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Pakistan: Proposal to end forced conversions of minority women and girls, now up to 1000 a year, rejected

Oct 17, 2019 12:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

These are some recent stories about forced conversions in Pakistan that have been covered by Jihad Watch, and there are many more:

  • “Pakistan: Every year at least a thousand girls are kidnapped, raped, and forced to convert to Islam”
  • Pakistan: Daughter of Sikh priest kidnapped, forced at gunpoint to convert to Islam and marry Muslim
  • Pakistan: Muslims force 15-year-old girl to convert to Islam, third such incident in a week

“Around 1,000 women and young girls from religious minorities in Pakistan are forced to convert to the religion of the majority and marry their kidnappers every year.” This is the deplorable state of Pakistan, a state sponsor of jihad terror, known also for its cruel blasphemy laws, which the Prime Minister wants to export worldwide.

Last week, a bill was proposed to end forced conversions in Pakistan, but according to the article below, “in a shameful capitulation to religious fanatics, the Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) rejected a proposed bill in the Sindh Assembly against forced conversions.” But forced conversions can be justified from Islamic teaching, although technically forbidden. Call it fanaticism, but many Muslims regard it as justified.

“But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war); but if they repent, and establish regular prayers and practice regular charity, then open the way for them…” (Quran 9:5)

The Messenger of Allah said: “I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify that there is no god but Allah, that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah, and they establish prayer and pay zakat.” (Sahih Muslim 1:33)

“Bill against forced conversion,” by Hassan Niazi, Express Tribune (thanks to The Religion of Peace), October 15, 2019:

Last week, in a shameful capitulation to religious fanatics, the Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) rejected a proposed bill in the Sindh Assembly against forced conversions.

If there was ever an argument to be made that constitutional guarantees mean nothing until the people believe in their worth, it is this. Article 20 of the Constitution guarantees religious freedom, but what religious freedom means is currently what the fanatic believes it should mean.

So, it is in Sindh, which has lately seen a rise in forced conversions of members of religious minorities. For those who may be blissfully unaware of the extent of the problem, here are some numbers: according to Aurat Foundation, around 1,000 women and young girls from religious minorities in Pakistan are forced to convert to the religion of the majority and marry their kidnappers every year. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan believes that more than 20 Hindu girls are kidnapped every month.

The parents of the victims try to obtain that elusive concept known as justice. If you live in this country, you know that only people with a certain economic and social pedigree are allowed justice. The case of Rinkle Kumari should still be fresh in our minds, although it seems the PPP is suffering from temporary amnesia. Rinkle Kumari was 16 years’ old when she was abducted, allegedly forcibly converted, and married to her kidnapper. Twice she wept and pleaded to go back home to her parents. Once before the civil court, and then, before the Supreme Court when it took up a pending petition on forced conversions initiated by the Pakistan Hindu Council. However, despite this, when the Supreme Court reassembled after a lengthy adjournment to hear the case, Kumari had somehow changed her statement and then accepted that she had changed her religion and married of her own free will. No proceedings ever tried to inquire into what happened to change her mind, but we can all guess, with a high degree of certainty, that her kidnappers coerced her (a bare reading of the case history shows this).

Those who follow such cases of forced conversions in Sindh are familiar with the landscape upon which these cases happen. The inequality of economic and political power between the abductor and the victim — as Kumari’s case so starkly displayed; the sudden epidemic of helplessness that seizes the police; and the lack of proper investigation behind the marriages and conversions.

In 2016, an effort was made to end this practice with a bill being introduced in the Sindh Assembly. To be sure, a law by itself would not be enough to eliminate this practice, however, the bill had many features that would have helped and was a welcome first step. For example, it provided for judges and the police receiving sensitisation training on the issue, and that women be placed in a shelter, or in the custody of their parents during court proceedings in which the conversion and subsequent marriage was under challenge (normally, the woman is asked to remain with her husband during the entire proceedings). Perhaps the most important element of the bill was that it prohibited someone from changing their religion until they were 18 years of age…..

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Filed Under: converts to Islam, Pakistan, Pakistan's double game, Sharia Tagged With: Aurat Foundation, Pakistan Peoples’ Party, Sindh Assembly


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Comments

  1. Jaladhi says

    Oct 17, 2019 at 12:19 pm

    What else would one expect from an evil country and culture?? They exist only for doing these evil deeds to please Mo/allah and therefore any law to prevent them kidnapping, raping and converting Hindu and Christian girls is not acceptable!!

    • mortimer says

      Oct 17, 2019 at 3:52 pm

      What would the reaction of Pakistani legislators be if 1,000 Muslim girls were FORCIBLY CONVERTED TO JUDAISM every year in ISRAEL ???

      What would the reaction of Pakistani legislators be if 1,000 Muslim girls were FORCIBLY CONVERTED TO HINDUISM every year in INDIA ???

      • Infidel says

        Oct 17, 2019 at 7:19 pm

        Already their prime minister is equating India w/ Nazi Germany simply due to bans on cattle slaughter being enforced, or Indian law enforcement intervening whenever it’s suspected that non-Muslim girls are being kidnapped by Muslim guys. If actual Muslim girls were converted to Hinduism, it would be Nazi to the infinity for them!

      • Christopher Watson says

        Oct 18, 2019 at 9:54 am

        Maybe we in Britain should persuade some girls from Pakistani backgrounds to convert to Christianity or some other religion? They wouldn’t have to wear a black ‘letter-box’, be mutilated by FGM, be forced to marry a 50 year-old ‘cousin’ or suffer domestic violence for no reason. If their parents complained then send them back to ‘wonderful’ Pakistan.

  2. Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says

    Oct 17, 2019 at 12:53 pm

    Snake Pit.

  3. Infidel says

    Oct 17, 2019 at 1:49 pm

    What was it you were telling us again, captain Imran Khan, about India being Nazi Germany and the RSS being the Nazi party?

  4. dunroamin says

    Oct 17, 2019 at 2:25 pm

    Don’t expect any words of protest from Harry & Meghan. They are too busy giving Pakistan the Royal Seal of Approval.

    • mortimer says

      Oct 17, 2019 at 3:55 pm

      The royal couple will read what the government has told them to say. The British government will not rock the boat. But how about it, BORIS? You should say something.

    • Infidel says

      Oct 18, 2019 at 9:50 pm

      DDA, it’s Diana’s other kids – Will & Kate – who are giving Pakistan the royal seal of approval

      Honestly, after QEII passes on, I think the House of Windsor will become the Windsor Sultanate. It’ll be up to Australia, Canada, NZ and other commonwealth countries that still have QEII as their monarch to decide whether they too wanna be sultanates

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Oct 17, 2019 at 2:57 pm

    Force conversions to Islam occur in many Muslim countries. The reason why those “conversion “ are forced is because Islam so terrible lacks reasons based on logic and good sense of join the “House of Islam” so imams incite the Muslim from their mosques to threaten people to gain “converts” to Islam

    • mortimer says

      Oct 17, 2019 at 3:58 pm

      Islam is losing up to 10 million every year to apostasy. The rate of apostasy will only increase. They know that. These dirty tricks played on unsuspecting women will backfire and will not increase the number of Muslims.

      BTW, Mohammed also forced people to join Islam, so this is not going to stop until they abandon Islam.

  6. gravenimage says

    Oct 18, 2019 at 12:46 am

    Pakistan: Proposal to end forced conversions of minority women and girls, now up to 1000 a year, rejected
    ………………………

    This should not surprise–Pakistan has rejected other civilized proposals, as ones to stop the legal rape of children.

    God, I hate Islam.

  7. Marigold says

    Oct 18, 2019 at 6:22 am

    William and Kate have just been to Pakistan and met with ex cricketer Imran Khan who was also a friend of
    Princess Diana’s [ RIP].The visit was probably to appease the millions of Pakistanis in the UK and it was a former colony but that is no excuse for turning a blind eye to their apalling human rights record which they must know about but obviously don’t care a jot about.

    • ploome says

      Oct 18, 2019 at 6:31 am

      And why don’t any of them ever make an official visit to Israel?

  8. ploome says

    Oct 18, 2019 at 6:30 am

    Prince William and his wife had a very enjoyable visit to Pakistan this week. She was wearing a nice collection of Pakistani fashion. No mention was made of violence against women or religious intolerance.

    Disgusting muslim loving Brits.

  9. jca reid says

    Oct 18, 2019 at 6:36 am

    It appears late on in the Koran & is not abrogated, that, ‘there shall be no compulsion in Religion.’ Wonder what them Libtards would make of this?

  10. Tattoed Man77 says

    Oct 18, 2019 at 7:46 am

    Strange how Prince William and Kate never mentioned this when they went on an arse kissing tour of Pakiland.

  11. Angemon says

    Oct 19, 2019 at 6:18 am

    For example, it provided for judges and the police receiving sensitisation training on the issue

    Yeah, that’ll make all the difference…

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