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Pakistan: Muslim kidnaps 14-year-old Christian girl, forces her to convert to Islam and marry him

Jul 27, 2019 4:00 pm By Robert Spencer

And as for the forced conversions, the  Qur’an says that “there is no compulsion in religion,” (2:256), but what constitutes “compulsion” is in the eye of the beholder. The institutionalized subjugation of the dhimma, with its regular humiliation and harassment, from which one can be freed for the simple price of converting to Islam, is not considered compulsion. Remember Steve Centanni and Olaf 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. After all, the journos could have chosen to be killed instead.

“Christian girls continue to be abducted. The latest case involves a 14-year-old in Lahore converted under threat,” Asia News, July 26, 2019:

Lahore (AsiaNews/Agencies) – A 14-year-old Christian girl was recently abducted, forcibly converted to Islam and forced to marry a Muslim man. She then went before a judge and signed a statement in which she claims to have acted of her own free will.

Her father and the Centre for Legal Aid, Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS), an interdenominational organisation that offers free legal support to victims of religious intolerance, went public with the story, saying that the girl’s life has been threatened.

The girl, Benish Imran, went missing from home on 2 July, after she was kidnapped by Waheed Ahmed, who then forced her to deny her Christian faith and marry him. The following day, Imran Masih, the father of the 14-year-old, went to the police station and filed a complaint against people unknown, unaware of what had happened to his daughter.

A few days later, the police informed him that they had received Benish’s conversion and marriage certificates, and that the latter was going to go before the district magistrate in Lahore on 12 July to register her statement…

During the audience, Benish told the judge that she was 19, that she had embraced Islam and had married her husband of her own free will.

The lawyer protested that the girl’s age was false and showed the real birth certificate, which shows the date of 8 October 2005. Since she was under age, the lawyer pointed out that, under Pakistani law, the girl could not marry, not even of her own free will. He therefore requested that her statement not be recorded. The judge however did not issue the order to do so, and had the girl’s statement recorded.

According to CLAAS, the fact that Benish made a false statement “is a normal practice” since “girls often give such statements because they are already living with their kidnappers,” and “death threats are made towards their family, and therefore the victims have no choice but to say what their kidnapper wants them to say in court.” However, “we have seen in the past that many girls flee whenever they get a chance.”…

In all cases, Saeed noted, “the government is not paying any attention”. Ultimately, in his view, “The Pakistani Government must take this matter seriously and take all necessary steps to stop the ongoing forced conversion of underaged Christian and Hindu girls in Pakistan.”

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  1. FYI says

    Jul 27, 2019 at 4:05 pm

    You will most likely never,ever, see this headline..

    “Christian kidnaps 14 year old muslim girl ,forces her to convert to christianity and marry him”

    • J D S says

      Jul 28, 2019 at 8:43 am

      If one looks back over the centuries of islam one will find that the only way Islam has survived is through Things …FORCE, FEAR, FEAR and the APOSTATE LAW. Without these three islam would have died along with the other man made religions of the past…..and even today…THE WORLD STANDS STILL!

  2. Angemon says

    Jul 27, 2019 at 6:02 pm

    In all cases, Saeed noted, “the government is not paying any attention”.

    Why should they? After all, they’re Christians and Hindus, “the worst of creatures”…

  3. mortimer says

    Jul 27, 2019 at 10:18 pm

    Mohammed was asked how a woman indicated agreement to a marriage: ‘By remaining silent.’

    Islamic marriages take place in the absence of the bride.

    Mohammed advocated marrying women for their wealth, beauty, and also as a means of converting women to Islam. “A woman can be married for religion, her fortune, or her beauty. So marry one for the religion.” “Love” does not factor into the equation. This also tellingly reveals the reason why so many Muslim men marry non-Muslim women in the West. It’s easier to influence a woman towards Islam when a man is married to her, as she seeks to please her husband, and in part explains the greatly unequal rates of conversion to Islam by Western women versus Western men.

    Sahih Bukhari, Vol. 7, Bk. 62, No. 27

    This is a misogynistic cult.

  4. Mr. Cohen says

    Jul 27, 2019 at 10:23 pm

    from Miss Brigitte Gabriel:

    Wife-beating in Islamic nations is
    more prevalent than one can imagine.

    In Pakistan, is has been reported by
    the Institute of Medical Sciences that 90%
    of the female population has been beaten
    for such wrongdoings as giving birth to
    a daughter or cooking an unsatisfactory meal.

    After the African country of Chad attempted
    to outlaw wife-beating, Islamic clerics
    in that nation deemed the bill “un-Islamic”.

    SOURCE: They Must Be Stopped:
    Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How
    We Can Do It
    (Chapter 9, page 173)
    by Brigitte Gabriel, year 2008, year 2010,
    St. Martin’s Press, 288 pages,
    ISBN 0312571283, ISBN 9780312571283.

    MICROBIOGRAPHY: Brigitte Gabriel,
    the author of They Must Be Stopped,
    is a Christian Arab, born in Lebanon.
    Arabic is her native language.

  5. Mr. Cohen says

    Jul 27, 2019 at 10:25 pm

    *** MORE QUOTES ABOUT ISLAM VS. WOMEN ***

    “The hadiths, the descriptions of the life of Muhammad,
    the ideal human being whose example all the Islamic faithful
    must follow, confirm that women are sex objects,
    that they are inferior beings like dogs and donkeys,
    and that there is nothing wrong with sexual slavery
    and raping female prisoners.

    Taharrush [the Arabic word for the phenomenon
    whereby women are encircled by groups of men
    and sexually harassed, assaulted, groped, raped]
    is quite common in Islamic countries.

    Women are frequently surrounded by men and subsequently
    abused. The Egyptian website Jadaliyya points out that
    it also happens to veiled women. Women are victims simply
    because they are women and not because they have
    provoked the men by their conduct or [allegedly] provocative
    clothing. It can happen in the streets, public transport,
    supermarkets, or during protest demonstrations.”

    SOURCE: Germany’s Merkel Faces a
    Firestorm of Criticism over Muslim Migrant Misogyny

    by Jerry Gordon of the Gatestone Institute, 2016 January 14
    http://5tjt.com/germanys-merkel-faces-a-firestorm-of-criticism-over-muslim-migrant-misogyny/

    http://www.jns.org/opinion/the-real-war-on-women-isnt-in-washington/

  6. Mr. Cohen says

    Jul 27, 2019 at 10:30 pm

    ***** ISLAM AND HONOR KILLINGS *****

    “The contempt Islam holds toward women is best illustrated
    through it time-honored practice of honor killings.

    Any woman’s or girl’s perceived transgression against
    the teachings of Islam or against a man’s wishes,
    or behavior that insults a man, permits a male member
    of a family to murder the female to avenge and
    restore honor to the family in the eyes of society.”

    “Honor killings are executed by slitting the victim’s throat,
    hatcheting them, stabbing, burning them to death, bullets
    to the head or chest, or by any other means imaginable.”

    “In addition, it is also customary to cut off the victim’s
    left hand or index finger to prove to the tribal elders
    that the deed has been accomplished
    and the family honor can now be restored.’

    “Even moderate Jordan withdrew a referendum
    to tighten laws on honor killing after devout Muslims
    said that the law would eradicate Islamic values
    and traditions.

    Article 341 of Jordanian Law stipulates that
    murder is a legal act of defense when:”

    “the act of killing another or harming another was
    committed as an act of defense against his life,
    or his honor, or somebody else’s life or honor.”

    “Honor killings are performed throughout the Muslim world.
    In 1997, an attorney general in the Palestinian Authority
    told an audience of women that, in his opinion,
    the honor killings of women in Gaza and
    the West Bank were close to 70% of all female deaths.”

    “The independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan,
    citing government figures, said in a 2006 report that
    about 1,000 women die annually in honor killings.”

    SOURCE: They Must Be Stopped:
    Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and
    How We Can Do It
    (chapter 9, page 175)
    by Brigitte Gabriel, year 2008, year 2010,
    St. Martin’s Press, 288 pages,
    ISBN 0312571283, ISBN 9780312571283.

  7. gravenimage says

    Jul 27, 2019 at 10:53 pm

    Pakistan: Muslim kidnaps 14-year-old Christian girl, forces her to convert to Islam and marry him
    ………………………

    And the Pakistani courts are complicit with this barbarism.

    God, i hate Islam.

    • Geof Barrington says

      Jul 28, 2019 at 12:19 pm

      The entire society is complicent with this barbarism.
      When Asia Bihbi was freed the crowd went after her lawyer and the judge presiding .

  8. tedh754 says

    Jul 28, 2019 at 12:32 am

    Over here we call it child rape. The people who do this are the scum of the earth. Great deity they have.

    • Kay says

      Jul 28, 2019 at 11:57 am

      It is kidnapping and rape and other brutality.
      It is not marriage or conversion.

  9. infidel says

    Jul 28, 2019 at 4:58 am

    These vile creatures are doing this even in Hindu majority India with Hindu girls.

    • Kay says

      Jul 28, 2019 at 11:58 am

      Despicable.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 28, 2019 at 10:23 pm

      Yes–hideous.

  10. sidney penny says

    Jul 28, 2019 at 6:12 am

    Is this “Love Jihad”?

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 29, 2019 at 8:20 pm

      Not quite. “Love Jihad” is when Muslim men lie and pretend to be loving until after they get the girl to have sex or marry them, then reveal their Islamic ugliness. This is more straightforward rape of Infidels.

    • Keys says

      Jul 29, 2019 at 8:43 pm

      This is Rape Jihad.

  11. OLD GUY says

    Jul 28, 2019 at 11:35 am

    I wonder if this were the daughters of the members of liberal media and far left political’s if they would suddenly change their tune about Islamophobe How could Pres. Obama and other so called experts declare how beautiful and peaceful the Islam religion is, when you constantly here and read about RAPE of women and children, HONOR KILLINGS of family members, WIFE BEATINGS, MARRAIGE of SIX YEAR OLDS to old men and the EXTERMINATION of and ENTIRE RACE OF PEOPLE! Where is the LOVE and PEACE?

    Answer: It’s only there if you bow to Islam. If you don’t you are worth nothing and you are disposable at their will. There is absolutely NO FREEDOM under Islamic rule! If you don’t believe that try going to Saudi Arabia on vacation and bringing your BIBLE with you. Oh I forgot don’t take your camera they are outlawed also.

  12. City says

    Jul 29, 2019 at 1:48 pm

    Can we write to the president of Pakistan

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