Post by lovelace on Oct 20, 2006 7:05:15 GMT -5
Arabic Teacher Thrashes Student for Wearing Cross
Sheraz Khurram Khan
ASSIST News Service
Principal consigns cross to dustbin
KASUR, PAKISTAN (ANS) -- A 15-year-old Christian female student had to confront wrath and thrashing by her Arabic teacher when the cross-wearing teen refused to shed her cross on Friday, October 13 in the district of Kasur, some 50 Km from eastern city of Lahore.
“The cross is our Christian religious symbol so I cannot remove it,” the BosNewsLife news service quoted Kiran Shahzadi as telling her Muslim teacher, Naisra Latif.
According to the report, the girl was taken to the principal of the government secondary school who pulled the cross from her neck and consigned it to a dustbin.
The report went on to claim that the principal made Kiran stand under the hot sun until she fainted.
Kiran was taken to a hospital where the doctor who examined her pronounced that she had been beaten, the report added.
It further said that the police refused to file a case against the accused despite insistence of some Christian leaders.
The report also indicated that that the father of the girl, Yaqoob Masih, was told by an unnamed police official that the “Pope has also blasphemed against our Holy Prophet.”
Muslim fury on the Pope’s comment has not subsided
Reacting to Pope Benedict XVI's comment linking Islam with violence, some 38 renowned Muslim scholars have written an open letter to the pontiff, saying there would be no Church in the Muslim world if Islam had ever advocated violence.
According to the Pakistan Urdu Newspaper Daily Jang, the letter, which was posted on an Islamic magazine’s website, said Jihad was not a holy war but a struggle in the way of God.
Sheraz Khurram Khan
ASSIST News Service
Principal consigns cross to dustbin
KASUR, PAKISTAN (ANS) -- A 15-year-old Christian female student had to confront wrath and thrashing by her Arabic teacher when the cross-wearing teen refused to shed her cross on Friday, October 13 in the district of Kasur, some 50 Km from eastern city of Lahore.
“The cross is our Christian religious symbol so I cannot remove it,” the BosNewsLife news service quoted Kiran Shahzadi as telling her Muslim teacher, Naisra Latif.
According to the report, the girl was taken to the principal of the government secondary school who pulled the cross from her neck and consigned it to a dustbin.
The report went on to claim that the principal made Kiran stand under the hot sun until she fainted.
Kiran was taken to a hospital where the doctor who examined her pronounced that she had been beaten, the report added.
It further said that the police refused to file a case against the accused despite insistence of some Christian leaders.
The report also indicated that that the father of the girl, Yaqoob Masih, was told by an unnamed police official that the “Pope has also blasphemed against our Holy Prophet.”
Muslim fury on the Pope’s comment has not subsided
Reacting to Pope Benedict XVI's comment linking Islam with violence, some 38 renowned Muslim scholars have written an open letter to the pontiff, saying there would be no Church in the Muslim world if Islam had ever advocated violence.
According to the Pakistan Urdu Newspaper Daily Jang, the letter, which was posted on an Islamic magazine’s website, said Jihad was not a holy war but a struggle in the way of God.
