Non-Muslims Forced to CLEAN THE SEWERS in Pakistan

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In new measures introduced by the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, requirements for sanitation work in Pakistan specifies that applicants must be non-Muslim. Moreover, applicants must take the religious oath on their religious holy book – Geeta or Bible – that they will never do anything else but work as a sanitation worker and will never refuse to carry out the work.

The controversial news comes after three Christian men died while cleaning a sewer in Pakistan by hand after being refused personal protective equipment or uniform.

Christian sanitary workers, or Chuhras, as they are locally called, are confined to remain sanitary workers for generations.

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This is not new. Islamic history is rife with religious minorities under Islam forced to clean up Muslim excrement.

Dr. Andrew Bostom explains here:

Yemenite Jews had to remove human feces and other waste matter (urine which failed to evaporate, etc.) from Muslim areas, initially in Sanaa, and later in other communities such as Shibam, Yarim, and Dhamar. Decrees requiring this obligation were issued in the late 18th or early 19th century, and re-introduced in 1913. Yehuda Nini reproduces an 1874 letter written by a Yemenite Jew to the Alliance Israelite in Paris, lamenting the practice: 126

…it is 86 years since our forefathers suffered the cruel decree and great shame to the nation of Israel from the east to sundown…for in the days of our fathers, 86 years ago, there arose a judge known as Qadi, and said unto the king and his ministers who lived in that time that the Lord, Blessed be He, had only created the Jews out of love of the other nations, to do their work and be enslaved by them at their will, and to do the most contemptible and lowly of tasks. And of them all…the greatest contamination of all, to clear their privies and streets and pathways of the filthy dung and the great filth in that place and to collect all that is left of the dung, may your Honor pardon the expression.

Three Christian men died while cleaning a sewer in Pakistan by hand despite being provided with no personal protective equipment or uniform.

PAKISTAN: Non-Muslims forced to do sanitary work

Asian Human Rights Commission, July 11, 2017:

In an act of blatant discrimination against the Christian religious minority, and an infringement of Article 27 of the Constitution of Pakistan, the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has invited applications for the job of sewers from Non-Muslims only. Moreover, applicants are required to take an oath on their religious holy book – Geeta or Bible – that they will never do anything else but work as a sanitary worker, and will never refuse to carry out the work.

This is not the first time that Article 27, which provides safeguards against discrimination in services or employment, has been so blatantly trampled upon. The government has adopted a systemic policy of reserving sanitation posts for non-Muslims. On 18 September 2015, the Mandi Bahauddin, Punjab province’s District Head Quarter Hospital, publicized 10 vacancies, where sanitation jobs were reserved for minorities. A similar advertisement was issued by the Lady Wellington Hospital in Lahore, requiring only “non-Muslims” for this work. In 2015, the Punjab Cardiology Hospital issued an advertisement in several newspapers, which stated that “Only Non-Muslims persons who belong to minorities will be accommodated” for sanitation work. Though the advertisement was later redacted, it was made publicly clear that sanitation work was beneath the Muslim majority population.

This prejudice against non-Muslims, particularly the Christians, has its roots in history. Prior to independence, Dalit Hindus were entrusted with such menial jobs. When they left Pakistan in hordes post independence, the Muslim majority complained to the local administration about the lack of human resources to clean. Consequently, the Christian converts from Dalit Hindus were used to fill in the vacuum. While these Dalits had converted from Hinduism to Protestant Christianity to escape caste discrimination, the stigma of being sanitation workers remained with the community. Their Dalit ancestry remains a distinct feature of social discrimination against Christians in Pakistan.

Due to the lack of political will in uplifting the Christian community, the Christian sanitary workers, or Chuhras, as they are locally called, are confined to remain sanitary workers for generations. According to a survey conducted by an organization working for the upliftment of the beleaguered community, “Total Christian population in Pakistan is 10.5 Million; out of these only 4% are educated or receiving education, about 68% of Christians are jobless.” Furthermore, some 81% of Christians are without homes, 39% Christians are employed as labourers, 67% Christian families are living below the poverty line, 29% Christian females are working as maids and 65% Christian men are sanitary workers.

While the ratio of Christians and Muslims working in the sewers is 60 percent to 40 percent, most Christian sanitary workers said their Muslim co-workers did not indulge in any sanitation work after recruitment, and discriminated against them. Non-Muslim sweepers are preferred because they are easily exploited. Also, there is no compensation in case of the death of Christian sanitary workers.

Since 1988, over 80 Christian sanitary workers have died from inhaling toxic fumes while cleaning sewers, states a Minority Rights Commission report. The most recent death occurred in June 2017, when a Christian sanitary worker fainted from inhaling toxic fumes and was not given medical treatment due to discrimination by hospital staff. Irfan Masih was clearing a blocked sewer in Pakistan’s Sindh Province when he was overcome by toxic fumes. The 30-year-old Christian died in hospital after doctors refused to treat him during the month of Ramadan.

Since 2013, when the Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province offered a public apology for stating that “Muslims cannot be hired as sweepers or cleaners,” because sanitation work “can only be carried out by Christians, Hindus and lower castes”, the state has adopted an unapologetic attitude for such discrimination. In March 2017 for instance, an advertisement for sweepers in Bannu district, northwestern Pakistan, called for applicants from Hindu, Christians and Shia religious minorities. Although officials now claim that ‘Shia’ was added by mistake, they maintain that religious minorities are preferred for these jobs.

Pakistani Christians’ lack of education is one of the root causes of the community’s social and financial decline. It is also why they can only find such menial work.

According to a report by World Watch Monitor, minority representation in sanitation work in Pakistan is above 80 percent. The breakdown of the number of Christian sanitary workers is as follows:

Christians also have a very high representation in Gilgit and Karachi municipal corporations.

The state’s economic discrimination continues, despite a notification from the Services and General Administration Department to amend eligibility rules for sanitation jobs. The notification has amended Service Rules 2003 so that minorities are no longer associated with only sanitary work.

The UN and ILO’s Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111) describes discrimination as “Any distinction, exclusion or preference made on the basis of race, colour, sex, religion, political opinion, national extraction or social origin, which has the effect of nullifying or impairing equality of opportunity or treatment in employment or occupation”.

Though many Pakistanis can be found doing menial jobs abroad, it is rare to find any Muslim doing the same job in their own motherland. The attitude within Pakistan is as though the Christians were in the country to clean up after Muslims. How can one expect greatness from a nation that does not even know how to clean its streets and treats its sanitary workers as sub humans?

It should not be forgotten that the Christian community has given the country several stalwarts, such as legal giant Justice Cornelius, and slain human rights activist and minister of minority affairs Shebaz Bhatti. Their contributions in the education and health sectors have provided many Pakistanis with the best medical and educational facilities at a nominal price. The Christian community has also played a pivotal role in the freedom movement, but all these contributions are sidelined by the theocratic state bent upon promulgating its own version of political Islam.

The government of Pakistan must stop forcing religious minorities into degrading jobs. It should also work on sensitizing society, to encourage a pluralistic and egalitarian atmosphere where the rights of minorities are equally protected. It is imperative for a strengthened Pakistan that all its citizens, regardless of caste, colour, ethnicity, political or religious association, be treated on equal footing by the state. The government of Punjab in particular, should immediately stop the policy of discrimination and bias against its beleaguered Christian community.

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V
6 years ago

Our tolerance is the rope with which muslims will hang our civilization.

Ebayer
Ebayer
6 years ago

What a hell hole that Pakistan is. The whole country is a sewer.

AlgorithmicAnalystD
AlgorithmicAnalyst
6 years ago

Gross.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

This is islam, this is how the democrat party and its muslim overlords would have America as. The butt hurt liberal turd flakes are too much in outrage over feeling threatened or unsafe, demanding that they be protected from reality. Send the entire population of berkeley caliphboneya to pakistan. See how far there ucla and other mindless gibberish certification sells on the job market there.

Annabholland
Annabholland
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

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Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  Annabholland

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Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  Annabholland

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santashandler
santashandler
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Would love to see that. The first thing they would do is complain about the “smell” in the sewer and how they couldn’t possibly work under THOSE conditions.

santashandler
santashandler
6 years ago

Perfect opportunity for the Christian sewer workers. They should take their daily collection of feces, and drop it off all over their local mosque, courtesy of the Pakistan Christian community. How long would they continue to be sewer workers then.

The_5th_Estate
The_5th_Estate
6 years ago
Reply to  santashandler

and then jehadis will rape their women infront of them before killing them.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  The_5th_Estate

You islamofauxb! Muslums don’t kill the women of the kafir al najjis — as long as they convert to islum!

The_5th_Estate
The_5th_Estate
6 years ago
Reply to  IzlamIsTyranny

sorry you are absolutely right, Islam is religion of peace.

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6 years ago

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Gunga
Gunga
6 years ago

Malicide- fight evil, kill that which is evil. Do not submit to evil. Followers of Christ must fight evil.

The_5th_Estate
The_5th_Estate
6 years ago

Islam is religion of peace and harmony

Just Kidding

dan
dan
6 years ago

i didnt realize how pathetic pakistan was.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago

“…its own version of political islam”. The enemedia never stops misrepresenting the truth about islum, because the persecution of the unbeliever in islum is sacralised.

Robert Kimbel
Robert Kimbel
6 years ago

Filthy Muslim scum! Imagine Pakistanis, the lowest of the low, looking down on others. Islam is intolerance and racism.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago

Why R US tax dollars going to support this muslum pig’s anus state?

David
David
6 years ago

Here are some people deserving of refugee status in the USA. We should fill our quota with such people. There probably won’t be any slots for Muslims.

John Rogers
John Rogers
6 years ago

Christians and Hindus do not belong living interspersed with savages. There are better countries out there.

Dano50D
Dano50
6 years ago

This is a good metaphoric example of why we don’t believe there are “Moderate Muslims.”

They REFUSE to clean up their own sh**.

Bruce Atchison
Bruce Atchison
6 years ago

This is so typical of Islam. Muslims in India and other countries also have Christians doing servile jobs and they pay them as little as possible.

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