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A young Christian man was raped and brutally murdered in Pakistan for refusing to convert to Islam, and police are doing nothing about it, the victim's brother and minister told FOXNews.com.

Pakistani police reportedly found the body of Tariq "Litto" Mashi Ghauri — a 28-year-old university student in Sargodha, Pakistan — lying dead in a canal outside a rural village in Punjab Province on May 15. He had been raped and stabbed at least five times.

"They have sexually abuse him, torture him with a knife on his testicle and genitals," Ghauri's brother, 24-year-old Salman Nabil Ghauri, said. "They have tortured him very badly, and after that they have stabbed five times with a knife and killed him."

The family believes Litto Ghauri was murdered by the brothers of his Muslim girlfriend, Shazi Cheema, after they found him in a compromising sexual position with their sister.

The Rev. Haroon Bhatti, a Christian clergyman in the village and a friend of the Ghauri family, said Cheema's three brothers came to Litto Ghauri's house on May 11 and gave him an ultimatum: Marry their sister and convert to Islam.

Ghauri agreed to the marriage but refused to accept Islam, and the brothers kidnapped him at gunpoint and drove him to a remote farmhouse, where they tortured and murdered him, the minister said.

"On that farmhouse — four days there — we all, Christians and family, were searching for him," the Rev. Bhatti said. "I was with him. I was searching for him."

After police discovered the body, Ghauri's death was declared a homicide and the family filed paperwork with the Atta Shaheed police station in their small village, Adda 44SB. But Ghauri's brother said police still have not arrested the alleged killers and have refused to meet with his family.

"They don't want to meet us, and the three of them who are murderers are outside," Salman Nabil Ghauri told FOXNews.com. "They are free. Nothing is happening to them. No investigation is running."

The Pakistani Embassy in Washington, D.C., told FOXNews.com that they knew nothing of the incident but were looking into it.

But one embassy official questioned the truth of the report.

"On the face of it, this appears to be exaggerated," said the Pakistani official who asked not to be named. "This does not happen over there."

The official said that minorities are very well represented in the Pakistani Parliament, and if someone in fact were murdered for not converting to Islam, "it would have been reported hugely."

The embassy official added, "if an incident of that nature happened over there, there would have to be an investigation."

Yet human rights watchdog groups say that what happened to Litto Ghauri is not uncommon because Christians in Pakistan are looked upon as the dregs of society. Pakistan's population is 97 percent Muslim, and Christians are only a very small part of the remaining 3 percent.

"What the Muslim society has done in Pakistan is just associate low caste with being Christian," said Jeremy Sewall, Advocacy Director of the International Christian Concern, which first reported the killing. "Many of these people, they clean human waste and that's their job, and that's what Christians are known for in Pakistan."

The Rev. Bhatti says that radical Muslims frequently try to trap Christian men into converting to Islam by using a woman as bait — and Ghauri suspects the involvement of his dead brother's girlfriend in trying to entrap him.

"It's common to offer things — money, women — to Christians to convert," Bhatti said.

Pakistan is one of the most hostile countries in the world for minority religions. The country still has blasphemy laws on the books that forbid saying or writing anything against Islam or the Koran. Punishment can include death.

"You basically have a situation where people can kind of act with impunity in the public," said Paula Schriefer, advocacy director at Freedom House, a human rights group. "They use these laws to sort of settle scores ... or, in situations like this, actually engage in kind of forced conversions."

The U.S. State Department's 2008 International Religious Freedom Report on Pakistan says, "Government policies do not afford equal protection to members of majority and minority religious groups."

The Ministry of Religious Affairs, which is supposed to protect religious freedom, has a verse from the Koran on its masthead, the report said: "Islam is the only religion acceptable to God."

While the U.S. government has provided millions of dollars in public outreach programs to help teach religious tolerance in Pakistan, human rights watchers say it's not sufficient.

"There's probably not enough that the U.S. government is doing to really talk about this issue because it's such an important issue in Pakistan because faith is so important to them," said Sewall.

The small Christian community is hoping that Ghauri's death will bring attention to the plight of minority religious groups in Pakistan.

"Several incidents of Christian persecution go unnoticed in Pakistan because they occur in the furthest parts of Pakistan," the Rev. Bhatti said. "This is Pakistan — predominantly Muslim. So they're the rulers. They rule us."

For Christian families like the Ghauris, living in a remote village in Pakistan, options are few. Because of their poverty they can neither leave nor help secure their own safety.

"We have very little family," said Salman Nabil Ghauri, whose mother died years ago and whose father worked as a day laborer until the killing. "My father was a daily worker. Now he is earning nothing. He is fully mad now. He cannot understand anything — he is still in the shock of death.

"My elder son is dead, and I am only one person. Where can I run? I cannot start my studies or run after my case. What should I do?"

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and then people say we need more Islamic System and Islamic must be a part of Government.
 
and then people say we need more Islamic System and Islamic must be a part of Government.

The constitution provides rights for minorities, but unfortunately the problem of justice in the country means that christians are treated like this. Its the mindset that people have. Pakistanis are very good at saying things like "Islam respects all religions" but cowards in actually following it. There is too much intolerance for non-muslims.

People think calling someone a christian or non-muslim is an insult. Think about it....
 
and then people say we need more Islamic System and Islamic must be a part of Government.

If we had an Islamic govenment, and if the state judged people by Islamic ideals, then the muslims in this instance would be punished severly.

Moreover, the victims family would have to be compensated.

Please do not act as if this is a daily occurance. Forced conversions are strictly Haraam.

Moreover, the article reads:

"The family believes Litto Ghauri was murdered by the brothers of his Muslim girlfriend, Shazi Cheema, after they found him in a compromising sexual position with their sister."

we can conclude that this act was not to forcefully convert him, but was a revenge attack.
 
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Would this more Islamic government charge a jizya tax on minorities?
 
Anybody got any credulous link the FOX news as they are known for there creative reporting or shell we say creating news when it comes to Muslim countries and ignoring massive attacks when it comes to others so i would not start talking on this subject till i see some credulous link.
 
In islamic Sharia ,Dhimmi's are given very less privilages.this means ,the situation of minorities will be pathetic to say the minimum.look at saud for an inspiration.

Christian Plight In The Middle East - The Philadelphia Bulletin Archives

That a fundamentalist Christian newspaper
If U listen to these same people on their TV channels Talibans will look likes Harvard scholars most of these preachers also claim to be talking to God every day these are the same people commenting on Islam or sharia that nothing more then laughable B.S.wanna No about Islam ask a Muslim.
 
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I agree Cheetah. I would like to see some evidence. So awful if it is true, but as you said, FOX is not exactly spot on accurate when it gets on these things.
 
If we had an Islamic govenment, and if the state judged people by Islamic ideals, then the muslims in this instance would be punished severly.

Moreover, the victims family would have to be compensated.

Please do not act as if this is a daily occurance. Forced conversions are strictly Haraam.

Then by your definition, what is it in your current government that makes it Un-Islamic?

And then, exactly how are you going to establish a Government that is purely Islamic? Thru democratic means? No way. Thru a military coupe? Very slim chance. May be someone like Zia Ul Haq could do it. But then aren't you already paying for what he did to you under the name of Islamization?

And if you support an Islamic form of governance, then you should not be having any problems with whatever Taliban are doing now or what they did in Swat when that peace deal was on. They were awarding quick justice as per Sharia, guilty were being executed on the spot or flogged in public.
 
what islamic sharia you are talking about the real one or the one created by the MUllahs with the help of house of saud.

Bhai ,
This kind of thought will go circular without having a solution.Saud Wahaabis brings up the movement of Interpreting Holy Koran EXACTLY as the meaning of verses unlike other Schools of Thought.

No One can Deny Wahhabi's hypothetically.
 
whats the big hype with jizya, non muslims would pay jizya and muslims would pay zakat. In practice muslims (zakat) would pay more than non muslims (jizya). Your point is therefore irrelevant.
 
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