The teaching of Jesus is radical. When he taught his followers to love their enemies, that was just as radical then as it is today. Let us be reminded of this teaching from Matthew 5:43-45, " 43"You have heard that it
was said, 'Love your neighbor[a] and hate your enemy.' 44But I tell you: Love your
enemies[b] and pray for those who persecute
you, 45that you may be
sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and
the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous." - Now, as you read the horrific story of the bloody persecution and abuse of this Christian barber, please take a moment to pray for the barbers attackers, and for the barbers complete restoration and healing.
Brother of Muslim who insisted on having beard cut, seven others, break hair-cutter’s bones.SARGODHA, Pakistan, April 28 (CDN) — A Christian barber in this Punjab Province city is still recovering from broken bones and other injuries sustained earlier this month after eight Muslims allegedly beat and sodomized him for cutting the beard of a Muslim.
Marwat Masih, 29, initially refused the request of 19-year-old Qandeel Cheema to cut his beard in Sargodha’s Gulshan-e-Bashir town on April 13, knowing that area Sunni Muslims believe the Quran prohibits it. But Cheema, a high school student, told Masih that he had lived and studied in Lahore and therefore wanted a more modern look, the bed-ridden and feeble Masih told Compass.
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Masih said that he was blindfolded with a black cloth and taken to an unknown place where he was locked in a room. An hour later, Shakeel Cheema and seven others arrived and began striking him with clubs, breaking his ribs, a wrist and leg bones.“Shakeel Cheema said, ‘Now we are going to teach you a real lesson for shaving the beard of a Muslim man,” Masih said, and after a long, pained pause he related how Cheema and the seven others sodomized him. “I started bleeding and fell unconscious.”
Read more at Compass Direct.