ICC Note: A Pakistani Muslim doctor has received death threats after treating a Christian man with medicine donated through Islamic alms (zakaat). No one else was treating the man at the time and he was about to die if he did not receive immediate attention. The doctor says that he was unaware that the man was Christian and that there was a law forbidding him from using those medications on him. The workplace discrimination then turned into death threats and he and his wife sought asylum in the U.S. where they are currently. Religious persecution in Pakistan is extremely high; converting a Muslim is a capital crime and ‘honor killings’ of non-Muslims are frequent.

07/29/2016, Pakistan (Christian Times) – A Muslim medical doctor from Pakistan tended to a dying Christian man at the hospital, and got harassed and received death threats because of it.

The unnamed doctor said the Christian man arrived at the hospital, badly needing hemodialysis.

Because no one else was providing him the care he needed, the doctor gave him the dialysis using medicine donated to the hospital through a form of Islamic alms-giving called zakaat.

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