Welcome to the Religion Of Peace: My imam father came after me with an axe
We are all too familiar with the persecution of Christians in countries such as Pakistan and Afghanistan. Yet sitting in front of me is a British woman whose life has been threatened in this country solely because she is a Christian. Indeed, so real is the threat that the book she has written about her experiences has had to appear under an assumed name.
The book is called The Imam’s Daughter because “Hannah Shah†is just that: the daughter of an imam in one of the tight-knit Deobandi Muslim Pakistani communities in the north of England. Her father emigrated to this country from rural Pakistan some time in the 1960s and is, apparently, a highly respected local figure.
He is also an incestuous child abuser, repeatedly raping his daughter from the age of five until she was 15 (WT-just like Mohammed did), ostensibly as part of her punishment for being “disobedientâ€. At the age of 16 she fled her family to avoid the forced marriage they had planned for her in Pakistan. A much, much greater affront to “honour†in her family’s eyes, however, was the fact that she then became a Christian – an apostate. The Koran is explicit that apostasy is punishable by death; thus it was that her father the imam led a 40-strong gang – in the middle of a British city – to find and kill her.
Hannah’s description in the book of the moment when her “community†discovered the “safe†home where she had fled after becoming an apostate is terrifying. A mob with her father at its head pounded and hammered at the door as she cowered upstairs hoping she could not be seen or heard. She heard her father shout through the letter box: “Filthy traitor! Betrayer of your faith! Cursed traitor! We’re going to rip your throat out! We’ll burn you alive!â€
Does she still believe they would have killed her? “Yes, without a doubt. They had hammers and knives and axes.â€
Next up, the Left will attempt to defend this behavior by saying Christians do this all the time in the name of Christ. Yes, there are bad Christians out there, there are bad people in all walks of life, but, we do not perform these acts in the name of our religion anymore. You have to go back hundreds and hundreds of years for anything similar.Â
But, rarely will the left ever decry these actions in the name of Islam. Where are all the women’s groups when you need them? Where are the compassionate liberals we keep hearing about, the ones interested in justice and treating people well?
