
Some school textbooks in Pakistan include lessons teaching students that killing  Christians is a goal that must be achieved for them to obtain martyrdom,  according to a report prepared by the Middle East Media Research Institute  (MEMRI).
 The report also included claims that Islamist groups in  Pakistan are launching regular attacks against non-Muslim Pakistanis as well as  some sects of Muslims such as Shiites and Ahmadi, whom they do not consider to  be real Muslims.
 The report states that official and independent  media, government leaders and religious scholars have legitimized hate against  religious minorities, with the term "minority" itself having come to be seen in  a pejorative context.
 "As a result of such legitimization of hate  through school textbooks, government policies, sermons in mosques and religious  congregations, there is growing persecution of Pakistani Christians, Hindus,  Shias and Ahmadi Muslims," the report read.
 "Jihad is part of our  faith. We will not back down [from our decision]," Shah Farman, an official with  a regional political faction, told World Net Daily.
 The report  added that many textbooks in Pakistan feed the Islamic trend and promote hatred  and jihad among primary school students. Shockingly non-Muslim Pakistanis also  have to go through the same school texts on a daily basis from a young  age.
 "Throughout Pakistan's history, since its creation in 1947,  hate speech against non-Muslims has been a normal phenomenon in Pakistani  society," the report noted.
 There were also other claims that  revealed school children were being forced to convert to Islam while in school,  extending the picture of persecution taking place in the south-Asian  country.
 The Archbishop of Karachi and the head of the Council of  Pakistani Bishops revealed that Christians in the country are under constant  pressure to convert to Islam, most notably in schools at a young age.
 "The daily lives of religious minorities in Pakistan are characterized by  poverty, injustice and discrimination. Non-Muslims are identified as  second-class citizens in school textbooks. Teachers repeatedly ask students to  write essays titled: write a letter to your friend encouraging him to convert to  Islam," Bishop Joseph Coats told the Italian AKI agency.