• Christians in Thailand Persecuted
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[QUOTE]A BBC investigation has found that Thailand, a country known for its hospitality to tourists, routinely arrests and detains asylum seekers. Many are Pakistani Christians who have fled religious persecution in their own country. Some are children. And they are held despite being UN-registered asylum seekers, whom the UN is under a duty to protect. The sound of the faithful in prayer and song bursts out of a small rented room where a congregation of more than 100 people have gathered for Sunday mass. They would be risking their lives to worship like this in their homeland, where Islamist extremists force Christians to convert, or even kill them.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Leading the prayers is Pastor Joshua, a Christian from Lahore, in what is officially known as the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Along with thousands of other Christians, he's had to flee to Thailand and still fears the people in Pakistan who punished him for converting from Islam to Christianity. "My bone was broken - the one right above the heart. And they tried to cut my arm off," he says. "My sister was murdered, she was burned alive, just because she spoke the word 'God'. They hate the word 'God' so much. She was burned for this reason alone." The Pakistani Christians head to Thailand because it's easy to enter the country on a short-term tourist visa and in Pakistan's hostile neighbourhood there are few safe options closer to hand.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35654804"]Source[/URL]
If anything it seems more of an ethnic thing and not so much on their religion perhaps
[QUOTE=Tarver;49876549]If anything it seems more of an ethnic thing and not so much on their religion perhaps[/QUOTE] its most definitely a religious thing
[QUOTE=Tarver;49876549]If anything it seems more of an ethnic thing and not so much on their religion perhaps[/QUOTE] Really?
Well that makes Pakistan sound pleasent...
[QUOTE=MR-X;49876590]Really?[/QUOTE] Pakistan has big problems with religious intolerance, blasphemy laws, etc. There are these conflicts with the christians as said on the article but also with other smaller muslim sects too and overall dickery amongst muslims too.
[QUOTE=Tarver;49876549]If anything it seems more of an ethnic thing and not so much on their religion perhaps[/QUOTE] These two are difficult if not impossible to separate, but what makes you think so?
[QUOTE=Tarver;49876549]If anything it seems more of an ethnic thing and not so much on their religion perhaps[/QUOTE] Look at this typical white guilt bullshit
[QUOTE=Talishmar;49877649]These two are difficult if not impossible to separate, but what makes you think so?[/QUOTE] He probably said that in response to the thread title. The headline make it sound like Christians in Thailand are getting persecuted where in reality, persecuted Christians from Pakistan that fled to Thailand are getting arrested and detained by the Thai immigration police.
Remember the last group of people who were forced to practice in secret because another group wanted to kill them? I've gotta read the book "Night" again, I am just reminded so much about the part near the beginning how they said that type of stuff wouldn't happen to them, people would never do that. Remember when the world was a better place? I'm starting to forget that.
-snip- I'm retarded lmao
[QUOTE=Trebgarta;49879383]When was the world a better place again? 80s? 40s?[/QUOTE] During the Crusades and Renaissance obviously.
[QUOTE=Trebgarta;49879383]When was the world a better place again? 80s? 40s?[/QUOTE] People think the 90s were great but that would only be the case if you were American/Western European really. The 90s saw far worse stuff going on than today or the 2000s.
[QUOTE=Passing;49879163]Remember the last group of people who were forced to practice in secret because another group wanted to kill them? I've gotta read the book "Night" again, I am just reminded so much about the part near the beginning how they said that type of stuff wouldn't happen to them, people would never do that. Remember when the world was a better place? I'm starting to forget that.[/QUOTE] "In the beginning, there was no sin."
The world was only perceived as a better place in the past because the lack of a widely-available global communication made us oblivious to how direly messed up parts of the world truly are, even within our own countries. A literal case of ignorance is bliss, if you will.
[QUOTE=Swamplord;49878795]He probably said that in response to the thread title. The headline make it sound like Christians in Thailand are getting persecuted where in reality, persecuted Christians from Pakistan that fled to Thailand are getting arrested and detained by the Thai immigration police.[/QUOTE] If you click the source and read the entire article which is how it's meant to be read, you'll find that their immigration detainment specifically target Christian immigrants as oppose to any other religious asylum seeker.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;49881102]If you click the source and read the entire article which is how it's meant to be read, you'll find that their immigration detainment specifically target Christian immigrants as oppose to any other religious asylum seeker.[/QUOTE] I read the article twice and couldn't make out anything like that. It just seems that they are detaining a lot of immigrants from Pakistan and it happens that most immigrants are Christians escaping oppression. Nothing seems to indicate targeting them specifically.
[QUOTE=Cypher_09;49878276]Look at this typical white guilt bullshit[/QUOTE] Remember lads, Christians can't be persecuted, this is why the Coptics are doing so well in Egypt and this article is [I]clearly[/I] wrong.
Thailand is generally not a place to seek refuge in. Cambodians, laosians, and Vietnamese arrive in thailand only to be sold into slavery. North Koreans have better luck because they're arriving in more legal channels where someone would notice if they disappeared. [editline]6th March 2016[/editline] I don't think they're targeting christians as much as Pakistanis in general. It just so happens that the Pakistanis are christian, but Thailand is not a place which generally persecute religious minorities. [editline]6th March 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Cypher_09;49878276]Look at this typical white guilt bullshit[/QUOTE] I can't see how this has anything to do with white guilt. It's Thai's persecuting pakis. The thai government is notoriously corrupt and they're in the middle of a military dictatorship, but they're not religious radicals. Thailand has christians, muslims, and primarily buddhists, and they all live together without anyone bothering the other
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