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 when conversions are obviously coerced, those who are forcing the conversions can and do still claim that their victims were converting freely; after all, they could have chosen to be killed instead.
“Pakistan: 60 Hindus forcibly converted to Islam in Sindh,” Times Now, July 11, 2021:
Islamabad: At least 60 Hindus were allegedly forcibly converted to Islam in Pakistan in the Malti area of Sindh province. The Hindus were made to recite the Kalimas (Islamic oath of allegiance) in the presence of the municipal chairperson.
Hindus, a minority in Pakistan, account for 4.5 million, or more than 2 per cent of Pakistan’s population with most of them living in Sindh, which has long been seen as the country’s religious melting pot.
Municipal chairperson Abdul Rauf Nizamani allegedly facilitated the mass conversion process. In a Facebook post, he said, “Alhamdullilah aj meri nigrani me 60 log musalman hui hain inke liye dua karen (Today, 60 people accepted Islam under my watch. Please pray for them.”
A video shared by Nizami shows an Islamic cleric making the group of Hindus recite Kalima and ensuring their full-fledged conversion.
In another video, the cleric is seen claiming that it was their recitation of the first-ever Namaz. “The only aim in the life of a Muslim person is to make Allah happy. Then, the purpose of his life will be fulfilled. Only the lives of those, approved by Allah, move forward,” the cleric said to the new converts….
Michael Copeland says
Did he tell them they would be killed if they leave?
gravenimage says
This goes without saying. The only safe way they can return to their faith is to leave Pakistan.
mortimer says
Mohammed compelled people to join Islam, so it is ‘SUNNA’ (sacred tradition) to do so.
THEY ENTERED ISLAM BY FORCE …
Ibn Hisham p.134 ‘Biography of the Apostle’ “Muhammad sent Khalid ibn al-Walid to the tribe of the children of Harith and told him ‘call them to accept Islam before you fight with them…if they refuse, fight them.’ THEY ENTERED Islam BY FORCE. He brought them to Muhammad (who said): ‘had you not accepted Islam, I would have cast your heads under your feet.’”
[Muhammad] said: “Woe to you Abu Sufyan, isn’t it time that you recognize that I am God’s apostle?” He [Sufyan] answered, “As to that I still have some doubt.” [Ibn Abbas] said to him [Sufyan], “Submit and testify that there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad is the apostle of God before you lose your head,” so he [Sufyan] did so.” – Tabari pt2,p.157; Ibn Kathir ‘Biography of the Prophet’ pt3,p.549
gravenimage says
Yes–this barbarism is orthodox Islam.
DavidR says
Allah has no standards when it comes to enrollment methods. Nor is he bothered by all the people just pretending to be Muslim, or else.
Keith O says
Nothing like a few forced conversions to prove how loving and peaceful your cult is.
I keep doing the mental gymnastics of wondering what the reaction would be if some Buddhists or Catholics did this to some mudslimes?
We would be hearing about this on every news service around the world for months or until the perpetrators were caught and thrown in jail for a very long time.
And of course Suckarseburg allowed this on farce book because it doesn’t breach community standards.
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Muslims force 60 Hindus to convert to Islam
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This is standard Muslim thuggery.
Hindus and all other Infidels in Pakistan should take India up on her offer of asylum. There is no future for any non-Muslim in Pakistan today.
Infidel says
There is at least one Indian NGO that works b/w those refugees and the Indian government in resettling them in India
OLD GUY says
Catholic Church forces 60 Baptist to convert, boy would that hit the media. But Muslims can force others to follow islamic rule and its back page news.