Pakistani-Christian attacked 'by Muslims' in UK for 'displaying cross'

Believes he was hit on top of head, and then was beaten further as he lay on floor

A Pakistani-Christian claims his nose was broken by a gang of Muslims in the UK who attacked him for displaying a cross and poppies on his car, reported Daily Mail.

Tajamal Amar, 46, who left Pakistan to 'escape' violence, was knocked out outside a fast food restaurant in Derbyshire. The food delivery driver believes that a group of Muslims were responsible for the assault outside the Red Chilli restaurant in Littleover, Derbyshire, on October 20.



He claimed that the men had taken offence as he displayed two large poppies on his silver Toyota, which also had a cross dangling from the rear-view mirror. The father-of-one was knocked unconscious and rushed to Royal Derby Hospital, where he woke up five hours after the attack at around 8.45pm.

He believes that he was hit on the top of the head, and then was beaten further as he lay on the floor. A local from Derby, Amar, said: “Several times, local Pakistani people in Derby have taken offence from the fact that I am Christian. When they first find out, many stop talking to me. My wife and I have often been shunned.”

“On the day of my attack the visible display of a cross in my car and two poppies just below the front bonnet, triggered the violence against me. I know this, because for a few days before the attack the same men, glared at me after they noticed my Christian paraphernalia,” he further added.

Now Amar wants to leave Derby because he no longer feels safe, “I fled from Pakistan to escape violence such as this, but more and more the same violence is coming into Britain. Freedom of religion should be the right of any British citizen but today I feel unsafe, even then nothing will stop me going to church.”

“I will pray for my attackers and hope they will change their hard-lineapproach to faith which is very dangerous for our society,” he said.



Wilson Chowdhry, Chairman of the British Pakistani Christian Association, said, “This unprovoked attack on a Christian for simply displaying a cross and two large poppies is an example of the religious intolerance that some strands of radical Islam promote in Britain. An innocent man has been hospitalised, he has had to take several days off work, and now he is living in fear of further reprisals, simply for adhering to the Christian faith.”

At the time of the attack, a spokesman for Derbyshire Police said, “We were called to a report of an assault outside the Red Chilli restaurant, in Littleover, at around 8:45pm. It was reported that a 45-year-old man had been kicked and punched. He was hospitalised at the Royal Derby Hospital with a broken nose and we have not yet arrested anyone in connection with the assault.”