Reporting on Muslim persecution of Christians — that is, exposing it to the public — comes with a price. For Pakistan’s Shamim Masih, a Christian reporter, that price was a sound beating and threats to his family.
On March 29, Masih was attacked in Islamabad by two men on a motorcycle. According to the leader of the Pakistan Christian Congress party, Nazir S Bhatti “The motorbike riders got down from their bike and started beating Shamim Masih…. [They] broke his arm and warned him that if he did not stop reporting on Christian issues, they knew his family and home and would teach him and his family a lesson.”
As usual, police failed to register the incident. In the words of Bhatti: “as Shamim Masih is a Christian journalist…the police and administration are not paying any attention or interest to investigate this incident.”
A couple days later, the brother of a Christian human rights activist was shot in an assassination attempt, and a few days earlier more motorcycle-riding jihadis opened fire on a Christian church.