Islamic tolerance. The Qur’an says “There is no compulsion in religion” (2:256). However, 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.
“Punjab: Ailing Sikh man made to read Kalma then thrashed by Muslim neighbour for resisting forced conversion to Islam,” OpIndia, October 14, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A case of forcible religious conversion to Islam in Patiala has come to fore. An ailing man belonging to the Sikh community was coerced into converting into Islam. When he resisted the proselytising attempts imposed upon him, he was mercilessly thrashed for refusing to embrace Islam.
After remaining silent for 3 days after he was assaulted, the victim, Kirandeep Singh, overcame his fear and lodged a complaint with the police….
The accused Anwar Khan and his seven unknown accomplices are still absconding. In the complaint registered with the police, Singh said that when he had contracted an illness last year, his neighbour Anwar said that someone has done black magic on him. To resolve this, Anwar had taken him to several Muslim religious places. In these places, he was taught to read Kalma. During this time, Singh’s health started improving.
After that, the prime accused Anwar assured him that he would get well completely after reading the Quran. Kirandeep said that he followed everything that was asked of him by Anwar. After this, Anwar started pressurising him for conversion to Islam but Singh refused to shun Sikhism. Anwar said that he has already become half Muslim, so he should embrace Islam completely, but Kirandeep didn’t agree. He was subsequently pounded by Anwar’s men for his defiance to not accept Islam.
Photo by Rimanshugoel – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51366462
mortimer says
A dastardly and cowardly piece of sadism perpetrated on a helpless, sick senior.
Muslims lie about FORCIBLE CONVERSION … it is the SUNNA of Mohammed…
Tabari, Hisham & Ibn Kathir quote the same story of Muhammad, about to attack Mecca, when his men arrest a Meccan leader Abu Sufyan, and bring him to Muhammad. Muhammad tells Abu Sufyan:
“Woe to you Abu Sufyan, isn’t it time that you recognize that I am God’s apostle?” [Sufyan] answered, “As to that I still have some doubt.” [Ibn Abbas] said to him [Sufyan], “Submit and testify that there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad is the apostle of God before you lose your head,” so he [Sufyan] did so.”
(Tabari pt2,pg157; Ibn Kathir ‘Biography of the Prophet’ pt3,pg549)
Mohammed forcibly converted people in the hadiths, and therefore, forcible conversion is sacred Sunna and normative Islam, rather than an aberration.
This story does not oppose forcible conversion, but the example of Mohammed authorizes it.
DHazard says
Islam is a predatory religion.
Julian Farmer says
Islam is a disgusting “religion”- a cult of misery and death.
Infidel says
Punjab – a state run by the secular Congress party of the Gandhis. In most BJP run states, Mohammedans wouldn’t dare try and pull off such a stunt – b’cos they’d be hunted down by RSS/VHP activists and lynched
gravenimage says
India: Muslim pressures ailing Sikh neighbor to convert to Islam, thrashes him when he refuses
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Horrible–this poor man. I hope the Indian authorities take this seriously.
Jayell says
Ah, the Religion of Peace, Love, Tolerance and Friendly Persuasion (aka a nasty supremacist, imperialist proto-nazi, pseudo-theocratic political ideology)! By the way, this sort of thing explains why islam is the ‘fastest-growing religion’ in UK jails – which seem to be run by that excessive number of muslim inmates these days. I wonder what happens in Indian jails? And elsewhere?
jca reid says
A typical cowardly attack by a Muslim. I’m surprised non-Muslims don’t see the inherent, indoctrinated, bigoted, racist, ideology that it is.
European pagan says
In India, muslims are minority but they are aggressive with other religious groups and we can hear about rape, forced conversions… If they don’t stop to doing bad things to people from other religions, hindus and sikhs should “answer” and do with them something similar like buddhists did in Myanmar. I know it is not too nice but with this kind of people noone can talk in a normal way. India should not be a sharia sh*thole like Pakistan, never.
Angemon says
Seems like he was being poisoned by his neighbour to get him to accept islam and claim “miracle”…