Bangladesh: Nearly 300 Christian children abducted and forcibly converted to Islam

Still more Muslims misunderstand the Qur'an's assurance that there is "no compulsion in religion." "Almost 300 Christian children abducted and forcibly converted to Islam in Bangladesh," by Nozrul Islam for Asia Times, September 6 (thanks to David):

Dhaka (AsiaNews) - In Bangladesh, Christian children from Tripuri tribes have been taken away from their villages and forcibly converted to Islam. Local Catholic sources, who asked their names be withheld, told AsiaNews that almost 300 children have been taken to madrassas (Islamic schools).

The story is the same. So-called intermediaries, who are also ethnic Tripuri, visit poverty-stricken communities where they convince families to send their children to a mission hostel, charging between 6,000 and 15,000 taka (US$ 500 to 1,200) for school and board. After pocketing the money, the intermediaries sell the children to Islamic schools elsewhere in the country.

The latest case involved 11 children, ten boys and a girl, from Thanchi, Ruma and Lama in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Their story has a happy ending though. After six months of threats and violence, the children were able to escape thanks Hotline Human Rights Trust, a Dhaka-based civil rights organisation that defends minorities run by a Catholic woman, Rosaline Costa.

Tripuri are one of the many tribal groups found in Bangladesh. Most are Christian, both Catholic and Protestants, especially in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, in south-eastern Bangladesh.

Radical Muslims are engaged in a campaign against Christian missionaries whom they accuse of proselytising and forcibly converting others in order to create a Christian majority in the area so that it can be annexed to India.

In the latest case, the first eight boys were taken in January and February and brought to the Darul Huda Islami School in Mia Para village (Gazipur). The girl was placed in a madrassa (whose name she could not tell) in Muhammadpur, Dhaka. The other two boys were brought to another Darul Huda Islami in Maddha Badda (Gulshan, Dhaka).

Their days included Arabic lessons (8-12 AM), Qur'an reading (Nurani Shikkha, 2-5 PM) and five daily prayers.

In their respective madrassas, the children found other tribal Christians, many even younger themselves. They also saw acts of physical violence when children missed prayers or refused to take part in a lesson. In fact, after she was rescued, the girl showed scars to the hand, where she was struck with a cane.

In June, the desire to escape was kindled when imams announced that the boys would be circumcised, and that if they were ready to give their lives for Islam, they would be compensated with beheshta or heaven since no other religion could lead them there.

Scared, the first eight boys asked a Hindu family that lived near the school for help. They told their stories, asking them to contact their parents. When the latter found out what had happened to their children, they contacted the Hotline Trust to save them. Four boys escaped on 4 July; the other four on 13 July.

When the other two (somewhat older) boys found out about their escape, they too fled and contacted the Hotline Trust on their own.

The girl's rescue was a bit more complicated. She was saved only after another girl escaped and told people in her village what had happened. The girl's parents then contacted the madrassa huju or teacher asking him to let her go. The latter said the father had to come and get her.

At the school, the teacher tried to provoke the father, denigrating the Bible and accusing Christians of adultery and immorality. The father put up with the insults and eventually took his daughter home on 13 July.

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Forced conversions is the only way moral people would ever become muslim because Islam is by its very nature EVIL, and most people are repulsed by it. Unless the particular initiate is completely ignorant of life, the only people willing embrace Islam are crimminals(rapists, murderers thieves, and pedophiles)

Islamic Da'wa in action.

Hello all,

As a muslima I have to say that I am offended at the lack of clarity and dubiousness of the reports. I feel Robert needs to be more discerning and more precise before putting up rubbish like this.

Here are a few examples:

Local Catholic sources, who asked their names be withheld, told AsiaNews that almost 300 children have been taken to madrassas (Islamic schools).

So..names withheld....could be ANYBODY then couldn't they? Even the report could be made up to...300 boys...where are the parents?...that's a lot of boys...this report sucks

poverty-stricken communities where they convince families to send their children to a mission hostel, charging between 6,000 and 15,000 taka (US$ 500 to 1,200) for school and board.

They are poverty stricken ...they cannot afford between 6,000 and 15,000 taka ...Any money they have they use for food and living....this report is a LIE.

The girl was placed in a madrassa (whose name she could not tell) in Muhammadpur, Dhaka.

Girl could not remember the madrassa name - how very convenient.

Folks can you see what I mean ...these reports are filed by nobodies certainly have Robert Spencer chomping and foaming around his bearded mouth...but you folks needs to see this fabrication for what it is.

Dear Rezali,

Do you really not understand why the local Catholics asked their names to be withheld? Perhaps you have not seen the constant stream of news stories of Muslim mob violence against Christians all around the Islamic world?

Muslim Persecution of Christians, July 2012

Muslim Persecution of Christians, June 2012

Muslim Persecution of Christians, May 2012

Muslim Persecution of Christians, April 2012

Muslim Persecution of Christians, March 2012

And so on and on.

In core Islamic texts, Muhammad says your "lives and property" are not safe from him unless you become a Muslim

In Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, the two most canonical hadith collections:

Bukhari, Volume 1, Book 2, Number 25:

Narrated Ibn 'Umar:
Allah's Apostle said: "I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah's Apostle, and offer the prayers perfectly and give the obligatory charity, so if they perform all that, then they save their lives and property from me except for Islamic laws and then their reckoning (accounts) will be done by Allah."

Sahih Muslim, Book 031, Number 5917:

...Ali went a bit and then halted and did not look about and then said in a loud voice: Allah's Messenger, on what issue should I fight with the people? Thereupon he (the Prophet) said: Fight with them until they bear testimony to the fact that there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his Messenger, and when they do that then their blood and their riches are inviolable from your hands but what is justified by law and their reckoning is with Allah.

-- QuotingIslam.blogspot.com

Anybody might lack clarity or write something inaccurate. You, for example, think 300 BOYS were kidnapped; but it's 300 children.

Does not being able to know or remember the name of the school mean the child's story can't be trusted? Okay, discard the testimony about the girl. There are still 10 boys who know to which schools they were sent.

Do you doubt the honest intentions of Asia News? In a effort to be fair to you, I took a more careful look into Asia News and found this story about a 60 year old Muslim man in Pakistan who raped a 10 year old Christian girl and left her on the floor naked, unconscious and bleeding. Names are given. I looked at the facebook page of one of the people mentioned. that story meets your definition of accuracy.

http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Ten-year-old-Christian-girl-raped-by-60-year-old-Muslim-merchant-in-Faisalabad-25716.html

1-muslims get easily offended. so this is not new.
2-name withheld. take a wild guess. if his name is out there, it means his life is in danger. you islamists..
3-is it a lie that Bangladesh is a shithole and people are making $300.00 a year? no it is the truth. loook it up.
4-the girls could not remmeber the name of the school. well no kidding Dick Tracy!!! do you expect a 5 year old kid to know his/her school?
let's get real here. please f...off!!!
M

"accusing Christians of adultery and immorality"

Once Muhammad entered his wife Hafsa's room for some reason. Hafsa was not there, but he found her lovely young maid Maria instead. Guess what happened next!!!

We are not accusing Muslims, at least not all of them, of adultery and immorality, we are accusing their "prophet".
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/03/muhammads-aunt-la-tante-de-mahomet.html

From the news story:

"Tripuri are one of the many tribal groups found in Bangladesh.

"Most are Christian, both Catholic and Protestants, especially in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, in south-eastern Bangladesh. [others are Buddhist or Hindu - dda]

"Radical Muslims are engaged in a campaign against Christian missionaries **whom they accuse of proselytising and forcibly converting others in order to create a Christian majority in the area so that it can be annexed to India** [my emphasis- dda]".

Projection. Plain and simple. Un caso clinico.

Muslims, engaged in demographic jihad (Muslims from Bangladesh are pouring into neighbouring parts of India, where they are seizing power and displacing and attacking the non-Muslim local inhabitants, e.g. in Assam and in West Bengal), and in kidnapping and forced 'conversion' of children, accuse *their victims* of doing what they - the MUSLIMS - are doing and have always done.

PUKE. SPIT.

There is nothing more disgusting than a person who gleefully, deliberateky, unrepentantly does evil to other people and at the same time accuses his victims of doing what *he* is doing.

The British Pakistani Christian Association, in the UK, joined by a Hindu group (very properly and rightly) have been holding little protests - that should be MUCH bigger and joined by every person of conscience and decency in Britian - outside the Pakistani High Commission and consulates. Those protests should continue; indeed, it strikes me that sit-ins and picketing - with prominent clergy attending, front and centre, and politicians - would be in order.

And such protests could alternate with *similar* protests outside the *Bangladeshi* embassies or high commissions or consulates; in the case of Bangladesh the protesters should be Christians, Hindus and Buddhists together; singing, praying, and holding up placards with the names of destroyed villages, destroyed churches shrines and temples, and murdered or raped or kidnapped and force-'converted' children.
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And then the protesters could pay a visit to the Egyptian embassy, and join the Copts and their friends in a demonstration *there*...

From the article: "Scared, the first eight boys asked **a Hindu family** [my emphasis - dda] that lived near the school for help. They told their stories, asking them to contact their parents. . When the latter found out what had happened to their children, they contacted the Hotline Trust to save them. "

Blessings on the Hindu family for passing the word to the boys' parents.

Good to see some solidarity between different groups of non-Muslims.

May it be a good omen for the future, and not only among persecuted non-Muslims in Bangladesh.

When I pray for persecuted Christians trapped within dar al Islam, I *also* pray for those Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Taoists, Confucians and others who are similarly trapped, in various parts of Muslim-ruled / majority-Muslim countries.

I think of *all* the non-Muslims - whether Christian, Buddhist, Hindu - from south Asia and south-east Asia, who have been lured into the Arab Muslim lands and are being used as de facto slaves, horribly abused.

There is a special Sunday on which the church is enjoined to pray for persecuted Christians.

But I think it's also time for a special day on which to remember, pray for, and campaign on behalf of ...every last non-Muslim, of whatever faith or none, who is suffering at the hands of merciless Mohammedan mobsters.

I have sometimes thought that among Islamo-aware Christians, at least those who use the liturgical calendar, All Souls' Day would be a good day on which to remember and mourn *all* the 'Tears of Jihad', the non-Muslim victims of Muslim rapacity and hate and sadism. The raped, the enslaved, the tortured, the robbed, the murdered, the force-'converted' (the girls and boys kidnapped, their spirits ruthlessly broken by continuous and vicious abuse, 'broken-in' exactly as the pimp or madam of an S & M brothel 'breaks' the new 'recruits'...). A day on which to toll the Passing Bell from sundown on the one day, all through the night and the day until the following sundown; and to tell all passers-by why it was being done, and *who* was being mourned. Consciousness-raising.

Bangladesh: Nearly 300 Christian children abducted and forcibly converted to Islam
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The numbers are what shock here, but remember that Muslims regularly kidnap and convert Infidel children in Egypt, and Nigeria, and Pakistan, as well—and the victims are often Christian, as here, but are also Hindu or animist or any other non-Muslim faith.

Girls are often raped and forcibly married to their rapists.

More:

The latest case involved 11 children, ten boys and a girl, from Thanchi, Ruma and Lama in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Their story has a happy ending though. After six months of threats and violence, the children were able to escape thanks Hotline Human Rights Trust, a Dhaka-based civil rights organisation that defends minorities run by a Catholic woman, Rosaline Costa.
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Kudos to Hotline Human Rights Trust. And even though Bangladesh is a Muslim-majority country, it should come as no surprise that this human rights group is run by a Christian—and from the sound of things, a Westerner as well.

More:

Radical Muslims are engaged in a campaign against Christian missionaries whom they accuse of proselytising and forcibly converting others in order to create a Christian majority in the area so that it can be annexed to India.
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Projection.

More:

In their respective madrassas, the children found other tribal Christians, many even younger themselves. They also saw acts of physical violence when children missed prayers or refused to take part in a lesson. In fact, after she was rescued, the girl showed scars to the hand, where she was struck with a cane.
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Does it come as any surprise that these children are being abused?

More:

In June, the desire to escape was kindled when imams announced that the boys would be circumcised, and that if they were ready to give their lives for Islam, they would be compensated with beheshta or heaven since no other religion could lead them there.
.................................

Well, this sounds as though they are being groomed as Jihadists. An additional horror, if this is the case.

More:

Scared, the first eight boys asked a Hindu family that lived near the school for help. They told their stories, asking them to contact their parents. When the latter found out what had happened to their children, they contacted the Hotline Trust to save them.
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God bless these brave Hindu families.

More:

The girl's rescue was a bit more complicated. She was saved only after another girl escaped and told people in her village what had happened. The girl's parents then contacted the madrassa huju or teacher asking him to let her go. The latter said the father had to come and get her.

At the school, the teacher tried to provoke the father, denigrating the Bible and accusing Christians of adultery and immorality. The father put up with the insults and eventually took his daughter home on 13 July.
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Sickening that he had to, but it is likely a very good thing that the girl's father put up with the provocation and abuse. Had he responded to it, the Madrassa's pious Muslim staff likely would have used it as the occasion for violence against him and his daughter.

The repulsive Rezali Mehil wrote:

Folks can you see what I mean ...these reports are filed by nobodies certainly have Robert Spencer chomping and foaming around his bearded mouth...but you folks needs to see this fabrication for what it is.
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"Nobodies' is a term Rezali Mehil has used for Infidels before—Hindus especially.

As for there being no names in this article, this is utterly false. Not only does the brave Rosaline Costa go on the record, but there is also the journalist who wrote the story for Asia News—one Nozrul Islam.

I suppose she wants us to believe that Nozrul Islam is himself fabricating stories to "make Islam look bad".

And the fact is, this only "makes Islam look bad" because there are still Infidels around the world who are *not* threatened and dhimmified as they are in Bangladesh.

If all Kaffir were living under Shari'ah, Muslims like Rezali Mehil could dispense with the Taqiyya entirely, and would sneer at us for being unable to protect our children.

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