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Flip-side News: There is No Malawi/Mexico Double Standard

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Jehovah's Witnesses in Malawi endured severe persecution and ban equal to first century Christians and Jehovah's Witness persecution in Nazi Germany. due to their refusal to purchase Malawi Congress Party cards. In Mexico, on the other hand, a letter from the organization to the Mexico branch stated a permission of bribery to acquire Cartilla cards. Our opposers like to confuse the two issues, asking why we would bribe for "political party cards" in Mexico, but let hundreds die in Malawi. But there's a problem with their claims. The Malawi Congress Party Card Jehovah's Witnesses had been in Malawi peacefully since the early years of the 20th century. But on January 1, 1964 and throughout most of the 70's, our brothers and sisters in Malawi endured rapes, beatings, burning hundreds of Witness houses, fields, food stores and Kingdom Halls, shaving with broken bottles, being burned alive and other medieval tortures and mutilations by a couple of Malawi C...