather it is a struggle against terrorism to eliminate injustice and cruelty from the earth,” says Maulana Sharif. “Since we teach jihad, so the West is afraid of us. If our students are or were busy in jihad in Afghanistan or Kashmir, it is the failure of country’s Interior Ministry and that of the Pakistani army, who abandoned their basic duty to protect and safeguard Pakistan and Muslims.”

Ce qui rejoint les constatations de l’écrivain VS Naipaul lors de son voyage dans la région en 1998 :

Ici, au Pakistan, si vous n’avez pas d’argent, si vous n’avez pas de nom, vous êtes comme un ver de terre: l’État vous écrase.
L’ordre tribal est le seul rempart des citoyens faibles lorsque la loi ne les protège pas.

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The McChrystal Review: Yawn. Registan.net, Joshua Foust / Abu Muqawama

Madrassas: A make-believe world, Aijazz Ahmed (2003)
Victimisation of the minorities, Dr Charles Amjad-Ali – The Luther Seminary, St Paul, USA
Persecution of Christians in Pakistan, Maloy Krishna Dhar
Carnage dans un village chiite pakistanais, 24 heures

Laws reviewed after anti-Christian havoc, Gulf news
Taliban kill four Shiite students in Pakista, Top news

crédits photos :
© AFP A Majeed / AP