ICC Note:

Recently, a Muslim man in Pakistan was arrested for murdering his sister because of she married a Christian man. Christians in Pakistan are often discriminated against and are considered unclean by many Muslims. Because of this intense discrimination, Christians live in the worst parts of Pakistan’s cities and often serve as domestic servants, brick kiln workers, and street sweepers. Generation upon generation of Christians in Pakistan have been treated this way, leaving many in the Pakistani Christian community without a future. 

10/05/2016 Pakistan (Christian Post) – A Muslim man in Pakistan was arrested after he shot and killed his 18-year-old sister because he felt that she had disgraced the family by marrying a Christian man.

Mubeen Rajhu, a 24-year-old who hails from Lahore, killed his 18-year-old sister, Tasleem, by shooting her in the head in August because she disobeyed the family’s wishes when she got married to a Christian man.

According to The Associated Press, Rajhu admitted to committing the heinous act after he was taunted by his co-workers who witnessed Tasleem walking in the neighborhood with a Christian man.

Rajhu was arrested and has been detained at the local police headquarters in Lahore for over a month.

Before getting married, Rajhu demanded that his sister swear on the Quran that she wouldn’t marry the Christian man, even though the man even converted to Islam to show that he was serious about his love for Tasleem.

“I told her I would have no face to show at the mill, to show to my neighbors, so don’t do it. Don’t do it. But she wouldn’t listen,” Rajhu was quoted as saying. “I could not let it go. It was all I could think about. I had to kill her. There was no choice.”

One of Rajhu’s co-workers at the mill, Ali Raza, explained that Rajhu had been egged on for months by other Muslims at the mill to do something about his sister.

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