The Qur’an says “There is no compulsion in religion” (2:256). However, what constitutes “compulsion” is in the eye of the beholder. The institutionalized subjugation of the dhimma, with its regular humiliation and harassment, from which one can be freed for the simple price of converting to Islam, is not considered compulsion. Even though a conversions may be obviously coerced, the convert could have chosen to be killed instead.
“Islamists in Pakistan Forcibly ‘Convert’ Catholic, Threaten Family,” Morning Star News, April 25, 2021:
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Members of an Islamic extremist political party in Pakistan have forcibly converted a mentally challenged Catholic and are pressuring his family to renounce their faith, a relative said.
Adnan Bashir, 40, wandered out of his home in Gujjar Khan, Punjab Province on April 14 and inadvertently walked into a sit-in protest of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), said his brother, Fayyaz Bashir.
“One Mumtaz Ahmed and some others forced him to publicly recite the Kalima (proclamation of Muhammad’s prophethood, signaling conversion to Islam) and converted him to Islam,” Fayyaz Bashir told Morning Star News, adding that his younger brother has been under treatment for a mental disorder since 2018.
A few hours later acquaintances informed him by telephone that a video of his brother reciting the Kalima at the TLP demonstration was going viral on social media, Fayyaz Bashir said. Back home that evening, Adnan Bashir told his brother and other family members that he was watching the protestors when Ahmed, his former employer, offered him sherbet on the condition that he join the demonstrators.
“Mumtaz is also a local leader of the TLP, and he used the opportunity to force my brother to say the Kalima in the presence of the charged mobs,” Fayyaz Bashir said, adding that they renamed him Khadim Hussain after his “conversion.”
Safdar Chaudhry, chief executive of prisoner welfare group Raah-e-Nijaat Ministry, a Christian organization based in Rawalpindi, said Adnan Bashir has denied converting to Islam.
“When Adnan’s family contacted me for support, I brought him to Rawalpindi and admitted him to a hospital for treatment. When I asked Adnan about his conversion to Islam, he outright denied it, saying he’s a Christian,” Chaudhry told Morning Star News. “It’s obvious that Mumtaz Ahmed exploited Adnan’s mental condition for ulterior motives, but this has put the entire family and community members at serious risk.”
Fayyaz Bashir said his brother had been hospitalized in 2018 at the Government Benazir Bhutto Hospital in Rawalpindi after his condition was discovered. Married with two children, Adnan Bashir began working at a shop owned by Ahmed after he was discharged from the hospital.
“Adnan left the job after some months after his condition again deteriorated,” Fayyaz Bashir said. “We live in a joint family, and it was decided that we would financially support Adnan and his family so that he doesn’t have to suffer from work-related mental stress.”
After the video spread on social media, the family started receiving phone calls from Muslim acquaintances and some unknown callers, he said.
“The callers congratulated us over Adnan’s conversion and asked when the rest of us would also embrace Islam,” he said. “Some others are threatening us with serious consequences in case we ‘force’ Adnan to revert, warning that apostasy is punishable with death in Islam.”
The family is facing a serious security threat as TLP members are monitoring their movement, Fayyaz Bashir said.
“Our lives have become miserable due to the threats and surveillance by TLP activists,” he said. “Our children keep asking what will happen to them, as their Muslim friends keep raising this issue. We can neither seek help from the police or any other government or religious leader, because everyone is fearful of the TLP, and also because this matter can easily be turned into a religious issue.”…
Infidel says
Looks like he wasn’t mentally challenged enough, so now they have to have him follow islam as well
Wellington says
Grimly humorous, Infidel.
BlackSabbath says
In a world where everyone has lost his mind like an islamic state, the sane would be rendered mentally challenged. Good point infidel. I feel sorry for the poor catholic man and even more sorrier for a “pope” to refuses to see this.
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Muslims forcibly ‘convert’ mentally challenged Catholic, threaten his family, pressure them to convert
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Just appalling–but this is extremely common. Damn thugs.
Wellington says
+1
Wellington says
Islam from its inception in the 7th century AD has been suffused with a rank opportunistic and parasitic element that has never left it. Compounding these unethical errors is the threat of force behind the control-freakish monumental error which is Islam.
Conclusion: Islam, when dissected into its malevolent parts, represents a panoply of errors, often times rank stupidity and phoniness too (e.g., the abrogation nonsense found in the Koran itself). And there is no end in sight to this blight.
What a travesty Islam is to mankind, only equaled, arguably, by excuses for Islam made again and again by craven and ignorant dhimmis shilling for Mo’s clearly risible, destructive and false creed.
born saturday says
what goes around comes around…..
gravenimage says
Actually, you do not hear about Christians, Jews, Hindus or other Infidels doing this–and for good reason. No one else engages in coerced conversions.
Terry Gain says
What is the Pope doing in Pakistan?
Terry Gain says
What was the Pope doing in Pakistan?
Giacomo Latta says
”have forcibly converted a mentally challenged Catholic”
How does anyone know that and compared to who? Obviously no one submitted the muslim ”members” (a well-chosen word) to any kind of test of mental abilities.
gravenimage says
His family says so–and Adnan Bashir’s own confused comments seem to lend credence to this claim.
OLD GUY says
Convert too Islam or be a slave or dead. Great choice!
Convert too Islam and decide it’s not for you and you DIE!
Convert too Islam and not be a good islamic follower and you get beaten or killed!
Draw a picture of Muhammad that Islamic’s don’t like and get beheaded!
And they call this a religion of love and peace?
Sounds more like a religion or CULT of the Devil, Fear and Death.
T. Flodur says
Aha! So it is among the nominee for the cuckoo’s nest that Muhammad’s gloomy bootlickers recruit members to the Islamic faith – Now, the penny dropped!