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Pakistan: “Every year at least a thousand girls are kidnapped, raped, and forced to convert to Islam”

Aug 14, 2019 4:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

The brutal persecution of young Christian girls in Pakistan is ongoing, and largely ignored by “feminists” and fake human rights activists, who call it “Islamophobic” to shed light on such atrocities:

The Pontifical charity, Aid to the Church in Need, is sounding the alarm on the plight of young Christian women, and even teenagers, in Pakistan who are forced to convert to Islam. “Every year at least a thousand girls are kidnapped, raped, and forced to convert to Islam, even forced to marry their tormentors,” according to Tabassum Yousaf, a Catholic lawyer linked to the St. Egidio Community.

The Catholic lawyer Tabassum Yousaf “says the West and the international media ‘can do much to safeguard religious minorities in Pakistan.’”

They certainly can, but they generally ignore the plight of these innocent people.

“Christian women forced to convert to Islam in Pakistan,” by Mario Schiavone, Newsbook, August 12, 2019:

The Pontifical charity, Aid to the Church in Need, is sounding the alarm on the plight of young Christian women, and even teenagers, in Pakistan who are forced to convert to Islam.

“Every year at least a thousand girls are kidnapped, raped, and forced to convert to Islam, even forced to marry their tormentors,” according to Tabassum Yousaf, a Catholic lawyer linked to the St. Egidio Community.

To draw attention to the issue, the papal foundation ACN is hosting a press conference in Karachi next Thursday, which will see the attendance of Cardinal Joseph Coutts and several Muslim leaders.

The phenomenon of forced conversions hits Pakistan’s religious minorities, especially Christians and Hindus.

Better legal protection

In just one case, last month, a 14-year-old Christian girl was abducted in Lahore and forced to marry her kidnapper. Police later informed her parents that a conversion certificate had been registered for her.

Though current Pakistani law sets the legal marriage age at 16 for girls, ACN is pushing for it to be changed to 18.

The Catholic charity is also advocating for better legal protections against kidnappings and forced conversions for religious minorities. Families of victims often face an uphill battle in court when taking on perpetrators of forced conversions.

Media attention

The press conference on Thursday falls close to the national Minorities Day, which was held on August 11.

Ms. Yousaf, the Catholic lawyer, says the West and the international media “can do much to safeguard religious minorities in Pakistan.”…..

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Filed Under: Featured, Muslim persecution of Christians, Pakistan, women's rights in Islam Tagged With: Aid to the Church in Need, Karachi, Lahore, Minorities Day, St. Egidio Community, Tabassum Yousaf


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  1. Angemon says

    Aug 14, 2019 at 4:11 pm

    Poor girls… 🙁

    • CRUSADER says

      Aug 14, 2019 at 7:34 pm

      Only Two Men Convicted After 1,200 Sexual Assaults In Cologne (HBO)

      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hl04r1OjRQs

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 14, 2019 at 11:47 pm

        Very grim, CRUSADER.

      • J D S says

        Aug 15, 2019 at 10:53 am

        As I have said many times before…without these 4 Things Islam would have died long ago.
        The 4 Things: FORCE, FEAR, MURDER and the APOSTATE LAW..

        FORCE= FORCE entry into islam

        FEAR= Fear of leaving islam

        MURDER and the APOSTATE LAW = Murder those who oppose or leave Islam…If course Muslims don’t call it murder.

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 15, 2019 at 10:46 pm

          +1

    • Ravi says

      Aug 15, 2019 at 6:24 am

      The Pakistan pimps their Chinese masters by human trafficking young Christian girls to China for sex slavery. Thousands of Pakistani Christian girls and women from the southern Punjab have horrifying stories to tell.

  2. Steve Toth says

    Aug 14, 2019 at 4:46 pm

    Where is the Eyes and Ears of the World???? Pakistan should stop with its ISLAMIFICATION and stop being Hypocrites! This is just deplorable and disgusting!

    • janwog says

      Aug 15, 2019 at 10:23 am

      This is the very agenda of supremacist Orthodox Islam

  3. Rob says

    Aug 14, 2019 at 4:51 pm

    And that FW Khan gets all agitated about Kashmir.

    • CRUSADER says

      Aug 14, 2019 at 8:02 pm

      Bet this beeboppy movie about Pakis coming of age in 1980s England
      won’t touch this tragic topic!

      “Blinded by the Light” 💡

      • Ravi says

        Aug 15, 2019 at 6:21 am

        This is the disgraceful liberals trying to normalize the Paki Islamic filth washed on the shores of Britain . I dare anyone to make a movie on Rotherham and the thousands of young white British girls who are raped by the filthy Pakistani scum. Gurinder Chadha the director of the movie should be ashamed, how being from Sikh community she overlooks the grooming of Sikh girls by Pakistani gutter creatures. There is one redeeming scene in the above movie though, a Pakistan being spat on. That’s what the scum of the earth like Pakis deserve.

        • Linda Rivera says

          Aug 15, 2019 at 6:50 pm

          Ravi, Yes! Eternal shame on Gurinder Chadha director of the movie and all in power – Prime Ministers, MPs, CPS, Social Services, Care Homes, the Police, the media et al who WICKEDLY CHOOSE to ignore and do NOTHING to stop the severe persecution and extreme suffering of non Muslim sex slave child victims. They are without excuse. They, and the perpetrators will spend all eternity in hell.

  4. Mario Alexis Portella says

    Aug 14, 2019 at 4:59 pm

    Notice Trump said nothing about this when he met with Khan last month? I understand that we have to get rid of terrorism but negotiating with bastards who sustain this without raising it is not the way to go! Just like with Kim, who by the way will NEVER denuclearize, nothing was raised about his human rights violations. I’m sorry, but realpolitik has to stop!

    • CRUSADER says

      Aug 14, 2019 at 7:31 pm

      Ruzwana Bashir on the Rotherham child abuse scandal | Channel 4 News

      Pakistani community sexual abuse of children…

      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qHQUk_CshmA

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 14, 2019 at 11:51 pm

      He *is* cutting aid to Pakistan due to its support of terrorism, though:

      “U.S. Cuts $300 Million In Aid To Pakistan; Says It’s Failing To Fight Militants”

      https://www.npr.org/2018/09/02/644117490/u-s-cuts-300-million-in-aid-to-pakistan-says-its-failing-to-fight-militants

      • Mario Alexis Portella says

        Aug 15, 2019 at 10:52 am

        Agreed, but that doesn’t do the job. It’s not terrorism that has to be fought but the ideology behind it, if I can respectfully make a distinction. Just as aiding the Saudis, who are eve worse than the Iranian regime.

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 15, 2019 at 10:52 pm

          I agree that this is less than ideal, Mario–but I still see it as a first step. Trump has also cut aid to the genocidal “Palestinians”.

  5. mortimer says

    Aug 14, 2019 at 8:05 pm

    Do you know what life was life for a dhimmi under the sultan in the Ottoman Empire or a dhimmi under the caliphs of Baghdad or Cordoba? Pretty much like the life of minority Hindus and Christians in Pakistan today.

    Pakistan is a FAILED STATE … guess why?

    In 2010, Foreign Policy ranked Pakistan as number ten on its Failed States Index, placing it in the “critical” category with such other failed or failing states as Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Somalia. Pakistan consistently figures near the top of the list of failed states year after year.

    Pakistan is FAILED-istan.

  6. tim gallagher says

    Aug 14, 2019 at 8:33 pm

    Yesterday, here on Jihad Watch there was the report about all those rapes in Uppsala, Sweden. Then there’s this report and endless other such reports. And yet we still have our imbecilic politicians who keep on thinking that letting barbaric Muslims into our countries makes sense. OK, maybe a few Muslims might somehow actually be decent people, but I believe Islam creates barbaric savages, when compared to the standards expected of people in civilised countries, and condones and praises barbaric, 7th century type behaviours such as are reported in this story and the Uppsala report. It is so stupid to let Muslims into any modern, civilised country and think that it is going to work out OK. It can’t ever work out well and this futile experiment of letting Muslims into our countries has to end. In relation to this report, Pakistan seems like an appalling, extraordinarily backward country from everything I ever hear about it. I feel very sorry for any non-Muslim unfortunate enough to live in that Muslim hellhole. What a nightmare it would be.

  7. Mr. Cohen says

    Aug 14, 2019 at 10:14 pm

    Daniel Byman said:

    “The United States has poured billions of
    dollars into Pakistan’s counterterrorism efforts…

    Much of the money went to buy conventional
    military equipment for the constant struggle
    with India, and thus did little to help
    Pakistan to fight Al Qaeda or other jihadists.

    Corrupt officials siphoned off much of the
    aid, and the money did not significantly
    improve Pakistan’s ability to fight terrorism.”

    SOURCE: Al Qaeda, the Islamic State,
    and the Global Jihadist Movement: What Everyone
    Needs to Know
    (chapter 6, page 132)
    by Daniel Byman, Oxford University Press, year 2015,
    ISBN: 019021726X (paperback) ISBN: 9780190217266
    (paperback) ISBN: 0190217251 ISBN: 9780190217259

    PERSONAL COMMENT:

    Expecting Pakistan to fight against Islamic
    terrorism is like expecting the KKK to fight
    for the civil rights of African-Americans.

    Expecting Pakistan to fight against Islamic
    terrorism is like expecting neo-Nazis to fight
    for the civil rights of Jews.

    Expecting Pakistan to fight against Islamic
    terrorism is totally irrational and illogical.

  8. Mr. Cohen says

    Aug 14, 2019 at 10:15 pm

    Daniel Greenfield said:

    “In his first year in office, [President
    Barack Hussein] Obama signed off on a
    $7.5 billion aid package for Pakistan.

    The Islamic terror state repaid us by
    harboring Osama bin Laden and aiding
    Islamic terrorists killing American soldiers.

    SOURCE:
    A Tiny Minority of Half a Million Jihadists
    by Daniel Greenfield, 2018 December 3
    http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2018/12/a-tiny-minority-of-half-million.html

  9. Mr. Cohen says

    Aug 14, 2019 at 10:19 pm

    Pakistan convicts doctor who helped find bin Laden:

    by Chris Brummitt and Riaz Khan, Associated Press • May 24, 2012

    http://news.yahoo.com/pakistan-convicts-doctor-helped-bin-laden-132333232.html

  10. Mr. Cohen says

    Aug 14, 2019 at 10:25 pm

    Daniel Greenfield said:

    “Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia have long
    been thorns in America’s side, backing Islamic terrorists
    abroad, funding subversion within the United States,
    and criticizing our counterterrorism.”

    SOURCE:
    16 Muslim Countries Endorse
    China Forcing Muslims to Eat Pork

    by Daniel Greenfield, 2019 August 4.
    http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2019/08/16-muslim-countries-endorse-china.html

    • CRUSADER says

      Aug 15, 2019 at 3:51 am

      Qatar has oil and AlJazeera
      Saudi has oil and wahhabists
      Turkey Is in NATO and has populated Germany
      Pakistan has the bomb and has populates Britain

  11. gravenimage says

    Aug 14, 2019 at 11:46 pm

    Pakistan: “Every year at least a thousand girls are kidnapped, raped, and forced to convert to Islam”
    ………………

    These *poor* girls. And the Pakistani authorities are complicit.

    This also happens to Hindu and SIkh girls.

  12. The unexpected voice says

    Aug 15, 2019 at 3:47 am

    Christian, Hindus, Sikhs, and Buddhists persucution by Islam is happening all the time, and will never stop until we remove this death cult from Earth.

  13. Maggie says

    Aug 15, 2019 at 6:14 am

    Sounds like Rotherham in England except that it’s white English girls that are raped en masse.
    Such lovely men.

  14. Peter says

    Aug 15, 2019 at 7:36 am

    Pakistan’s anti-non Muslim genocide continues. The Buddhists have been exterminated or forcibly converted. Soon there will only be Muslims.

    Time to coin a new word to describe Islam’s permanent, eternal and global anti-infidel Jihad:

    R E L I G I C I D E.

    In Pakistan, the next on the chopping block will be the Ahmadi’s and Shi’a. After that, those who aren’t overtly pious enough. As with Communism, evil inevitably turns on itself.

    And, the leader of Pakistan has the gall to compare India to Hitler and the Nazis? If anything, Islam is the oldest totalitarian blood-sister of fascism and Communism.

    The Hindus have every right to stop Jihad, the religicide against Hindus in Kashmir (and elsewhere on the Subcontinent), and to self-defense and self-preservation. The Buddhists of Burma have figured out what Muslims intend to do with them; maybe the Hindus have now, too.

  15. Ronyvo says

    Aug 15, 2019 at 7:45 am

    This is Islam. What is the solution? One, and it is declaring Islam is NOT a religion. Period.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 15, 2019 at 10:54 pm

      Islam is a religion–it is just an evil religion.

  16. Linda Rivera says

    Aug 15, 2019 at 7:01 pm

    Permanently end all financial and all other aid to SAVAGE, BARBARIAN Pakistan, other Muslim countries, organizations and the UN. Stop allowing the gang raping sex slaving monsters into our nations. PROTECT our women and children. DEPORT all Muslims who have never worked or barely worked, committed crimes, etc. etc.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 15, 2019 at 10:56 pm

      +1

  17. infidel says

    Aug 16, 2019 at 12:04 am

    Not a single women’s rights org in India will talk about this. According to them, only Hindu men are the worst of the worst..

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 16, 2019 at 11:32 pm

      Insanity.

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