Imagine the outcry if the roles here were reversed and Christian leaders were abducting Muslim girls and forcing them to convert to Christianity — something that would never happen and should never happen. But no one will take any particular notice of this.
“Emir of Katsina, others ‘abducting, forcefully converting Hausa Christian girls to Islam,’” News Express, April 19, 2021:
The Federal Government must sanction Katsina Islamic leaders for indiscriminate abduction and forceful conversion of scores of Hausa Christians, especially girls of underage, to Islam, the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) has said.
The chief culprits in the dastardly act, according to the rights group, are the Emir of Katsina and the Islamic District Head of Kafur in Kafur Local Government Area of the State, noting that this is according a statement issued on April 15, 2021 by the Hausa Christians Foundation (HACFO).
According to Intersociety in a statement by Emeka Umeagbalasi, Obianuju Igboeli, and Chidimma Evan Udegbunam, there has been indiscriminate abduction of scores of Hausa Christian girls and their forceful conversion to Islam. The abducted Hausa Christian girls, who are under the school age of 16, are also forced into early marriage done outside the consent of their parents, Intersociety said.
The statement also disclosed that the indigenous Hausa Christians and their communities in Katsina State “are made to go through hell by Islamic authorities and supposedly secular security agencies in the State just because they are Christians.” It named the affected Hausa Christian areas in Katsina State to include a mixed Christian-Muslim Community of Rafin Iyaka Sabuwar Kasa in Kafur Local Government Area and Christian Community of Gidan Dandadada Rafin Iyaka, among others.
The Hausa Christians Foundation had in a recent statement mentioned names of nine Hausa Christian girls and young women as having in recent times been abducted and forcefully converted to Islam and forced into early marriage by the named Islamic leaders.
Principally fingered are the duo of the District Head of Kafur (Alhaji Abdulrahman Rabe) and the Emir of Katsina (Abdulmumini Kabir Usman). The nine victims were named as Jamima Solomon, Christiana Mamman, Deborah Habila, Phoebe Dankano, Rifkatu Markus (rescued), Saratu Isah (was returned when she went mad after two years), Dije Yakubu Nalami (abducted as a married woman, and returned when she died), Rebeccah Ado (returned pregnant), and Aisha Mani (the latest abducted and converted and currently in captivity).
The statement also lamented that any time the Christian Community agitates against the injustice done to same, the Muslim youths will violently go after them, threatening to burn down their churches and houses….
tim gallagher says
Other religions, such as Christianity, go out and preach to people and, maybe, some people convert to Christianity freely because the religion appeals to them. Here is “peaceful” (yeah, right, so peaceful) Islam with an interesting approach to winning converts. Just kidnap people and force them to become Muslims. Islam is still doing the same totally evil, totally barbaric crap that it has been doing for all of its loathsome 1400 year history. What a disgusting, satanically evil thing this foul ideology, islam, is. Even though I personally don’t believe that Muhammad ever existed, he is portrayed as a marauding bandit, so these scumbags in this report are imitating the lowlife criminal who supposedly chatted with god and started this disgusting ideology, islam.
gravenimage says
Nigeria: Civil liberties group accuses Muslim leaders of abducting and forcibly converting Christian girls
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Kudis to Emeka Umeagbalasi, Obianuju Igboeli, and Chidimma Evan Udegbunam for speaking out here.
Andrew Blackadder says
Many years ago when the muslim rape gangs were being exposed in England a BBC Reporter asked a group of young muslim men what would they do if it was found out that a gang of white English men were drugging and raping young Pakistani muslim girls… almost at the exact same time they all screamed… “We would kill them”… However arresting Pakistani muslim men for raping thousands of young English would be forever known as racist…
Do English people, and those around the Western World, have any idea of how much these muslims are laughing in our faces…
Otis says
Tears roll down my eyes when I read stories like these.What Muslims are doing in Africa and in the world at large is so painful to take.Here in Kenya they have employed an art of open bribery to lure vulnerable Kenyans into joining this death cult.It’s so unfortunate that they always convince illiterate and hardcore criminals.Many people here in Kenya still view Islam as just a normal religion despite the many jihadist attack that our country has suffered.Even government officials are so naive about Islam that many Muslims are now employed in the police, military and even heading the Nairobi Metropolitan office. I fear for my country in the near future.
E T says
Sounds like Canada, but I do not believe our leaders are naive about Islam, in fact we have many many Muslims in political parties showing us the way to destruction.
Otis says
I always wonder mr ET what will awake people to realize that this is a matter of life and death? Doing so would remedy the situatiion b4 it’s too late.As far as I see it,a coalition of peace loving Africans, Europeans,Indians,and other races should come into agreement and start combating this ideology heads on for our posterity.The biggest obstacle is politicians who are after votes.