Posted on 10/17/2014 10:29:06 PM PDT by Steelfish
In Expansive Pakistan, Christians Struggle To Find Space For Cemeteries
By Tim Craig October 17 In this tiny village where most homes don’t have windows and meals are cooked over fire pits, Christians are used to feeling like second-class citizens.
Christians say they earn less than $2 a day working in the sugarcane fields. They must shop at the sparsely stocked Christian-run rice and vegetable store. They are not allowed to draw water from wells tapped for Muslim neighbors. Now, in what many consider to be a final indignity, they and other Pakistani Christians are struggling to bury their dead.
Pakistan, whose population is overwhelmingly Muslim, is nearly twice the size of California. But leaders of the tiny Christian minority say their burial sites are being illegally seized by developers at an alarming rate, while efforts to secure new land are rejected because of religious tenets barring Muslims from being buried near people of other faiths. Increasingly, the remaining Christian cemeteries are packed with bodies atop bodies.
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“... because of religious tenets barring Muslims from being buried near people of other faiths.”
Even muslime corpses are superior to the infidels’ corpses.
The West is full of suckers. Read Pat Buchanan: “The Death of the West”
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