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Pakistan: 13-year-old Christian girl rescued from her 44-year-old abductor and rapist ‘husband’

Nov 6, 2020 12:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams 23 Comments

Child marriage is part of Islamic tradition and law (Sahih Bukhari book 63, hadith 122), and so is the taking of kaffir women as sex slaves (Quran 4:24, 4:3, 23:1-6, 33:50, 70:30). The practice of abduction and forced conversion of non-Muslim girls, followed by forced marriage, is routine in Pakistan. The suffering of non-Muslim girls doomed to this fate and that of their families is often ignored, but not in this particular case.

Ali Azhar, her 44-year-old rapist — calling himself her husband — “produced a marriage certificate stating that she was 18,” and a Pakistani court initially upheld the marriage. It turned out relatively well for Arzoo Raja in that she was rescued, but her life has been irreversibly altered.

“Police in Pakistan recover teen girl after alleged forced conversion and marriage”, BBC News, November 3, 2020:

A 13-year-old Christian girl in Pakistan who was allegedly abducted and forced to convert and marry a Muslim man has been rescued, officials said.

The recovery of the girl came nearly a month after the girl’s parents alleged that she was abducted by Ali Azhar, 44.

The courts had failed to act earlier because they accepted statements the girl gave saying she was 18 and had married of her own free will.

But pressure from campaign groups and a public outcry prompted action.

Leaders from the Catholic Church in Pakistan and human rights groups demanded that the court ruling be reconsidered, arguing that the girl had been forced to give her statement after entering a child marriage. Protesters also took to the streets in the Pakistani city of Karachi.

On Monday, the Sindh High Court ordered police to find the teenager. She was recovered later in the day and will remain in protective custody until a court hearing on 5 November.

Her alleged abductor was arrested later the same night and is due to appear in court on Tuesday.

The girl’s family first reported her missing on 13 October. Two days later, according to Christian Organisation the Centre for Legal Aid, Assistance and Settlement (Claas), her father was informed that Mr Ali had produced a marriage certificate stating that she was 18 and had converted to Islam.

The family claimed the identification papers were fake, but when the case went to court on 27 October the Sindh High Court granted custody to the girl’s alleged abductor. The court also offered protection from the girl’s family….

In late October, the family’s lawyer Jibran Nasir said the girl’s parents had filed a harassment petition on her behalf.

Sindh High Court initially dismissed this application, but later reversed the decision following protests. The girl is now under the court’s protection, though Mr Nasir hopes she will soon be returned to her family…

According to a recent United Nations report, child marriages are still commonplace across South Asia. In Pakistan, nearly 25% of women in their early 20s were married by the time they are 18, the report found….

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Filed Under: child marriage, Islamic supremacism, Pakistan, women's rights in Islam Tagged With: Ali Azhar, Arzoo Raja, Sindh High Court


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  1. Glenwood Jarman says

    Nov 6, 2020 at 12:10 pm

    At least one bit of good news when there is so little.

    Reply
  2. J. Morgan says

    Nov 6, 2020 at 12:12 pm

    Wow, it’s been a long time since I heard about the Catholic Church fighting for a Christian. Good for her that she got her freedom. Very rare in Pakistan. Sorry she had to go through the horror.

    Reply
    • Keith O says

      Nov 6, 2020 at 3:31 pm

      J.Morgan. So true, the Catholic church is an evil uncaring organisation, but it does have some compassionate people at the coalface.
      And yeah, we can only imagine the suffering she and so many others are going through.
      I still get dickheads asking me why I detest Islam sooooo much!

      Reply
      • Clayton Lee says

        Nov 7, 2020 at 8:40 am

        The Catholic Church is not an “evil uncaring organization”. I love the Church, but many of the clerics are evil and should be in jail.

        Reply
    • gravenimage says

      Nov 6, 2020 at 6:14 pm

      +1

      Reply
  3. Mural says

    Nov 6, 2020 at 12:13 pm

    This girl and her family should get migrant status in some Christian country. Or even India.

    Hindu, Christian and Sikh girls lives are hellish in this satanic pit called Pakistan.

    Why are we so callous to their plight? Heavens will never forgive us for this sin.

    Reply
  4. Christopher Watson says

    Nov 6, 2020 at 12:32 pm

    Why won’t that animal face the death penalty? He’s guilty of kidnapping, rape, paedophilia and probably a dozen other crimes.

    Reply
    • Mural says

      Nov 6, 2020 at 12:36 pm

      He kidnapped an infidel girl Her life is worth less than his.. Hence he will go scot-free

      Reply
  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Nov 6, 2020 at 12:34 pm

    Good ,thank God she was rescued. First and foremost it needs to be made clear that kidnapping is strongly condemned in the Bible . As found in exodus21:16.

    Furthermore, the Islamic practice of an adult male Muslim having a marriage with a little girl who is only a child is clearly seen by most Westerners as a blatant action of child abuse in the vilest sort.

    Nevertheless this heinous Islam tradition is accepted as “normal “in most of the Islamic world. Therefore, this may serve as an example of how the influence of Islam is able to warp the cogitation of the human mind to the extent that a person who is a Muslim might not be able to understand the obvious difference between right and wrong.

    Such an awful thing as not having the discerning mental power to seethe clear difference is described in the Bible. For in Isaiah 5:20. “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil…” ]N.K.J.V.]

    Reply
  6. Sylvia Drummond says

    Nov 6, 2020 at 1:04 pm

    The power of mass demonstrations forced the ‘authorities’ to find the girl within a day.

    Reply
  7. revereridesagain says

    Nov 6, 2020 at 1:06 pm

    Of course if pregnant she will be forced to give birth, because her body does not belong to her but to “god” and the fetus is a human with rights and “innocent” while she is not. Compassion for her goes just so far. After all, “It’s not the baby’s fault!” The anguish of having to relive the rape for months and then undergo hours of excruciating pain? Well, after all, Eve Bit the Apple!

    Rape is not punishment enough for being in the wrong place at the wrong time around a predatory Muslim male. (There are no Muslim “men”.) Sometimes it’s not punishment enough under any circumstances.

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    • Mo says

      Nov 7, 2020 at 2:52 am

      @ revereridesagain

      “Of course if pregnant she will be forced to give birth, because her body does not belong to her but to “god” and the fetus is a human with rights and “innocent” while she is not. ”

      What idiocy. You don’t murder a baby for the sins of the father.

      Reply
  8. Henry Mansfield says

    Nov 6, 2020 at 1:45 pm

    Loot and child brides were the prime motivations to the average Muslim in the era of Islamic conquest, I doubt half of them believed the gibberish of Islamic teachings.
    Now within their own borders and even as ‘refugees’ in foreign lands those 1,400 year old directives are all the excuse/reason they need.

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  9. Amit says

    Nov 6, 2020 at 1:54 pm

    And for every child recovered, there are a dozen who are not recovered every month. those kind of Muslims dare to do it, as they are aware that they can get away with it, in a Muslim Majority Nation. So the so called progressive , liberals ( useful idiots) amongst us, can they dare to get their “progressive Islamist” friends condemn this and even dare to ask , why this inhuman atrocity is so common on regular basis in a “pure and holy” Islamic Country?…remember this child , if u support Paki , their artists, etc and if u can , curse BJP but provide alternatives. Disgusting and cowards the whole lot, the doers and the enablers…

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  10. Boycott Turkey says

    Nov 6, 2020 at 2:09 pm

    Good news hopefully the girl is returned to her family and they flee that hellhole no Muslim country is safe for non Muslims

    Reply
  11. SJ says

    Nov 6, 2020 at 4:41 pm

    He was just following the example of Pedophile Muhammad. Isn’t that what all Muslims are supposed to do?

    Reply
  12. gravenimage says

    Nov 6, 2020 at 6:08 pm

    Pakistan: 13-year-old Christian girl rescued from her 44-year-old abductor and rapist ‘husband’
    ……………

    So glad to hear she was rescued–this is *very* unusual in Pakistan, where the authorities are usually complicit in these atrocious cases. I hope the family is able to flee, preferable to India–they will likely be targeted by the rapist’s friends.

    More:

    The courts had failed to act earlier because they accepted statements the girl gave saying she was 18 and had married of her own free will.
    ……………

    These Muslim kidnappers often threaten the victim, or else threaten to murder her family.

    God, I hate Islam.

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    • Henry Mansfield says

      Nov 6, 2020 at 6:47 pm

      Here in the U.S. pimps and drug gangs use pretty much the same intimidation tactics.
      People unfortunate enough to live on ‘their’ turf know not to even be seen talking to police.

      Reply
  13. Uma says

    Nov 7, 2020 at 3:10 am

    A good news. Very happy to find Pakistan police doing a good job.

    Reply
  14. infidel says

    Nov 7, 2020 at 6:29 am

    What an animal…

    Reply
  15. livepeanuts says

    Nov 7, 2020 at 12:42 pm

    Coming from the same lot who gave us the raping of England ..
    Japan has none of these problems, WHY
    The Marxist politicians of England responsible for rape of our country should be taken to the Tower and executed, they just wanted Labour supporters and sod our country.

    Reply
  16. OLD GUY says

    Nov 8, 2020 at 12:15 am

    I hope that after her rescue they beheaded this man who destroyed the childhood and her life, seems his crime is far worse than a cartoon of Muhammad.

    Reply
  17. bobf says

    Nov 8, 2020 at 8:48 am

    So pleased that she was found and is now in police custody. How the courts allowed this crime to take place in the first place is a scandal, but then again this is a muslim majority country, Most people don’t know what is going on in these countries but more than happy to allow millions, yes, millions of this evil cults believers into their countries. Islam is satanic.

    Reply

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