The son of a Pakistani Christian woman who was accused of stealing of from her Muslim employer’s home was beaten and killed by local police in an attempt to make her confess to the crime.
The British Pakistani Christian Association says the police dumped the lifeless body of 20-year-old Zubair Rashid Masih into the street in front his mother’s home on March 8th.
The Muslim owner of the home where she had worked claimed she told gold ornaments and money from his home on February 24th, even though Aisha Bibi stopped working for him on February 20th.
Bibi was arrested and beaten by local officials when she did not admit to the crime. She suffered a broken arm as a result of the attack.
“When they arrived they had my eldest son with them and detained him as well. They were beating him and he was screaming in pain. I thought that I should confess to the theft charges to save my son,” Bibi said in an interview for The Christian Post translated and conducted by BPCA officer Shamim Masih. “However, at this point, they stopped my son’s beating for a while and told me to leave the prison and go home. Later they tortured my son to death.”
“I want justice, but I know the court will ignore our case. Our judicial system is corrupt despite attempts to prevent it. We forced police to lodge a [case] against the police officers involved in my son’s death,” Bibi explained. “It has now been registered after a protest but none of the police murderers have been arrested. The police are protecting themselves, placing their badge before their duties.”
“I am still facing threats from local Muslims who think I am a Christian thief,” Bibi continued. “I do not know how my remaining son and I can survive after this incident in this city that hates Christians.”
An American blogger who was critical of Islam was killed by Muslims who attacked in a “knife-wielding mob.”
Avijit Roy, who was an atheist, was attacked for promoting secularism and pointing out the violence and brutality of Islamic extremism.
“Avijit Roy has been killed the way other free thinker writers were killed in Bangladesh. No freethinker is safe in Bangladesh,” blogger Taslima Nasreen, who left Bangladesh in the mid-1990s after receiving death threats from extremists, told the Christian Post about the killing.
“Islamic terrorists can do whatever they like. They can kill people with no qualms whatsoever.”
BBC News reported that Bangladeshi officials for their role in the murder are now investigating a local Islamist group.
This is not the first time Islamists have attacked bloggers for being critical of Islam. In 2013, one atheist blogger was brutally killed and a second survived a severe beating at the hands of Muslim mob.
The Centers for Disease Control is investigating a potentially deadly bacterium that normally is found in hospitals but is appearing in doctor’s offices and medical facilities.
A study released Wednesday shows that the bacteria, C. difficile, has been found in patients who had not visited hospitals but doctors or dentists. The CDC study, published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine, said 150,000 people who had not been in the hospital came down with C. diff in 2011.
The bacteria cause a deadly diarrhea and infected nearly half a million Americans in the last year. The bacteria were the direct cause of 15,000 deaths.
“This is really an important issue. We need to understand better how people are getting C. diff,” said Dr. Cliff McDonald, a medical epidemiologist at the CDC.
The CDC encourages people to wash their hands with soap and water because alcohol based antibiotic jells do not work on C. diff.
Al Arabiya is reporting that a number of ISIS leaders have been killed by an American air strike.
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was en route to the area of the strike but officials were not able to confirm if he was at the site of the strike during the attack.
Dozens of leaders and members of the group were killed in the strike. A hospital source said that at least 17 ISIS terrorists are dead and another 29 wounded; many of the wounded were in critical condition.
Local residents in al-Qaim said that many ISIS buildings and key institutions were struck by the strike. The terrorists locked down the city and said that all citizens were prohibited from leaving their homes after the attack.
ISIS reportedly called for reinforcements from Syria after the attacks to help evacuate the dead and wounded and also to try and strengthen their hold on the town.
ISIS has burned alive 45 Iraqi citizens for a variety of alleged crimes against the terrorist’s rules.
Al-Baghdadi Local Police Chief Qasim al-Obeidi told the BBC that some of those killed were members of the Iraqi Security Forces which has been the main force fighting to stop the spread of ISIS.
The massacre comes as the State Department’s main spokeswoman, Marie Harf, says that ISIS can’t be beaten by force.
“We’re killing a lot of them, and we’re going to keep killing more of them,” she stated. “So are the Egyptians, so are the Jordanians. They’re in this fight with us. But we cannot win this war by killing them. We cannot kill our way out of this war.”
“We can work with countries around the world to help improve their governance,” she said. “We can help them build their economies so they can have job opportunities for these people.”
The ISF is working to drive ISIS out of al-Baghdadi but has been unable to dislodge the terrorists.
Iraq’s ambassador to the United Nations is calling for the world body to investigate reports that ISIS is killing doctors who will not harvest organs for sale on the black market.
Ambassador Mohamed Alhakim said that dozens of bodies have been found in shallow graves with surgical incisions. Examinations of the bodies show that organs like the kidneys, livers and hearts missing.
“Surgeries take place within a hospital and organs are quickly transported through networks specialized in trafficking human organs. Mosuli said that the organs come from fallen fighters who were quickly transported to the hospital, injured people who were abandoned or individuals who were kidnapped,” a report printed by the London Daily Mail read.
Alhakim said they have confirmed reports of a dozen doctors being killed in Mosul for refusing to take organs from dying people. He said that the group is using the tactic more to offset losses in exports of oil from seized drilling rigs.
The UN’s envoy to Iraq, Nikolay Miadenov, confirmed some of the ambassador’s claim sand said that 790 people have been confirmed dead from terrorism at the hands of ISIS.
Police in Copenhagen, Denmark have killed a terrorist who carried out two attacks on Saturday that left two dead and four wounded.
The first attack struck at the Krudttoenden café in Osterbro during an event featuring an artist who created paintings of Muhammad. The event, “Art, Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression,” was to include discussion of Islam and the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo.
Police say the terrorist gunman shot over 200 rounds of ammunition into the café from the street. A 40-year-old man in attendance was killed and two police officers were wounded.
“Denmark has today been hit by a cynical act of violence,” Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt stated following the incident. “Everything suggests that the shooting in Osterbro was a political assassination and thus an act of terrorism.”
The gunman fled but later opened fire near a synagogue in the Krystalgade area. A guard was killed and two bystanders were injured.
Danish police found the gunman at a train station in Norrebro. He was shot by police after he pulled a gun and moved to open fire on officers.
ISIS released a video on Sunday of terrorists loyal to ISIS beheading 21 Coptic Christians.
The Libyan terrorists marched the Christians down a beach, lined up them up and then beheaded each of them.
“Safety for you crusaders is something you can only wish for,” a knife-wielding militant says on camera. “We will conquer Rome, by Allah’s permission.”
The terrorists identify themselves as the Tripoli Province of the Islamic State. The terrorists have claimed to be holding the 21 Christians for weeks.
The Egyptian government declared a seven-day mourning period for the slain Christians. President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi offered his condolences to “the victims of terrorism” according to a Presidential statement.
Egyptians have fled to surrounding nations to find work in the wake of the 2011 Islamist uprising in Egypt.
Eight ISIS bombers are dead after they attempted to breach a base in Iraq that was housing U.S. Marines.
Iraqi Security Forces were able to stop the bombers at the Ain al-Asad air base before they could reach the areas housing the U.S. troops. Coalition forces were the ones who identified the bombers to the ISF.
“The ISF supported by Coalition surveillance assets defeated the attack, killing all eight attackers,” the Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve outlined in a statement. “The ISF have since re-secured their facility.”
“Coalition forces were several kilometers from the attack and at no stage where they under direct threat from this action.”
The Ain al-Asad air base reportedly is being attacked daily by ISIS but U.S. officials have described them as “nuisance attacks” with no real substance. The base is where at least 300 Marines are training Iraqi security forces.
Islamic extremist group Boko Haram has launched their first attack on the nation of Chad.
Militants attacked a village on the shore of Lake Chad early Friday morning. The village of Ngouboua was raided leaving many residents dead although local officials could not say the total number of the dead.
“The assailants have scattered and the army is now pursuing them,” army Col. Azem Bermandoa told The Associated Press by telephone.
Chad has been the largest supporter of Nigerian troops in their battle against the Islamists. Boko Haram leaders had been warning they were going to be launching attacks on those who had been supporting their opposition.
Chad is also working with Niger, Cameroon and Benin to start a multi-national force to fight the terrorists. The official launch of the unit is expected in the next few weeks.
Boko Haram likely chose the city because it was a refuge for Nigerians who had fled the terrorists. The U.N. says at least 3,300 refugees were in the village.
