Babette, it seems to me that this issue is more a women's rights issue and a cultural issue than a religious persecution.
Women in Pakistan are often seen as second class citizens regardless of their religion.

I agree we should all be asking for trade sanctions and sporting cancellations for those countries who have a poor human rights history.....and then I look at the plight of our own Indigenous people, and how we treat asylum seekers who come to us for help.

There are many good people in this world who are not Christian, just as there are many 'bad' Christians.
You would do well to remember that.

Did Babbette claim that there were only good Christians? Is there no diffrerence in Pakistan between how the mob would treat an openly Christian and an openly Muslim woman? Is the discrimantion of Christian women in Pakistan comparable with that of Muslim women in Pakistan, not to mention ex-Christian countries like e.g. Australia?

I am not a woman, but I doubt there are no differences, so I think the fact that there are differences is what Babette, and not only Babette, would do well to remember.

Thank you George for letting us know you're not a woman! Critical information; given that penis would look entirely out of place, unless buried deeply within? Ha ha.

I find myself agreeing with J.O.M!
Total all encompassing trade and sporting sanctions, would tell these stone age R soles; and all those who continue to trade with or support them; that they and all their flat earth ilk, can't keep getting away with their ancient barbarism/abject ignorance.

Which in reality, has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam and it's original, unedited, unrevised teachings; but hugely perverted versions of it; the real blasphemy!
Rhrosty.

>>Which in reality, has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam and it's original, unedited, unrevised teachings; but hugely perverted versions of it; the real blasphemy!<<

I completely agree Rhosty. What I was trying to point out to Suzeonline (not to J.O.M.) was that in modern times there is a big difference between perverted versions of Islam and perverted versions of Christianity (that she seemed to have in mind) concerning treatment of women, wherever they are practised. The difference might not have been that big in the Medieval past.

George, what I was trying to say is that in places like Pakistan, the religion of the woman is probably not so much of a problem as the fact she is a lowly female!

Babette trying to champion the cause of the Pakistani Christian women is all very noble, but I would be looking further to the whole female population in places like Pakistan, not just the Christian ones.

Susieonline; Indeed when I think of the uproar over aparthiet in
South Africa where are those protestors now over the oppression in Islamic countries ?
No cricket bans at all.