This is from a Barnabas Fund news letter. I am surprised at how unsurprised I am at the depth that people will sink too...

PAKISTAN

25 May 2006

EXPOSED - SALE OF PAKISTANI CHRISTIAN CHILDREN AS SLAVES IS
FUNDING ISLAMIC MILITANTS

Gul Khan, a leading member of a militant Islamic organisation based in
Pakistan, is funding its activities through the sale of Christian
children into slavery. The children, aged between 6 and 12, are
abducted from their homes in remote Christian villages in the Punjab
and incarcerated in appalling conditions, until being sold for
approximately $1,700 each into the sex trade or a life of domestic
servitude. While they are held they are beaten savagely, only fed once
a day and ordered not to talk, play or pray.

The trade was exposed by two Christian missionaries (one Pakistani, the
other American), who had seen photographs of boys for sale on the black
market in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province. The
missionaries constructed an elaborate and hazardous rescue plan, with
the Pakistani posing as a Lahore businessman who wanted to buy boys to
beg for him. Not only did they manage to buy back twenty boys and
return them to their homes, but also they secretly filmed Khan
accepting money for seventeen boys.
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I got this from Ben Whiterington the Third's Blog. I couldn't work out how to get a link to the particular post, so I have reprinted it here. It's well worth reading.

Ben introduces it thus:

"Omar Alrikabi is one of my students who has had a difficult journey living in the U.S. and has experienced a good deal of racism within and outside the Church since he is of Iraqii Shiite descent and is also a born again Christian, and Asbury seminary student in training for ministry. Here is a thumbnail sketch of his story, in his own words.

( Warning, Chrisitan content may offend, but not in the way you think it might )