Several days ago, Jihad Watch reported that Saylani Welfare International Trust in Karachi was denying food aid to poor Hindus and Christians amid the coronavirus pandemic. “The reason for this is that Zakat, Islamic alms giving (one of Islam’s five pillars), is reserved for Muslims.”

Then shortly afterward, International Christian Concern reported that Christians in Lahore were also being denied government food aid amid the Covid-19 crisis.

Now it emerges that Christians and Hindus in Pakistan will be allowed food rations under one condition: if they convert to Islam. They must say the Kalma Tayyaba, which translates to: There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet (or messenger). This is the first part of the Shahada — the profession of faith that constitutes conversion to Islam.

This “shocking act of discrimination against minorities” is major news, but is, of course, ignored by mainstream media.

“Pakistan: Christians denied rations during coronavirus crisis, asked to read ‘Kalma’ first,” Opindia, April 9, 2020: