ReligionofIntoleranceinsp ecto r said , Masi h got angr y and blas phem ed. Nase er
related thediscussion to two otherneighborsof his mother,
Attaullah and Younas Salfi, The three subsequently gathered
oth er loca ls and pelt ed ston es at Masi h's hous e, on whic h
pol ice rea ched the sce ne and taki ng no not ice of the
att ackon his home, arrestedMasih,"'~
0 Thefol low ing mon th, a chu rch in the Pak ist ani vil lag eof
Dajkot was attacked during a prayer service by a mob of Mus-
lims shouting, "Youinfidels, stop prayingand accept Islam!"
Accord ing to thePakista nChristi an Post, the mob "enter ed
the church and started beating the worshipers. The Muslim
attackersdesecrat edtheHolyBible and broke every thing in
th e chu rc h." How eve r, th e pol ic e "re fus ed to lo dge any
report," andat the localhospital, Muslim doctors ignored the
inj ure d Chr ist ian s at the dir ect ion of aninf lue nti al loc al
Muslim,'
OIn May 2004 , anot her Chri sti an char ged wit h bla sphe my,
Sa mu el Ma si h, be at en to de at h wi th a ha mm er by a
Muslim policeman as he lay in a hospital bedsuffering from
tuberculosis.
o from Kuwait:
O Hussein Qambar Ali, a Kuwaiti, converted from Islam to
Chri stia nity in the 1990 s. Even thou gh the Kuwait i
cons titution guara ntees the freed om of reli gion and says
nothi ng about the traditional Islamic prohibition on
conversion to another faith, he was arrested and tried for
apostasy. During his tri al, a pro sec uto r decl are d tha t the
Shar ia too k pre cedence over Kuwait's secular legal code:
"With grief I have tosay tha t our cri min al law doe s not
inc lud e a pen alt y for apostasy. The fact is that the
legislature, in our humble
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