Pakistan: 2,000 non-Muslim girls forcibly converted to Islam

No Compulsion In Religion Update from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. And that is just what Western Islamic apologists would say about this if any Western reporter had the guts and honesty to ask them about it (which they do not have): they'd say that the Qur'an says that there is no compulsion in religion (2:256) and that therefore this has nothing to do with Islam. And yet forced conversions keep happening in Muslim countries -- why do so many Muslims misunderstand 2:256?

In reality, what is forcible conversion to non-Muslims is free conversion to Muslims. Remember Centanni and Wiig, the journalists who were kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam -- even though their conversions were obviously coerced, their captors made them say that they were converting freely, and the captors probably believed that themselves. This is, after all, the same mindset that considers that people who convert so as to escape the deprivations of dhimmitude are converting freely as well.

"2,000 minorities girls converted to Islam forcibly: report," by Aliza Mirza for the Daily Times, September 5 (thanks to David):

LAHORE: As many as 2,000 women and girls from various minority sects were forcibly converted to Islam through rape, torture and kidnappings, while 161 people were charged with blasphemy in 2011, according to a report by the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC).
SPARC released the report on Tuesday at a press conference at a hotel.

The report read that minorities make up three to four percent of the country’s population but remain sidelined in state policies. In 2011, extremists killed governor Salmaan Taseer and federal minorities minister Shahbaz Bhatti, as both were advocating minority rights by calling for amendments in the country’s controversial blasphemy law.

After the 2011 floods, 130,000 Hindus were forced to leave their homes and 86,500 ended up on streets of various cities in Sindh. Whereas 27 Hindu children were kidnapped for ransom from different parts of northern Sindh. The primary school enrolment rate of scheduled caste Hindu girls is only 10.2 percent. Ahmadi students have been especially targeted by the hate campaigns. In Hafizabad, 10 Ahmadi students, including seven girls and a teacher, were expelled from school on account of their religious affiliation....

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Jaladhi | September 6, 2012 8:21 AM | Reply

Mo/alllah has taught his lessons to Muslims well.As he used to kidnap, rape and convert Jewish women in his time, Muslims do the same thing all over the world.

Let's not be so confident that it will not happen here. It is just a matter of time when their population explodes by rabbit like birth rate and immigration from Muslim countries, kidnap, rape and conversion of non-Muslim women will be here!!

traeh | September 6, 2012 10:42 AM | Reply

Despite exceptions and qualifications, the overall tenor of Islam's core texts, history, and current global Muslim public opinion, is dictatorial and totalitarian.

Bernard Lewis on Islam's inherent totalitarianism

In Sahih al-Bukhari, the most canonical hadith collection, Muhammad said,

"Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him."

Various other canonical hadiths attest that Muhammad called for death to those who leave Islam. That's why even today all the schools of Islamic law prescribe death for apostasy from Islam.

Check out these links to news stories, and also these links to news stories about people being killed for daring to leave Islam. And many, many more such stories have been reported in the global media.

A December 2010 survey conducted by the Pew Research Center found relatively widespread popular support for death penalty as a punishment for apostasy from Islam: in Egypt (84% of respondents in favor of death penalty), Jordan (86% in favor), Indonesia (30% in favor), Pakistan (76% favor) and Nigeria (51% in favor).

Champ | September 6, 2012 1:25 PM | Reply

"As many as 2,000 women and girls from various minority sects were forcibly converted to Islam through rape, torture and kidnappings," ...

This is an evil and appalling approach ...

And you won't hear of these evil tactics being leveled against anyone in a Christian church. I converted to Christianity because the preacher explained that Jesus loved me and that He died for my sins. I was drawn to Jesus Christ--God in the flesh--due to His immense and overflowing LOVE for a lost sinner like me; and no one made me pray to ask Jesus into my heart and to forgive me for my sins. I did it of my own free will.

dumbledoresarmy | September 6, 2012 5:57 PM | Reply

This *sh*t* makes me so ANGRY.

I am a mother of daughters.

My heart goes out to all those Jewish, Buddhist, HIndu, Sikh, Christian, animist, Taoist, Confucian, Zoroastrian mothers who, down through the centuries, on three continents, have had their daughters - often their little, little, minor and even prepubescent daughters - seized and brutally raped, sometimes murdered, sometimes casually dumped like garbage though still alive after the abuse, and sometimes 'married' to one of the rapists (or merely added to his harem as a sex-toy) and paraded gloatingly as a 'convert' to Islam. Sometimes sold, no doubt, to be used as live sex-dolls by depraved sheikhs, emirs and war-lords in places like thrice-accursed Saudi Arabia or the emirates, and then - when they break, or go mad, or die from ill-usage - thrown out like rubbish...

Query: why, why, oh, why, does *any* western country have dealings - 'aid', trade, student exchange, whatever - with hideous monstrous, vauntingly-unjust and cruel Islamic Pakistan, that permits such EVIL to be done under the light of the sun?

WHY does Australia allow the Pakistani cricket team onto our soil? Where is the Cricket boycott, like we inflicted on South Africa.

Pakistan (along with a bunch of other Islamic hell-holes) should be cut off from access to and interaction with the countries of the free world, much as North Korea is cut off. All relations stripped down to the barest minimum; keep a minimal diplomatic shopfront open, manned strictly by non-Muslims, to process asylum applications from **non-Muslims** who want to flee.

Don't buy their rice or their textiles.

Don't play cricket with them.

Cut the woman-hating predatory b*st*rds off.

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