The guiding principle here is that the Islamic community must always grow at the expense of the non-Muslim community. If that is accomplished, then whatever coercion is employed to achieve that end is justified. “There is no compulsion in religion,” says the Qur’an (2:256), but this kind of action is not generally considered to be contradicting that teaching. After all, the boy has the freedom to refuse to convert to Islam and be killed.
“Pakistan: Tablighi Jamaat leader kidnaps Hindu boy, demands conversion to Islam as ransom for releasing,” OpIndia, May 17, 2020:
“We will prefer to die but never ever convert to Islam,” said mother of the Hindu boy abducted in Pakistan’s Sindh.
In a video shared by a Pakistani lawyer and activist, Rahat Austin, on Twitter, a Hindu woman belonging to the Bheel tribe in Nasarpur village in Matiari in the Sindh province of Pakistan, can be seen putting up a strong resistance against forced conversion to Islam.
As per the video, a Hindu boy was abducted by the leader of Tablighi Jamaat, an Islamic Missionary Movement, in Sindh. Besides, houses belonging to Bheel Hindus have been ransacked and vandalised. Their properties have been illegally grabbed and forced to vacate their own houses.
The mother of the boy can be heard demanding the release of his son. She reiterated, “We will prefer to die but never ever convert to Islam.” It must be mentioned that the kidnappers of the Hindu boy have been seeking the conversion of Hindu families to Islam as a ransom to release the boy.
In the viral video, the woman is seen lying on the ground and expressing her anguish over the abduction of her son by Tablighi Jamaat members. She is surrounded by other Hindus who are seen staging a demonstration against the same with Urdu posters in hand. In another video, the brave Hindu woman speaks to the camera and reiterates her demand to release her son while making it crystal clear that she will not give in demands to convert to Islam…
TruthSeeker says
Where are those rabid feminists who are screaming ‘islamophobia’ in defence of the hijab clad Muslim woman ? The silence of the international community and fake organizations about the human right violations by Pakistan’s Muslims is deafening. Malala, Malala where art thou?
mortimer says
“There is no compulsion in religion” (K. 2.256) does not mean what it says. It actually means that no VOWS should prevent a person from entering Islam. The explanation of the verse is given in Sunan of Abu Dawud, Book 14, Number 2676.
“When the children of a woman (in pre-Islamic days) did not survive, she took a vow on herself that if her child survives, she would convert it (to) a Jew. When Banu an-Nadir were expelled (from Arabia), there were some children of the Ansar (Helpers) among them. They said: WE SHALL NOT LEAVE OUR CHILDREN. So Allah the Exalted revealed; “Let there be no compulsion in religion. Truth stands out clear from error.”
Typical vows that converts to Islam might be expected to drop would be a Bar Mitzvah or baptismal or confirmation vows or the seven Hindu marriage vows. Mohammed wanted people to BREAK any vows they made to their god that stopped them from joining Islam. ‘Allah is GREATER’, so converts don’t need to keep vows to gods that are DIFFERENT FROM ALLAH.
In fact, a number of hadiths show Mohammed compelling people to join Islam or die. These are valid, credible hadiths and most Muslims would know them and not blink if they heard them. Compulsion is ok if Mohammed does it.
In the following, Mohammed COMPELS a man to convert under duress:
[Muhammad] said, “Woe to you, Abu Sufyan, isn’t it time that you recognize that I am Allah’s apostle?” He (Abu Sufyan) answered, “As to that I still have some doubt.” I (the narrator) said to him, “Submit and testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the apostle of Allah before you LOSE YOUR HEAD,” so he did so. (Ibn Ishaq 814)
The Hindu boy is being threatened with death in a similar manner. The Pakistani terrorists are imitating the terrorism of Mohammed.
gravenimage says
Fine post, Mortimer.
mortimer says
Mohammed was commanded by Allah to use compulsion to force ARAB polytheists to join Islam. Mohammed personally used compulsion many times in the Sira and Hadiths, proving conclusively that compulsion to threaten and compel people to enter Islam is normative Islam … it is the Sunna (sacred example) of Mohammed.
This was understood by all the early caliphs who, before attacking a city, announced: ‘Aslam, taslim!’ (‘Submit and you will be safe.’) That slogan is a clear example of compulsion under duress.
The trouble with believing that slogan will be honored is that once you submit to Islam, you will never ‘be safe’ again. Muslims always find an excuse to persecute KAFIRS … the main reason for persecuting kafirs is unending … Allah hates kafirs because they do not worship ‘correctly’ and wants Muslims to hate them too.
keith O says
So, forced conversion is needed for Islam to increase it’s numbers?
This little gem tells us a lot about ANY religion which has to do this.
When the Spanish invaded the “new world” they carried out forced conversions of the natives. As per the accounts of the Spaniards.
That was how many hundreds of years ago?? The Christian churches have at least progressed past that point, unlike Islam who still has to do it to increase it’s numbers.
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Muslim leader kidnaps Hindu boy, demands his conversion to Islam as ransom for releasing him
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This *poor child*.
God, I hate Islam.
Shastra says
where are you cnn? werent you crying muslim genocide by hindus. why arent you reporting this scum. similarly why fox isnt reporting it. whole media is in bed with islamists.