{"id":1524,"date":"2019-06-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.britishasianchristians.org\/full-previous-archive\/2019\/06\/28\/call-it-by-its-name-persecution-new-book-release-by-desmond-fernandes-and-the-baca-detailing-the-plight-of-pakistani-christians-2\/"},"modified":"2019-06-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T23:00:00","slug":"call-it-by-its-name-persecution-new-book-release-by-desmond-fernandes-and-the-baca-detailing-the-plight-of-pakistani-christians-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishasianchristians.org\/full-previous-archive\/call-it-by-its-name-persecution-new-book-release-by-desmond-fernandes-and-the-baca-detailing-the-plight-of-pakistani-christians-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Call it by its name: &#8216;Persecution!&#8217; \u2013 New book release by Desmond Fernandes and the BACA detailing the plight of Pakistani Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The British Asian Christia<\/strong><strong>n Association has published a 490 page book authored by Desmond Fernandes &#8211; <\/strong><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Call it by its name: &#8216;Persecution!&#8217; &#8211;<\/em><strong> that comprehensively analyses and documents the manner in which Christians have been \u2013 and continue to be &#8211; persecuted throughout Pakistan. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p> For Saleh Memon, a member of the Campaign Against Criminalising Communities: &#8220;This book paints a truly horrific picture of the treatment of Christians<br \/>\n    in Pakistan, based on concrete evidence. It also shows how Pakistani politics have gone toxic when politicians and religious leaders are using extreme<br \/>\n    communalism to gain political leverage. It is clear that Christians are discriminated in all spheres of life &#8211; religious practice, habitation, employment,<br \/>\n    education, health and general social well-being. On top of this, blasphemy laws are invoked and used deliberately to victimise Christians, taking security<br \/>\n    of life from them as individuals. They are frequently subjected to mob justice. The rule of law with fair trial in front of a jury is often abandoned.<br \/>\n    The police and security forces often become judge, jury and executioners&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p> David (Lord) Alton, former Vice-Chair of the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on International Freedom of Religion or Belief and Co-Founder of the<br \/>\n    Jubilee Campaign, in the &#8216;Introduction&#8217; to the book, describes it as an \u201cexcellent book, which covers all the important ground relating to Christians<br \/>\n    in Pakistan and the persecution that they face\u201d. He argues that it \u201cneeds to be seriously considered by the Home Office policy analysts\u201d and \u201cconsulted<br \/>\n    by UNHCR [the United Nations&#8217; refugee agency&#8217;s] staff in Bangkok &#8230; It also urgently needs to be read\u201d by the UK Prime Minister\u2019s Special Envoy on<br \/>\n    Freedom of Religion or Belief and Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) policy makers because \u201cit provides up to date information that, hopefully,<br \/>\n    will result in revised guidance &hellip;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Call it by its name: &#8216;Persecution!&#8217;<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"> (paperback) can be purchased for \u200e\u00a310 (excluding postage &amp; packing) via the British Asian Christian Association&#8217;s (BACA&#8217;s) online shop<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishpakistanichristians.org\/books\/call-it-by-its-name-persecution\">(here)<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This book &#8230; should be essential reading for all policy makers\/analysts, lawyers, refugee rights campaigners, members of the public, academics and<br \/>\n    parliamentarians who are concerned about persecuted individuals and groups (inclusive of Christians) in Pakistan\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> The book exposes the manner in which the Home Office&#8217;s &#8216;guidance&#8217; on refugee-determination linked issues, seemingly inspired by the UK government&#8217;s<br \/>\n    &#8216;hostile\/compliant environment&#8217; immigration policy, has been skewed in a &#8216;deep political&#8217;<a><span><span><span>[i]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> manner to<br \/>\n    advance &#8216;zero tolerance&#8217; immigration agendas, irrespective of the genuine &#8216;persecution&#8217; status of asylum seeking Pakistani Christians and targeted<br \/>\n    &#8216;Others&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p> The Home Office&#8217;s most recent September 2018 &#8216;Country Policy and Information Note&#8217; on &#8216;Pakistan: Christians and Christian converts&#8217; &#8211; which UK and<br \/>\n    UNHCR decision makers rely on for &#8216;guidance&#8217; in determining the &#8216;refugee status&#8217; of Pakistani Christian asylum seekers \u2013 scandalously asserts that<br \/>\n    \u201cChristians in Pakistan are a religious minority who, in general, suffer discrimination, <em>but this is not sufficient to amount to a real risk of persecution\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> This Home Office determination, as Fernandes&#8217; book shows, flies in the face of a large number of publicly available assessments and findings by numerous<br \/>\n    human rights organisations, academics, parliamentarians, Pakistan assembly members, public interest bodies, Church organisations and community representatives,<br \/>\n    investigative journalists and lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>Open Doors, for example, in its &#8216;World Watch List&#8217;, ranks Pakistan at number 5 in its list of the 50 countries where Christians experience the &#8216;most<br \/>\n    extreme&#8217; levels of persecution.<\/p>\n<p> Findings from Fernandes&#8217; book also point towards a specific UK government immigration policy that explicitly discriminates against nationals from<br \/>\n    Pakistan by placing them on a secret &#8216;list&#8217;. We are made aware that Mansouri and Son, a solicitors and law firm, has confirmed that \u201cthe UK Border<br \/>\n    Agency has drawn up\u201d a \u201csecret list\u201d which \u201cis not available publicly and Entry Clearance Officers are explicitly forbidden from disclosing the existence<br \/>\n    of the list\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> This &#8216;secret list&#8217;, human rights lawyer Shahram Taghavi points out, scandalously \u201cnot only offends against the established fundamental human rights<br \/>\n    principle of not discriminating on the grounds of nationality or race, but also violates a cardinal principle of the rule of law, the principle that<br \/>\n    laws must be accessible to citizens\u201d. This policy, when placed within a wider framework that is outlined in Fernandes&#8217; book, is shown to sit alongside<br \/>\n    others that have targeted the Windrush generation and Chagossian islanders.<\/p>\n<p> Fernandes draws upon a wide range of sources to detail the scandalous manner in which Pakistani Christians, alongside &#8216;Othered&#8217; asylum seekers, have<br \/>\n    become mere &#8216;bargaining chips&#8217; in cynical &#8216;deep political&#8217; aid\/trade\/immigration\/foreign policy\/electioneering\/intelligence and &#8216;security&#8217; arrangements.<br \/>\n    Consequently, it is shocking to note that the rejection rate in the UK for asylum seekers from Pakistan (where the Baloch, Hazaras, Ahmadi Muslims<br \/>\n    and several targeted others are being targeted in a genocidal context)<a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/joelkyari\/Downloads\/BPCA%20BOOK%20RELEASE%20may%2028.doc#_edn2\"><span>[ii]<\/span> <\/a>    currently stands at 86% (This is well above the average percentage rejection rate of asylum seekers to the UK). EU asylum and refugee policies, he<br \/>\n    confirms, have also been just as problematically formulated in a &#8216;deep political&#8217; fashion. Consequently, by April 2016, the rejection rate for &#8216;Pakistani<br \/>\n    migrants&#8217;\/&#8217;Pakistani asylum seekers&#8217; from the EU stood at over 90 percent.<\/p>\n<p> The Foreign and Commonwealth Office&#8217;s (FCO&#8217;s) assessments in Pakistani Christian &#8216;persecution-related&#8217; matters are also subjected to detailed scrutiny<br \/>\n    and criticism. The UK government&#8217;s recent decision to refuse to offer Asia Bibi and her family asylum is also critically assessed, alongside David<br \/>\n    Stewart&#8217;s contention that \u201cBritain\u2019s asylum policy is effectively being directed by mobs in Pakistan, a charge that the government unconvincingly tried<br \/>\n    to refute\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <em>Call it by its name: &#8216;Persecution!&#8217;<\/em> has been presented to the Home and Foreign Secretaries and formally accepted as a submission of evidence<br \/>\n    by the inquiry team examining the nature of persecution of Christians worldwide, chaired by the Bishop of Truro, which is focused upon the FCO&#8217;s policies<br \/>\n    and practices. The book&#8217;s findings and conclusions further support the basis of the recent appeal by Cardinal Vincent Nichols and the Archbishop of<br \/>\n    Canterbury that the scope of the Bishop&#8217;s government-backed inquiry \u201cshould be expanded to include departments beyond the FCO\u201d such as \u201cthe Department<br \/>\n    for International Development (DFID), the Department for International Trade, the Cabinet Office, the National Security Council and the Home Office.<br \/>\n    &#8216;The government\u2019s work promoting FoRB [Freedom of Religion or Belief] should not be seen as an isolated strand of diplomatic activity, but incorporated<br \/>\n    into aid, trade, resettlement, asylum and security policy&#8217;, they wrote\u201d.<a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/joelkyari\/Downloads\/BPCA%20BOOK%20RELEASE%20may%2028.doc#_edn3\"><span><span><span>[iii]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p> In the wake of the reported targeting and murder of Christians by militants from the Taliban and affiliates of the Islamic State and the violent mass<br \/>\n    mobilisations in Pakistan that were spearheaded by the Tehreek-e-Labbaik party in November 2018 (calling for the hanging of Asia Bibi), and in light<br \/>\n    of a number of recent court judgements and controversial &#8216;initiatives&#8217; by the new Imran Khan government, the book also assesses how &#8216;secure&#8217; or &#8216;insecure&#8217;<br \/>\n    Christians are in Pakistan today.<\/p>\n<p><em>Call it by its name: &#8216;Persecution!&#8217;<\/em><span> (paperback) can be purchased for \u200e\u00a310 (excluding postage &amp; packing) via the British Asian Christian Association&#8217;s (BACA&#8217;s) online shop&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishpakistanichristians.org\/books\/call-it-by-its-name-persecution\">(here)<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <strong>Notes on the author: <\/strong>Desmond Fernandes<br \/>\n    <br \/>is a genocide scholar, author of <em>Education, Human Rights Violations in Pakistan and the Scandal involving UNHCR and Christian asylum seekers in Thailand<\/em>    (BPCA: London, 2016, 3rd edition) as well as joint-author of <em>The Targeting of Minority &#8216;Others&#8217; in Pakistan<\/em> (BPCA: London, 2013) and <em>The Education System in Pakistan: Discrimination and the Targeting of the &#8216;Other&#8217; <\/em>(BPCA:<br \/>\n    London, 2014). Formerly a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at De Montfort University (UK), his works on persecution, genocide and the criminalisation<br \/>\n    of communities have been translated into a number of languages, including French, Dutch, German, Greek, Turkish and Kurdish.<\/p>\n<p> <strong style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><em>Call it by its name: &#8216;Persecution!&#8217;<\/em><\/strong><strong style=\"font-size: 24px;\"> (paperback) can be purchased for \u200e<\/strong>    <strong style=\"font-size: 24px;\">\u00a3<\/strong><strong style=\"font-size: 24px;\">10 (excluding postage &amp; packing) via the British Asian Christian Association&#8217;s (BACA&#8217;s) online shop<span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishpakistanichristians.org\/books\/call-it-by-its-name-persecution\">(here)<\/a>.<\/span>&nbsp;<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/joelkyari\/Downloads\/BPCA%20BOOK%20RELEASE%20may%2028.doc#_ednref1\"><span><span><span>[i]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> &#8216;Deep politics&#8217;<br \/>\n    is defined by Peter Dale Scott as \u201call those political practices and arrangements, deliberate or not, which are usually repressed rather than acknowledged\u201d<br \/>\n    &#8211; Scott, P. D. (1996) <em>Deep Politics and the Death of JFK<\/em>. University of California Press: Berkeley and Los Angeles, p. 6, 7.<br \/>\n    <br \/>Further clarification of this view, notes Rachel Weber, \u201ccomes with his definition of deep political analysis: \u2018looking beneath public formulations<br \/>\n    of policy issues to the bureaucratic, economic and ultimately covert and criminal activities which underlie them\u2019\u201d &#8211; Weber, R. (undated) \u2018Peter Dale<br \/>\n    Scott&#8217;s <em>Deep Politics<\/em>\u2019 (accessed at: <a href=\"http:\/\/mcadams.posc.mu.edu\/scott.htm\">http:\/\/mcadams.posc.mu.edu\/scott.htm<\/a>).<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/joelkyari\/Downloads\/BPCA%20BOOK%20RELEASE%20may%2028.doc#_ednref2\"><span><span><span>[ii]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>See<br \/>\nFernandes, D. (2016) <em>Education, Human Rights Violations in Pakistan and the Scandal involving UNHCR and Christian asylum seekers in Thailand<\/em>(BPCA:<br \/>\nLondon, 3rd edition).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/joelkyari\/Downloads\/BPCA%20BOOK%20RELEASE%20may%2028.doc#_ednref3\"><span><span><span>[iii]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> Dodd, L<br \/>\nand Gamble, R. (2019) &#8216;UK\u2019s persecution review too limited, Churches warn&#8217;, <em>The Tablet<\/em>, 25 April 2019 (accessed at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetablet.co.uk\/news\/11632\/uk-s-persecution-review-too-limited-churches-warn\">https:\/\/www.thetablet.co.uk\/news\/11632\/uk-s-persecution-review-too-limited-churches-warn<\/a>).<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Asian Christian Association has published a 490 page book authored by Desmond Fernandes &#8211; Call it by its name: &#8216;Persecution!&#8217; &#8211; that comprehensively analyses and documents the manner in which Christians have been \u2013 and continue to be &#8211; persecuted throughout Pakistan. 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