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Pakistan court: 14-year-old Christian girl kidnapped and converted to Islam must remain married to her captor

Aug 10, 2020 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

These “love jihad” incidents are motivated by supremacist assumptions. The idea is that the Muslim community will always grow at the expense of the non-Muslim community. In the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the court shares the same assumptions.

“Pakistani Court Rules 14-Year-Old Christian Girl Must Remain Married to Muslim Kidnapper,” by John Hayward, Breitbart, August 6, 2020:

A court in Pakistan ruled on Tuesday that 14-year-old Christian girl Maira Shahbaz voluntarily converted to Islam and is legally married to an older Muslim man named Mohamad Nakash, even though Maira and her family say Nakash kidnapped her at gunpoint with two accomplices during the coronavirus lockdown in April.

If the ruling stands, Maira will be forced to return from the shelter where she is staying to the home where she was held hostage.

Witnesses say Maira was walking home on April 28 in the town of Madina when Nakash and two accomplices forced her into a car, fired several gunshots into the air, and sped away.

When her family reported the kidnapping, Nakash produced a “marriage certificate” that listed the girl’s age as 19, even though her family has a birth certificate proving she is only 14. The certificate listed the date of the marriage as last October, six months before Nakash abducted Maira. The Muslim cleric who ostensibly signed the birth certificate denied any involvement in the “marriage” when questioned.

In July, the Shahbaz family prevailed upon the top cleric of a local mosque to issue a fatwa (religious edict) that Nakash’s marriage certificate was invalid. Human rights activists supported the family by pointing out that not only was the imam’s signature on the document fraudulent, but Nakash was already married to another woman not mentioned on the document.

Polygamy is legal but regulated in Pakistan, and one of the regulations is that existing wives must give written approval for additional marriages.

Marriage to girls under the age of 16 is technically illegal, but activists complain the Child Marriage Restraint Act is not vigorously enforced and often set aside in favor of Islamic sharia, which allows girls to be married off once they experience their first menstrual cycle. The United Nations rates Pakistan as one of the worst countries in the world for child brides, with some 3 percent of girls wedded before the age of 15.

Pakistan has a law against forced religious conversion that stipulates a minimum age of 18 for changing religions without parental consent. This law also encounters resistance from Islamists who cite sharia and Muslim historical precedents for young children converting to Islam….

The Shahbaz family has reportedly had little contact with Maira since she was kidnapped. According to Sandhu, Maira’s mother Nighat Shahbaz collapsed and was treated to [sic] a heart attack when seeing her for the first time since her abduction at a May court hearing. Nighat Shahbaz refused to speak with reporters after the Lahore High Court ruling.

“Around 1,000 Christian and Hindu women are abducted each year in Pakistan and typically forced to convert to Islam,” the UK Telegraph said on Wednesday, quoting the Movement for Solidarity and Peace. Christians make up about two percent of Pakistan’s population.

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Filed Under: child marriage, Featured, Islamic supremacism, love jihad, Pakistan Tagged With: Maira Shahbaz, Mohamad Nakash


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  1. Mike says

    Aug 10, 2020 at 3:09 pm

    coming to a country near you if we don’t stop it
    Not my children

    • tom parry says

      Aug 10, 2020 at 3:48 pm

      coming to your daily paper/news near you (but not really reported). but your post is so right

    • william carr says

      Aug 11, 2020 at 9:08 am

      The law in Pakiland only applies to Christians when it is convenient for Moose Limbs

  2. DrazahDivad says

    Aug 10, 2020 at 4:35 pm

    Feminists across the Western World rush to her defense and expose the real patriarchal ideology that threatens more women than any other. Did I say feminists? I meant Western imams. Did I say imams? I meant imam.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 10, 2020 at 7:52 pm

      I believe in equal rights for women and I condemn this savagery.

  3. Jerry says

    Aug 10, 2020 at 4:57 pm

    Poor old Mo. He was denied access to the Social Media in his days and thus unfairly due to Islamophobia he was prevented from using it to disseminate Fake News at the time through it.

    Not to worry, Il Hamdu Allah (as it pleases Allah) he was ingenous enough to disseminate his Fake News via the Quran.

    Took about one and a half Millenia for a Western European to try to emulate him using Mein Kampf.

    Allahu Akhbar.

  4. somehistory says

    Aug 10, 2020 at 5:51 pm

    Since she was kidnapped at gunpoint, it shouldn’t matter if the slime could produce a birth certificate saying she was 50 years old.
    Lies, lies and more lies. The slime know they committed several crimes and the “court” knows this too. But when it comes to moslims, crime is what they are all about. islam is homicidal crime against all of humanity and its adherents are committing crimes every minute of every day.

    It is sickening. Devilish, demonic, satanic is islam as it comes straight from satan the devil, the original serpent demon. Those who follow him are his “children.”

    Divine Justice in a True Court of Law will be visited upon all such as these who kidnapped her and those who support the evil actions.

  5. spiro says

    Aug 10, 2020 at 5:54 pm

    Did anyone really expect any other
    outcome from a Pakistani court

  6. gravenimage says

    Aug 10, 2020 at 7:49 pm

    Pakistan court: 14-year-old Christian girl kidnapped and converted to Islam must remain married to her captor
    ………………

    This *poor girl* and her family.

    This is horrifying–but we have seen this from police and courts in Pakistan before, so it should grimly not surprise.

    Christians–and Hindus and Sikhs and all other non-Muslims–still remaining in Pakistan should flee to India, where they have been offered citizenship.

  7. Bilingi says

    Aug 10, 2020 at 10:46 pm

    Pakistan is a backward country led by barbarians. They commit these atrocities but sell their girls to the Chinese!. Pure devils at work

  8. islamic mirror says

    Aug 11, 2020 at 9:05 am

    please go to the Pakistan high commission Facebook page and post this in their “posts comments section” https://www.facebook.com/phclondon1 post the video link below Maria Shahbaz another Christian girl, abducted, raped, force to convert to Islam and force into marriage. Pakistani Court Orders 14-Year-Old Christian Girl to Be Returned to Her Abductor https://youtu.be/XddPgAZ3JGA

    Maria Shahbaz another Christian girl, abducted at gunpoint, raped, force to convert to Islam and force into marriage. Pakistani Court Orders 14-Year-Old Christian Girl to Be Returned to Her Abductor——–>and the court admonished the abused child “to be a GOOD WIFE”.

    I am speechless, and feel numbed! My heart breaks for Maria! and her tortured family and so many others like her and their families .

    This is an everyday occurrence in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Christians and other minorities here are unjustly treated.

    Pakistan has institutionalized discrimination against Its non-Muslim in its society, the minorities in this country are considered as their free property for pleasure. It is truly heart breaking. 7th century ideology does not fit in the 21st century.

    There has been an explosion of similar cases throughout Pakistan. A lot of Christian girls (mostly under 15) are getting kidnapped, raped and forcefully converted to Islam. Christian and other minorities have always suffered extreme persecution in Pakistan
    Court favouring abductor
    but with the recent developments where courts are favouring abductors in pretty much every case seems as if they have started religious cleansing at the state level and it seems to be getting worse by day.

    Please note that the future of these young girls is not what you would assume of life in a traditional marriage but instead they are turned into sex slaves all backed up by the state just because they are Christian.

    Huma Younus’ case which is very similar and extremely heart breaking. Please have a read, the persecution on these young, bright, intelligent Christian kids is shocking. https://www.opindia.com/2020/07/pakistan-christian-girl-huma-younus-abducted-raped-converted-to-islam-now-pregnant/

    This is not something new in Pakistan, they just want converts to Islam by hook or by crook, Hindu, Singh and Christian girls are kidnapped and forced to Islam for years now. They give protection to criminals against minorities. Governments and courts, they don’t want to aggravate muslim extremists, so they close the eye on suffering of minorities.

    How long will the minority Christians be oppressed in Muslim countries like Pakistan???
    Europeans and Americans have no idea about real face of those Islamic extremists.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 11, 2020 at 8:26 pm

      Thank you for that terrible link.

  9. Giacomo Latta says

    Aug 11, 2020 at 10:13 am

    Would you care to comment, Brian Hoff and Rod? For once, you could be positive.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 11, 2020 at 8:28 pm

      I doubt either of those apologists for Islam would condemn this, Giacomo.

      Brian Hoff–really, “DefenderofIslam”–has ominously said that when Muslims take over here that he will be able to “get lots of women”.

  10. OLD GUY says

    Aug 11, 2020 at 11:10 am

    Pakistan is just another of the backward Stan countries that will protect the male abuser/rapist at the cost of the female victim. After all she deserved it, he saw her ankle or eye brows and under islamic law he could then kidnap her force her into child marriage/rape her and the courts would uphold his rights to do so.

    Ilhan Omar is good with this type of legal system and wants this for America. Beware of who you vote for ladies.

  11. Unknown guy says

    Aug 11, 2020 at 5:09 pm

    Any proof for your claim?

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