To Be Least
"For he who is least among you all--he is the greatest." (Luke 9:48)Tuesday, January 27, 2004
A Christian Teenager Forced Into Hiding in Pakistan
A Pakistani Christian teenager kidnapped for more than two weeks in November has been forced to flee his home and stay in hiding to avoid recapture by his Muslim extremist captors.
Leaders of a fanatic Islamic school have vowed to send Zeeshan Gill, who just turned 16 last week, to fight in Kashmir as a newly-converted Muslim jihadi (holy warrior).
Zeeshan Gill was abducted November 7 on his way home from his classes at Garrison Cadet School in Sargodha, in Pakistan's Punjab province. The boy was duped into accompanying a Muslim acquaintance, an electrician named Amjad Warriach who had done occasional work in his family's home.
Warriach took Gill to the Jamia al Qasim al Aloom "madressa," an Islamic school attached to a local mosque. Kept there under guard, the boy was forced to recite the "Kalima" (Islamic creed), perform Muslim ablutions and prayers five times a day, and observe daily fasting for the month of Ramadan then in progress.
The boy was beaten and threatened by his captors, who declared that since he had become a Muslim, they would kill him if he tried to run away or convert back to Christianity. Under the tenets of Islam, simply reciting the faith's creed makes one a Muslim, and anyone who renounces Islam must be killed.
Gill was also given weapons training in the use of guns, pistols and grenades, and told that soon he would be sent to fight in the Muslim "holy war" in Kashmir. Hundreds of Pakistan"s militant Islamist groups -- now banned by the government -- have been embroiled in the violent dispute over India-administered Kashmir, a flashpoint between India and Pakistan for 15 years.
Read the rest of the story [here] Source : CompassDirect.org
Leaders of a fanatic Islamic school have vowed to send Zeeshan Gill, who just turned 16 last week, to fight in Kashmir as a newly-converted Muslim jihadi (holy warrior).
Zeeshan Gill was abducted November 7 on his way home from his classes at Garrison Cadet School in Sargodha, in Pakistan's Punjab province. The boy was duped into accompanying a Muslim acquaintance, an electrician named Amjad Warriach who had done occasional work in his family's home.
Warriach took Gill to the Jamia al Qasim al Aloom "madressa," an Islamic school attached to a local mosque. Kept there under guard, the boy was forced to recite the "Kalima" (Islamic creed), perform Muslim ablutions and prayers five times a day, and observe daily fasting for the month of Ramadan then in progress.
The boy was beaten and threatened by his captors, who declared that since he had become a Muslim, they would kill him if he tried to run away or convert back to Christianity. Under the tenets of Islam, simply reciting the faith's creed makes one a Muslim, and anyone who renounces Islam must be killed.
Gill was also given weapons training in the use of guns, pistols and grenades, and told that soon he would be sent to fight in the Muslim "holy war" in Kashmir. Hundreds of Pakistan"s militant Islamist groups -- now banned by the government -- have been embroiled in the violent dispute over India-administered Kashmir, a flashpoint between India and Pakistan for 15 years.
Read the rest of the story [here] Source : CompassDirect.org
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